Arthur Vance: What did you do to my security guards upstairs?
Julian: Nothing permanent. Just a simple door lock override on the control room. They'll be stuck in there for another twenty minutes. Plenty of time for us to settle our financial differences.
Maya: Mr. Vance, stay behind me. His men are blocking the main archway.
Arthur Vance: Maya, step back. This is between me and my late sister's husband.
Julian: Oh, look at the hero. Always playing the noble protector. Tell me, Arthur, did you tell your little maid friend why Catherine really left the country fifteen years ago?
Arthur Vance: Keep Catherine out of your mouth, Julian! You spent her entire trust fund on bad investments and gambling debts!
Julian: That was a lie you told the family board to steal her share of the shipping business! I have the original estate trust documents right here in my coat!
Maya: If you have documents, why bring armed men into a charity event full of children?
Julian: Because documents don't mean anything when Arthur owns every judge in the district! A sudden tragic accident, however... that changes the inheritance distribution instantly under the 2010 family agreement.
Arthur Vance: You wanted to crush my son under two hundred pounds of thick lead crystal? He's seven years old!
Julian: I wanted a distraction! The kid running toward the glass was an unexpected bonus. If the display fell on him, you would be ruined by public scandal and negligence lawsuits. The board would have removed you as CEO by Monday morning!
Maya: You're disgusting. You risked a child's life for corporate shares and a seats on a board!
Julian: Shut up! You're nothing but a minimum wage servant who got lucky!
Arthur Vance: Don't you dare speak to her like that! She did what you never had the courage to do protect family!
Julian: Family? You threw me out on the street after Catherine died! You cut off my living allowance and left me with millions in debt!
Arthur Vance: Because you forged Catherine's signature on a life insurance policy three days before she got sick! I kept you out of prison for her sake, but I will not let you threaten my son!
Julian: Nobody is going to prison today, Arthur. Guards, take his phone and lock the double doors.
Maya: Wait! Look at the floor under your feet, Julian!
Julian instinctively paused and looked down at his shoes. Maya grabbed a heavy brass candelabra from the nearby catering table and swung it with all her strength against the grand glass fixture above the double doors. Heavy decorative crystals rained down directly on Julian’s two guards, disorienting them instantly.
Arthur Vance: Maya, run to the dining room!
Maya: Not without you and Noah!
Julian: Grab them! Don't let them reach the front foyer!
Noah: Daddy, the secret door in the library! The one Grandma showed us!
Arthur Vance: Good boy, Noah! Maya, follow me through the library double doors now!
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