The next morning, two state police cruisers and an unmarked detective car pulled up to Evelyn's luxury uptown penthouse.
Mark walked alongside Detective Reynolds and Attorney Vance up the grand marble steps of the building.
Detective Reynolds: Mark, stay behind me while we execute the arrest warrant.
Mark: I want to look her in the eye when you put the handcuffs on her.
The detective knocked heavily on the double oak doors of the penthouse.
A few seconds later, Evelyn opened the door wearing a silk robe, holding a cup of espresso.
Evelyn: What is the meaning of this intrusion?!
Detective Reynolds: Evelyn Montgomery? I have a warrant for your arrest.
Evelyn: Arrest?! Are you insane?! On what charges?!
Detective Reynolds: Felony domestic assault, fraud, forgery, and grand larceny exceeding two million dollars.
Evelyn: This is a absurd misunderstanding! Mark, tell them to leave!
Mark: I called them myself, Evelyn.
Evelyn: You ungrateful little brat! After everything I did for your father?!
Attorney Vance: What you did was forge his signature while he was sick in the hospital, Evelyn.
Evelyn: I was his legal wife! I had every right to manage his finances!
Attorney Vance: Not after he revoked your power of attorney two weeks before his death. We have the notarized document.
Evelyn's face turned completely white as the espresso cup slipped from her fingers, shattering on the polished marble floor.
Evelyn: That document was destroyed...
Attorney Vance: Your lawyer thought it was destroyed. My firm kept the original locked in a vault.
Detective Reynolds: Turn around and place your hands behind your back, ma'am.
Evelyn: Get your hands off me! Do you know who my social circle consists of?!
Detective Reynolds: Right now, your social circle consists of the inmates at the county jail.
The officer grabbed her wrists and snapped the metal handcuffs tightly around her wrists.
Evelyn: Mark! Stop them! We can make a deal! You can have half the money back!
Mark: I don't want half. The court is freezing all your assets today. Every single dollar you stole is returning to my daughter's trust fund.
Evelyn: You're destroying this family's reputation!
Mark: You destroyed it the moment you put your hands on Sarah and threatened my baby.
Evelyn: Sarah is a nobody! A dirty little nobody from the valley!
Mark: Sarah is ten times the woman you will ever be. She built a real home while you built a fortress of lies.
Evelyn: I will sue you for police brutality! Look at my face where you slapped me!
Detective Reynolds: Ma'am, we have the kitchen security footage from Mark's home. You struck his wife first without provocation. Mark acted in defense of his family.
Evelyn: Security footage?! What security footage?!
Mark: I installed hidden cameras in the kitchen six months ago when Emma was born to check on her from work.
Evelyn: You... you recorded everything?
Mark: Every single second. The police have the video, the judge has the video, and by tonight, the whole city will know what kind of monster you really are.
Evelyn began to scream in fury as the officers dragged her down the marble hallway toward the elevator.