Olivia found ten Super 8 reels labeled by Poppy, spanning March through June 1975, and recognized them as primary sources that could cut through biased recollections. She took the reels to a Ventura shop to be converted to digital, arranging for same-day links. Returning to Vincent’s house, she avoided working with him, still reeling from the threatening closet message in Poppy’s room and the lies surrounding his ownership of the childhood home.

When the links arrived, Olivia began with March #2. The color footage showed the Taylor home and neighborhood in 1975: teenage Vincent and young Lydia on the couch, their mother gently shooing Poppy away from filming, and Danny playful rather than hostile when surprised by the camera. The reel captured everyday family scenes, including Poppy’s ERA-themed bedroom and glimpses of Vincent clowning with Lydia, contradicting the darker picture Olivia had been told about Danny’s temperament.

Switching to a May reel, Olivia saw a janitor removing an obscenity from the high school gym wall, then a burned PE shed, and nighttime sequences of Vincent sneaking across the backyard into nearby trees. In one clip, Vincent confronted the camera angrily and grabbed it, showing a side of him that diverged from his current framing of past events.

Using Poppy’s diary as an index, Olivia matched entries to clips. A March party scene (March #1, Clip #3) showed bonfire revelry and an unidentified older man cleaning up, which Olivia flagged for later identification, given Poppy’s note that Vincent did not want her to see something on that film. Another diary entry from May 6 referenced a rumor that Lydia had been pregnant and then was not, reinforcing undercurrents around Lydia.

Following the May 10 diary note (“I don’t even know who he is anymore,” May #1, Clip #7), Olivia watched a wooded scene that initially mirrored Vincent’s story about catching Danny burying a neighbor’s cat. As the camera zoomed, the digger’s face became clear: it was Vincent himself, burying a bloodied bundle. This directly contradicted Vincent’s account and suggested he had appropriated or inverted the memory, or concealed his own actions.