Monday, March 1, 2010

Dexter 2x01

Speaking of serial killers ... it’s time to start Season Two of Dexter! I admit I’m actually excited to begin another season. We pick up just thirty-eight days, sixteen hours and twelve minutes after Dexter murdered his serial killer brother, Brian, the notorious Ice Truck Killer, in cold blood – and he’s trying his best to act normal, since his colleague Sgt. James Doakes is hot on his trail, hoping to catch him ... though Doakes doesn’t know what he’d find ... but is suspicious nonetheless. Dexter’s all Jekyll and no Hyde. When Doakes finally takes a night off, Dex cannot get himself to slay his victim, a blind voodoo witchdoctor (hurray!).

At work Dex goes to a homicide scene, where he finds a slain body and the victim’s heroine-addicted mother cries out that gang lord “Little Chino” did it. Dex sympathizes with the victim’s little sister. So, he hopes to set it right by killing this “Little Chino” (an enormous Mexican gangster) himself. Except he didn’t use enough tape to restrain the giant after he came to. They end up in a fight, and before Dex can reach for his butcher’s knife to finish him off, he’s gone.

Meanwhile, Rita’s ex, Paul, dies in jail after he got into an angry inmate altercation because she refused to help him get out. And something very troubling happens – for Dexter at least – when news comes on TV that scuba diving treasure hunters accidentally found his tools and some thirty garbage bags with the mutilated remains of his victims in Biscayne Bay. An exclamation point wouldn’t do justice to my excitement! What a plot twist!! What an amazing way to begin the new season!!!

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