I Have Five Kick-Ass Brothers – Episode 32
Coco’s image froze on the boardroom screen, one hand gripping Walter’s battered metal case. Raina watched the time stamp advance and felt old disappointment settle where shock might once have lived. Every time Coco appeared to choose honesty, another hidden bargain surfaced behind her.
Her attorney confirmed she had been released temporarily to assist prosecutors, but her movements were restricted. Visiting the legal custodian without disclosure violated that agreement. Police began searching for her before the board meeting ended.
Donald Carlisle dismissed the footage as irrelevant to the trust’s validity. His eagerness to separate Coco from the filing drew Noah’s attention. He asked whether Carlisle had communicated with her, and the chairman denied knowing her beyond public reports.
Luke recovered access logs showing Coco used a temporary code sponsored by Carlisle Holdings. The room turned toward Donald. He claimed an employee must have acted without authorization, but no one believed coincidence had opened precisely the archive he needed.
Raina asked for a recess instead of pressing him publicly. Carlisle seemed relieved, not realizing the pause allowed Mathew to request an emergency preservation order for his company’s messages and financial records.
The brothers gathered in Noah’s office. Joshua wanted Carlisle detained, while Henry warned that moving without evidence would make the family look afraid of the trust. Raina listened before suggesting they find Coco first. She was the visible link, but she might also be another piece Carlisle believed he controlled.
Theo called with information from Jones security. Coco had used a prepaid phone to contact Asher, asking him to meet at a bus terminal. She sounded frightened and said the case contained something worth more than the Lincoln fortune.
Raina chose to accompany Joshua to the terminal. Her brothers objected only long enough to discuss safety measures, respecting the agreement that protection would no longer mean exclusion. Theo joined them without turning the operation into his own.
They found Asher alone near the departure gates. Coco had sent him a locker key but never arrived. He admitted she had contacted Carlisle while on bail, believing the chairman could trade the trust for protection from prosecution.
The locker held Walter’s metal case, now empty except for a handwritten note. Coco claimed Carlisle had taken the original trust page and planned to frame her for replacing it. She had gone to recover proof before he silenced her.
Joshua traced the note’s paper to a hotel owned by Carlisle Holdings. Security footage showed Coco entering a service elevator at midnight. No camera recorded her leaving.
At the hotel, the manager insisted every suite was vacant during renovations. Raina noticed fresh flowers at the reception desk and room-service trays waiting behind a curtain. The building was not empty; someone had instructed staff to pretend it was.
Theo used neither threat nor title. He showed the manager the police preservation order and warned that obstructing a missing-person investigation carried personal consequences. The man surrendered a master key and identified the occupied penthouse.
Joshua led the approach. Inside, they found signs of a struggle, Coco’s broken phone, and a smear of blood on the edge of a desk. An open laptop displayed a scheduled transfer of Lincoln voting shares to a Carlisle subsidiary.
Raina saw how the scheme worked. The altered trust would force her brothers out, then a second document would place her shares under temporary management because she lacked executive experience. Carlisle would control the company while claiming to protect her.
A noise came from the adjoining bathroom. Asher opened the door and found Coco bound inside, conscious but shaken. She recoiled from Raina before shame forced her gaze downward.
Coco admitted replacing the trust page for Carlisle. In exchange, he promised legal protection and enough money to leave Brookfield. After she discovered the share-transfer document, she tried to steal the original page back, and his men confined her.
Raina asked where the genuine page was. Coco said Carlisle kept it inside a red portfolio carried to the board meeting that morning. They had left the building while he sat only rooms away from the evidence.
Noah received the warning too late. Carlisle had requested another meeting and entered the boardroom alone. When security returned, he and the red portfolio were gone.
On the table lay a resignation letter bearing Raina’s forged signature. It announced that she had transferred every voting right to Donald Carlisle effective immediately.