Victoria: You think you've won, don't you? You think you can just erase me from this estate!
Chloe: You erased yourself the second you chose money over your own granddaughter's life.
Victoria: I am still a lawful owner of thirty percent of the residential property deed!
Mark: Not anymore, Victoria. Read page fourteen of the financial audit I just brought back from the estate lawyer.
Victoria snatched the paper from Mark's hands, her eyes scanning the bold black text as her hands trembled violently.
Victoria: This is a forgery... this signature isn't mine!
Mark: That is the transfer document you signed three months ago when you borrowed two million dollars from the corporate mortgage fund!
Chloe: You put up your equity in this mansion as collateral for your bad investments, Mom.
Victoria: The lender promised me six months to repay the principal balance!
Mark: The lender defaulted yesterday morning because your offshore accounts were frozen by federal investigators for money laundering!
Victoria: Money laundering?! I don't know anything about money laundering!
Chloe: The shell corporations you set up in the Cayman Islands were flagged by the bank two weeks ago, Victoria.
Victoria: I was only moving money to avoid the high state inheritance taxes!
Chloe: You were hiding assets from Dad's probate court because you knew you were cut out of the primary will!
Victoria slumped against the wall, her polished grey suit rumpled and stained with small drops of spilled milk from the floor.
Victoria: I had to do it... I had debt collectors calling my personal phone every single night...
Chloe: Debt collectors? How much money did you lose, Mom?
Victoria: Four million dollars... in high-risk foreign currency trades...
Mark: Four million dollars?! Are you completely insane?!
Victoria: I was trying to double the estate capital before Chloe took full control of the firm!
Chloe: You didn't want to double it for us! You wanted the money so you wouldn't have to ask me for an allowance!
Victoria: I am your mother! I was not going to beg my twenty-six-year-old daughter for grocery money every month!
Chloe: So you decided to put my daughter's life on the line instead?!
Victoria: The broker told me if I didn't post five hundred thousand in cash by twelve o'clock today, they would sell my luxury portfolio at a public auction!
Mark: Then let them sell it! You deserve to sit in a empty room with nothing to your name!
The distant sound of police sirens echoed down the long private driveway, growing louder with every passing second.
Victoria: Chloe... please... tell them it was a mistake! Tell them the maid dropped the bottle by accident!
Chloe: I am never lying for you again, Victoria.
Victoria: If I go to prison, I will die in there! You know how fragile my health is!
Chloe: Your health was fine enough to walk into my kitchen this morning and hand a vial of toxic chemical powder to my maid!
Victoria: I am your mother! You only get one mother in this life, Chloe!
Chloe: A real mother protects her children and her grandchildren. You are just a stranger who lives in my house.