Those are funny initials to use if you meant it as a joke. On the off chance you didn’t:
Anthony Michael Hall = geek from Sixteen Candles / leading man from Dead Zone
Michael C. Hall = Dexter
Sorry, I didn’t mean it as a joke. Michael C. Hall was the actor with Hodgkins. Here he is in January, at the Golden Globes, when he was quite bald. I think hair grows about 1/2" a month, so maybe his hair did grow back in time.
I didn’t know he’d been ill. He still looks pretty rough, but that fits with what the character’s currently going through.
Quinn’s the one who really looks like he’s wearing a wig. I wonder if the family will lie for Dexter/Kyle?
There is definitely something suspicious about the nanny, but it’s not necessarily evil; maybe she’s related to Dexter or something.
Last season, immediately following the season finale they showed a sitdown with Hall and Lithgow discussing the season, particularly the finale. Hall’s hair was all gone, so it was pretty clear he had cancer.
Still a little confused about the animal control plotline. Do real people actually call in roadkill? If it’s not something large like a deer?
I must not have been paying attention - when did Dexter become friends with the killer and arrange a ride along?
I was surprised by Julia Stiles. I thought she was cast as the nanny.
Dexter was following him, and when he stopped to eat Dexter did the same at a table a little ways off. During this little bit of downtime Dex called the nanny to see how things were going, and as he hung up he looked over and saw the animal guy staring at him. Voiceover says “Crap, I didn’t expect him to spot me.” Dex waved him over, he sits down and they have a conversation. Dexter claims to be unemployed, guy says his job actually pays decent, and offers Dex a ridealong the next day.
Dexter was sitting 20 feet away right in his field of view. I think the dialog was actually along the lines of “about time he spotted me”
Yea, thats how I remember it too. He was eating at the same place as the guy specifically so he would be spotted and could strike up a conversation. He also had the help wanted ads spread out in front of him so he could pretend to be looking for a job.
I kinda caught a vibe that maybe Road Kill Guy was a lot like Dexter and followed a “code” of killing people who somehow deserved/wanted/needed killing. Remember, RKG said something like “you don’t know what you’re getting into” and another hint along a similar line that I forgot. Might be that Dexter ends up to regret killing him - but of course, I could be way off base…
Yup.
The reason Roadkill guy spotted him was because he and Dexter struck up a conversation in the previous episode after Dexter called in an animal he’d intentionally killed (which I, ridiculously, found more disturbing than the usual murders). I’ve started to forget why he suspected Roadkill Guy before that, though - anyone enlighten me?
Blood stain in the moving van, he used the police resources to track him down.
Actually, he guessed the password to the moving van company’s website to track him down.
Oh yes! It’s all coming back to me now - thanks.
I used to work for a small municipality, and yes, people called in dead animals. There was a crew whose job it was to pick up carcasses. Granted, that wasn’t their sole job – their main job was picking up large trash (e.g. couches and refrigerators) that the contracted garbage company wouldn’t pick up – but they’d pick up dead animals, too.
And, just for your information, if you were responsible for radioing it to them, you had to call it a “D.A.” for “dead animal.” If you made the rookie mistake of calling it a “dead cat,” the rest of the day, you’d get tormented with meows. Over the radio, when you answered the phone, over lunch in the break room…
Oh, that was an hysterical bunch.
I think he also said something like “I’m putting them out of their suffering”. Could be just the usual reason crazy people have for murder, but there might be something more going on with his victims.
I’m disappointed that Dexter didn’t search the guy’s house before offing him. He noticed the locked attic in the first episode, so it was at least possible that Roadkill Guy had someone locked up.
Good point! Julia Stiles’ character might have cancer or something. That would be a way of giving Dex a short-term friend.
Kind of a fun little Dexter music video on YouTube.
This is what struck me as really off. She more or less said she would work for almost nothing. She’s gotta have something nasty going on the side.
Maybe she rents her kids out for kiddie porn photo shoots.
And the witness? I don’t predict a long life for her.
I think she’s the perfect nanny, but Dexter is going to replace her with Julie Stiles. Probably cause some strife with Deb.
Plus, Deb has a history of sleeping with her work partners (Agent Lundy, the informant from season 3, Quinn this season) so…