Liam: Your sister? Clara was an only child! Her estate documents proved it!
Elena: Clara was adopted from foster care at age six. I was the older sister she was forced to leave behind.
Liam: This is a lie! A scam to extort money from my family estate!
Elena: Check the birth certificates from the state registry. My legal name is Elena Vance-Ross.
Liam: You took a maid job under a false name just to enter my house?
Elena: I took a maid job because it was the only way your high-security building would let me past the lobby front desk.
Liam: I am calling the police right now! Trespassing and fraud!
Elena: Call them. Let the NYPD come up to this forty-million-dollar penthouse. Let them inspect the frame.
Liam: There is nothing behind that frame except wood and old canvas!
Elena: Then take it down. Prove me wrong in front of your son.
Liam: I don't have to prove anything to an intruder!
Leo: Auntie Elena... is Mommy in the picture?
Elena: No, sweetie. But Mommy left a special letter just for you.
Liam: Stop filling his head with crazy stories!
Elena: Reach up and pull the brass latch on the back of the flag frame, Liam. Do it right now if you are so sure I am lying.
Liam: Fine! I will prove you are a fraud and then hand you over to the authorities!
Elena: Go ahead. Step over the glass you broke.
Liam: This is absurd... absolute madness...
Elena: Look at the back panel, Liam. Is that your lawyer's handwriting or Clara's?
Liam: What... what is this envelope?
Elena: Read the front. Out loud, so Leo can hear how much his mother truly loved him.
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