Is that true when there are illegal drugs involved? Isn’t it murder if a death occurs during the commission of a crime? Maybe it depends on the state?
I was just thinking that from a dramatic perspective, it would’ve actually been more interesting to have Travis kill his sister after the reveal. Watching the Gellar-controlled version of Travis killing his confused and loving sister would’ve been quiet an unsettling scene. Certainly a scene that has more emotional impact than this lame twist ending.
How did Travis get to and from the kill site? Dexter drove him there, then took him back to the motel, but Travis somehow went back and then went home again, all without coming out of Gellar-mode, without being seen, and without a car, unless he either stole a car or hailed a cab in the middle of the night while speaking in a Hispanic accent and covered in blood and entrails without the cab driver getting suspicious. Plus, unless the motel is the Miami College La Quinta in a city the size of Miami cab rides can be very expensive, so for there-and-back-again he’d have to have a good bit of cash on him even though he was chained to a grill when Dexter ‘freed’ him and presumably Dexter didn’t stop at an ATM for Miami’s Most Wanted to withdraw cash (and send up 280 red instant alerts [which Dexter would know it would]) on the way there.
Also, the college apparently is the cheapest on Earth in terms of security. Usually you’ll see at least one security guard in a place at night, and more and more frequently- especially after normal working hours- you have to flash a student ID card with a security strip to get into the faculty office area. (Where I currently work and where I went to grad school even the ID card strip would only get you into the outer area of faculty offices.) With Dawkins-lite, who told Dexter he gets numerous threats per week (presumably some of them death threats) you’d think they’d insist on his area being secure, because even if he isn’t afraid of stalkers or nutjobs his co-workers probably wouldn’t want to be collateral damage.
Extremely lazy writing.
I honestly really don’t know the difference between the various murders and manslaughter, other then that manslaughter generally comes into play when the death is an accident.
From wiki: It occurs when someone kills, without intent, in the course of committing an unlawful act.
If they don’t go there, I have to assume that the person who plays Travis isn’t a strong enough actor to pull that off.
Eh, plot holes like this don’t really bother me. He has a car, presumably he went and got it at some point. Or borrowed one from a friend. Or rented a car. Or got a bike from a pawn shop. Or took the bus. I don’t think the minutiae of how Travis gets around Miami is so interesting that it really needs any screen time.
And I live near a big state school. There are several break-ins and muggings every semester that aren’t witnessed by the Cops. And here at least, once the buildings are locked, the cops don’t go inside them. Its hardly implausible that Dexter and Travis were able to get in the building without anyone noticing them.
No acting chops in his family, I guess.
Here’s a twist for you: Wilson is behind the whole thing.
Well, Professor Dorr was a ladykiller.
Yeah, normally you’d have to wait until Spring Break to get away with that.
::Joey runs over to IMDB::
I had no idea he was anyone special.
Having said that, I’m not saying he’s a bad actor, I’m saying it would take a really good actor to portray one person all season and then portray himself, as possessed by someone else for a chunk of another episode…convincingly.
We still don’t know if he turns into Gellar or if he turns into some sort of non-lucid version of himself under Gellar’s control or what the hell is going on.
I had no idea on his real life family, either. What’s weird is now that I know, you can actually see the resemblance.
I’m also surprised to find that his dad has a son that age (Colin is 34.)
I didn’t either until just now! Huh.
Same here. As soon as Hal made that comment my first thought was “Lemme guess, he’s Tom Hanks’ brother.” Obviously, I see that it’s his son, but they look like they could be brothers.
Colin looks like Tom’s son by Jim Parsons.
Unlike a lot of superstar relatives who are in the same business, he seems to have a healthy attitude about it on talk shows. He apparently doesn’t have a rider saying “NO MENTIONING HIS FATHER” (ala Jakob Dylan) and doesn’t get snotty when they bring up Tom as some of the lesser Baldwins will when Alec is mentioned or even politely change the subject; he’ll answer questions about it and then get back to whatever project he’s there to discuss. Asked if having a world famous father has hurt or helped him- a question he’s always being asked- he usually responds ‘both’, which I think is probably true.
His half-brother the rapper otoh comes off as a little a-hole. I’m hoping that’s just a gag. (Google “Chet Haze” if interested.)
Where I studied as an undergrad — a very large public school — pretty much anybody could get into faculty office areas even until quite late at night; I don’t recall ever being there late enough, or arriving early enough, to find the doors locked. Where I’m attending grad school they may be a little more zealous about locking things up, but once you’re in (the business building at least) you have access to pretty much everything except the inside of classrooms and offices. And they don’t lock up the building until well after normal business hours.
Which is to say, I suppose, that it didn’t strike me as too odd that Dexter’d be able to get into the building so easily. Walking around wearing his murder clothes and carrying an axe like he just didn’t give a fuck, that bothered me … Tom Hanks Jr killing and hiding Dawkins-lite in about two seconds flat, almost certainly in arm’s length of grad students and other faculty, that bothered me … but getting into the building and seeing no security guards? That seems par for the course.
Another thing that bothered me was Dexter giving Travis a phone with Dexter’s own phone number programmed in it! He knows that the police are searching for Travis. I don’t think there’d be any way for him to explain that one to the police if they had found him. He should have got throwaway phones for both of them, just in case Travis gets picked up by the police.
It’s not actually clear that that’s how it happened. He might’ve just had his own prepaid cell number programmed into the new one.
How do you know they weren’t throwaways?