Richard: Open the briefcase, Arthur.
Dr. Harrison: Richard, this is harassment! I will call the medical board!
Richard: Call them! I want them here right now! Open the bag!
Dr. Harrison placed the leather briefcase on the mahogany desk with shaking hands. He clicked open the brass locks and pulled out a blue folder marked with Lily's name.
Richard grabbed the folder and flipped through the recent daily prescription logs.
Richard: What is this medication listed here? Neurotox-B?
Dr. Harrison: It's a standard nerve-calming supplement to prevent leg spasms!
Leo: Can I see that bottle, sir?
Richard: Do you know what this is, Leo?
Leo: When I touched Lily's hand, I felt a dark, bitter cold inside her legs. It felt like cold water flowing from her stomach down to her feet.
Dr. Harrison: Don't listen to this ignorant boy! He's making up stories!
Leo: It smelled like bitter almonds. The medicine bottle in his bag smells the exact same way.
Richard slammed his hand down on the desk, standing up to his full height as he glared down at the trembling doctor.
Richard: Bitter almonds... that's a symptom of synthetic nerve inhibitors! You were poisoning my daughter!
Dr. Harrison: That's a lie! I was giving her prescribed treatments!
Richard: You were giving her nerve blockers every single day so her legs would remain paralyzed! That's why she never recovered after the car accident!
Dr. Harrison: Victoria ordered the medication! She said it was necessary to control Lily's condition!
Richard: Victoria ordered it?!
Dr. Harrison: She told me you approved it! She said you wanted Lily to remain in the wheelchair so she could qualify for the late grandmother's trust fund distributions!
Richard: What grandmother's trust fund?
Dr. Harrison: My grandmother left fifty million dollars to Lily, but the money only releases to her legal guardian if Lily is permanently disabled before her eighteenth birthday!
Richard felt the blood drain from his face as the horrific truth finally crashed down on him. His wife Victoria hadn't just been cold to Lily—she had been systematically poisoning her for two years to steal a fifty-million-dollar inheritance.
Richard: You monster... you absolute monster!
Dr. Harrison: Richard, please! I was just following Victoria's orders! She paid me ten thousand dollars a month extra to sign the monthly paralysis certificates!
Richard: Guards! Lock this man in the wine cellar and call the state police immediately!
Dr. Harrison: No! Richard, wait! Victoria has the offshore transfer papers in her bedroom right now! She's planning to leave the country tonight!
Richard: Leo, stay here with the butler. I am going to end this right now.
Leo: Be careful, Mr. Vance. That woman has a very dark heart.