THE FOLLOWING FILE IS A TRANSCRIPT OF A VIDEO THAT APPEARS IN BETWEEN THE PREVIOUS FOOTAGE AND THE NEXT FOOTAGE. AT THE POINT IN WHICH EMMA FOLLOWS BLAINE INTO THE UNKNOWN PORTAL CREATED BY THE CREATURE, THE FOOTAGE BECOMES CORRUPTED AND SPLITS ITSELF INTO MULTIPLE FILES.

  THE FIRST OF THESE FILES APPEARS TO ACTUALLY BE "DONTFORGET.mp4", WHICH, WHEN AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO PULL THE FILE FROM ITS ORIGINAL SOURRCE- BLAINE'S COMPUTER- HAD ITSELF BECOME CORRUPTED.

  THIS FILE LIKEWISE APPEARS TO BE DAMAGED, BUT WITH EDITING, WAS MOSTLY RESTORED. WHEN COMPARED TO THE RECORDS ON HAND PORTRAYING THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO AND ENCOMPASSING THE ACCIDENTAL MURDER OF BLAINE'S STEPFATHER, THERE ARE NOTABLE DIFFERENCES.

  WARNING: DEPICTIONS OF CHILD ABUSE ARE CONTAINED HEREIN.

  --File 065: DONTFORGET.mp4--

  There are several important sequences that lead up to the Day, as it is referred to unofficially.

  Blaine is horribly abused by his stepfather. Important to note in the video files recorded in secret by Blaine is that his mother never once steps forward to defend him. Constantly covered in bruises herself and looking frail and older than she should, Blaine's mother seems to shut down whenever Blaine attempts to protect her, defend her, or strike back at his step-father.

  The first of several inaccuracies between this file and the ones on record with the Police can be found between incidents.

  Blaine rushes out of the apartment, his mother- Evelyn- locks herself in a bedroom, and his Step-father leaves shortly after, a whirlwind of drunk anger and violence.

  The camera is situated behind a television set, which appears to be sacred to Blaine's step-father, a man by the name of Carl [REDACTED]. Records indicate Blaine cunningly hid the device in the pot of a fake plant sitting behind the television set. Along the wall to the right of the television is a tall, cracked ceiling-to-floor mirror that has several bills taped haphazardly to its surface.

  In the silence that follows this particular blowout, there is a sudden static that crackles repeatedly across the footage, and from the mirror steps a particularly familiar figure: the Other Blaine.

  He stands in the living room, before the too-wide-smile fills his features. He walks leisurely about the room, made entirely of shards of glittering, sometimes blackened glass, and finally stops in the kitchen. The static on the camera flickers, and the Other Blaine turns, points to the device, and the screen goes dark briefly.

  There are moments following this in which the static is again present, particularly when Blaine is at his angriest with his stepfather. It is unclear where the Other Blaine is in these scenes, but he appears to be present to some degree and reacting to the scenarios playing out for him.

  There are a great deal of scenes in which Blaine is badly abused by his step-father, and his mother never once steps forward to assist. Though devastating and tragic, it is important that this note is made.

  When The Day arrives, Blaine's step-father gets in an argument with his wife. For the first time, Blaine doesn't come to her defense, watching from the kitchen as his step-father shouts at his mother for the lack of beer in the fridge. The woman collapses, shaking, to the floor, and Carl swears furiously as he turns and storms out of the apartment to purchase more alcohol.

  Blaine's mother has collapsed on the floor, breathing hard but seemingly unable to cry. Blaine watches her with an unusually flat expression. He pushes off the edge of the counter, still looking odd, and speaks to his mother.

  Blaine: "Why are you still with him? Answer me."

  His mother doesn't answer for several minutes, hugging her arms.

  Blaine: "Mom. Answer me. Why are you with him?"

  Evelyn: "There is... nowhere else... to go."

  There is a very long pause.

  Blaine: "Why do you never stop him from hitting me?"

  It is an even longer pause.

  Evelyn: "If he... hits you..."

  Her voice is shaking, and from the vantage point, her eyes are as wide as they will go, staring off into space; there is a void of sanity in her expression, and she does not finish her whispered sentence. She does not have to.

  Rage flashes across Blaine's face.

  Blaine: "If he hits me, then he's not hitting you?"

  She does not answer, which in itself, may as well be its own answer.

  Blaine turns and rips a large knife from the knife holder. Here, the footage splits from the official files on record with the Police.

  In the official file, Blaine holds the knife, looks at it, before placing it back on the counter and telling his mother he can't be there. He calmly walks out of the apartment and leaves.

  In the file taken off of the camera, static begins dancing across the footage once more. Blaine takes hold of the knife, breathing hard, and begins to advance on his mother, rage etched on his face. Between one step and the next, however, something catches his eye. He looks at the knife in his hand, and all of the color drains out of his face. His mouth drops open, and he jerks his hand back and away; the knife clatters to the ground, the blade shattering, strangely, like glass.

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  Evelyn does not react to any of this, continuing to stare into space. After a moment, Blaine's expression is filled with horror, and he immediately sprints out of the apartment, seemingly mortified about what he was about to do.

  The static begins to play again across this file, and the shards of glass all begin to reform, silently, behind Evelyn to an increasing amount of white flickering across the screen. The glass form of the Other Blaine is created, and he closes his eyes, looking up at the ceiling. He raises his arms out in a mockery of the crucifixion, before dropping them. He lifts his head, then turns to walk back to the counter; bursting into a cloud of shards once more, he takes the shape of the knife that Blaine had held just moments before, right at the edge of the counter, by the door.

