Sweet Tooth season 3 episode 5 starts out in 1911, after Captain Thacker (Joel Tobeck) found something called "The Blood of the Earth." His crew, fearing the discovery and believing it is cursed, drink poison to keep Thacker from being able to sail and share his discovery with the world. But Thacker remains determined to share what he found. However, Thacker quickly dies when a purple flower blooms from out of his chest, setting up a grim introduction to the episode.
