First off, as I typed the title, I realize there were two hands involved. Gellar’s and ITK’s, but I digress (I think).
Anyways, Lewis. Next week is the season finale, unless they wrap this up really quickly I get the feeling they’re setting up a cliffhanger which makes me a bit nervous since I think that’ll be the first time they’ve done this. On the one hand (ha!) I get worried that they think this is the only way they can keep viewers around until next season OTOH, maybe next season is going to be so jam packed they’ve basically got a full episode out of the way by giving us bits and pieces this season.
LaGuerta: I assume she’s going to be some sort of villain next year?
The therapist (analrapist?): I’m starting to wonder what her role is in the show. Is she just some sort of Dear Diary person? A way for the writers to show us what Deb is feeling without talking to the screen like Clarissa Darling or typing it out like Doogie Howser? Then she got into all that brotherly love stuff and I really didn’t know where it was going. If “We’re done here” signifies the end of the relationship between those two I think it’ll be a waste of a storyline and essentially a time filler. I have to assume she’ll be back and it’s going to be a way for her to work through the crap she’s going to have to put up with with LaGuearta and Quinn as Dexter gets busier next year.
And that brings us to Quinn. They’ve spent a lot of time on his drinking lately. Too much for there not to be consequences. This was a close call and I’m guessing that in the next week (or next year) Angel is going to get killed over it. Or maybe they’ll spare Angel but someone’s going to get killed because Quinn was hungover and sleeping it off somewhere. Maybe just a civilian.
I haven’t trusted LaGuerta for years. Dexter is Deb’s hero, and she has a major crush on him combined with all that brotherly love. It’s going to be interesting to see how all that plays out.
I thought that the therapist would lead Deb to begin to suspect her brother, but that’s not the direction they went.
I read somewhere that the last couple of episodes of this season are meant to set up the endgame of the final two seasons. So since the direction we appear to be headed is that Deb and Morgan are going to be intimate (more so than siblings), will that be the way she discovers his secret? Will she expose him in the end? Kill him? Join him? Or will he have to kill her?
So basically in this episode, Dexter was Adam West-era Batman and Travis was a Batman villain. Travis comes up with elaborate scheme to kill Miami Metro with poison gas, but it fails because of his incompetent henchwoman (and Dexter’s quick thinking and convenient social networking timing). Dexter has a convenient respiratory attack, causing Travis to capture him. Then Travis concocts an elaborate scheme to kill Dexter/Batman, which fails, and he neglects to check to see if Dexter is really dead. Of course Dexter probably would have been dead if Travis had simply tied Dexter’s hands behind his back or gagged him.
Spoilers for next episode based on the preview:
Somehow Dexter gets back to shore, presumably by rescue, but who knows. They also say he was seven miles out to sea. I guess someone saw the giant flames in time and sent out a boat. Of course Dex is going to have some 'splaining to do as to why Travis was targeting him, and why his face is on the fresco. Then again, knowing this show, he probably won’t.
I too am very curious to see how this all plays out. I was really intrigued when Lewis was able to track the name and address for Angel. He said, “at least someone appreciates me.” So I think this is definitely leading somewhere for Dexter. I’m also kind of surprised the writers didn’t play up Dexter’s emotions when Lewis showed him the serial killer game. I thought Dex was going to say “my wife was murdered by a serial killer” and act completely offended by that.
Really? I read an interview with the head writer that made it pretty clear they weren’t ready to commit to their being only two more seasons. Which I fear means more seasons of treading water without moving anything towards any sort of resolution or lasting consequence.
And yea, I had the same Adam West comparison going through my head at the last scene.
I think Dexter was on the news as the guy that stopped the Miami PD gas attack. So he has a decent excuse as to why Travis might be fixated on him.
