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Least shocking “shocking reveal” ever.
If I’m to believe the interview at the end, the writers really thought they were fooling us.
Honestly, it was so obvious that I considered the possibility that maybe he was real and they were trying to mislead us in the other direction.
I’d be curious how many people really were fooled. I was fooled until halfway through this last episode, where it did indeed begin to get pretty obvious. It’s the sort of thing where I’d bet most people would be fooled if it weren’t for the 10% who notice and then start whispering and nudging people. In any case, I think they did a pretty good job for a pre- Sixth Sense / The Others / etc era, but these days people have gotten wise. They should have been more subtle.
I’m still going to insist that the majority of the people that watch the show and don’t discuss it or pick it apart will have had no idea.
Honestly, if someone hadn’t mentioned it on the board a few weeks ago it wouldn’t have crossed my mind…but then I’m also not one of those people who ‘knew’ what was going to happen at the end of Fight Club or Sixth Sense either.
Also, it kind of bugged me that the little dinky old chest freezer sounded like a giant industrial air handler motor when it turned on.
A few more things. Did we see Travis grab his laptop before Dexter took him to the motel?
And this really bugged me…When Travis was chained up, he separated his hands across the table (which, oddly, had a lot of axe marks in it), there was a single strand of chain going across the table and padlock near each hand, presumably to keep them on his wrists. Dexter breaks the chain and his wrists are free. That doesn’t make any sense.
But now that I think about it, nothing is actually said during that scene, I’m guessing it’s all in Travis’ head.
Lastly when the IT guy (Lewis?) is trying to find the IP address, I really figured this was going to be the break in the case. Dexter told Travis to reply to Geller online. I just assumed Lewis would notice that Geller and The Prodigal Son had the same IP address. OTOH, Geller posted from the church and Travis posted from the motel…I wonder if that’s why his laptop suddenly appeared there.
The writers really need to get a competent computer consultant.
The forensics intern says he’s going to try to figure out the IP address of Gellar’s blog. Something I can do in 30 seconds but seems to take him hours of effort.
Then it turns out that what he was trying to find was the IP address where the blog was posted from; something completely different. Okay, that can be much more difficult to find, so fair enough. But that’s not what they said he originally was looking for.
Then he “traced” that IP address to a street address. As far as I know there’s no way to trace something like that. You can locate it pretty easily to within a few miles (and that’s not always accurate) but there’s only a few ways to get a precise street address, and they don’t involve tracing.
You can get it from the ISPs database; by either hacking, calling and asking, or getting a warrant if they won’t volunteer it. Or you may get lucky and find an online conversation saying something like “the IP address for the WiFi at the Starbucks at 5th and Main is 123.123.123.123”.
Then when they went to the address they were discussing the range of the WiFi and they said something about it being 100 feet. Then someone stated something like “if there’s an antenna nearby it could be several miles”. Huh? What does that even mean? Is it nearby or is it several miles? Are they talking about some kind of WiFi repeater?
The computer discussions are nearly incoherent and don’t have to be.
Why would Dexter even think to go below the table - IF Gellar escaped that way (after knocking out poor little disciple) WHO moved the heavy freaking table back?
Cops look everywhere and don’t notice the old dilapidated church within eyesite?
Other than that, I somewhat enjoyed it- not quite sure how disciple boy managed to catch, kill and set up that entire scene - let alone sneak a body part past Dexter back to the hotel room - maybe he does have God on his side?
My husband is usually clueless about plot twists, but he picked up on this, during the first episode.
Ditto. That plot’s been used so often you’ve gotten to where you notice when characters never interact with people other than the one who talks to them, plus on Dex’s road trip it showed his brother eating and actively participating in the fight with the motel owner that it was almost a blatant “See, imaginary people can be seen interacting just like Gellar’s been seen drinking coffee in public!”
I’m still amazed that an abandoned church hasn’t been more vandalized. The place had priest’s robes, stained glass windows, an altar and lots of other things there for the taking, and while admittedly Dexter is better at breaking into places than others it didn’t seem like he had to do much more than climb a fence. In most cities, especially cities with lots of homeless people and drug addicts, that place would have been stripped clean years ago.
Embarrassing admission: last week I logged onto the Eliot Search Engine (eliotsearchengine .com) just out of curiosity, because sometimes shows really will give a useful web tip. It links to a facebook page for Dexter.
Does anyone want to take a stab at why Lewis at the Ice Truck Killer hand?
He’s a collector, he’s also making a video game about serial killers/murderers - its why hes there as an intern.
Wasn’t Dexter talking about Travis’s dark passenger at the beginning of the episode? So I thought he was aware that Geller was imaginary.
Do you think he’s the original buyer or might he have tracked that person down and gotten it from him/her?
Wonder where this story-line goes from here… perhaps that he came with an agenda and his snooping skills could reveal something about Dexter?
Maybe that he’s touched and will eventually need to kill to further his creative skills?
That’s more where I was going with it.
Was he the original buyer? Was he the person that called Vince on the phone? (Does anyone have the episode to hear the voice?) If he is, is it just a coincidence that he then got this job or did he some how fake some credentials to get the job knowing they probably had the rest of the evidence that he could get his hands on. He’s been bugging Dexter to get deeper into forensics work which would open more doors…physical doors that is…as in access to the evidence room.
He was referring to Geller as a living, breathing version of Dexter’s own dark passenger – the one who brings out the need to kill. He was saying that without Geller’s influence, Travis wouldn’t kill.
This is an interesting plot point. Lewis only got the position because the blonde “hottie” was fired because she stole the hand and auctioned it online. Could they be working together?
Maybe, since this is a show about serial killers, Lewis has killed the blonde and Angel’s sister is next.
Lewis is getting a lot of screen time for some reason. I don’t think he’s just an auxiliary character.
I have a feeling that Lewis will be next seasons foe - I think he’s stumbled onto something here and is going to realize things as he tries to model his computer game.
I do think he was the original buyer - possibly as research for his video game, and then used his other knowledge to move in/get closer as well as to cover his tracks.
Not just time, but money. The show probably spent many thousands of dollars setting up his apartment. They also had to find an actor (or double) willing to do a nude scene and they spent quite a bit of time building up Jamie’s character which will no doubt play into this.
Props to whoever called the Sixth Sense plotline. It hadn’t crossed my mind until I saw it mentioned on here nor did I think it was headed in that direction.
Till the writers crushed my faith in them this morning, anyway. SO lame; I can’t believe they did that! Ugh!
I agree…but it seems like a good way for the writers to spoil the spoiler for the average viewer.
Yeah same here. I read about it here first and still didn’t believe it.
Heck, I saw the OP’s full post before I saw the show and I STILL didn’t believe it.
Ah well. That’s Dexter.