Methadone for Dexter Fans

Big spoilers within. If you have’nt seen the Season 4 finale yet, you do NOT want to read this post, come back once you have!

Whoa.

Who saw *that* coming?  Not me!  A fantastic episode to wrap up the season. Rather than jump to the end let’s get back to the beginning of the episode. As you know last week’s episode “Hello, Dexter Morgan” ended with Arthur right in Dexter’s face on his own turf – the Homicide division of Miami Metro.  Dex manages to nudge Arthur towards his office where an agreement is reached, Arthur does’nt want to kill him, does’nt want anything to do with him, just wants Dexter out of his life.  Dexter agrees, only to buy him some time and get Arthur out of the office.

Thinking he’s intimidated Dexter, Arthur heads out the office with a smug look on his face.  However Dexter realises that this may be the only opportunity to catch and finally kill him, so follows after him.  He runs into Quinn in the carpark who has beef with Dexter about a report, Dexter – in no mood for delays winds up shoving Quinn to the ground.  The chase begins.

While speeding through the streets, old faithful Harry appears – “What’s your plan Dexter?”.  Dexter’s only plan is to follow Arthur until an opportunity arises. Adding to the stress, Rita calls about wanting a honeymoon  -  unfortunately he should have been concentrating on the road more and swipes a side mirror of another car.  Ignoring this he follows his target into a parking garage and watches as he walks towards a bank.  A perfect spot to nab Arthur on his return.

Upon his return Dexter cleanly grabs Arthur and knocks him out with his needle juice.  Seems that Arthur was at the bank to close his account and take all the money, which can only mean that he’s planning a getaway.  About to wrap things up nicely Dexter notices the guy who’s mirror he knocked off along with two cops, just as he was thinking his luck was finally changing.  The conversation with the guy and the cops heats up when the he tries to take a photo of Dexter, who loses his cool and goes for the jugular and is then promptly arrested.

Back at Miami Metro, Deb is ordered to take the day off by Batista as she only just witnessed Christine commit suicide.  Rather than chilling out Deb favours using this time to chase up one of Harry’s CI’s.  The CI leads her to a scarily familiar place, the home of Brian Moser where Deb was on the cutting table 3 years before.

After Rita bails Dexter out of jail, she drives him to his car.  Dexter hopes that Arthur is still unconcious inside, but unfortunately not. Arthur escaped and headed straight for his house to ransack the place for more money, which Dexter had hidden near the van above a light in the garage.  Dexter grabs the cash and heads off, now without a clue how to track down Arthur again.  Later Dexter talks to Rita about the honeymoon, Dex thinks it’s a very good excuse to get the family out of harms way.  Astor and Cody go with their grandparents to Disney World while Rita and baby Harrison leave for the Keys ahead of Dexter who wants to stay behind for the night to take care of Arthur.

To clarify the Moser situation Deb goes to talk to Harry’s old cop buddy who hesitantly opens up and confirms that Dexter is indeed the son of Laura and Brian’s brother.   Deb naturally flips out over this information.  Meanwhile at Miami Metro things are heating up as they begin to work out that Stan Beaudry is not the killer they’re after.  Deb is called in to interview Scott Smith, the 10 year old who was kidnapped by Arthur, Deb opens up to him about being kidnapped and helps Scott to remember the sign on the car he was taken away in.  It’s the Four Walls sticker.  This leads them to a build where they dig up a young boy, this along with other information leads them to one… Arthur Mitchell.

As he has no idea how to track down Arthur, Dexter heads to the Mitchell household to find that Arthur was there and desperate for cash.  Suddenly Dexter is surprised by noise outside, the house is covered in SWAT.  Dexter manages to quickly run and hide in Arthur’s coffin.  Arising out of the coffin moments later just as the garage door opens to Deb and Angel and he explains that he rushed to the scene so quickly he forgot his flak jacket.

Once the rush is over, Harry intercedes to lecture Dexter, saying that the harm Arthur did to his family is bound to happen to Dexter’s, “You’ll always need someone on your table”.  Deb interrupts this to tell Dexter about Laura Moser, Dexter plays dumb and pretends he never heard of her.  Following on Deb tells him that two boys were left behind after Laura died, Dexter was one and the other was Brian Moser – The Ice Truck Killer.  Dexter does actually panic a little but turns this into faux confusion and guilt that he was responsible for Deb becoming Brian’s target.  In a teary moment Deb dismisses Dexter’s guilt stating that he is the only constant good thing in her life.   Dexter takes this well and sees it as a way of differentiating himself from Arthur as no-one saw good in Arthur, but at least Deb and Rita do in him.  Right after this conversation Dexter clocks the broken windshield that Jonah smashed with a baseball bat, Dexter looks through the envelope he got off Arthur earlier, he sees a receipt for the GT 500 to fix the windshield…. as well as a respray.

