Dexter 2.08
Nov. 19th, 2007 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakZOMG.
Which probably means an episode from now on will cover no more than a day...
Anyway. The noose certainly tightens. Not only is Lila able to make the Dexter-Jimenez connection but Dexter has left Jimenez' body at the scene of the crime in order to hurry to Rita. (Though I suspect considering the four more episodes to go, that one will actually turn out to be not true, and next episode we'll learn he set the house on fire before he left, which wouldn't take much time). And since Dexter hasn't killed her right away, she has time to tell someone else. Meanwhile, Doakes found the blood slates, complete with names of victims, and Deb, Angel and Lundy have proven the killer has to be from this particular department of Miami's police force.
Speculation right now: Doakes will make the fatal mistake of not delivering this evidence to Lundy right away but wait because he wants revenge on Dexter for his public dismissal, he'll want an equally public unmasking. This will give Dexter time to frame Doakes, who has all but framed himself already with his recent behaviour. Deb, however, will figure out the truth and will then have to decide what she does with it, though if it's not just Dexter versus Lundy but Dexter versus an innocent man she knows being condemmed for Dexter's crimes.... Which is why I think at the last moment, Lila will become an alternate suspect, though how that could wash since she's obviously not a member of the department I have no idea.
Now, character stuff: this was one for the Freudians again, not just with Lundy and Deb, and Lundy being unexpectedly manipulative in the way he gets Deb to take the assignment, but with Lila and Dexter as well. As in the night after he didn't kill Jimenez, the way he cradles to her is more of a child seeking comfort with his mother than like a lover. But the role of the avatar of Dexter's mother has already been taken, and not by Lila. Last season I commented on the physical resemblance between Laura Moser and Rita, and their circumstances (two children, an ex who's a convict). This season, Dexter had a brief fantasy of being able to save his mother, and of course that's impossible, but put Rita in a position where he thinks (not unreasonably) that she's in danger, and it's bye, bye, restraint and caution. (For further examples, see also Paul's head meeting the frying pan.) The moment earlier in the episode when Rita asks Dexter not to keep dropping by, because it's "like Paul all over again", Michael C. Hall does a great bit of acting because the look on Dexter's face is vulnerable in a way we haven't seen since Brian/Rudy died. It's a parallel that clearly hadn't occured to him before but he has to realise is true, nonetheless. And he never wanted to be Paul.
Dexter becoming disenchanted with Lila due to close proximity and the suspicion she created the situation via burning her apartment down was predictable, her stalking Rita when Dexter wasn't around wasn't completely unexpected, either, but Lila having called Jimenez in order to recreate the moment of emotional intimacy between herself and Dexter caught me by surprise. It's definitely Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction territory. Which is a bit sad, because that particular role was too much of a "worst male nightmare" kind of stereotype for my taste, and this show didn't need it, but otoh, I suspect the point of Lila was also to play out that "embrace your inner darkness" idea fanfic and some pro fic is so fond of and show how hollow and self-absorbed it can be.
Lastly: interestingly, Dexter didn't look satisfied or at peace after the killing of Jimenez even before Rita called; if anything, he looked drained almost like he had done after killing Brian.
Oh, and son of lastly: in the previous episode, Dexter still feeling something for Rita's children was a point; this time, the point is made about his feelings for Rita herself, as it's Rita he thinks of ("my... ex girlfriend who hates me?") and Rita, not the Rita-and-the-kids family conglomorate, he warns Lila away from.
Which probably means an episode from now on will cover no more than a day...
Anyway. The noose certainly tightens. Not only is Lila able to make the Dexter-Jimenez connection but Dexter has left Jimenez' body at the scene of the crime in order to hurry to Rita. (Though I suspect considering the four more episodes to go, that one will actually turn out to be not true, and next episode we'll learn he set the house on fire before he left, which wouldn't take much time). And since Dexter hasn't killed her right away, she has time to tell someone else. Meanwhile, Doakes found the blood slates, complete with names of victims, and Deb, Angel and Lundy have proven the killer has to be from this particular department of Miami's police force.
Speculation right now: Doakes will make the fatal mistake of not delivering this evidence to Lundy right away but wait because he wants revenge on Dexter for his public dismissal, he'll want an equally public unmasking. This will give Dexter time to frame Doakes, who has all but framed himself already with his recent behaviour. Deb, however, will figure out the truth and will then have to decide what she does with it, though if it's not just Dexter versus Lundy but Dexter versus an innocent man she knows being condemmed for Dexter's crimes.... Which is why I think at the last moment, Lila will become an alternate suspect, though how that could wash since she's obviously not a member of the department I have no idea.
Now, character stuff: this was one for the Freudians again, not just with Lundy and Deb, and Lundy being unexpectedly manipulative in the way he gets Deb to take the assignment, but with Lila and Dexter as well. As in the night after he didn't kill Jimenez, the way he cradles to her is more of a child seeking comfort with his mother than like a lover. But the role of the avatar of Dexter's mother has already been taken, and not by Lila. Last season I commented on the physical resemblance between Laura Moser and Rita, and their circumstances (two children, an ex who's a convict). This season, Dexter had a brief fantasy of being able to save his mother, and of course that's impossible, but put Rita in a position where he thinks (not unreasonably) that she's in danger, and it's bye, bye, restraint and caution. (For further examples, see also Paul's head meeting the frying pan.) The moment earlier in the episode when Rita asks Dexter not to keep dropping by, because it's "like Paul all over again", Michael C. Hall does a great bit of acting because the look on Dexter's face is vulnerable in a way we haven't seen since Brian/Rudy died. It's a parallel that clearly hadn't occured to him before but he has to realise is true, nonetheless. And he never wanted to be Paul.
Dexter becoming disenchanted with Lila due to close proximity and the suspicion she created the situation via burning her apartment down was predictable, her stalking Rita when Dexter wasn't around wasn't completely unexpected, either, but Lila having called Jimenez in order to recreate the moment of emotional intimacy between herself and Dexter caught me by surprise. It's definitely Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction territory. Which is a bit sad, because that particular role was too much of a "worst male nightmare" kind of stereotype for my taste, and this show didn't need it, but otoh, I suspect the point of Lila was also to play out that "embrace your inner darkness" idea fanfic and some pro fic is so fond of and show how hollow and self-absorbed it can be.
Lastly: interestingly, Dexter didn't look satisfied or at peace after the killing of Jimenez even before Rita called; if anything, he looked drained almost like he had done after killing Brian.
Oh, and son of lastly: in the previous episode, Dexter still feeling something for Rita's children was a point; this time, the point is made about his feelings for Rita herself, as it's Rita he thinks of ("my... ex girlfriend who hates me?") and Rita, not the Rita-and-the-kids family conglomorate, he warns Lila away from.
