After Vincent’s nighttime panic about a missing knife, Olivia retreats to the guesthouse, too shaken to return Tom’s call. She wakes to an email from editor Neil rejecting her revised chapter as inert. Olivia schedules a Monday meeting with her agent’s team but withholds news of Vincent’s alarming comments. Determined to clarify what she heard, she goes to the main house for breakfast.

At the table, Olivia asks Vincent about the previous night; he claims it was a bad dream. Caregiver Alma explains that hallucinations are common with Lewy body dementia and urges Olivia not to press him. Olivia points out the specificity of Vincent’s words about a knife and asks if he meant the murder weapon. Vincent deflects, citing his doctor’s warning that his mind may present falsehoods. Tension rises between Alma and Vincent, and Alma announces they must leave at noon for an unspecified appointment.

Later, Olivia sets up an interview in Vincent’s office. He says evenings are rough but mornings are better. When Olivia tells him the manuscript lacks usable material and that their editor rejected her chapter, Vincent laments how his illness blurs reality and asks Olivia to remember “the good things,” like childhood treasure hunts. Olivia insists a strong memoir needs other voices, but Vincent forbids contacting anyone, warning there are things he never told police and that timing and framing are crucial.

Olivia directly asks whether he hid the murder weapon in Poppy’s window, provoking Vincent’s anger. She apologizes and redirects, asking for early memories of Poppy and Danny. Vincent describes Danny as once vibrant and magnetic in elementary school, later withdrawn and survivalist as a teen who camped alone in the nearby oak grove from about age twelve. He outlines their family: a distant father and a critical mother, rigid curfews they circumvented with a disabled back-door lock, and a household full of rules and defiance.

Vincent then recounts a disturbing scene shortly before the murders: in the grove, he covertly watched Danny furiously dig a hole, a bloody T-shirt-wrapped bundle beside him. Vincent says it was the missing neighbor’s cat and insists Danny killed it, rejecting Olivia’s suggestion that Danny might have found it already dead. He characterizes himself as volatile, but Danny as “something much more dangerous,” implying deep fear of his brother.

When Olivia asks about the immediate aftermath of the murders, Vincent offers only fragments: the family spent the night at a motel because their house was a crime scene, the manager refused payment, and suspicion had already begun to circle him. He says he had few friends and stayed in a room adjacent to his parents’, hearing his mother’s incessant crying through thin walls. He reflects that siblings defined him, and their sudden absence left emptiness—though he avoids answering whether he himself cried. Olivia notes this omission later while transcribing.