After you give him the cake he gives you a sword previously used to murder, saying "Enjoy your sword, it might need a clean."



This establishes that he has no qualms having the player handle things tied to his heinous acts.

The title likely refers to the Butcher (the guy killed), the Baker (you baking a cake), and the Widow Maker (the bounty hunter)

He hesitates when he describes what the bag contains, implying that he is hiding what the bag truly contains.

Remember the butcher he admitted to killing last quest? The bounty hunter is using the cover of meat because he just came from a butcher's place and it is a plausible explanation in his mind.

The Mysterious Trash Bag he gives you has the description "This bag feels oddly squishy to the touch. I wonder what's inside."

Burning the bag in a furnace results in Mysterious Ashes, which has the description of "This is all that remains of the trash bag's mysterious contents."

So we have 3 deliberate hints that the contents are not normal trash. An unscrupulous bounty hunter could definitely rationalize calling human* remains as "meat". (*or other races of course)



The method of disposal and the result of it are pretty clear references to cremation.

I think it is pretty clear that he intends to hide the drop of poison in the cheese and give it to somebody.



After you give him the cheese and poison he says "Excellent... Here, I don't need this anymore." and gives you a shotgun, which he presumably no longer needs because he can use the poison to kill his target now.

He has a butcher knife but not the tools to sharpen it? I think it is very likely that he got this butcher knife from the butcher he admitted to murdering in the first quest.

He again hesitates during the conversation, hinting that he is hiding the knife's "true purpose" from you.

After you sharpen the blade for him he says "Nice and sharp! You've probably been wondering why I've been asking you to do all of these things for me. I'm sure you've guessed it by now, I'm opening a restaurant!"

Basically, you have helped him in many questionable endeavors now. He realizes that many people who consider all of this to be a growing stack of evidence that he is up to no good.

To avoid suspicion, he provides a sort of plausible story to you that is at least partially backed by your previous dealings with him, just like he did with the "meat" bag.

The restaurant story would be backed up by you baking a cake for him, disposing of a trash bag of meat, giving him some cheese, and sharpening a butcher's knife for him.

However, he again undermines himself with his very last line: "Thank you for helping me. Take this! It's the last of my weapon stockpile."

You just gave him a sharpened butcher knife with a hidden purpose. His weapon stockpile is definitely not empty.

Therefore, he lied to you. Not a huge lie mind you, but more of a misdirection with a rationalized half truth, just like almost all of his other conversations. (half truth being "I'm just using the butcher's knife to cut meat!" .."meat" here meaning exactly what it meant the last time he said "meat"..

Prompted by the comments above, I decided to do a detailed breakdown of the Bounty Hunter quest line..So without further ado, here is the story of the outpost bounty hunter!1. In Butcher, Baker, Widow Maker he asks you to bake him a cake, saying "Being a Bounty Hunter is hard sometimes. I have feelings too! If I had a cake I could apologise to the widow of my last victim. Bring me a cake and I'll give you a cool sword."2. In Taking Out The Trash he asks you to dispose of a bag with unknown contents, saying "I wondered... would you be able to dispose of this bag of... meat for me? Throw it in a furnace and bring me the ashes"3. In Pest Problem he says "I have a job I need taking care of... Do you think you could find me some cheese and some liquid poison?"4. In Sharpening Up he asks you to sharpen a butcher knife, saying "Hey eh... this butcher knife. It's not really sharp enough to be eh... fit for purpose. Can you bring me some leather so I can sharpen it?"tl;dr - You are an accomplice in several murders, you monster.