Chloe walked three miles down the coastal highway until she reached a small local diner.
The friendly waitress recognized her and lent her an old cell phone to use.
Chloe called her cousin David, who worked as a smart home electronics technician.
David picked her up twenty minutes later in his work van to offer help.
Chloe explained the entire nightmare that had taken place inside the mansion foyer.
David recalled installing a hidden nanny camera inside the giant grandfather clock last month.
Mark had asked for the secret camera to keep an eye on the original staff.
The hidden device was connected to a separate cloud storage server that Mark forgot existed.
Chloe remembered that the grandfather clock sat directly across from the grand staircase.
The camera inside it would have captured the entire incident from start to finish.
However, accessing that private cloud drive required a special master password from Mark's laptop.
Chloe knew Mark kept his backup computer drives inside his office at the firm.
She needed to get into the downtown corporate tower before Mark filed the custody papers.
David drove Chloe straight downtown while making calls to his contact in the building.
The security guard at the front desk was an old friend of Chloe's late father.
He agreed to let Chloe into the executive floor to collect her personal property.
Chloe hurried through the empty glass hallways toward Mark's massive corner office.
She searched through the mahogany desk drawers until she found the black flash drive.
The drive held the master security credentials for the hidden clock camera system.
Suddenly, the office door handle jiggled as someone tried to open the door.
Chloe quickly hid behind the leather couch as the lights flickered on brightly.
Mark's ruthless family divorce lawyer stepped inside while talking on his speakerphone.
He was discussing how to speed up the eviction order against Chloe right away.
Chloe held her breath as the lawyer grabbed a file and walked back out.
She slipped out of the room with the vital memory drive tight in hand.