Dexter - Blinded by the Light, S04E03

I continue to be pleased with this season of Dexter. I am completely intrigued by the Trinity Killer (played by John Lithgow). He has already killed two women - one in a bathtub, by cutting her femoral artery, and one by persuading her to throw herself out of a building. Now he has only one kill remaining - apparently he will bludgeon a man to death. That two of his three murders have taken place in the first 3 episodes makes me wonder when the third will happen. Will he actually commit this murder, as no one seems to be in a position at all to catch him? And if he does complete his pattern, how will they be able to find him after the fact.

I also love the excitement Dexter (Michael C. Hall) feels over the Trinity Killer's success in committing murders for so long without getting caught. In so many ways, Dexter is normal. He doesn't realize how normal he is, and that is the beauty. This episode took particular pains in his interaction with Astor (Christina Robinson) to demonstrate that, though he thinks he is alone in his inability to relate to the pre-teen, he fails in the same ways other fathers do. In some ways, he gets along better with others because he tries to behave in a way that will make them happy and him inconspicuous, rather than being selfish like everyone else. But even with these parallels drawn, when Dexter contemplates the idea of remaining undetected and yet leaving bodies for the police to find, the dark passenger inside of him gets excited.

Poor Quinn, though, has such issues with Dexter now because he can't understand him. He can't understand that someone would simply keep his mouth shut without getting something in return. And because Dexter doesn't understand that if he takes something as an agreement to stay silent, Quinn will stop annoying him about it. Of course, Quinn's going to get himself in trouble to way he does not watch his mouth in bed with that journalist. The Trinity Killer is probably going to hit the front pages. I wonder where that will take the story.

And so, we continue to watch our favourite serial killer trying to deal with the trials of life and living in suburbia. I wonder how Rita is going to deal with Dexter's decision to break the neighbour's floodlights. Are you excited for next week?