John Lithgow's Trinity Killer is a brilliant variety of emotional moments, and I will miss him whenever it is that Michael C Hall's Dexter manages to kill him. Not only has be been a worthy adversary for everyone's favourite serial killer, but Lithgow's performance is sublime.
And it could easily have become tedious. It took little time for Dexter to find Arthur Miller, the mask of Trinity, and in the previous seasons once Dexter had labelled you a killer, well, you weren't really going to last. But Miller has staying power, and the writers have made us believe it.
Dexter doesn't want to go through with the kill because, as Miller pointed out this episode, they are the same. They have killed innocents, and regretted it, and they also have to kill, yet both manage to mascaraed as normal, happy family men with perfect but slightly flawed families.
In watching Trinity, we see what Dexter might become, or what he might have become even more so that with his brother. It forces us to think about how we feel about what Dexter does. After all, despite his caution he still managed to kill an innocent man. His victim did not deserve to die, and so we remember why we think that capital punishment is questionable and why police investigations have so much protocol.
Yes, Dexter is full of morality, and it is also full of interesting questions. For instance, who shot Deb and Lundy and why? The Trinity Killer made SO much sense, but he is too damn tall for the shot that was taken. Plus, now that we know Arthur Miller, it does not seem his style to kill bystanders with a gun. But we had already determined it wasn't the vacation murderer...so perhaps it was Christine, the annoying journalist, out to get the best possible stories in this tough economic climate.
What are your suspicions? And how do you feel about Dexter as a serial killer of late?
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