Nightmare Fuel / Dexter: New Blood

• Dexter’s first murder in ten years is pretty unsettling, as he lets out all his rage on Matt, screaming in his face before killing him.
• When Deb, as Dexter's conscience, reminds Dexter of all the people who've died because of him, she lists major character deaths from the last series ("Laguerta. Doakes. Rita.") and, when she gets to herself, she lifts her shirt to reveal the wound that killed her and fishes the bloody bullet out with her bare hand. It's such a brutal detail that it's hard to get out of your head.
  • Deb as Dexter's Dark Passenger in general counts as this. Whereas Harry was a somewhat detached voice of reason and concern for the most part, Deb is a whole lot angrier and spends a lot of her scenes just berating Dexter. It's obvious Dexter despises himself for his role in her death.
• Trinity briefly reappears in a traumatic Flash Back. He actually takes time out from murdering Rita to give Harrison a mocking pat on the head. The blurry image of his naked body is also quite nightmarish.
• The Runaway Killer. His M.O. is to lure young women to his isolated cabin, where he locks them in a room and waits for them to realize they are trapped. After a while, he then allows them to leave, only to shoot them in the back with a sniper rifle as they run away. The fact that he’s done this to dozens of women is terrifying.
• Dexter *barely* manages to arrive on time to save Harrison on Episode 8.
• Kurt's "trophies" in Episode 9.
• For the first time, we along with Harrison get an explicit view of Dexter dismembering a body. The Gorn and the glee Dexter exhibits when doing it is extremely disturbing.

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