There is quite a large population of predators and weirdos for a town as seemingly minor as Iron Lake, New York. Or, in the words of Deb, a bunch of f*ck nuggets.ĭexter: New Blood Episode 5 A town of odd-balls 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 wounded himself with a separate knife to make it seem as though Ethan had stabbed him, forcing him to defend himself. But later, thanks to Dexter’s investigation, we learn that Harrison took a straight razor to school and slashed Ethan’s leg to explore how it felt. Ethan is said to have persuaded Harrison to accompany him in a school massacre and then lashed out when Harrison refused, leading Harrison to defend himself.
We show Harrison alone at school, listening to the podcast, and then we move to later in the day when Dexter gets a phone alert that the high school is on lockdown. Something cracks when Harrison hears the Trinity Killer episode, and the line he was treading between hero and evil becomes increasingly difficult to follow. Harrison’s mother was sliced with a straight razor by the Trinity Killer, which is now Harrison’s preferred weapon in his first (that we know of) plunge into the same gory pool his father swims in. And both little boys were permitted to sit in their mother’s blood and howl until help came. Both were present in the same room during the killings. The circumstances of this heinous crime are eerily similar to Dexter’s own mother’s death when he was a child. This is the man who murdered Harrison’s mother in the first Dexter series. With Molly in town and her actual name and intents revealed, Harrison becomes interested in her podcast and, while scrolling through the episodes, stumbles upon one about the Trinity Killer. Her nosy and cheerful approach was immediately off-putting to Sheriff Angela Bishop, and it gets even more so when Angela realizes that the “citizen activist” is really popular podcaster Molly Park (Jamie Chung), presenter of Merry F*cking Kill, which focuses on genuine murders of all kinds and sizes. In episode three, a popular podcaster sniffing about town first appeared as a “citizen activist,” asking to help with the search for Matt Caldwell. He recognizes himself – both the disguise and the open face underneath it. Nobody else sees what he sees in his son Harrison. Harrison seems to be taking a different life path than his father after meeting Ethan, the awkward misfit of his high school, and rescuing him from a beating by Zach, one of a gang of bullies who’ve abused Ethan for years. When a person becomes at ease, their actual nature emerges from behind the mask of civility that they wore while acclimating. Harrison is settling into his new house near Iron Lake, New York. The respectable element, on the other hand, is up to interpretation. Unfortunately, taking everything we’ve learned from episode four into account, it seems that the black stripe is casting a rather large shadow over anything approximating solid. It’s interesting how Harrison seems to be maturing into a “strong and respectable” young man with an inherited dark streak.
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