Dexter 4:7
Posted by dorolerium on Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Ah, we open on the ocean. I love that Dexter takes the whole family out in his boat, especially since we have seen little of the boat this season.
A body is found, ish. Some dude cuts open an alligator and finds an arm in it. Cept the alligator didn’t eat the girl alive, she was dead already, so we have a homicide! Which leads to Dexter killing his first innocent person. But we’ll get to that.
Deb is moving into Dexter’s old apartment, which seems hard on Dexter. Quinn is helping her move in, I guess he’s a nice guy all of a sudden? He and Dexter exchange words outside the door, and I hate to criticize Dex, but he should really avoid confrontation with Quinn. Didn’t he learn anything from the issues with Sgt. Doakes!
The dead girl was a sometimes model, and the photographer likes to take pretty weird pictures, like gets the girls naked and all beat up. Dexter says “Even I’m disturbed by this“, and I would have to agree. It’s difficult as a woman to see these pictures, the vulnerability of women glamorized. I always worry that images like this will reinforce the idea in some people’s heads that abuse is okay, simply because it’s shown in the form of beauty.
Dexter goes on a tree cutting trip with Arthur, who seems really grumpy for no reason, and accidentally hits a deer. He freaks out at the idea of killing it. Weird.
Another great Dexter line from this episode is “I’m not a young sailor, Cody is. I’m a 30 something sailor.“ See, he gets the idea from Arthur that you should encourage your kids to go do stuff, explore themselves, so he introduces Cody to the young sailors program. And then gets roped into taking some of the kids out camping/sailing.
One of their activities is telling scary stories, which Dexter is hilariously not good at. He starts telling the story of Trinity…and gets interrupted by the other dad there cuz it’s toooooooo much!
Back to the innocent person death…Dexter, and the Miami PD, think the photographer guy killed the alligator lady. They can’t get a warrant to search his place, though, so they’re kind of at a dead end. This doesn’t stop Dexter, natch, so he nabs the guy and kills him. While he’s talking with the guy, he protests that he didn’t kill anyone, and I thought “Maybe he really didn’t.” But Dexter is so spot on that I didn’t think much more of it. Turns out it was the assistant! Ruh roh!
I’m interested to see how this affects Dexter in the future, and since I’m behind a week anyway, I’m sure the answer is partially on my DVR already. But I am patiently waiting until I catch up on my other shows.
Also, Arthur was building a coffin. For who?
*****
If this seems totally disjointed, I apologize. I am sleep deprived. Jobs will do that.
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