Dexter has met with quite a few deranged friends whom he idolized and whom he thought he could trust - Brian, Lila and Miguel in seasons 1, 2 and 3. He was taken in by all of them, but never for long, and as much as he admired them, he never wanted to be them. But Arthur was different - oh, Arthur kills innocent people, and for that he cannot live, but his life, his perfect family, his ability to be adjusted in this world while Dexter struggles so hard, that he envied, that he wanted.
But it was all a lie. It began with temper directed at his son, Jonah (Brando Eaton). Dexter saw Arthur be stern with the young man and followed him. Jonah revealed to Dexter that he was suffering under the oppression of his father, as well as fearing him. And when Dexter showed up at Thanksgiving at the Millers to protect Jonah if he could, he discovered that the entire family was mad. The wife was cowed and terrified, the daughter locked in her room and trying to escape - her preferred method was to offer sexual favours to the men her father befriended.
In the house of insanity, where Dexter tries to play the good guy, his dark passenger also gets riled up, and when Arthur starts to strangle Jonah, Dexter pulls him into the kitchen, intent on stabbing him to death then and there. Luckily (maybe?) the mom and daughter appear just in time to stop him.
Poor Dexter. He had been so intent on learning how to be a better man that he did not realize that Arthur was all in all a monster. His lesson from Harry, be sure and then take care of it, applies in both senses. Know that your victim deserves it (and is not an innocent like the man Dexter offed not too long ago) AND get rid of him so he can hurt no one else.
The emotional rollercoaster in the Miller household was one of fear and pity. And the question remains - can Dexter be a good husband and father despite his dark passenger? Arthur clearly couldn't.
If that wasn't enough of a reveal for you, Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) also made her own discovery. Arthur did not shoot her and Lundy; it was Christine, the annoying journalist, as I posited in my last Dexter entry. Of course, I has said it was out of a need to get a good story, but she is even more crazy than that. Turns out Arthur Miller is her dad. Can't really dislike her so much now that I picture such a terrible upbringing for her.
But where do we go from here? Christine and Arthur are both crazy and need to be killed or go down. Deb is after Christine - does this mean she's stopped looking into Harry's past and will not discover anything about Dexter's mom? And what about LaGuerta and Angel?
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