Deb has some serious daddy issues!
This episode played out pretty much the way I thought it would, oddly. I’m just glad to see Dexter come around and see things the way they are as far as Lila goes.
I think Doakes just reserved himself a place in Dexter’s slide collection. Lila, too, probably.
No way. Killing people he has a personal connection to is way, way too foolish for Dexter - that fellow tonight was quite risky, but at least (hopefully) his connection to Dex is hard to find. Not so if Doakes or Lilah went missing. “Mr. Morgan, where’s your girlfriend?” “Mr. Morgan, we know that you and Sergeant Doakes fought recently - would you like to confess to anything spectacularly violent you may have done to him?”
Oh, and I think Lunde’s “I’d hate to do anything to make you feel weird” was the best line of the night. 
Lila has got to go. She can connect Dexter and and whashisname, tonight’s victim. If anyone notices the guy is missing, Lila might be able to put Dexter on Death Row.
Doakes has got to go too. I’m actually curious as to how the writers will NOT have Doakes simply not steal the blood samples and get them compared to Dex’s victims, every one of which will be represented.
Or maybe Dex has got to go… Either he kills them or they lower the boom on him. Maybe next season will be a “Dex on the Run” season, like The Fugitive except that he’s guilty.
Hmm. I agree Lilah has got to go - but I don’t think Dex will kill her. Remember, Lilah told him about her Adventures in Arson. We know Dexter has near-superhuman investigative skills - my guess is that he’ll figure out which fire she was involved in, collect the evidence, and drop the dime on her. She’ll be incarcerated, and discredited, and a problem well solved without any of that “no one will suspect I’ve murdered my girlfriend - that sort of thing never happens!” nonsense.
Doakes is a tougher problem, because he has the blood slides now. The only way I could see Dexter maybe getting out of this is by claiming that he’s not a murderer, merely a harmless deviant who enjoys collecting blood samples from the cases he’s worked on. Illegal, but not lethal-injection illegal. It’s an interesting possibility - since most of the bodies associated with those slides haven’t been found yet, it might even work. Except it wouldn’t, because there are going to be blood samples there from cases Dexter never worked on, and so he wouldn’t have had access to the blood.
If there’s any way to get Dexter to do something foolish, it would be to violate the sanctity of his slides.
I don’t think he has any special investigative skills, just a willingness to commit crimes like B&E to gather evidence, in ways that wouldn’t stand up in court. Still, ratting out Lila for the arson is a possibility. But I don’t see him putting her in the hands of cops after he’s just killed a guy that she sent after him.
And there’s that other cop who came up with the guy’s name – “the only remaining open case” – and gave it to Dexter. They ran a little clip of it at the start from a previous episode. If the guy is noticed as going missing, Dex is going to be getting some questions.
Doakes, OTOH, is a candidate for an open, delf-defense homicide. Dexter could perbably lure him into his apartment again and just shoot him or stab him with a kitchen knife. So long as he doesn’t chop up the body, he’s have a good chance of walking, given Doakes history and his recent “attack” on Dexter.
Doakes can’t do ‘anything’ with the slides -
1.) Not admissible - gained during a break in - Hell, Doakes is suspended, and right now, because of Dexter - anything Doakes brings in will be dismissed immediately.
2.) Dex can just as easily say that Doakes planted the slides - after all, Doakes/Dexter have 4 cases in common - and Dexter right now looks much better in the “department” than Doakes.
3.) Doakes is on record as having killed 2 folks without wittnesses. AFAIK, Doakes has no family, few (even fewer than Dex) friends, etc… atleast Dex has had a steady girl!
Its a good thing that his kill tonite was as remote as it was - “What did you think, it turned itself on?”
I’m glad they resolved quickly that Lyla set up Dex, will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Dexter’s going to have to frame someone… They’ve narrowed it down to someone within their department. Doakes continues to look like the obvious choice. I do wonder how it will all go down, though.
I’m also curious how they handle the part about “someone signed out the car” which disposed of one of the bodies. It seems like that would be rather damning evidence.
I think Doakes will be the fall guy for the BHB murders now that he has the slides in his possesion. Oh, he’ll probably end up dead but officially named as the murder. That should make for some fine drama in the last episode.
Lila, as we all know, is not going away quietly. Heh, heh, heh…
That’s already handled. There were a couple of sentences exchanged between Angel and Lundy to the effect that they don’t retain the records. “Why would we – only Miami Metro police officers can get in there.” – or something to that effect.
Doakes is kind of a direct action guy too. If he figures out the blood samples, knowing the evidence can’t be used, he would just go straight at Dexter.
Or he would put them back and come up with some rationale for getting a warrant to “find” them during a legal search.
Ah… somehow I missed that part.
I agree. I don’t think his illegal search will be an issue at using the evidence against Dexter. However, if those slides are found in Doakes’s possession, or there is any evidence of the break-in, that may be ammunition to use against Doakes.
For an out-of-leftfield theory, how about Doakes learning everything, but approving of what Dexter does? Doakes has a bit of a vigilante streak in him (wasn’t there a guy Doakes killed last season under questionable circumstances?)
Probably wouldn’t work though, because someone in the department is going to have to take the fall for this.
Put me down for ten on that.
I don’t agree that Doakes would approve of Dexter’s vigilantism. Much of that supposition seems to be based on Doakes’ killing two people during the series. But the first of those was related to his Special Ops past and, while it shared some similarities with Dexter’s habits, was done in Doakes’ mind (and possibly officially) under color of authority. And the shooting this season was also apparently a good shoot, since he was facing down a guy who killed his wife and drew a gun on him. Both also had a personal connection to Doakes either as an adversary or a friend, compared to Dexter’s victims who with a couple of exceptions (neither of which the cops know about) have no connection to him. I’m envisioning Doakes’ death in a hail of bullets as the inadvertant noose that Dexter’s helped put around his neck with his manifesto and appropriation of evidence cars. Dexter has benefitted more than once from serendipity and Doakes’ death with the BHB tag is going to be another instance of it.
Right - the two ‘knowns’ are just enough to help focus the attention on Doakes… IIRC, He wasn’t wearing gloves last nite - a good fingerprint dusting of the place should be enough to prove Doakes was in the apartment. Also, his attitude with Lundy with regard to the one case that he/Dex had in common won’t help things at all.
For me, it’s more the fact of what Doakes is doing to Dexter than anything else. He suspects that Dexter is up to no good, and wants to find out what it is. There is no reason for his obsession other than a desire to put an end to whatever nefarious goings-on he expects to find. That is a mentality that is, at least in some way, compatible with Dexter’s.
In addition to the points already raised that help set up Doakes as the BHB, Doakes told Laguerta that his father was a butcher. A bit clumsy of the writers just tossing that out, rather than having someone discover it while investigating Doakes, but that’s okay.
What I don’t get is the subplot with Doakes missing the appointment about the new job. How will that help pin Doakes down as a suspect?
Awesome episode. Michael Hall acted the hell out of this one. It’s the first time he’s scared me.
Lunde: “You were supposed to be at a job interview when (the old Latino guy who killed Dexter’s mom, hereinafter OLG) was killed by the Bay Harbor Butcher but you didn’t show up. Where were you?”
And Doakes says, what?
Doakes is on record as poking around in the murder for which OLG cut a deal and got off scott-free. He has access to the case files on all of the other BHB killings and to the evidence motor pool where the murder car came from. And now he has a file box full of blood drop slides with his fingerprints on them. Buh bye, Sgt. Doakes.