Ummm, I think it’ll bug him for a while and he’ll end up telling everyone but Dex and Deb. To add to that, I think he’ll make it a hypothetical thing and everyone will assume he’s trying to ask some perverted question about whether or not it’s okay to put the moves on a married woman.
Well they certainly put the festive spirit in that episode…! :eek:
Hell of a twist at the end, though! 
Great episode. How many more episodes are left?
Dexter’s finally over any idea that Trinity has anything to show him or is somehow a success that Dex can follow.
Trinity’s daughter was played by the girl who played April (Luke’s daughter) on Gilmore Girls.
Three episodes left.
Major plot twist. Couldn’t sleep half the night because I was replaying all of the hints that I missed this season.
Trinity now has to be called QUATERNITY.
The coffin that Trinity built was for himself (which would have ended the reigh of killing), but Dexter screwed it up by not dropping him/killing him.
Dex is now going to have to find people buried in coffins (good luck in Florida).
Matsuka is going to rat out Dex’s neighbor who will probably join QUATERNITY in the ocean.
Dex wouldn’t kill a guy for making a move on his wife, way outside the code.
I saw something that makes me think Trinity may survive at the end of this season, that would be an interesting twist. Not sure if that means he comes back for next season or they move on to another story line. So far no other killer except Dexter line has spanned seasons.
:eek: Woah man, just woah! :eek:
RogueRacer, you badass mother fucker, you TOTALLY CALLED IT! Nicely done!
Clearly there were hints that Christie plugged Lundy and Deb 'cause RR caught it. The other twisty bit was pure bombshell surprise.
What the crappity-crap Dexter!? Was he gonna stab Trinity in his kitchen? I mean, that was really fun to watch and all but unless he intends to kill the entire Mitchell clan, it really seems like Dexter has overplayed his hand.
Let’s say Dex saran wraps Big T to a table next ep, yippy-skippy we’ve got one dead bad guy and life is good. Except for the part where Arthur Mitchell, family man and community figure has suddenly gone missing. Even if the poor terrorized family doesn’t want him back, Trinity isn’t a recluse, his disappearance will be noticed.
Even if there’s no body and MMH isn’t called in, it’s still a missing persons case and the Mitchell family will have contact with the police…where they just might notice “Kyle.” Shit, Miami is no doubt a big place but one of the Mitchells could run into Dexter and you can damn sure bet they’ll remember that pathetic guy that hung around for the summer, saved their dad’s life, and then threatened to gut him in the kitchen.
Now we have the new twisty wrinkle… Christie is an investigative reporter fer key-rist’s sake. If her creepy, albeit possibly estranged father goes missing, she just might take an interest.
LMAO, oh Dexter, more worried about the shed than the male interloper. 
I want Masuka to break down and tell Dexter so Dex will be forced to manufacture some outrage or something.
I don’t think Trinity’s family is going to be too upset if he gets whacked. I could even see Dexter telling them he did it or maybe they find out Dexter did it and don’t turn him in. The easy way out now is to make it look a like a suicide since he already tried that once. Of course that means no plastic and table.
I don’t know - the way they desperately clung to him after Dexter almost killed him shows they have an emotional attachment to him and might not be so happy about his murder, even if they should be.
I’ve really enjoyed Trinity as the “villain” of this season. I think he’s easily the best done serial killer we’ve seen in the series. Any of the scenes involving Dexter and Trinity are pretty solid. Where I’m greatly disappointing is the show has devoted way too much time to non-serial killing stuff.
I really enjoyed the format of the first two seasons, because it was essentially a new person for Dexter to kill each week. So each week he had that story line going, but there was also an overarching story line throughout the season, usually resolved in the last 2-3 episodes.
For example Dexter and the Ice Truck Killer started at the very beginning of Season 1, but Dexter still killed a new person each episode more or less. While I enjoy serial dramas I liked the way Dexter combined episode storylines that resolved by the end of the show while still working with a season story line that was resolved at the end.
Season 3 went away from that approach as the Miguel Prado storyline eventually completely consumed the show (the Skinner became a side show that sort of came back at the very end.) However the Prado storyline still involved Dexter and Miguel resolving episode-level plots.
With the current season there are two major story lines that need to not exist:
- Angel/Maria
- Quinn/Christine
There is a good chance in light of the most recent episode that Quinn/Christine works into the main plot line but it would have been easy enough for most of that to have happened off screen. Angel/Maria shows no sign of ever converging with the main story line, and it is so far into the season now that if it did it will be in a ludicrous/unrealistic way.
Dexter was supposed to be about a serial killer, Dexter Morgan, and how he interacts with the world around him. While I was fine with the additions of minor subplots involving secondary characters, the series needs to still be primarily focused on that key idea or I’ll lose interest. I’ve grown to like the Deb character but we never needed to get super-involved in her romances and et cetera. I was fine with her and Lundy and her and Anton as parts of the story but I didn’t need the level of detail I received; that is the least compelling stuff in the series and I’d rather they work in more Dexter content (ideally him stalking a new person each episode until the “climax” 2-3 episodes at season end.)
One thing I do enjoy is that this season has focused a good bit on the villain’s activities when no one else is around to witness them. In Season 1-3 typically the villain did most of their work off screen (you don’t get any real look at the Ice Truck Killer, near the middle of the season you met Brian and such but you never saw his actions as the killer.)
The daughter and mother did, but the son certainly didn’t. I think Trinity has created in his son someone capable of offing him–and the impression I get from the character is that if not for Dexter there was a good chance Jonah was going to kill his father some day in any case.
Why? Do you think the coffin wasn’t for Arthur? I believed him, when he said it was for himself, especially when he attempted suicide right after building it.
I’m not getting that a fourth member of his family means that he kills in fours. If Christie was the shooter (and it sure looks like it), she did it either to make a news story (silly) or because she knew her dad was Trinity and did it to protect him. Arthur’s comment – “At least I have one perfect child” – he’s talking about Christie, not about the younger daughter. Why is she perfect? What’s she doing that the other kids don’t do?
Well, Christie killed Lundy (perhaps at his request). BTW, I think it’s a problem for him that she knows him as Dexter while they know him as Kyle.
Yeah, that’ll be a problem.
Another question raised by this episode is if Christie knows her father is Trinity, why is she writing about the murders? Why pursue it?
I’ll be disappointed if she doesn’t know, and if she shot Lundy and Deb for another reason.
Also, apparently Christie knows only about the bludgeoning murders. Did she not notice all those photos on Deb’s board? I expected her to ask about those but she didn’t.
Something else I didn’t catch is what Deb figured out about the timeline. Trinity kills during the school year, or he doesn’t kill during the school year?
That trinity kills during the obvious school breaks - Summer, Christmas, etc…
Can’t wait to see how all this resolves - I should really not watch the previews… but it is set up well.
Trinity kills during school breaks like spring break, summer vacation, Christmas. He can do that because he’s off of work.
Yeah, I’m not sure what’s more interesting; Christie knowing Trinity is her dad and writing just to fuck with him or her being unaware and apparently exhibiting some sort of hereditary predisposition for murder.
I thought the reason that Matsuka was shown invited chez Morgans was so that Dexter would be caught out in front of Rita when he wouldn’t corroborate Dexter’s alibi. Using him the way they did seems more contrived.
Something Deb said to Quinn seemed to imply that they thought Trinity lived in the Miami area. Does that sound right? On what basis are they assuming that?
…I thought the opposite. I assumed, like you did, Matsuka being there was to compliment things for Dexter and his alibi.
Using him to complicate things for Rita was unexpected.