Victoria: You don't understand the full picture, David! You were blinded by love! She was a nobody from a poor background!
David: She was my wife! Toby’s mother!
Victoria: She threatened to sign over the family estate to her biological relatives! I couldn't let her take the inheritance your grandfather worked fifty years to build!
Evelyn: I never asked for your money, Victoria! I only wanted to protect my son!
Elena: Mr. Carter, look at her wrists... she has scars from metal chains. This is a crime scene.
David: Elena, take Toby out to the front yard right now. Do not let him look at his grandmother.
Elena: Yes, sir. Come on, Toby, let's go outside, sweetie.
Toby: Mommy... don't let her hurt you again!
Evelyn: I'm right here, baby. Mommy is safe now. Go with Elena.
Victoria backed away slowly toward the front door, her gold dress rustling against the pristine hallway runner, her hands shaking as she fumbled with her purse. Her polished mask was completely slipping, revealing the cold, calculating panic beneath.
David: Where do you think you are going, Victoria?
Victoria: I am going to call our legal team. We need to handle this quietly, David. Think of the press! Think of the stock prices of the firm!
David: You think I give a damn about the company stock right now?! You trapped a human being under floorboards for four years!
Victoria: I gave her food! I gave her medicine! I didn't let her die!
Evelyn: Because if I died, you couldn't access my signature for the offshore trust accounts! That's the real reason, isn't it Victoria?!
David: What offshore accounts? What is she talking about?
Evelyn: My biological father left me a real estate trust in Dallas before he passed... Victoria found out about it right before our anniversary. She needed my signature to transfer the power of attorney to her shell company!
Victoria: You don't have any proof of that! Nobody will believe a crazy woman kept in a cellar!
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