Dexter – Anyone else getting a Doakes vibe again?

Dexter (thinks): “I have to find the right activity for Astor. What did I like to do when I was twelve? … OK then, moving on.”

Well well well. It appears I spoke too soon in my wondering where Dexter’s non-Trinity killings were. I guess I sold Dexter’s habit short. He couldn’t deal with waiting even one or two more days to kill Farrow, performing his own version of sneaking out for a smoke during his camping trip with Cody. However, usually when someone goes out for a cigarette break they don’t grab the wrong brand.
Unfortunately, I saw this mistake coming. Dexter was rushing the operation way too much, and he was damn lucky to have seen Quinn tailing him at the bar. First Doakes, now Quinn. Dexter should be very scared that he’s being careless in his hunts, and I’m betting he really is scared now that he took down an innocent. There was just not enough research done on Dexter’s part to nail down Farrow as the true killer; I saw it being the assistant a mile away.

In other news, it looks like Dexter’s apartment will still be an active location on the series. I’m pretty sure that means nothing at all, since Dexter’s already moved the slides and killing implements. At least the opening sequence makes a little sense now that he’s moved out. And, who knows, he may be “sent to the dog house” by Rita in a future episode, and he’ll be the one rooming with Deb rather than the other way around.

Speaking of Quinn, anyone else getting the Doakes vibe again? He’s poking around Dexter’s business, and that didn’t end up too well last time. I will admit, though, that Quinn’s actions in this episode are throwing off my theory of him being the Lundy killer. There’s still time to figure that out, though, but I’m curious to see just how close he gets to finding out more about Dexter.

With Trinity, have you noticed that Dexter is almost playing the role of Miguel Prado from season three, working his way to being a “friend” of Trinity? He’s just weaseling his way in more and more, trying to gain Trinity’s trust while plotting out just how he’s going to kill him. At this point I’m actually thinking Dexter may let Trinity live. He’ll share his own Dark Passenger secret with Trinity, and they’ll be serial killer buddies. It certainly would be a different twist on things, should the show end up with Trinity walking away. This all hinges on wether or not Trinity was the one who shot Lundy and Deb, which I’m still not convinced of.

Finally, along the lines I said earlier about Dexter being careless, him saving the photo of his mother in his work desk is no doubt going to come back to haunt him. He’d better find a damn good place to hide that, or else one of the women in his life is going to need some ‘splainin’ from Dex.

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Nov 09, 2009 @ 13:00 EST5EDT