by TheBaxter on Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:21 pm
it was a really good episode... not as good as last weeks, but very good. i don't think this needs spoiler tags, but i'll go ahead and stick wwith them for now.
first, the non-spoilery stuff. i bet all the people who thought anton or the vaca killer was the one who killed lundy feel dumb now! (the fact that trinity killed lundy is not a spoiler because it was obvious from last week's episode). i second the hooray for the return of reporter-girl's tits. showtime needs to make those things the star of a new spin-off series. deb's breakdown... well you can't say that actress doesn't give it her all. dexter's reaction to it wasn't what i expected, i was thinking if this is how she reacts, what's she gonna do when she finds out her brother is a serial killer? i thought it would harden dexter's resolve to make sure she doesn't find out his secrets, but mostly he just thinks "trinity has to pay for this." also when she says "your bad choices don't get people killed" ... was that meant to be a joke? because usually when they make those kinds of "saying something about dexter that's funny because they don't realize dexter is a killer" jokes, they immediately cut to a reaction shot from dexter making a face or something, or some witty internal dexter comment, to make sure we the audience realize it was a joke, but they didn't do it that time
now more spoilery stuff...
the vaca killer is definitely dead. which is fine, there was nothing interesting about him, he was just a violent mugger, and that storyline served it's purpose. does make me wonder what the rest of the homicide cops will have to do the rest of the season though, with the vaca killer dead and lundy's death supposedly solved. i guess they'll be investigating the dude who got bludgeoned. i wonder if it will make them rethink lundy's theory and start looking for trinity themselves. otherwise they'll just be sitting around with their thumbs up their asses (or angel's thumb up laguerta's ass... or quinn's thumb up that reporters ass, which actually, would be fine by me).
i was surprised dexter got on the trail of trinity so quickly. i thought it would take at least a couple more episodes before he found out trinity's identity. seems pretty obvious how the show will go from here, dexter will be torn between wanting to kill trinity, and wanting to observe him and learn from his ability to lead a dual life and keep his killing secret from his family, like dexter is trying to do. but that can't last the whole season, when we're only 5 episodes in. there's something else sneaky that's gonna change the direction of the season, but i have no clue what it is. i do think, though, that by the end of the season, either rita or deb will find out the truth about dexter. last season was all about dexter trying to find someone to trust with his secret, only to find out he couldn't; so this season will be the opposite, he'll be trying to figure out how to keep his secret hidden, but he'll be found out.
if rita finds out, it's hard to imagine she'd be accepting of it, but maybe if it happens a certain way; like if one or all of the kids is in danger from trinity, and dexter kills to save them, then she might accept it. when she found dexter's trunk, part of me thought he might reveal it right there, though it wouldn't have made sense. but she could be on the right track now, especially if she hires a PI to follow him to figure out what he's hiding. but if she does find out, and becomes his accomplice, at least her character would have some value then. maybe we'll find out that trinity's family, or at least his wife, knows about his killing and puts up with it, and dexter will think that if trinity's family can accept it, than maybe so will his. actually, i really like that idea. dexter finds out trinity's family is a family of killers, and tries to reshape his own family to be the same way.
on the other hand, if it's deb who finds out, it's easier to see how she could become his accomplice, because trinity killed lundy. so if dexter reveals it to her and gets her to help him get trinity, and also tells her that he was the one who killed the ice truck killer, she might go along with it. after all, she's got nothing left but him anyway, and she's so emotionally fragile from everything else that's happened that she might just accept her brother is a killer rather than risk losing someone else close to her.
