There was a thread for last week with a few posts in it. I figure with the low traffic one thread on this show may be enough.
I am really enjoying this show and like the actor playing Dexter. He changed totally from his character on Six Feet Under. The voice over is done well and I enjoy the story and humor elements.
(I will be discussing plot of latest episode don’t read past here if you don’t want spoilers.)
This past week’s episode (11/12) was excellent. I was surprised and happy at how quickly they caught the supposed ice truck killer, on most TV shows they would drag it out a few episodes and then reveal it was the wrong guy.
One of the things that has been bothering me a bit about the show is that Dexter always says he doesn’t have pity, remorse or real feelings, though the way the story is progressing he does. He enjoys his time with his girlfriend’s kids. He feels pity on the kid killer that he didn’t help. He feels upset that the ice truck killer could be a run of the mill type serial killer.
I am glad they didn’t go down the path of having Dexter be a mentor to the kid killer. I think that would have ruined the premise of the Dexter character.
Here is my theory which may be obvious to some:
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I think the ice truck killer is the new love interest of Dexter’s sister. With the screen time they give him and the conversation with the sister at the end of the show it fits well.
I agree with you that it looks very likely that Debra’s new orthopedic surgeon beau is the real Ice Truck Killer. There was just a creepiness about him right from the scene in the hospital when the surviving ITK victim was showing off his new prosthetic limbs. I figured that the guy they caught for the crimes had to be some hack. He was so careless and just plain nuts. The real ITK is even more suave and slick than Dexter. The trailer park guy was clearly neither. He also folded way too quickly at the mere suggestion of a media frenzy. He was a puppet on a string. And of course he didn’t know who the hell Dexter was.
It’s looking good that our charming Doc is the real deal. He now has an even deeper “in” into Dexter’s life by courting the only surviving relative Dex has.
This is going to get good.
I agree. The trailer park guy is a copycat. Debra’s going to be pissed when she finds out, but Lt. LaGuerta might get some satisfaction that her boss took the credit in the press conference. Neener neener!
I agree too that Dexter isn’t the cold-blooded emotionally dead psychopath that he thinks he is.
Am I wrong in hoping that Rita’s husband will do something so Dexter can kill him? He’s a good character though, the husband, with that phony sweetness. He reminds me a bit of Viggo Mortenson or Monte Markham.
Yeah, I think that Paul (the creepy ex-husband) is far creepier than we’ve seen yet. For starters, the scene where he just burst into her house and started acting like “husband and father” and getting into the fridge to make breakfast, set off my alarm. He’s dangerous and things with him will escalate. I wonder if it will be Dexter that will take him out or if Rita will end up killing him in self defense. (I haven’t read the books so I have no background other than the show.) It would be interesting but too predictable if Paul gets gone in front of Rita’s son and then HE turns into a sociopath too. I hope the writers are smarter than that.
It will really put Dex in a bind when he realizes that Doctor Death is the Ice Truck Killer. He will want to protect and save Debra but he’ll have to do so without jeopardizing himself and we’ll get to see if his desire to protect his sister outweighs his desire to play this little game with the ITK. He does seem to have a conscience, or at least seems to be developing one to some degree. How strange that must feel for him.
I’m really loving this show.
I also think the prosthetic doc is the Ice Truck Killer, but since so many people are picking up on it that probably means it isn’t true. Shows like this tend to be more subtle about such things.
Regardless of the plot (which is interesting) and the rest of the cast (who are overall enjoyable), I’m loving this show for Michael C. Hall. If he doesn’t win an Emmy for this performance then there is no justice. The amazing things he does with a glance or a couple of words or a smile. Two stellar moments from the most recent ep: when Paul threw a pulled punch at Dexter and his response was, “That it?” Like he just knew that the worst Paul could do was nothing and with those couple of words let Paul know it too, and let Paul know that he knows Paul knows it. And the other, right at the end, when (as we all knew he would) the faux ITK gave his who the fuck are you line and Dexter broke into that little smile. And we’re all happy that the real homicidal maniac is still out there so that our homicidal maniac can keep playing.
