Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Dexter - Dex Takes a Holiday, S04E04

This episode felt very much like the first season, probably because the sum total of Dexter (Michael C Hall)'s personal plot line involved the pursuit and subsequent murder of a woman who shot and killed her child and husband.

At first, I thought it might be a twist, that Dexter was wrong, and though some evidence pointed to Zoe Kruger (Christina Cox*) as a murderer, she was innocent. But she wasn't. No, she killed her own family because she was suffocating. And Dexter used his typical dark-passenger ingenuity to be certain of it and to catch her unawares. He also discovered that he was not like her. Despite his very dark side, he loves his family and would choose any other option before seeing them dead.

Speaking of Dexter's family, Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) was her typical inarticulate self as the tension between her and Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine) grew. Though the two were distracted the one by the other, they still managed to find the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow)'s third murder from 30 years ago, and therefore his upcoming murder's location. Unfortunately, Trin noticed Lundy scoping out the place. He intentionally bumped into our super-agent, and Lundy noticed something wasn't right there either.
He never got to go into detail though; the next time he and Deb saw each other, they ended up in bed together. I'd say poor Anton (David Ramsey), but I never really liked him much. Still as Deb and Lundy said good bye, and she promised to tell Anton, gun shots rang out. Deb went down with a bullet in her side and Lundy for good.

I'd heard that an important character was going to die, and I suspected it was Lundy all episode, but I never expected this. Did Anton see he and Deb together and go gun crazy? Or did the Trinity Killer completely change his tactic to eliminate his hunter? Or was it some thief? Or was it the vacation murderer?

I guess we'll have to wait until next week to find out.

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