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What's the significance of the coffin? I think Trinity might be considering burying the deer he hit inside of the coffin; which leads me to another question: (SPOILER)why does Trinity act so freaked out he hit a deer when he kills people on a daily basis? These questions and more.
I got the feeling that (SPOILER)the coffin was for himself. I'm not sure why, just the way he was acting even before they hit the deer and such, I guess. Maybe he feels like his cycle is finished (he had been doing it for 30 years, right?) and wants to go out on his own terms. Maybe Dexter ends up letting him do it on his own terms because he identifies so strongly with him? That's just speculation, of course, but I think that could be a fitting way to wrap up this season.
Yeah, I doubt(SPOILER) the coffin is for the deer. Trinity took Dexter out to the forest with the intent of cutting down a tree (presumably to make the coffin in the first place) before hitting the deer ... so unless he changed his mind alluva a sudden after hitting the deer ... I don't know. I understood the deer scene to be exemplary of some of Trinity's character traits - obviously he views the people he kills as his dead family members, and I think he lacks empathy for humanity: the deer upset him because it was truly innocent and he killed it.