Methadone for Dexter Fans

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Following the discovery that Farrow was not a killer, Dexter is riddled with guilt & doubt.  Even though his victim was a wanker, he was no killer.  More than this guilt is the realisation to himself that Dexter is not one to dwell on mistakes which also opens him up to risks and even human-like emotions.  To combat these feelings he realises he must set to do what he should’ve done much earlier.  Kill Trinity.

Popping in to visit Trinity/Arthur, He notices how Arthur treats his family in a very controlling manner, “small cracks in the perfect family, which makes them perfectly normal”.  Dexter/Kyle learns that he is off to Tampa for a four-walls build.   Dexter returns to work in search of a convention to get him off to Tampa.  Laying out a full-on boring story, Dexter manages to get time away by requesting to attend a meteorologist convention to LaGuerta and Rita… Who are suitably brain-numbed into submission.

Catching up with Arthur just as he’s about to leave,  Dexter quickly tries to get a tag-along but finds resistance, Dex then puts on a big sob story, saying that “I need you” so Arthur simply could’nt say no.  Along the drive, Dexter is asking alot of questions to get information about what Arthur might be up to and of course to find the right time to lay him on a table.  Tiring of the questions quickly, Arthur snaps at Dexter, leading him to ask about Dexter’s ‘troubles’.  Eventually at a roadside stop Dexter admits to killing an innocent man, naturally making up some of the details though.  This works to grab Arthur’s undivided attention and even some sympathy.

While still trying to keep Lundy’s legacy alive, Deb makes a huge mistake by letting a slide slip in a presentation alerting LaGuerta to the fact that Deb was chasing the Trinity Killer all along.  Giving up, Deb lays out all of the patterns and LaGuerta surprisingly decides to assign resources to the case.  Unfortunately that means Deb must be taken off the case as she was a victim of Trinity’s.

Arthur takes Dexter to his home where (along with a funny encounter with the owners) he takes Dexter to the bathroom and explains that he was watching his sister in the shower, she saw him in the mirror (or he explains ‘the mirror saw him’) and startled her, she slipped, smashing the glass and slicing her leg.  Maintaining that he was 10 and this was innocent, his parent’s blamed him.  This eventually led to Arther’s mother taking her own life, you guessed it, by taking her own life.  Dexter assumes that after being blamed and taunted by his alcoholic father, Arthur kill him, presumably with a hammer.

Back at Miami Metro, Deb makes a startling discovery whilst checking her shot wounds.  The entry of her wounds are completely level, Deb asks Masuka to have a look.  Masuka, seeing Deb half naked is happy to oblige.  They work out that there is no way with Trinity’s height that he could be the shooter.  She quickly explains this to LaGuerta who not only puts Deb back on the case, but makes her Lead Investigator on it.  They have proof that they are now not after Trinity for the shooting, but someone else entirely and put a plan in action to set up road blocks to take DNA swabs from elderly men.

Staying at Miami Metro, the oh so yawnful relationship with LaGuerta and Batista rises up again over some late night work… Yeah we did’nt see that coming at all. Someone I feel is going to lose out when the brass find out that the relationship is back on.  However the other romance between Quinn & Christine seems to be heating up.  Christine is desperately trying to get a story from Quinn and discovers that swab kits in Quinn’s apartment and chooses to investigate.  Also on the relationship front, it seems that Rita may have an admirer, the next door neighbour ends up having dinner with her and their kids.  Later Rita talks about her wilder years stating that she was a “dress over the head party girl”.   I find it hard to think that being as Rita is so holier-than-thou and also very happy with Dexter that she would let anything happen, but perhaps this friendly neighbour will take things a little too far?

That night Dexter and Arthur go shopping for ‘build materials’… or rather, Dexter needs more plastic wrapping.  Arthur explains how he feels they are kindred spirits as they have both killed innocent people, Dexter only beleives that they were both born in blood.  Wasting no time Dexter dresses up his hotel room as his kill room.  Later he discovers that Trinity is missing from his room.  Tracing him back to the build site finds Arthur looking out over from the top floor.  Following up behind him, Dexter watches as Trinity steps forward – about to jump!  He lurches to grab hold of Arthur… Lying there holding him Dexter is having trouble deciding whether to let go or save him… “Why keep him alive just to kill him”.  Eventually he chooses to let go, only to be saved by fellow workers.

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Dexter finally can take a breath now that family matters seem to be resolved, now that he and Rita have found middle ground with respect to his apartment.  He sees a chance for a new kill with a new Miami Metro suspect when they discover a string of murders connected to a prominent photographer. However his every effort is thwarted at every step.   Also, taking another leaf from the practices of Arthur Mitchell (aka Trinity Killer), decides to keep his kids busy, and therefore out of his way. Unfortunately this plan backfires.  The ghost of Harry is unhappy that Dexter has not taken Trinity out yet, he explains that he has lessons to learn from Trinity.  Will Dexter kill Trinity while he has the chance?

