Eleanor: Stay back, Marcus! If you lay a finger on me, I'll strip you of every corporate share you own!
Marcus: You couldn't strip a coat off a snowman right now, Eleanor. Your legal standing is vaporized.
Chloe: Just look at her face. She still thinks she can manipulate her way out of this with money.
Eleanor: Shut up, Chloe! This is a family matter between me and my brother!
Marcus: Chloe is my wife and the mother of this child. She has every right to speak!
Eleanor: You're choosing a gold-digging outsider over your own sister? Have you forgotten our childhood?
Marcus: Our childhood didn't include beating toddlers, Eleanor! Where did you learn such cruelty?
Eleanor: I learned it from watching you climb the corporate ladder by stepping on everyone else!
Marcus: Corporate competition is entirely different from terrorizing a baby in a high chair!
Chloe: She's been resentful ever since the inheritance settlement favored our branch of the family.
Eleanor: That trust fund was supposed to be split evenly! You stole my future!
Marcus: You squandered your share on luxury cars and high-society debts before you were thirty!
Eleanor: That is none of your business! You locked me out of the boardroom accounts!
Marcus: Because you're a financial liability and now, clearly, a physical threat to my household.
Chloe: Marcus, look at Sophie. She's still trembling in my arms.
Marcus: I see her, sweetheart. And justice is going to be served right here, right now.
Eleanor: What are you planning to do? Call your private security guards like a coward?
Marcus: I don't need guards to deal with someone who hits an innocent baby.
Eleanor: You wouldn't dare touch me in front of your wife! It's barbaric!
Marcus: Barbaric is what you did to my daughter while we were eating breakfast under a Christmas tree.
Chloe: End this, Marcus. Get her out of our lives permanently.
Eleanor: You'll regret this, Marcus! My divorce lawyer will make sure you live in a cardboard box!
Marcus: Let my legal team handle your criminal trial for child abuse first.
The man confronts the woman face-to-face and strikes her across the face with a hard, powerful slap, sending her falling toynth wooden floor.
Sharp slapping impacts and a falling crash echoed through the dining room.