Last night’s scenes in the shipping container were a dream/fantasy. Recall they concluded with young Dexter vanishing and returning as adult Dexter/The Dark Defender.
I think there were three or four people pictured in the newspaper clippings Dexter looked at last season. Unclear how many were victims and how many were perps but I have a memory of hearing someone say there were three people killed.
The average person has about double that amount of blood. “Two inches” may have been an exaggeration.
I like that Lila is a bad, predatory, seductive and even criminal sponsor. Life is just not perfect, ya’ know? I’m kinda thinking someone in the group will be shown to be dealing to the others.
I’m wondering how it will become clear, to Lila at least, that his addiction problem ISN’T related to drugs?
I was also wondering if Deb is being set up as a suspect.
–I think the FBI guy suspects it is a police officer – who else would have access to knowledge of so many killers? And he may suspect that the bodies going bad wasn’t any accident, which means the perp is right there at that station.
–Deb was around the Ice Truck Killer; as someone said, maybe a hit gone wrong. She was very involved in that case, and got credit for finding the ice truck.
–Someone said she’s too little, but she’s at the gym all the time
–She was nervous about joining the FBI thing
–She was nervous at the marina, which she had a connection to, and the FBI guy was obviously trying to draw her out
–He looked up her boyfriend – maybe he was trying to find out if the boyfriend was a murderer, and therefore maybe the next on Deb’s list
If this works out this way, the suspicion will be that Dexter was trying to cover up for her – the FBI guy could suspect that Dexter suspects what his sister is, and that’s why he cleaned the boat. And maybe by not killing his mother’s killer, the FBI guy could think that it’s proof that Dexter doesn’t have the true killer instinct.
Just my guesses: I have an amazing streak of being wrong about these things, and I’m not just bragging.
My thought was that everyone knows that Dexter is kind of an anal neat freak. He just had to go out and clean the hell out of his boat for whatever reason.
What amazed me about recent episodes is that he dumped all these bodies in the same place… how dumb is that? He could have scattered them for miles and miles across the ocean floor. In fact, he would have to work at it to find the same place miles offshore – why even bother?
I think the idea that the killer is a rogue cop will come up soon, but I don’t see that anything will particularly point toward Deb. She just began doing homicide investigations – she wouldn’t have accesss to the necessary information. Actually, once that idea surfaces, and they start looking into who investigated the murders that Dexter’s victims committed, that would be another big fat arrow pointing at Dexter – or maybe several lab techs who handled the evidence.
Doakes might be a good suspect – hot temper, trained ex-military killer, history in homicide investigations…
And BTW, I’m a little suspicious that Doakes so easily bought Dexter’s addiction cover story and laid off. I really wonder if that was all about trying to get Dexter to relax – followed by more subtle/careful shadowing that he hopes Dexter doesn’t see.
It’s part of the ritual. Why wrap his victims in clear tape instead of opaque? Ritual. Why cut the cheek and take a drop of blood on a slide? Ritual. Why…and so on.
There’s no reason I know of why in general one cop couldn’t get files on whatever case he or she wanted to. Dexter himself has accessed case files for cases he wasn’t a party to on more than one occasion (which may come back on him at some point) so there’s no reason to think Deb couldn’t, even if she wasn’t specifically assigned to homicide. Also, do we know for sure that all of the people Dexter killed had case files? We know that the task force has found out about their criminal connections but we don’t know that they know about the specificcrimes Dexter killed them for.
not mentioned in the show, but would be my first thought as a defense. cat pee shows up under black light and there are many sprays to neutralize it. in fact there is one spray that is sold with a black light.
fish innards and the ilk could also be a defense. really, cleaning your boat is a rather normal thing and many people use chemicals from work to clean things. jumping to the conclusion that the cleaner is a serial killer is what would be abnormal.
interesting that last season he used luminol and a black light to clean blood off of his face.
But almost all of the ritual stuff is supposed to be protective, to avoid trace evidence. Not the blood samples of course, but even if found they wouldn’t necessarily mean anything unless it was known all those samples were from murder victims. And, they probably wouldn’t know that unless they found the bodies and had samples to match against. NOW the samples are dangerous for Dexter to have – until the bodies were found they might be passed off as some kind of morbid hobby of an obsessive forensics guy.
As far as case files, it doesn’t necessarily matter if Dexter’s victim’s had files, but his victim’s victims by and large did – as open murder cases. My understanding of Dexter’s routine MO is that he would look at unsolved murder files, get suspects’ names from those and then gather more evidence illegally to pin it down. My WAG would be that these files would routinely cross his desk as he was processing crime scene evidence. The same couldn’t be said of Deb – she’s have to go snooping into files that she wouln’t normally see, and something like that might get noticed. Especially if she had to sign out files, like I’d also guess you’d have to do.
I cannot imagine that anyone who works with Deb would believe that she is smart enough to cover up one (1) accidental murder, let alone umpteen deliberate homicides. I know I certainly don’t. She’s impulsive, clumsy, not terribly bright and has the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. I don’t see how Dexter could stand to be around her if he were ACTUALLY related to her.