Back at Metro, the Feds have come in to take over the Arthur Mitchell case, much to the bemusement of the team.  The least impressed was Debra who took the opportunity to blame the FBI for not listening to Lundy in the first place, which eventually led to his death.  Matthews attempts to defuse the situation but even Quinn steps in to reiterate Deb’s point.

Enjoying his cruise down the highway that afternoon Arthur seems to be very pleased, but later that evening he needs to pull over as the Mustang is blowing smoke and clunking, he pops the hood “Where’s my fucking oil cap?”…. Dexter appears through the smoke, pushes him to the ground “Hello, Arthur Mitchell” (cute) and wrestles him to the ground.  It appears that Dexter beat him to the car shop, took off the oil cap and presumably hid in the trunk.  Finally Arthur is on Dexter’s table, surrounded by hundreds of photos of his victims.  A deep conversation begins, they talk about family, their inner monsters, heaven and acceptance before the merciful Dexter switches on Arthur’s trainset and plays that incredibly creepy “Oh Vera” song, then takes the infamous hammer, claw side down and kills Arthur Mitchell.

On the Slice of Life, Dexter disposes of Arthurs remains and ponders that his Dark Passenger needs to take a back seat to what he really wants now, to focus on Rita and his family.  The family which used to be secondary and part of Dexter’s mask has grown into something very human within him.  Back at home he glances over the family photos on the wall.  His phone beeps, receives a voicemail from Rita, calls her back only to hear that her phone is right next to him.  Outside of the room he hears a baby cry, rushes towards the voice… flips on the bathroom switch to see baby Harrison on the floor surrounded by blood, peering around the corner Rita comes into view, lying in the bathtub full of her own blood.

My two stabs:

Holy shit eh?  We all knew a major character was going to kick it this season, but Rita would have been about last on my list!  I admit in retrospect it is one of those things I *should* have seen coming.  It does make perfect sense, John Lithgow and the Trinity killer could not be just another target for Dexter, it had to be significant.  Then with Harrison I do feel bad though, regulars of my little blog would remember a post in which I complained about Rita being so annoying, with an accompanying poll:

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I never knew the esteemed writers of Dexter read my blog!   On a serious note I do feel bad about that poll now, but at least 148 (47%) of you agreed that Trinity should take her out too!  Thanks for sharing the guilt guys.  I will miss Rita though, she was always good Yang to Dexter’s Yin.    As well as the character I’ll also miss the gorgeous Julie Benz.  I wonder if she will return in Season 5 as a Harry-esque ghost?  By the way there has been much net-natter about the whole scene being a dream in which Dexter will awake from in S5, showrunner Clyde Phillips has confirmed that this is not the case.

What do you think is in store for season 5?  Big things are going to change that’s for sure, but as the entire cast & crew are off on hiatus even they don’t know where the next season will go.  Discuss the episode in the forum, leave a comment and you may want to follow me on Twitter.  BTW regarding twitter, please don’t just follow me, talk to me as I’m always up to chat about Dexter!

RIP

Rita Morgan

13th December 2009

“You were the wind beneath a serial killer’s wings.”

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Dexter now truly believes he understands the motivations and behaviour of Trinity.  However he is forced to question everything he’s learned up to this point when a 10 year old boy goes missing. It’s a race against time and with every step Dexter has to the possibility that he has more in common with Trinity than he’d like to admit.  Could Dex be looking into what he’ll be like in the future? A world of secrecy surrounds some close to Dexter, when Cody is forced to defend one of Dexter’s lies and Masuka, who can’t bring himself to confess that he saw Rita and neighbour,Elliot kissing.  Then we have Debra, whose recent discoveries force one of Miami’s finest into making an impossible decision.

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What an episode!  Before I begin I must advise you that there are huge (maaahoooosive even!) spoilers within so if you hate spoilers as much as I do and have not seen this episode, seriously you do not want to read this post!  There is also a fair amount of colourful language contained below, I reckon that I should tell you, but I mean hey you watch Deb every week right?

Dexter is invited to Thanksgiving dinner by Jonah, Arthur’s son, in order to protect him from his father when he finds out about his damaged windshield.  All is certainly not well in the Mitchell household Dexter is bombarded with evidence about Trinity’s overbearing, controlling and downright nasty ways.  He hits Jonah, locks his daughter up in her room and his wife constantly nervous.

