Mark: Are you out of your mind, Brenda? Putting a metal chain on a toddler?
Brenda: You don't understand discipline, Mark! She was going to run toward the pool!
Maria: That is a lie! The pool gate was locked! You were dragging her like an animal!
Mark: Be quiet, Brenda. Don't say another word until the police get here.
Brenda: You dare speak to me like that in my late husband's house?
Mark: This is my father's house, and you are just a guest who overstayed her welcome.
Maria: Sir, poor Lily is shaking. Look at her wrists, they're all red!
Mark: Let me hold her, Maria. Shh, Lily, daddy's here. You're safe now.
Lily: Bad lady, Daddy... bad lady hurt Lily...
Brenda: She's exaggerating! Children exaggerate all the time!
Mark: Shut your mouth, Brenda! If there is a single scratch on her, I'm pressing full charges!
Brenda: You wouldn't dare embarrass the family business like this.
Mark: The family trust fund doesn't protect child abusers!
Brenda: I raised you after your mother passed! Is this how you repay me?
Mark: You didn't raise me, you tolerated me for my father's money!
Maria: Mr. Mark, the police cruiser just pulled into the driveway.
Mark: Good. Go open the front gates, Maria.
Brenda: Mark, think about this carefully. The publicity will ruin the pending merger!
Mark: I don't give a damn about the company stock right now!
Brenda: Your father left me as executor of the estate for a reason!
Mark: And that reason is exactly what the probate court is going to re-examine!
Brenda: You're making a massive mistake...
Mark: The only mistake was letting you stay in this mansion after Dad died.
Maria: Officer, right this way! She's out on the back patio!
Officer Davis: Everyone stay where you are. What's the emergency here?
Mark: Officer, my stepmother just chained my three-year-old daughter with a heavy iron tether!
Brenda: It was a child safety harness, Officer! He's lying!
Maria: Look at the metal link on the grass, Officer! That's no harness, that's a tow chain!
Officer Davis: Ma'am, step away from the child and keep your hands where I can see them.
Brenda: You can't talk to me like that! Do you know who I am?
Officer Davis: I don't care who you are. Ma'am, turn around and put your hands behind your back.
Brenda: Mark! Tell him to stop! This is insane!
Mark: Take her away, Officer. We are filing a formal report immediately.
Officer Davis: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
Brenda: You'll regret this, Mark! You don't know what you've just started!
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