Mistake

Then she glanced at Mario, the main suspect who was leaking state secrets. She warned him with her eyes. As if she's saying to Mario, "You won't get away with this. After this event is over, I will teach you a lesson." 

And she also cursed Mario in her heart hundreds of times. Now she had to think of the correct answer to her father-in-law. But her heart sank when she saw Grandpa Will and her Mother-in-law staring at her too. They all heard what they were talking about.

'Damn it, Mario!' She cursed him again.

Andrew is also stunned when he hears his father ask Mel. He immediately glances at his wife, and his heart tightens when he sees his wife tongue-tie. Andrew knows she can't answer his father's question. He immediately helped her by explaining to his father. Mel is not an active-duty soldier but a kind of military consultant.