Deb killed El Sapo and then maybe
threatened to kill Dex. That's pretty much it.
Oh, it also featured
the forty-third scene we've gotten of Deb telling Dexter to stay away
from her!
Thus far this season isn't even
treading water, it's instead beginning to drown in it. It HAS to get
better soon, so cross your fingers things start picking up as A
Ghoul Versus Dexter's Final Season Episode 3: What's Eating Dexter
Morgan?
Deb is awoken in her car by a friendly
police officer, who informs her that she got drunk and smashed into a
parking meter. He is forced to take her into custody, so she calls
Quinn to come get her at four in the morning. Quinn, OF COURSE, lies
to Jamie about the context of his call and rushes over to help her.
Lying to Jamie now too, this is just going to end SWIMMINGLY well
there Joey.
Dexter returns to Lyle Sussman's cabin,
this time for work and not his personal mission. Things are
different though, when Dex found his body it was impaled through the
head and hanging by a hook. Now it's lying on the floor of his
cabin, having had the back of his head blown off with a shotgun. Dex
concludes this was done to make the cops think Sussman was the Brain
Surgeon and killed himself so they'll drop the case.
At her house, Vogel gets a text from an
unknown number telling her to look outside. She finds two wrapped
presents on her porch marked His and Hers. In this His box she finds
a part of the brain responsible for vision, and in the Hers box the
usual empathy brain part. She shares this with Dex, who knows this
means the Brain Surgeon is now watching both of them.
But at least he didn't
cheap out on the gifts! For a guy who saws through the heads of
people and scoops out their brains, this serial killer is ALL CLASS.
Quinn takes Dex aside and tells him
about Deb's DUI, Vogel intrigued that Dex actually feels badly about
the situation. For someone who is supposed to be one of the smartest
women alive when it comes to psychology, I am REALLY doubting her
intellect. Is it THAT hard to comprehend a person could change in
nearly two decades?
There's also a subplot
with Deb's boss Jacob Elway being hot for her, but we've seen this a
million times already. What are the odds he sleeps with her and then
ends up getting killed?
Dex gets to work investigating the list
of former patients Vogel gave him, his next target a man named Ron
Galuzzo. He works at a fitness store in the mall, Dex talking to him
under the pretense of buying a workout machine and determining
Galuzzo is indeed hiding something. Dex stops off at Vogel's to
update her, Vogel more interested in why Dex didn't kill Deb when she
discovered his secret. She spins this into a whole thing about how
Dex is the “perfect” psychopath or whatever, all I know is I
pretty much HATE Vogel by this point.
Why? She fucking sucks! I just got
done pointing out how stupid she is, but it's just getting worse.
EVERY SINGLE THING Dex does surprises her, which should cause any
rational person to reexamine their original theory. Not her though,
just listen to how she twists everything Dex says to make it seem
like she was right all along:
Dex asks “Why are you
telling me this? So I'll feel bad about myself?”
“Quite the contrary. I
want you to revel in what you are. I told you, you're perfect.”
“How can you say that
when you know what I've done to Deb?”
“That's my point.
You're perfect as a psychopath.”
So yeah, every other word out of
Vogel's mouth is bullshit turning everything back on what she REALLY
meant to say. She does ask to speak with Deb, as she's now trying to
convince Deb that only SHE can help her. We go to Batista's for more
Quinn Filler, as he accidentally tells Jamie that Quinn was NOT
working on a case at four in the morning. Jamie looks PISSED at
Quinn, so pissed that she'll probably instantly forgive him after
fighting with him for lying to her! Poor, poor Joey.
Just an aside, it is
REALLY hard to find a picture of Aimee Garcia wearing clothes.
Deb meets Dex for dinner, where he
shows her one of the patrons in the restaurant is a man whose life
she saved when he was still a cop. Dex tells his sister that she's
not a bad person and has brought a lot of good to the world, which
seems to actually get through to her. Later Dex searches Galuzzo's
house and discovers he's a FREAKING CANNIBAL, but then as I pause to
reflect that this is Miami I realize that's not THAT shocking.
Probably wouldn't even be page seven news in the local papers.
Deb, sitting in the police department
parking lot and watching the video Dex showed her of her past
heroism, makes the brilliant decision to get hammered and confess to
LaGuerta's murder to Quinn. He quickly hushes her before she can
scream it out to the precinct, taking her to another interrogation
room to discuss the matter in private. Quinn doesn't believe her, as
she's talking JUUUUST vague enough to make it seem like she feels guilty
about LaGuerta's death rather than actually shooting her. Quinn has
her write the details down on a pad while he calls Dex to come get
her as he believes she's just drunk out of her mind.
Dex races there as fast as possible,
taking Vogel with him as he hopes she can help him get through to Deb
about the mistake she's about to make. Deb screams at them she's
going to confess EVERYTHING, Dex injecting her with his patented
tranquillizer and Vogel swiping Deb's written confession. Quinn, who
is still obviously quite in love with Deb, helps them sneak her out
of the police station without making a scene.
They take her back to Deb's place, Dex
handcuffing her to the couch for Vogel's safety. Wait, he's going to
leave Vogel alone with his sister? That seems like that's going to
MAJORLY piss off Deb even more than humanly possible. The episode
ends with Dex taking out Galuzzo, which for a moment there I thought
he was just going to forget all about him so at least the show gets
points for that.
Cue the credits.
One of my favourite things about the
show Dexter has been how they managed to condense the usual
television season of 20+ episodes into a lean, mean thirteen. This
made EVERY episode feel like an event, with so much happening that
the phrases like “they are stretching this out” and “filler
episode” never even came up.
Not anymore, three episodes in and we
BARELY have a plot at this point. That wouldn't be such a sin, but
this is the FINAL GODDAMN SEASON. Everything's been building up to
this, all roads lead here, all that jazz.
So far every episode has been worse
than the previous one, and I found myself outright BORED anytime that
Vogel started yapping for more than a minute with her circular
psychobabble. This show needs to kick it into gear and FAST, because
I'm almost starting to miss Lumen.
#TBT
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