Dexter - Take It!, S05E08

While I am enjoying this season, some of the errors in storyline and possibility (as opposed to probability) are getting excessive. I mean, every show requires some willing suspension of disbelief, but for Dexter, we already give a lot just based on the small risks he takes that never result in him getting caught. Big ones are completely unnecessary, and I can only hope the writers will take the one in this episode into account.

So Dexter (Michael C Hall) pursues his victims, sometimes meeting up with them before hand in public areas like a cafe or a restaurant, and only in the case of the Trinity Killer, with his massive involvement as Kyle Butler, did any of his pseudonyms come up in a case. Granted, there are no bodies and most of the victims are scum, but the idea that no one has ever IDed him before is a little incredible. Lets also point out that it is strange that an intelligent detective like Quinn (Desmond Harrington) couldn't imagine that Kyle Butler might be recognized by anyone outside the Miller family, like another volunteer on those construction sights?

I digress. There are many small points of contention which we choose to ignore, but now there are big ones which don't actually make any sense. It started 2 episodes ago. Yes, the ending was quite humorous, and we can all imagine Mazuka (C.S. Lee) truly believing that it was a sex crime, but the events in no way explained how Dan the Dentist got shot and lost too much blood in a warehouse before ending up with his neck broken tied up in another building, or how the man who allegedly shot him then broke his neck managed to strangle himself for sexual gratification all at the same time. Not possible guys. Not possible.

This episode, things were worse. Dexter rented out a hotel room beside his intended victim, using what name, I cannot guess. That might not seem so bad, only both the victim and his boss knew who Dexter was, and it is a matter of public record that he was at this convention where the victim was last seen. So Dexter is known to have been at the last known location of a soon-to-be missing person. Danger, I say. Will no one know that he was staying in that hotel room?

The fact that that missing person broke down the door between his own room and Dexter's is the critical detail. Unless Dexter had the power tools to fix up the busted down door, which we did not see him have or do, then there is an obvious violent confrontation between the missing man and the person in the next room. What cop worth his salt would not investigate such a thing? There is no way Dexter's involvement would go unquestioned, regardless of whether or not the dirty cop Quinn sent after Dexter saw anything being tossed into the lake.

So, while I do enjoy this season, the stretching of the storyline beyond the realm of the possible or the believable is beginning to annoy. Do you feel the same way?