Deb moves into Dexter’s old apartment while her partner Quinn finds renewed interest in Dexter’s nightlife.  She also returns to work and is unhappy that workmates are treating her with kid gloves since Lundy’s murder.  She decides to focus on the Trinity case and furthers her investigation into her father’s mistress.  Dexter becomes worried that Deb may find out too much.

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Wow it’s hard to believe we are now half way through, damn I wish the series was more like a 24 parter .  Miami Metro are slow to hear about Trinity’s latest murder, which Dexter considers to be a good thing.  Dexter is glad as he wants Trinity to himself, however the more he discovers about Trinity the more Dex realises that he could learn alot from Trinity to help his own life.  Trinity has what Dex believes to be a full facade of a life, Trinity (or should we now call him Arthur Mitchell?) is a devout Christian, he runs teams of people, including his own family to build homes for the homeless, tutors kids, goes to Church & has a very loving family that support each other.

Dexter explains that he cannot go after Trinity yet due to his, or should I say, RITA’S problems.  But is’nt it just because he wants to work out how Trinity is such a successful serial killer?  I mean sure the Rita situation needs to be dealt with, but Dexter has jumbled before and done OK.  Either way he realises that Trinity has completed a cycle so will not begin again for a while, therefore decides to concentrate on poor whiney Rita.

So there’s Rita in her natural state, crying and blaming her hubby for her woes.  And Dex in his natural state of thinking WTF, what can I say?  So the counsellor (played by Roma Maffia from Nip/Tuck) tries to get Dex to ‘hear’ Rita.  I did love how the counsellor, after hearing all of Rita’s complaints about her dear husband, confronts her stating that these traits of Dexter’s were present *before* she married him. Take that COW!

Meanwhile Deb is desperately seeking closure for Lundy’s murder, finds herself shutout from the case and considers bending the rules to close off the case, but after an altercation with the woman she’d be accusing, but feels in he end that her integrity is worth more than closure.  She then turns her attentions back to finding Harry’s misstress and advises Dexter that she may be very close.  Seriously, what is with Deb and the men in her life?  The only stable relationship she has with a man is… Dex…. And well… he’s a serial killer!

The oh so yawnful relationship between LaGuerta and Batista seems to have come to a close (at least on the surface) when they come to a realisation that playing by the rules with their work/relationship they have can’t have their cake and eat it too.  I’d put a vote up whether they’re actually still together or not despite the affidavits but I can only see everyone tapping the “Who fricken cares” button.  This is quite a plague for the show, they seem to struggle making the office subplots interesting. That is of course since Doakes, I miss that dude.

Now onto Quinn & Christine, her first scene is lying on the couch in an undone shirt and a hot bra… Umm Dexter’s ratings keep climbing so I am dumbfounded as to why they feel the need to show more skin?  Don’t get me wrong, she’s fit as you like, but even I feel that is incongruent with Dexter.  So, she asks Quinn a favour – to interview Deb in a ‘hero piece’… Thankfully Quinn denies this request, not sure why they even bothered with this scene (apart from the gratuitous cleavage) but I guess more will come to light in the next episode.  Guessing probably Quinn is put in the middle of a situation in which he is tempted to divulge info to Christine?

Back to Dexter, I laughed my friggin arse off when Dexter bought all those pressies… The breadmaker for Rita, “cos we’re always running out of bread” says Dex, to which Rita responds bitchily “We always run out of milk, did you buy a cow too?”  I thought “nope, cos we already have one!!“.  But I digress, Rita & Dexter sitting back in the counsellor’s office, Dexter is under the pump with Rita demanding to know why he kept the apartment.  He learned from seeing Trinity’s trophy’s, murder weapons etc were right out in the open, so takes a leaf from his book and explains that Rita would leave him if she discovered who he really is.  Rita begins to sympathise and realises that Dexter needed the apartment for ‘me time’ and literally. “I need space to keep my stuff.”I’m thinking GREAT, Dexter keeps his apartment but NO… they compromise and he gets a newly kitted out and rather cramped shed in the backyard!  Way to man-up Dex. The good news is that perhaps this is the end of sooking Rita? Maybe, PLEASE?

It’s great to see Dexter & Trinity now interacting with each other.  With Dexter’s research we now know that Trinity’s family was killed, his sister in a bathtub, his mother fell from a great height and his father died from a fatal headwound.  Nice to see my predictions were close (ok, we all knew had something to do with family, duh), I thought his partner/wife etc died in the bathtub, that was before I knew he had a family though. Dex sure pushed his buttons with the sister’s urn hey? I’m really looking forward to next weeks episode “Slack Tide”.

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