Surprise, motherlumper!
Some things are heating up as other stories are cooling off and becoming vastly uninteresting in episode three of Dexter, “Buck the System.”
Here’s what happens:
Dexter feels like a caged animal, with Deb watching him 24/7, and starts fantasizing about killing everyone he meets, including poor Masuka! Later, he flips out and attacks a criminal being held for questioning, and Deb catches him. He tells her to back off or he’s going to do something bad, and she says she’s trying to help him not do something bad. She agrees to back off a little and he picks his next kill— a ladykiller named Speltzer.
Nadia, the stripper from previous episodes, shows up at the police station and Quinn asks her out. The club owner and mob boss guy (whose names I can’t remember because they’re boring and who cares) where she works tells her to get close Quinn to figure out what the police know about the dead girl’s bracelet with a GPS chip in it. Nadia tells this to Quinn because she really does like him, he agrees to protect her, she agrees to spy on the baddies for him, and then they make out. Um, getting romantically involved with a potential suspect? Am I the only one who remembers Quinn getting in deep doo-doo for doing this exact thing last season?
A package arrives for the forensics department and Masuka opens it to find the ice truck killer hand, complete with a letter addressed to Louis demanding a refund. Masuka fires Louis and Dexter (who sent the hand) smiles as he walks out. Louis gets home to find Jamie sitting on the couch watching a video of Louis and a hooker doing…stuff. She dumps him, smashes his stuff, and he swears revenge on Dexter.
The mom of Roadkill, the prison inmate who got flattened by a truck in the previous episode, drops off some of Roadkill’s belongings at Miami Metro. In them the police find what appear to be trophies, which leads them to question his former girlfriend, a role which, so far, wastes the talents of the awesome Yvonne Strahovski. Dex has to take a DNA swab of her saliva and fumbles, partly because she’s so hot, and (presumably) partly because she has a history of unwittingly dating serial killers, which means she’s perfect for him.
Dexter tells Deb his plans to kill Speltzer and they argue about it. Deb’s all “We have a legal system,” and Dexter’s all “I’ve got my own system, your system fails, blah blah blah” and Dex continues to stalk Speltzer despite Deb telling him not to.
Meanwhile in the land of the mobsters, their tech guy tracks the GPS of their missing mobster boy and find out he’s dead at the bottom of the sea. As the mobsters go check out the marina, Louis happens to be there trying to sink Dexter’s boat. The mobsters harass him, he spills some info on Dexter, and they kill him. Wonderful. After wasting half a freaking season on building up Louis, he gets offed by some mobsters, almost as an afterthought.
Deb tries to stop Speltzer using legal routes, but fails, and ultimately he kills another girl and escapes. She and Dexter discuss his methods, and she tells him that she understands, but doesn’t accept what he does, and that things may never be the same between the two of them.
Until next time folks, Doakes ’em if you’ve got ’em!
Surprise, motherlumper!
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!
I too was a bit disappointed by the unceremonious offing of Louis. Although I think the rationale may have been that he was a pretty low end of the totem pole subplot. Louis was never going to be a “great adversary” for Dexter, and I’m sure his death, along with his blood dripping all over Dexter’s boat, will ’cause some trouble for Dex. I suppose it would have been nice if Dexter could have been the one to take him out, but he just wanted him out of his business, he didn’t want to kill him. Especially since Louis hadn’t killed anyone himself.
Him trying to explain the hooker vid to Batista’s sister was hilarious!!!! “You’re wearing the shirt I gave you for your birthday, you asshole!!!!”
Considering where he died, Louis will be be more dangerous to Dexter dead than alive. Alive, Louis is as dangerous as a message board troll with moderator powers. Dead, someone will miss Louis and evidence will show that he and Dexter had a problem with each other and now Louis’ blood is on Dexter’s boat.
This is the first year I have not rushed home from work and HAVE to watch Dexter now! While I am loving the whole dynamic between Dexter and Deb I could really care less about the mobster stuff and frankly the Miami Metro story line period. I would have loved to have had the season focus more on Deb and Dex’s coming to terms and understanding each other and the potential outcomes each persons way of thinking could have. Just my opinion I wish they would have put the cop stuff on the back burner and focused more on the ramifications of last years reveal.