'Dexter' Season 6, Episode 3 Recap - 'Smokey and the Bandit'

You have to wonder how "Dexter" will finally end when the series finale rolls around. Will Dex continue killing until he grows old, and get away with it all? Will he be caught, perhaps by Deb? Will he one day be bested by one of the dangerous people he comes across every day?

We got a glimpse of one possible outcome in "Smokey and the Bandit," which saw a new hunt for Dexter after the murder of a prostitute was called in. You see, when Dex was a little boy, he didn't collect stamps or baseball cards... he collected newspaper clippings about serial killers. And one of his favorites was the Tooth Fairy Killer.

He would murder prostitutes and tear out their incisors as trophies, and he always got away with it. So when Dexter finds a prostitue murdered with her tooth chipped, the hunt is on. That eventually brings him to Walter Kenney, a senior citizen in his 70's living at a local retirement home... and he's incredibly unpleasant.

So Dexter tracks him to his storage facility and finds a box full of pulled teeth, very similar to Dexter's box of blood slides. But Walter's remnants of his past are sad and shabby: the teeth lie unorganized in a rusty tin in the depressing storage unit, where Walter sits alone and drinks and reads cheap porno mags. "Is this what happens to serial killers at the end of their lives?" muses Dexter.

But despite Walter's appearance, he's still somewhat sharp: Dexter's hunt goes awry when Walter pulls a gun on him, and Dex has to once again crash his newly-fixed car (guess he'll be seeing Brother Sam again soon). The kill room is rushed and pretty barren of any neat accoutrements like the ones we've seen the past two weeks (he didn't even print out a picture of the victim! He showed Walter on his phone!), and it seems that Dexter might be losing his touch a bit.

Sure enough, Walter shakes him even more by taunting Dex with the idea that this is what he has to look forward to: not having anything in his life worth caring about except killing, which he won't be able to do anymore. Dex doesn't want to believe it (and even suffocates Walter so that his son won't know he was the Tooth Fairy Killer), but later he finds that he's a little more dependent than he thought: when placing Walter's slide, Dexter drops his box and the slides fall out across the floor, one of them breaking. "I don't know which slide goes where. Who's who. There's no order anymore," he moans.

There was some fun stuff this week outside of Dexter's storyline as well. Deb has to deal with her new lieutenant duties and stand up to Laguerta (which she does), Quinn is being a dick, and Angel gets himself a sweet Trans Am like the one from "Smokey and the Bandit."

But the most interesting side story goes to Masuka, whose hot new intern is proving to be a great investment on his part: she's actually into him. Or is she? When Masuka brings her the evidence from the Ice Truck Killer case (fun!) she practically drools over the mannequin hand with the infamous painted nails, revealing that she painted her nails the same color when the case details came out. Creepy? You bet. Even worse, she steals the hand later on. Is Masuka about to date a baddie, just like Deb did? Is that why we're bringing up the Ice Truck Killer in particular?

Meanwhile, Creep #1 and Creep #2 are still on their crazy religious creepy killer kick, and that jogger from the end of last week's episode (his name is Nathan, by the way) is in some serious trouble. After trying to get him to "repent" for the whole episode, Travis and Professor Gellar finally off Nathan and tie his body parts to the mannequins they took, then mount them on four horses and send them out into town.

So, these guys are going for apocalyptic signs? Looks like it. Imagery from Revelations, specifically... and this comes on the same night that Revelations was mentioned in "The Walking Dead." Spooky.