After leaving her mother, Olivia sits in her car processing the disclosures: her mother had held onto Poppy’s camera all these years, and the film likely shows what led Danny to kill Poppy. Olivia considers how this could have changed Vincent’s fate from suspected murderer to someone acting in self-defense and reflects on the life that might have been. She recognizes her own complicity in secrecy and resolves not to repeat her parents’ choices.

Seeking accountability, Olivia decides to call Tom. She reopens his two-week-old text and drafts a message that she can ethically send within her contract. She writes that Vincent Taylor is her father and adds that nothing she has told Tom about the trip is untrue, then sends it, feeling a cathartic release.

Olivia focuses on the camera her mother gave her and searches for a local shop that can extract and digitize the Super 8 film. At the cluttered store, a rumpled technician warns the camera may be damaged and the film partially exposed. Olivia authorizes any necessary steps to access the footage and is told it will take a couple of hours.

While waiting at an Olive Garden, Olivia struggles to eat, vacillating between anger and empathy. She acknowledges Danny as the central villain who raped her mother and killed Poppy, and she feels heartbreak for Vincent as a teenage boy who stumbled into a horrific scene and acted to save himself. When the transfer shop emails a link to the film, she decides to wait to watch it in private.

Back at the shop, the technician returns the camera and gives Olivia a curious look, asking if she knows the people on the film; she deflects, saying it belonged to her aunt in the seventies. His silence and expression heighten her apprehension. Olivia takes the shoebox and heads home.

At her house, Olivia breathes easier and opens the patio doors to air out the space. She puts tamales in the oven and notices signs Tom has cleared out: his books, shirts, toothbrush, and key are gone, with no note. Despite the emptiness, she clings to a plan to be honest with him and avoid repeating her parents’ isolation and secrecy.

Remembering her mother’s words that information is both power and burden, Olivia hesitates before the link to Poppy’s last film. The technician’s look and the gravity of the secret that got Poppy killed weigh on her as she prepares to watch the footage that may finally reveal the truth.