Actually I have read the second book in the series and the boy is the older of the 2 kids, not the girl, and the boy tells dexter that he killed the neighbors dog, and his sister watched. He likes to do the killing and she likes to watch. It is playing on the whole abused mentally by a parent = possible mentally twisted serial killer type.
The sister’s love interest is the ice truck killer - he has access to the same photos, or similar photos at her place, right? Meanwhile, the sister is the one taunting Dexter, but doesn’t know that her Boyfriend is the ITK.
Told you, crackpot theory, doesn’t make sense, but there you have it.
I’m pretty positive that the killer is Dexter’s sister, and I figured it was kind of obvious.
She’s always the one to conveniently stumble into the evidence, like the parked ice truck and the secret photo cache.
The killer only talked in whispers to the amputee victim, which means the killer could very well be a she. All of the characters just assume it’s a man, which I believe is done so the reveal will be more shocking.
Her cigarette was found at the crime scene. Why would this be brought up and then quickly dismissed if it wasn’t going to matter later on? In movieland, there’s no such thing as a minor detail.
And the biggest one: she’s the only one who’s actually close enough to Dexter to actually give a damn about him (and have a key to his apartment). Who else would go through all this trouble to impress him? He’s a loner. The only other person he’s close to is his girlfriend. She has a pretty good motive too. She’s upset at how her father paid more attention to Dexter when they were growing up.
That’s my theory, anyway. I’ll be pretty shocked if the killer is someone else. I just hope they don’t do a tired surprise team of murderers thing.
If it’s the sister, then she’s crazier than Dexter. That might be the whole point, but it doesn’t explain her glee at finding clues and how she acted when they stormed Perry’s trailer. Would she try to impress Dexter by (1) being the killer and (2) finding the killer?
On the practical side, is she strong enough? She’s just a tiny little thing. The killer retrieved a body that Dexter dumped in the water, and maneuvering Tucci couldn’t have been easy either.
Was Debra a killer in the books?
I’m trying to see your point but the problems I have with your theory is that Debra seems to sleep alot at the station and she’s such a waify little thing. I would think she wouldn’t have the time nor the strength to carry out the murders. I also don’t think she’d have a key to Dex’s place. Not legitimately anyway. Dex doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would give a key to anyone. Also, Debra doesn’t seem sociopathic at all. IANAP but don’t sociopaths usually have an aire of confidence (even a bit of arrogance) about them, they’re charismatic because they have to be to draw people to them since they lack the normal emotions to do so naturally? I know my wording is crap right now, and I’m seriously generalizing.(sorry , at work) Debra is sort of mousy and is just now starting to get confident as a cop. I just don’t think she fits even the broadest profile.
I guess it may seem a bit too obvious if the killer is the prosthetic doc. But I definitely don’t think it was ooky trailer park guy either. He’s just to outwardly pathetic to be a sociopath of Dex’s calibre. But I do wonder how he got those photos of the ice truck killer crime scenes. Perhaps he hacked into the police database? Or the real ITK posted them on the web.?
This is actually a good point, and would be highly symbolic. Imagine if Debra held two Dexters in her mind: Forensics Dexter and Killer Dexter, and was vying to impress them both. That would make a good story.
That said, I know who the killer is in the book. It would be cool if the t.v. writers changed it to trip us up, though.
Spoilerbox not because I am saying who the killer IS, but who it is NOT (in the book anyway):
I’ve heard good theories that implicated Rita, Laguerta and the Doctor. If the writers went with any of those theories, they would all make very good television.
The psychiatric story line gave us a new view into Dexter’s mind. I laughed when Dexter told him he was a serial killer. The actor playing Dexter is excellent. He showed carthatic relief when he was able to say it out loud.
and…
Now we know how the ice truck killer is. Eww. The guy is getting more and more creepy with the whole huge fridge in his kitchen. I wonder if Dexter will figure it out when he meets him that something is wrong. Of course his sister will get all pissed off when he doesn’t like him.