Dexter 4:10
I’m finally getting caught up on TV!!!! Aren’t y’all excited!
So, admittedly I already watched the entire rest of the season. Which makes it somewhat difficult to watch these again, knowing how the season ends. But we’ll talk about that in a few episodes.
However, I will say that knowing what is to come, I’m just filled with anxiety watching the episodes again. Knowing it all gives the entire season new meaning, everything looks different. And for the first time ever, I am uncomfortable watching this show. I’ll get over it, it’s my favorite show, but I’m still uncomfortable right now.
Dexter witnesses Arthur kidnap a little boy, and through some great detective work, he figures out that a little boy is kidnapped five days before the bathtub murders…so the boys start the cycle. It kind of sucks that Dex uses some illegal methods to figure this kind of stuff out, because he’d be a pretty good detective.
Christine also gets in deeper trouble, with Deb thinking maaaaaaaaybe Christine is the one who killed Lundy. And this is a bit of a sticky situation, since Quinn is you know, dating Christine. Anyway, they do some DNA testing on her toothbrush and…discover she’s related to Trinity! Which we already knew cuz he came over to see her on Thanksgiving, but for the PD this is a huge discovery.
Personally, I hate that we don’t know a whole lot about the relationship between Christine and Arthur. Obvs he is her father and we know that, but what happened to her mother? Why does Arthur not want much contact with Christine? Does the rest of his family know about her? And most importantly, does Arthur actually intend to kill her?
We spend a lot of the episode down in a bomb shelter, where Arthur has taken the little boy he kidnapped. He calls the boy Arthur, even though his name is Scott, wants to play with trains, and insists the boy put his pajamas on. At one point, basically right before Arthur is going to complete his ritual, he gets very upset because Vera’s favorite song comes on. I had a very difficult time determining if this was him getting legitimately upset, or if it’s just part of the ploy to get the boys on his side before he kills them. Either way, Scott feels bad for Arthur and goes along with the plan, in the hopes that he’ll get to go home.
That plan doesn’t work as Scott would like, and Arthur fully intends to encase him in cement. Fortunately, Dexter gets there in time to save the boy, but Arthur gets away. Actually, Arthur reminds me of a serial killer in a slasher film – always just vanishing! Or maybe like Batman.
It is really difficult to make a post on these last couple of episodes without talking about the finale. So this one and the next one are probably going to kind of suck. But since the finale was a doozy, hopefully we can make up for it with that post.