  For a long while, nothing else happens. Evelyn remains in her spot on the floor, leaning against the wall, blinking so little it is uncertain how her eyes have not dried out.

  Finally, Blaine's step-father returns home, a white bag in his hands filled with beer. He looks, sees Evelyn leaning against the wall, and becomes enraged.

  Carl: "Have you not fucking moved this entire time, you stupid bitch?!"

  Evelyn flinches, but doesn't move, curling tighter.

  Carl furiously drops his bag of clinking bottles on the counter, and notices the knife. He snatches it up and holds it in the air, waving it in her direction.

  Carl: "Are you fucking crazy? You're just going to leave shit like this on the counter, where anyone could fucking stab themselves?! Do you even do shit around here, or do I have to fuckin' do-"

  Carl's voice is suddenly cut off, and he examines the knife more closely. Static begins to flicker and dance across the screen, and there is an odd light coming off of the knife in his hands.

  Carl's expression changes, and the familiar, too-wide smile stretches across his face. He turns calmly toward Evelyn and walks in her direction.

  She does not scream when he grabs her by her hair, but when she sees the knife, she screams once. Carl slams her against the floor, and proceeds to stab her 197 times.

  The details of the scene are not necessary, except that Carl is silent the entire time, and static continues to play across the scene.

  How this differs from the Official File on record is that, in that file, Carl appears to lose his mind, begins screaming and shouting at Evelyn, and grabs the knife from where the "official record" of Blaine left it, before rushing his wife and proceeding to stab her 197 times. He shouts and swears all the while, his tone suggesting that he is drunk, despite the toxicology report showing zero presence of alcohol within his body at the time of examination. In fact, toxicology suggests that there were little to no substances in the man's body, though substance abuse is clear on his record.

  Blaine returns home in the file found on the camera to his father still stabbing away at his mother. Carl looks up and stands, still smiling- but it is a visibly "normal" smile, now.

  Blaine freezes, and Carl lurches at him. Reacting in a practiced, trained manner, Blaine sidesteps his step-father's clumsy attempt to stab him. He grabs his step-father around the neck in a proper choke-hold, the type meant to disarm a dangerous opponent.

  Carl fights his step-son for a brief period of time, during which Blaine seems to be fueled by a combination of fear and rage and adrenaline. He continues to block and eventually crush his step-father's windpipe, even past the point of which Carl ceases all movement, and only stops when his senses return to him. Horrified, he drops his step-father... but the man is now dead.

  He immediately takes stock of the room and shouts, scrambling away from the bloody mass that is all that remains of his mother. Scrambling outside in sheer terror, Blaine now retreats to find a neighbor and use their phone to dial 911.

  Static dances across the screen once more, and the Other Blaine reforms off of the knife, smiling a too-wide smile. He moves silently to stand over the mutilated corpse of his mother, sneers, and then turns to point at the camera.

  Other Blaine: "One day, you'll see this. One day, you'll thank me."

  He drops his hand, and the too-wide smile drops off, revealing a nasty expression of someone who is too tired, too angry, too evil, too much.

  Other Blaine: "Or maybe we're always meant to be a certain way. We shall see what you do, now, Blaine."

  With that, he turns, walks toward the mirror, and, in a burst of static... disappears.

  THIS IS NOT WHERE THE VIDEO ENDS.

  AFTER ANOTHER BURST OF STATIC, A NEW VIDEO BEGINS- ONE THAT TAKES PLACE SHORTLY AFTER FILE 052: TRUST.

  When the file begins, Blaine and Emma are seated across from each other, and Emma is watching the video that Blaine has just played for her.

  Emma: "I don't understand."

  Blaine: "That day is really hazy for me. I remember looking at the knife... the person I saw in it, my reflection... it was like a monster. It woke me up. But Emma-"

  Emma: "Yes?"

  Blaine: "You need to know. I wanted to kill her. I wanted to kill my mother. I wanted to rip her apart, I was so angry- so angry for who she'd become, who she could have been, everything I could have had..."

  Emma: "Blaine... that's not your fault. You... no one can speak for you. No one can say they've ever experienced something like that."

  Blaine: "But you have to realize something else, Em."

  Emma: "That this is the only version in which you didn't kill your mother?"

  There is a long period of silence where they look at each other solemnly.

  Blaine: "I don't know anymore if it's because I decided not to kill her. But Weiss... I think Weiss thinks I killed her. I think a lot of people think I killed her."

  Emma: "And you're not going to correct them."

  Blaine: "Anders has seen the footage, but he never got concrete answers as to why my step-father so brutally killed my mother. That rat bastard was the most sober he had ever been in all my time knowing him. A Doctor suggested that that was why he killed her- that the stress of not being coked out of his mind and drunk off his ass drove him over the edge."

  Emma: "But you think he doubts something."

  Blaine: "There has been doubt in the minds of everyone who's ever been involved with the case, regardless of the footage in front of them. I think they saw that I wanted to kill her, too, and even if I stopped... they looked at me and saw someone who was just one wrong step from becoming a murderer. What if I didn't stop myself the next time?"

  Emma: "You did stop yourself."

  Blaine: "I wonder."

  They stop speaking for a while, and then Blaine looks at her.

  Blaine: "I'm not going to correct anyone, Emma. I need you to know all of this. I need you to trust me."

  Emma: "Why?"

  Blaine: "I don't know yet. I don't know... I don't know. I feel like I'm a step away from remembering something- but it doesn't matter. I need you to trust me, if we're going to have a chance at getting out of this alive."

  Emma: "I do, Blaine. I trust you."

  There is a long pause, and then static flickers across the screen, and the video ends.

  --END TRANSMISSION--