Gabriel: Detective, my former fiancée, Chloe Vance, just deliberately poured boiling tea onto my maid's arm. We have full high-definition security coverage in this dining room.
Chloe: It was an accidental spill! My hand slipped! Gabriel is fabricating this whole story because he wants to get out of our marriage agreement!
Detective Vance: Officer Davis, check the victim's injuries and call an ambulance unit to evaluate the burn.
Officer Davis: Right away, Detective.
Officer Davis walked over to Elena, carefully examining the blistered skin on her forearm while taking photos on a department digital tablet.
Officer Davis: That's a severe second-degree burn, Detective. The skin is already blistering heavily. She needs immediate medical attention.
Detective Vance: Mrs. Vance, turn around and place your hands behind your back.
Chloe: Excuse me?! Are you putting handcuffs on me in my husband's mansion?!
Gabriel: I'm not your husband, Chloe. And this is my mansion. My name is the only one on the deed.
Chloe: Gabriel! Tell him to stop! You can't let these low-class cops touch my designer dress!
Gabriel: Put the cuffs on her, Detective. Press charges for felony assault with a weapon.
Chloe: Boiling tea is not a weapon! You are completely out of your mind!
Detective Vance: Under Texas penal code, using a scalding liquid to inflict intentional bodily harm constitutes assault with a deadly weapon or dangerous substance, ma'am. Hands behind your back.
Officer Davis pulled Chloe's arms behind her back, clicking the cold steel handcuffs firmly around her wrists. Chloe screamed in outrage, her blonde hair falling wildly over her face.
Chloe: My father is Harrison Montgomery! The moment he hears about this, he will have your badge, Vance!
Detective Vance: Your father has his own problems today, Mrs. Vance.
Chloe stopped struggling, her eyes narrowing as she looked at the detective in confusion.
Chloe: What are you talking about? My father is at his corporate headquarters in downtown Dallas!
Detective Vance: State agents and federal marshals executed a search warrant on your father's corporate offices thirty minutes ago.
Gabriel: Federal marshals? Vance, what's going on with Montgomery Real Estate?
Detective Vance: We've been investigating Harrison Montgomery for six months, Mr. Sterling. Your former father-in-law has been running an illegal wire fraud operation, laundering offshore funds through his commercial property leases.
Elena: *Weakly* Mr. Gabriel... that's why she came into the kitchen early this morning...
Gabriel turned his head toward Elena, stepping closer to the gurney as two paramedics entered the room to assist her.
Gabriel: What did you see in the kitchen this morning, Elena?
Elena: Miss Chloe came downstairs at six in the morning... she was shredding large boxes of financial papers in the pantry shredder...
Chloe: Shut up! Shut your mouth, you dirty little maid!
Gabriel: Let her speak, Chloe! Elena, what else did you see?
Elena: I saw her put a black USB drive into her purse... she told me if I ever mentioned seeing her in the pantry, she would make sure I got deported back to Mexico...
Gabriel: You threatened her with deportation to cover up corporate evidence?!
Detective Vance: Where is that purse, Ms. Vance?
Chloe: I don't have to answer your questions without my lawyer present!
Officer Davis: Detective, I found a black leather purse sitting on the hallway side table next to the front entry.
Detective Vance: Secure it as evidence under the federal warrant. Let's take her in.