Chapter 48 | Power & Control
[Dillon and Mateo enter the conference room where the board is.]
Dillon
What is this meeting about?
Mateo
Yeah, you have no power to just vote us out.
Barb
Oh please stop acting like you two have even cared about this place. The amount of neglect you two have caused here ends now.
Hank
That doesn’t even come close to how poorly this place has been in the media. Do you know that ticket sales have dropped 70%, let that just sink in.
Barb
I’ll speak on behalf of the board, you two have ran amusement into the ground and I don’t think it can even be open much longer.
Dillon
Ok, so you voted us out. How do you think things will get paid around here without the Van-Dirk fortune?
Mateo
Yeah without us this place is nothing.
Hank
It’s funny you say Mateo. We have brought in someone recommended by human resources who is going to help clean this place up financially.
Dillon
Who?
[Gabby enters.]
Gabby
That would be me.
[Mateo is in pure shock and is scared as he sees his mother enter the room. The scene changes to a flashback when Dillon and George were kids and a younger Gabby and Vincent are seen.]
Gabby
Vincent, what’s wrong? Why won’t you look at me?
Vincent
Gabby this is insane, I still love Maggie. Look I’ll help in anyway and I want to be there for the baby. But I’m not just going to walk out on my family.
Gabby
You walked out on your family the night you had sex with me. Don’t go acting like you are Mr. Perfect. Maggie made it clear she wants nothing to do with you Vincent. Please, don’t leave me. I love you.
Vincent
You what?
Gabby
I love you Vincent. I only applied for the promotion to make you jealous. When I go into work tomorrow, I’ll make sure you are the one who gets that promotion.
Vincent
You would do that for me?
Gabby
Of course, I want us to work and I need you here to raise this baby.
Vincent
Ok, let’s get out of here.
[Vincent hugs Gabby and Gabby’s face while hugging his is pure evil. 9 months go by and Gabby gives birth to Mateo.]
Vincent
Push babe, push. You got this.
Doctor
You are almost there Gabby, one more big push.
[Gabby is screaming and crying giving birth.]
Doctor
You did it, you have a beautiful healthy baby boy. What shall we call this little guy?
Gabby
Mateo.
[The doctors hand baby Mateo to Gabby and both Vincent and Gabby look happy. A few weeks go by and Gabby has grown more and more resentful and mean to Vincent.]
Gabby
All that baby does is cry and cry I can’t take this shit anymore. What are we going to do about money huh? Your ex-wife is staking up money from Amusement and what about us?
Vincent
Gabby, half of Amusement is ours don’t forget that.
Gabby
What about child support huh? After all that is said and done, we are left with what, a few hundred dollars. What is that going to buy me?
Vincent
Gabby don’t worry we will get money.
Gabby
Take the baby away, he’s giving me a goddamn headache.
[The flashback ends and the scene changes back to the present.]
Dillon
Who the hell are you?
Gabby
I’m am going to be the one taking over temporarily. I’m Gabriella Castillo, the board reached out to me because I’m the best at what I do.
[Mateo looks frightened.]
Mateo
Dillon let’s just go.
[Mateo is scared and, in a panic to get out of there.]
Dillon
This isn’t over. You’ll hear from our lawyers.
[The brothers exit. The scene changes to Dillon’s house where Billy arrives, and Miranda delivers some shocking news.]
Billy
Dad? Are you home?
Miranda
Billy, oh thank god you are here.
Billy
Where is everyone?
Miranda
My dad and your dad had some emergency board meeting at Amusement. Billy I have to...
Billy
Board meeting? About what?
Miranda
Something about being voted out of Amusement. But Billy I have...
Billy
Wait what? I have to go.
[Billy storms out and the scene changes to a crashed plane where Cristina is. She has woken up after being knocked out.]
Adrian
Hey, you are awake. That’s good. Can you get up?
Cristina
I think so.
Adrian
What is your name?
Cristina
Cristina, I’m Cristina Van-Dirk.