So basically in this episode, Dexter was Adam West-era Batman and Travis was a Batman villain. Travis comes up with elaborate scheme to kill Miami Metro with poison gas, but it fails because of his incompetent henchwoman (and Dexter’s quick thinking and convenient social networking timing). Dexter has a convenient respiratory attack, causing Travis to capture him. Then Travis concocts an elaborate scheme to kill Dexter/Batman, which fails, and he neglects to check to see if Dexter is really dead. Of course Dexter probably would have been dead if Travis had simply tied Dexter’s hands behind his back or gagged him.
That reminds me of something else. If you were trying to gas Miami Metro would you really just turn on the 9:00 news that night to see what happened? I’d be on the internet and twitter, checking the TV or breaking news. He just sort of casually turned on the TV. I supposed he was overly confidant in his plan.
Also, you’d think, just once Dexter would explain how he caught a bad guy. Instead of saying “just luck” ISTM it wouldn’t kill him to say “I was waiting for some tests to finish up and Lewis had mentioned that Adam guy to me so I pulled up his FriendZone page and saw a picture of his wife and that was her.” But I suppose they really pushing the hero angle with Deb right now.
Yeah, I thought that too. Usually he gives those kinds of non-answers when he’s trying to give an excuse for where he was when he killed a guy the night before. But this time he had a perfect out with Louis’s research in to the Dorseys.
Intentionally or not, that therapist basically removed herself and Dexter as the only people on whom Deb can rely. I’ve enjoyed exploring the fact that Deb is bound to be fucked up after all that has happened to her and now she’s even more isolated than before. Makes for interesting T.V.
Agreed, and given what was shown in previews for next week:
DDK goes after Harrison, putting a child in danger
I really think the show has run out of ideas. Whenever a movie/story goes this route, IMO it exhibits desperation–a cheap way to drum up suspense because the writers have nothing else.
Well, generally I agree with that - except that several parts of this season has shown the potential impact/that being his weakness - so it is a natural progression here.
Thing is - I know that nothing that should happen happens in the actual episode - and I don’t doubt for one second that they go all Abraham on it.
I don’t remember if you’re one of the ones who has read the books or not, but (spoiler about the books) in the books she’s killed off in book 1. The character on the show is almost all the product of the TV writers. I think she’s a good character, and it’s an other example of me thinking the TV writers are better than the book(s) author. There are a lot of things that are done better in the show than the books.
Despite that last sentence, I’m currently listening to book 5 on audiobook in my car on the way to work and home every day. Once I start a series I have a hard time putting it down.
The woman with the “wormwood” backpack used Angel’s keycard to “sneak” into the police station. Then she walked right up to the officer at the desk and said that she had info on the killer. He didn’t say “how the hell did you get in here?” or “who are you?” or act surprised to see her in any way.
He acted like people came to him like this all of the time, and told her to have a seat. The impression was that it was his job to greet the public and take their information.
But… didn’t she sneak in? Wasn’t she in some place forbidden to the public?
I thought about that as well, but he does greet anyone that comes into that department. He has no idea what happened downstairs. The only flaw would be if people were required to have a visitor pass that proves you cleared security.
Look at this way. If you went around the metal detectors at the airport (maybe you found a way to use the employee entrance), you’d still be able to board the plane (with your boarding pass) since the people at the desk didn’t know that you bypassed the metal detectors.
Okay. I think I see it now. If she had gone through the normal public entrance they probably would have searched her backpack. Once she was in, everyone assumed she was a typical member of the public who had already been cleared.
Making out with your ex-wife who is playing your sister must be awkward somehow.
Based on this show and Burn Notice, Miami must have fewer security cameras, security guards, pedestrian traffic, and homeless people per square mile than any large city on Earth. You can have a 6 hour Aztec sacrifice ritual in the middle of the central business district and so long as it’s after 5 p.m. nobody’s going to notice.
Told ya it was a bad idea for Matthews to work through LaGuerta instead of going straight to Deb. Deb would’ve been disappointed in him but covered it up. LaGuerta had his back… just long enough to find the right spot to stab him.