TV-Reviewed

It seems like things are good now in Debra and Dexter relationship, but Dexter is finding it hard to get time to himself, because of the needs from the kids and Dexter. Dexter looks for a way to solve this problem and seeks out Trinity for the answers. Harry used to be the guy that Dexter relied on to help him survive, but it’s starting to seem like Trinity has taken over that role.

Dexter and Trinity end up on a trip of sorts after Dexter tells him that he just wants to get away for a bit. The trip itself only had one interesting scene which had Trinity hit a deer. Dexter thought Trinity would be happy to put the deer out of his misery, but instead what he got was a frightened child who couldn’t go through with it. The rest of the episode showed Trinity in clips of him making something, which turned out to be a coffin. I could have done without these though, because they felt more like an interruptions or just ways of showing Trinity.

Debra continued to dig into her father’s past, but after meeting a lady who painted a rather bad picture of Harry, Debra realized that she couldn’t go through with it anymore. This was a good thing for Dexter because Debra was coming really close to discovering Dexter’s mother was the one she was looking for, which would have led her to the Ice Truck Killer and a bunch of other things that Dexter would have had to answer to. Debra now seems to be set on finding Trinity and she’s already gotten the go-ahead to investigate, so it should be interesting to see if this will lead her to running into Dexter while Dexter is also working on Trinity.

Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan and John Lithgow as Arthur Mitchell

The target for Dexter’s dark passenger was a suspect in the murder of a model whose visa had expired. I have to say that from the beginning, something seemed fishy to me. There just didn’t seem like there was enough evidence to justify Dexter killing this guy. I did however think he was guilty, despite this, so it was a surprise when we find out that Dexter killed the wrong guy. I thought it was interesting that the last moment of the episode saw Harry far away when it seemed like Dexter needed him the most. Of course this was probably due to Dexter wanting to be left alone because after all Harry is just a figment of his mind. It should be interesting to see what impact this will have on Dexter, who now looks to be focused on Trinity again.

We had more La Guerta and Batista relationship stuff, but all we got was glances and a talk reaffirming that their relationship is over. This all was actually boring and it’s becoming one of my least liked storylines ever. I’ve always wanted to see La Guerta with her own storyline, but this isn’t working well. The relationship is just hard to get into with so many up and downs for the couple.

I did love Quinn becoming the new Doakes and he now really seems to think that there is something more to Dexter then meets the eye. I am starting to wonder if Quinn will ever up getting led to Doakes’ obsession with Dexter, we’ll have to see, but this has potential to turn into something pretty cool. I also loved how Dexter was able to shake off Quinn with no problem when he realized he was being followed.

I did like this episode, but it wasn’t one of the stronger episodes of the season. I’m hoping the pace picks up quite a bit next episode and some things really start to happen.

Rating: 7.7