And Kurt Caldwell definitely has something to hide.Īt this point, it could still be anyone’s game in terms of who is responsible for capturing and killing the young woman formerly known as Hamburger Girl, but this episode is heavily pointing toward Kurt. Extra space and breathing room are a benefit of wooded areas, but it’s also a prime location for someone with something to hide. Do you think John Wayne Gacy would have been able to hide all those bodies in a six-floor walkup? No way. Historically small towns are literal magnets for freaks and killers.
To the townsfolk of Iron Lake, I’d say, maybe consider a move? Brooklyn is fantastic. And there’s Harrison, who’s out there slicing nerds and eating breakfast foods in the most unhinged way I’ve ever witnessed. There’s Kurt Caldwell, who is making up stories about his dead kid while also probably killing young women in his doo-wop dungeon. There’s a fully sentient ghost with a flair for dramatic montages. There’s Dexter/Jim, doing whatever the hell it is he’s doing. There is quite a large population of predators and weirdos for a town as seemingly small as Iron Lake, New York. Or, in the words of Deb, a bunch of fuck nuggets. And now Dexter knows that he’s not the only one with a dark passenger, which makes him … happy? This family is nuts.
Seeing the angle of Harrison’s wound and the telltale blood splatter, Dexter knows right away that Harrison is lying and gives him a chance to come clean, but his son defensively doubles down on the lie. He then used a different knife to stab himself to make it look like Ethan had stabbed him and he was forced to defend himself. But then, through Dexter’s analysis, we come to find that Harrison brought a straight razor to school and used it to slash Ethan’s leg so he could see what it would feel like. We’re first made to believe that Ethan asked Harrison to be part of a school shooting with him and lashed out when Harrison refused, causing Harrison to react in defense. We see Harrison alone at school listening to the podcast, and then there’s a jump to later in the day when Dexter receives an alert on his phone that there’s a lockdown at the high school. When Harrison listens to the Trinity Killer episode, something snaps, and that line he was walking between hero and villain gets harder to follow. In the case of Harrison’s mom, the Trinity Killer sliced her with a straight razor, which is now Harrison’s weapon of choice in his first (that we know of) dip into the same bloody pool his dad swims in. And both young boys were left to sit and cry in the blood of their dead mom until help came. Both were in the same room at the time of the killings. The details of this tragic event are eerily similar to the murder of Dexter’s own mother when he himself was a child. If you remember from the original Dexter series, this is the guy who killed Harrison’s mom. With Molly in town and her true identity and intentions known, Harrison takes an interest in her podcast and comes to one about the Trinity Killer while scrolling through the episodes. Dressed head to toe in circa 2003 Nordstrom Rack, her nosey and chipper demeanor was off-putting to Sheriff Angela Bishop from the jump, and even more so when Angela learns that the “citizen activist” is actually viral podcaster Molly Park (Jamie Chung), host of Merry Fucking Kill, which focuses on true crimes of all shapes and sizes. He sees himself - both the mask and the true face beneath.Ī popular podcaster sniffing around town first appeared in episode three under the guise of a “citizen activist” offering to help in the search for Matt Caldwell. He sees something in his son Harrison that no one else does. And when a person gets comfortable, their true self pushes past the mask of politeness worn while acclimating.Īfter befriending Ethan, the awkward outcast of his high school, and saving him from a beatdown from Zach, one of a group of bullies who’ve tormented Ethan for years, Harrison seems to be choosing a different life path from his dad. Harrison is getting comfortable in his new home of Iron Lake, New York. But the respectable part, well, that’s open to interpretation. Factoring in what we’ve now learned from episode four, it’s actually looking like that dark streak is casting a pretty heavy shadow over anything resembling solid. In last week’s recap, I mentioned how it looks like Harrison is growing up to be “solid and respectable,” albeit with a bit of an inherited dark streak.