Julian: What happened to the power? Fix the lights now!
Guard 1: Sir, the main breaker box was manually shut off from the basement circuit switch!
Clara: RUN, NOAH!
Clara grabbed Noah’s hand in the dark, using her intimate knowledge of the mansion's service corridors to sprint toward the east hallway pantry.
Arthur: Clara, wait! Take me with you!
Clara: Stay back, Arthur! You brought this evil into your own home!
Julian: Don't let them reach the security exit! Fire at the doors!
Gunshots shattered the darkness, piercing the wooden paneling of the hallway as screaming guests scrambled for cover in the dark lobby.
Noah: Auntie Clara, my leg hurts! I bumped into the wall!
Clara: Keep moving, sweetheart! We're almost at the service elevator!
She dragged him into a narrow service passage behind the main kitchen, shoving a heavy stainless steel prep table across the door frame to jam the handle.
Guard 2: They're inside the kitchen corridor! Heavy doors are locked from the inside!
Julian: Kick the door down! They have nowhere else to run!
Inside the dimly lit kitchen, Clara quickly pulled out a small black flash drive hidden inside the lining of her maid apron.
Noah: What is that, Auntie Clara?
Clara: This is everything your mother saved, Noah. Audio files, bank statements, and legal proof of who really caused her accident seven years ago.
Noah: Did my daddy hurt my mommy?
Clara: Your father was greedy and weak, Noah. He let bad people take control. But Julian Vance was the one who cut the brake lines on her car.
Noah: Is that why you came to work here as a maid?
Clara: I had to get inside the house to find the physical safe key Victoria hid inside your nursery. I found it three days ago.
The heavy kitchen door buckled inward under the weight of Julian's guards, the wooden frame cracking loudly under the repeated blows.
Julian: Open this door, Clara! You have five seconds before my men blow the lock off!
Clara: I don't need to open it, Julian! I've already uploaded the master encryption file to the FBI financial crimes portal from the estate's local server network!
Julian: What did you say? The local network was disabled!
Clara: I rewired the server backup battery twenty minutes before the party started!
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