Upon arriving it becomes evident to Dexter that Jonah did’nt tell his parents that he invited him, a great way to start off.  Dexter puts on the whole sob story again to force an invite from Arthur.  Once inside Dexter is invited to play football (cos it’s tradition), they look for the football in the garage where Dexter happens upon a newly built coffin! An embarrassed Arthur explains that he made it ‘when he was confused’, before he tried to commit suicide.

While Dexter is dodging his own Thanksgiving to spend it with the Mitchells, Deb invited Masuka long as her ‘wingman’ to the Morgan’s for the bit of Turkey.  The Morgan’s place is bustling with activity, what with Cody asking Deb about her scar and the next door neighbour Elliot hitting on Rita you get the impression no one’s even missing poor ‘ol Dex!  Masuka shows a bit of a deeper side when he walks past the kitchen window only to see Rita and Elliot snogging, Rita pulls away of course, but she lingered there long enough to know she liked it… hypocrite.

Back at Miami Metro, Batista & LaGuerta are busy working away.  The DNA sweep they performed did not turn up Trinity but did scoop up alot of bad guys, including a murderer from an old case of Angel’s.  He asks LaGuerta to come along to tell the good news to the husband that they finally caught his wife’s killer.  Unfortunately the husband is in a coma.  Which later leads to a deep romantic encounter… (not sure whether to yawn or vomit) as Batista realises that life is too short to not say how you feel.

The atmosphere thickens even more as Dexter discovers Arthur broke Jonah’s finger as punishment for the windshield.  Dexter wanders outside to see his daughter after disovering all the locks on her window and door, she makes a pass at him in the hope that Dexter will protect her.  They are interrupted by the mother, who tells Dex that she does’nt care what he has done or will do to her daughter, as long as he does’nt tell Arthur.  Jeeze, that is some fucked up shit.

They eventually sit down to dinner and do the rounds of what everyone is thankful for, no one says they are thankful for Arthur, which he is obviously fishing for.  When pushed to say it, Jonah explodes and says what he really thinks. He rushes towards the awards wall and says “I know who you really are” “You’re a killer”, then takes Vera’s (Arthur’s sister that he accidentally killed) urn and smashes it.  Arthur leaps forward and starts to choke Jonah, Dexter steps in and drags Arthur through the kitchen door, grabs a knife and just as he is wielding it over him says “I should’ve fucken killed you when I had the chance”, then the wife & daughter burst through to save him! Umm….What the….?

Not able to get out of work mode, Deb is at the Morgan house, in the back of her mind trying to work out the date pattern of Trinity’s kills.  Talking to Rita about occupying the kids over the holidays, summer etc then realises that Trinity’s kills follow a school pattern and she ponders that maybe he’s a school janitor, teacher or bus driver etc.  But this is not her only revelation, she ponders back to a conversation she had with Quinn’s girlfriend.  Christine was sympathising and said she would’nt know what to do if she saw the man that she loved take his last breath.  There is no way she could know that and after double checking this with Quinn, who stated categorically that he never gave Christine those details… Did Christine kill Lundy?

Dexter is pissed at himself for exposing his intentions, and as Harry said, they know he’s coming now.  This will certainly prove to be an issue in the next episode “Lost Boys”.  Dexter finally returns home to enjoy some quality and relatively normal Thanksgiving dinner.

Returning to the love theme, Quinn is being subjected to heavy relationship talk that he really does’nt want.  Christine is putting their relationship in more serious terms, and thanks to some e’hem persuasion   Quinn leaves, as Christine receives a visitor at her front door.  It’s Arthur…. She says “Hi Dad.”

WHOA!

To sum up:

I probably should’ve seen that one coming, Gareth_UK at least saw last week that she was the one who killed Lundy and shot Deb.  But I just could’nt see it.  I guess she’s as good as her father in disguising her true self. But I don’t think many people at all saw that her old man was Trinity!

All in all a fantastic episode, I truly felt the tension in the Thanksgiving Dinner at the Mitchell household, I didn’t even mind the lovey dovey Batista & LaGuerta stuff so much cos the rest of the episode was so action packed and with the awesome twists we’ve come to know and love in Dexter, but have’nt seen much of this season.

I can’t believe there are only 3 episodes left, this one was a bridging episode, where all the foundations and a few twists have come together and I reckon it’s going to be full steam ahead until the season finale.  I’m not so happy that this season they have chosen to end it with a cliffhanger rather than wrapped up in a nice bundle (pun intended).  I liked that from the very first season, no cliffhangers… so why now people?

I’m sure you enjoyed this episode and are massively looking forward to this week’s episode “Lost Boys”.

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Spoilers Within

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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Spoilers Within

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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