User blog comment:LectrPazillo/My theory about the up and coming new killer named: The Phantom/@comment-1405841-20121201210307

Like Jack told me, everyone is focusing on the "flames" when he actually died in an explosion. Sure flames were apart of it but none of these victims are killed by explosions, it is made to look like self-incineration...which has nothing to do with the way Doakes died: at all.

Also like Jack said, why would he kill innocents? Even if he received a Dark Passenger, I'd think someone like Dexter would be his prime focus...people are just reaching for a reason for Doakes to be back and to make him a serial killer is just asenine.

You ask what he'd be doing if he survived...first and foremost, probably recuperating. Though he was confirmed by his dental records and as Masuka stated, he was an African-American male matching Doakes's muscular build (which is none of the characters who were dead up in the cabin). BUT assuming some plot twist put some random black guy out there who could lift, he'd still be heavily damaged by the explosion and would have had to have someone get him out of there alive. Also unlikely, who knew he was at the Cabin? Just Dexter. We saw him get hit by the explosion, all of us did...there's no walking away from that alone. Especially considering he would have had to of been blasted through the walls of the cabin..

It's not Doakes, to be honest as much as "Surprise Motherfucker" relates to him...it easily relates to Deb too who says "Motherfucker" just about as much. For all we know, she kills LaGuerta after saying it.