# Dexter - 11-27 - "Get Gellar" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310 "2011-11-28T03:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/101 "2011-12-01T13:49:48Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Here’s a twist for you: Wilson is behind the whole thing. I _finally_ got that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/102 "2011-12-01T16:11:33Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > How do you know they weren’t throwaways? The one he gave Travis was, but it looked like he just opened the box and immediately punched his own regular number. When they were talking on the phone later on, wasn’t it his normal cell? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/103 "2011-12-01T16:12:27Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I caught the clunky “internet protocol address” but missed “I tracked the IPA.” Me too. Last time I tracked the IPA, it was in six bottles in my refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/104 "2011-12-01T17:31:56Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > …and carrying an axe like he just didn’t give a fuck… Hey, if you’ve got an axe, why _should_ you? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/105 "2011-12-01T18:23:49Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > The one he gave Travis was, but it looked like he just opened the box and immediately punched his own regular number. When they were talking on the phone later on, wasn’t it his normal cell? Who can tell? It just seems like he must have a throwaway or he wouldn’t give the number out like that. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/106 "2011-12-01T18:26:55Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Who can tell? It just seems like he must have a throwaway or he wouldn’t give the number out like that. I’ll fanwank that it gets forwarded to his regular phone from any number of burns/bogus/repeater phones. Like they do on burn notice. The call to that number would only be traceable by McGee, and only if he has abbies hands on the keyboard as well. I’m still waiting for the CriminalMinds, CSI Miami, Dexter and Burn Notice crossover event. It has to happen. Miami aint that damn big. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/107 "2011-12-01T19:42:27Z")
Ouch. Five minutes after Hotch says “We’re ready to give the profile”, Dexter would already have decided “Fuck it, I don’t care if he hasn’t committed a crime – after listening to this Reid guy talk for five minutes, he’s next on my table”. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/108 "2011-12-02T00:42:20Z")
Speaking of cell phones reminds me of something I had trouble overlooking earlier in the season. At his high school reunion, Dexter bangs the cheerleader or whoever. Then uses her cell phone to get the jock guy to the tool shed where Dexter kills him. You’d think the cops would have at least managed to question Dexter about that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/109 "2011-12-02T01:08:26Z")
Yeah, but the vast majority of Dexter’s kills get logged as disappearances, not murders, since he’s adept at body-disposal. And actually, that particular kill bugged me - it seemed like Dex had pretty tenuous grounds to get the guy on the killing table. The guy’s wife _might_ have been murdered? He was never arrested, let alone charged? ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/110 "2011-12-02T21:02:41Z")
By the way, the alleged “father” of the dead hooker? An actor paid by LaGuerta to get Deb to reopen the case, and therefore getting Deb demoted. Calling it now. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/111 "2011-12-02T21:44:02Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > By the way, the alleged “father” of the dead hooker? An actor paid by LaGuerta to get Deb to reopen the case, and therefore getting Deb demoted. Calling it now. Since we are making predictions, here is mine: The last episode of the last season of Dexter opens with little Dexter playing with a snow globe. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/112 "2011-12-02T21:44:36Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > By the way, the alleged “father” of the dead hooker? An actor paid by LaGuerta to get Deb to reopen the case, and therefore getting Deb demoted. Calling it now. I like it. That, or maybe someone else trying to cause trouble for Matthews for their own reasons. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/113 "2011-12-03T19:16:09Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > By the way, the alleged “father” of the dead hooker? An actor paid by LaGuerta to get Deb to reopen the case, and therefore getting Deb demoted. Calling it now. only issue I have with that is her conversation with the chief, unless she’s planning on screwing both ends, or is simply playing Deb to be able to replace the chief when it comes out. Face it, Deb’s buttons are so fuckin’ easy to fuckin’ push, fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/114 "2011-12-03T19:20:41Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I like it. That, or maybe someone else trying to cause trouble for Matthews for their own reasons. Sar’nt Batista. Calling it. (Pretty much the only likeable character left!) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/115 "2011-12-03T22:08:12Z")
Other than embarrassment, is there some reason Matthews is working through LaGuerta instead of going directly to Deb? LaGuerta’s already blackmailed him once, so he goes to her to squash this? Wha? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/116 "2011-12-03T23:29:36Z")
He knows that unlike LaGuerta, Deb has ethics. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/117 "2011-12-04T05:11:07Z")
I figured Matthews went to LaGuerta because she’s in a position to help him, and he can (reverse?) blackmail her to do it — if he goes down he can drag her with him — assuming he was smart enough to keep evidence of her blackmail around. Beyond that she already knows about his clandestine activities, so he has little to lose by asking her. He couldn’t go to Deb because, fuck, she’d be all fuckin’ law-abiding and shit. Fuck. But maybe they should clarify the nature of the relationship. Or maybe not; all these silly little subplots drag the show down. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/118 "2011-12-16T05:01:19Z")
I haven’t caught up with the episodes after this, so no spoilers please, but has anyone reconciled the Travis’s Gellar apparition with the testimony of the woman who Travis let go? She claimed Travis seemed the “weaker” or “softer” one. So Travis was faking Gellar’s voice, at least, which seems to be a hidden talent of his, or a plothole. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310/119 "2011-12-16T05:16:42Z")
> [@II\_Gyan\_II](#): > > I haven’t caught up with the episodes after this, so no spoilers please, but has anyone reconciled the Travis’s Gellar apparition with the testimony of the woman who Travis let go? She claimed Travis seemed the “weaker” or “softer” one. So Travis was faking Gellar’s voice, at least, which seems to be a hidden talent of his, or a plothole. She never heard him talk, I think she just got the feeling he was weaker based on the fact that he was taking orders from Gellar and had a hard time saying no to him even though he often times struggled to do what he was told. Any conversations he had with Gellar were one sided (Gellar never responded in a way the public could here). I _think_ if you go back and watch that part again, she never mentioned anything about hearing Gellar’s voice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-11-27-get-gellar/604310.md?page=5)