Although Marilyn Carter is ruthless, no matter what, Victoria Carter is still her daughter.
No matter how she will punish Victoria Carter for ruining her business, she will not let her fall into the hands of the police because, apart from their blood relationship, there are quite a few secrets she knows.
So no matter what, she would definitely rescue her. Even if there has to be a punishment, it shouldn't be the police punishing Marilyn Carter's daughter.
But don't think her smoothing out the relationship is to get Victoria Carter released.
The matter has been attracting attention all along, especially since Joshua Sulliven got involved, drawing even more attention from all sides. So the middle-aged man was referring to smoothing out the relationship not to release people, but to try to make the guards slacken or to obtain the map and arrangement of the prisoner transport.
