Dexter New Blood Episode 3 Ending Makes Matts Death Darker

Dexter: New Blood Episode 3 Ending Makes Matt’s Death Darker

Smoke Signals, the latest episode of Dexter: New Blood, goes deeper into Matt Caldwell’s investigation. What happens at the end makes his death worse.

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Dexter New Blood Episode 3 Ending Makes Matts Death Darker

Dexter: New Blood’s third episode is aptly titled “Smoke Signals”, and its ending only makes Matt Caldwell’s death even darker than audiences anticipate. With everything that Dexter does on the original series, it’s only natural that creators want to up the ante on his tactics in order to keep viewers interested. Sure, Matt Caldwell wasn’t by any means a great guy and perhaps people weren’t all that sad to see him go. He dies in typical Dexter fashion: stabbed in the heart while covered in plastic wrap after being retold his worst crimes. At first, Dexter chops up Matt’s body and hides him under the fire pit. However, as the investigation starts to heat up, the antihero gets increasingly nervous about how rusty he is at covering up his crimes.

After Matt Caldwell’s death in episode 1, episode 2 of Dexter: New Blood picks up with the investigation encroaching on Dexter’s land. The third episode begins with further investigation into Caldwell’s disappearance, much to the protagonists’ dissatisfaction. The lab results from the deer prove that human blood is mixed with deer blood in order to confuse investigators, so Dexter takes a proactive approach and digs up Matt’s remains to take out his hunting jacket. He spends all night throwing Matt’s scent all over the woods to throw off tracking dogs and seemingly succeeds. Unfortunately, the cops keep closing further in as Dexter’s thermal image shows up on a hunting camera while he’s approaching Matt. Therefore, he decides to dispose of his victim’s body in a much more concrete way.

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Dexter throws Matt Caldwell’s butchered remains into a furnace under a smokestack, which causes his ashes to disperse throughout Iron Lake; making Matt’s death even more sinister. After disposing of his victim’s body, the serial killer comes across Kurt drunkenly celebrating outside of a bar. Dexter watches a mixture of snow and ashes fall around them and remarks that he doesn’t think Kurt and Matt have ever been this close before. The action and its consequences give insights into how truly depraved Dexter’s mind is. While Matt’s death isn’t out of the ordinary in terms of brutality, his disposal certainly is. By throwing him in the smokestack, his ashes are dispersed all over the town and even unknowingly fall onto his own father. It’s hard to imagine how Kurt and the townspeople would react to the killer if they knew that Matt Caldwell’s remains were falling on top of them, in the very air they breathe. The sickening result of Dexter’s actions isn’t quite the same as Mrs. Lovett’s meat pies in Sweeney Todd, but it’s not that far off either.

One thing that Dexter: New Blood makes clear is that Dexter is returning to his old routines, kill-wise and life-wise. However, a point of discussion between Dex and his new dark passenger Deb is his disposal routine. In Miami, he has access to the bay and other bodies of water to get rid of his victims. His options in New Blood are much more limited. Deb suggests the pond by his house and, in a sly Fargo reference, a woodchipper. Since Dexter repeats his routines from Miami it’s only reasonable in the killer’s mind that he needs to create a new one for his life in Iron Lake. He couldn’t discard Matt in his own fire pit because the investigation is heating up far too close to home. So, no matter how deviant the action is, the smokestack is the next best choice.

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As Dexter’s kill count will inevitably rise he will hopefully find a new disposal method that doesn’t involve showering the city with victims’ remains. Though Deb’s dark passenger persona seems to be evolving in a much more chaotically sinister way, so there’s no telling what the killer will be driven to. If Dexter: New Blood wants to differentiate from the original, then obviously the show creators have to explore territory that the series hasn’t been to before. Nevertheless, episode 3’s ending brought a much darker tone to Matt Caldwell’s death, and consequently, the whole show.

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