Season 4 of Dexter debuts for our Dear Daddy Dexter. Real time has passed since last season when we last saw our serial killer. Now Dexter is living the dream with beautiful wife Rita, step kids Astor and Cody, and new baby Harrison. If, by living the dream means a needy wife, petulant teenage daughter, hyper son, and a screaming baby that keeps him up all hours of the night... [sounds more like a nightmare to me].Meanwhile, we are quickly introduced to our latest bad guy, The Trinity Killer [John Lithgow] and boy is he creepy. He's preparing a bath, but its not to relax; it is part of the ritual he has for his latest victim. A young women walks into her bathroom and ends up naked in the tub with the TK choking her from behind as he softly whispers "It's already over". Then he slashes her femoral artery and uses a mirror to watch her face as she quickly bleeds out [and did I mention he is still in the tub with her as she bleeds out in the water - seriously creepy!] Later on we are also treated to a camera shot from behind [get it!] of TK sobbing in the scalding hot shower.
The opening montage starts rolling [hey, didn't they already show this at the beginning] but you quickly realize this is not the smooth Dexter you remember. The new Dexter is sleep deprived with spit up on his shirt and broken shoelaces. [I think Dexter is starting to realize why most serial killers are loners]. This was a great montage to show just how different Dexter's life has become from the 1st season.
The lack of sleep is affecting Dexter's work as he botches a case on trial by listing the wrong defendant in his notes. As a consequence, the killer on trial goes free and Detective Quinn is pissed. They get called to a new crime scene with a woman is found in a bath of blood. As Dexter pulls up the linoleum to analyze the blood they notice old bloodstains underneath. The blood doesn't match anyone in their database, but a search by address provides a hit on an old case with almost the exact same MO - only 30 years earlier.
Debra is still with CI Anton from last season, and it appears they are pretty serious and living together. She is also still looking for the other woman that her Dad had an affair with back when he was a cop. Her friend in records give her a stack of file of all of Harry's past CI's, and Deb begins working down the list determined to find out why Harry would cheat on their family. The camera pans down to show the Laura Moser file at the bottom of the stack, so eventually Debra is going to start digging into someone linked to Dexter's past...who knows what she may uncover.
Unfortunately for Debra, everyone's favorite FBI agent [and Deb's ex-boyfriend] Lundy is also back in Miami to complicate her life. He is retired from the FBI but still wants to find "the one who got away"...who is - you guessed it, the Trinity Killer. As Dexter and Lundy talk, they discover that the TK has been killing in sets of 3 in different cities for over 30 years.
On a side note, apparently Lt. LaGuerta is now having sexcapades with Angel [hey, wasn't he dating that cop from Vice?]. Hmmm, did I miss something...so far they are keeping their relationship low-key from the office, even if Masuka inadvertently puts himself in between them the whole episode [or at least every time they ride the elevators].
Back to Dexter. The new family and lack of sleep are also affecting his "after-hours" job. He get his equipment from the apartment [does anyone else wonder how he explains that to Rita?] and sets up for his next kill: Bennie Gomez, the killer he helped free earlier in the episode. Next, he goes to the bar where Benny hangs out...and falls asleep in his car waiting for him to leave. A cop knocks on the window to wake him up and assumes he is drunk. Dexter has missed his opportunity for the kill.
So Dexter must wait until the next night and scope out a different location at Bennie's trailer park, where he finally nabs him. He doesn't have much time to savor his latest victim when Rita interrupts by calling Dexter to pick up medicine for the baby. He quickly kills and disposes of Benny in his trusty biodegradable garbage bags, and swings by to get the medicine before heading home. The sleep deprivation finally gets the best of Dexter as he is driving as he nods off until dream Harry screams at him to wake up. He looks up just in time to swerve off the road and flip his SUV --- and Benny's body is still in the back....
And tune in next week for more Dexter....
My Rating 8/10
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