As soon as they enter, the creaking of the door disappears. Henry and Nora stand in complete shock, exchanging glances with the men sitting without even blinking.
Elizabeth stands up immediately, completely relieved as soon as she sees them. "Dad?! Mom?!"
She tries to walk towards them when a rock-hard body surprises her. It's one of the men sitting there stopping her. "How about going back to your chair?"
The man's words seemed to go in one ear and out the other. Elizabeth pushed him aside, "Move aside!" ignoring his obvious annoyance.
She walks quickly to her father, "That man broke into the house!" Pointing her finger at Frederick who stands slowly, his gaze fixed on the small family with an almost fixed expression, to reply, "So we finally see each other face to face, Mr. Henry." He walks slowly towards him, his steps coinciding with the ticking of a clock Hanging on the wall .
Henry holds his daughter's hand, pushing her behind his back as he responds in a voice that may sound calm, "What are you doing in my house?!" while Frederick stands directly in front of him.
As the tension in the room increases, Nora grabs Henry's arm in confusion, "My dear, do you know him?"
Frederick looks at her with complete boredom, then at Henry, then back at her, "Of course, my lady ..How would he not know? How would he not know the person he was watching like a fly?"
Words fall on Elizabeth like a waterfall of questions in puzzled face.
Her eyes move between her father and Frederick standing in front of her in disbelief. "What are you saying.." Before she can finish, her father interrupts her, clenching his hands at his sides. "Don't involve my family in this! Say what you want, Frederick."
Elizabeth's eyes never leave him while he says these words. Her heartbeat never stops. She begins her heavy breathing... It is fear.
The sound of laughter erupts throughout the room from the men who begin to surround the family like a pack of hyenas. One of them says sarcastically, "What would we want?" Another replies, "Tell us, Mr. Henry."
Nora clings to her daughter like a gazelle, her body trembling as she mutters, "What's happening?!" Frederick is still standing without any kind of reaction.
He walks closer to Henry, grabbing him by the collar to lift him up to his level as if he were a sack of potatoes. "Where is the video, Mr. Henry?" as Henry struggles with his hand to let go of him...
"What are you doing you crazy, LEAVE HIM!!" Nora screams clinging to her husband trying to pull him away from Frederick.
Before she can even try, one of the men grabs her by the neck with a sly smile. "Is the little lady scared?" Nora's scream shakes the place.
Elizabeth ran to her mother, trying to push the man away. "Leave her alone, GET OFF!!" As if she was facing an unbending giant, the man had a wide smile on his face. "Oh, has the little lamb come to protect her mother?"
He kicks her a kick that makes all the air in her lungs come out as she tries to inhale with a gasp...
He throws her mother against the wall as if she is nothing, Nora hits it and falls without standing up, her body on the floor while her head slowly bleeds..
BLOOD spreading its crimson color on the face of the unconscious woman directly next to her daughter.
Heartbeats slowly rise, but this time it's not fear, it's anger.
"What did you do?" Elizabeth whispers with very wide eyes and unexpectedly, she doesn't scream but her gaze goes to the man with a dark face, anger begins to eat away at her heart and while a smile splits his face arrogantly among men..
He doesn't even notice that the little girl below him has already stood right behind him with her hand inside her jacket pocket... pulling out a sharp pen... it seems as if the men notice and decide to have fun with Frederick without even trying to warn the man and as soon as he turns around Elizabeth thrusts the pen into his EYE.
Pain strikes his torsos with a scream of panic, "AAAAH, MY EYES, oh GOD!! YOU PIECE OF*&^" He writhes here and there on the ground, holding his eye that was gushing with blood in his hand, the sound of his colleagues' laughter rising, "Did you let a girl half your size defeat you?" "LOSER."
Elizabeth freezes in place like a chicken between trying to realize what she did and trembling, she looks at the blood on her hand and slowly raises her head, the looks towards her like a fun game for a group of foxes.
The silence was broken by the sound of cold, mocking laughter, as the girl's frozen eyes met his empty blue ones... It's Frederick, pushing Henry away from his grip and adjusting his collar with a calm smile. "How I love the screams of idiots."
Henry looked at his daughter in shock and quickly ran towards her to protect her behind his back. "I will give you whatever you want." He looked at his unconscious wife with tension and anxiety, then at Frederick. "But don't hurt my daughter and my wife."
Frederick sits down slowly, crossing his legs as if nothing was happenin , he looks at the man writhing on the ground, in a foreign tone, says, "Did I tell you to hit them? idiot." He motions boredly for the men to take the man out of his sight, then slowly looks at Henry, with has his hand open...
He seems to want to hand him the record.
Elizabeth watches with a trembling hand as her father hands the record to Frederick, feeling like it's all a nightmare but it seems too real to be true.
Frederick leaves and his men follow him to their car...
He sits incredibly calmly in the back seat and as soon as the car starts moving, he throws the recorder out the window, causing it to shatter into pieces under the wheel.