We are just over halfway season four, and the seventh episode is appropriately titled “Slack Tide” – the stillness between ebb and flood. While sailing with Deb, Rita and the kids, Dexter gets called to a crime scene: a female arm found inside an alligator. Through fingerprints, they are able to identify the woman as an illegal immigrant who was working as a cocktail waitress and model. Since her photographer, Jonathan Farrow, was previously accused of rape and known for his violently disturbing images, he is immediately suspected. During interrogation he is defiant and even offers to roughen Deb up a bit. Dex moves him to the top of his list. Miami Metro cannot get a search warrant, due to lack of probable cause, but Batista has already found the names of three other models who have gone missing. Dex searches Farrow’s studio for clues and finds indications of blood and a finger nail that fits the severed arm. Enough evidence for Dexter.
Meanwhile, cute Christine continues begging for an interview with Deb, but Dex brushes her off. Debra is more interested in returning to the “Trinity Killer” and honor his memory. She only pitches the bludgeoning cases, afraid the rest will sound too crazy, and LaGuerta gives her permission to resume the investigation. Although no longer much of a priority for her, Deb is still interested talking to former informants of her father to find out about his affairs. She hears that he actually picked up snitches based on how good they were in bed. She tells Dex about it and he advises her to let it go. He takes his mother’s file and puts it through the paper shredder. At the last minute he takes out her photo: he can’t bring himself to let her be cut up again. Quinn has been having beef with Dex ever since Dex saw him steal money from a crime scene. He’s been getting on his case, wondering where Dex is all the time, even tailing him. I hope they’re not going to take this the route of Sgt. Doakes.
Dex joins Arthur for a trip to the woods. “Two serial killers go for a ride,” Dex quips to himself, but this isn’t a start of a good joke. It would be the perfect opportunity to kill the “Trinity Killer,” but Dex still feels that he can learn more from Arthur about living a “normal” life. Instead he finds that Arthur has dramatic mood swings, gets agitated easily, but is unable to kill a deer that leaped in front of his car. Dex also learns from Arthur that parents should prepare their children for their future, pushing them out in the open, and encouraging their hobbies, which will also offer the parents time off. Cody is happy to join the young sailors club, but Astor doesn’t like any of Dex’ suggestions. It does score him brownie points with Rita for his involvement. But, now he has to take Cody and his friends out on a camping trip. At night, Dex sneaks out and catches Farrow for his vigilant ritual.
The “Trinity Killer” seems to be punishing himself. First he provoked a fight in a dark alley behind a bar. Now he’s planing the wood he and Dexter fell on their trip. But what is he making? He said he was going to use the wood for his next Four Walls build, but why bring that to his own garage? Arthur is actually making a coffin, but for whom? The morning after murdering Farrow, Dex arrives at work to find that Batista and Quinn have arrested Farrow’s assistant for the murder of at least the latest model. Their case is airtight (which I find a little contrived, just a weekend has passed...). But what was bound to happen one day eventually did: Dexter killed an innocent man who did not even attack him! Slack Tide is over. Dex has been putting off killing Arthur, instead spending his time murdering Farrow.
Meanwhile, cute Christine continues begging for an interview with Deb, but Dex brushes her off. Debra is more interested in returning to the “Trinity Killer” and honor his memory. She only pitches the bludgeoning cases, afraid the rest will sound too crazy, and LaGuerta gives her permission to resume the investigation. Although no longer much of a priority for her, Deb is still interested talking to former informants of her father to find out about his affairs. She hears that he actually picked up snitches based on how good they were in bed. She tells Dex about it and he advises her to let it go. He takes his mother’s file and puts it through the paper shredder. At the last minute he takes out her photo: he can’t bring himself to let her be cut up again. Quinn has been having beef with Dex ever since Dex saw him steal money from a crime scene. He’s been getting on his case, wondering where Dex is all the time, even tailing him. I hope they’re not going to take this the route of Sgt. Doakes.
Dex joins Arthur for a trip to the woods. “Two serial killers go for a ride,” Dex quips to himself, but this isn’t a start of a good joke. It would be the perfect opportunity to kill the “Trinity Killer,” but Dex still feels that he can learn more from Arthur about living a “normal” life. Instead he finds that Arthur has dramatic mood swings, gets agitated easily, but is unable to kill a deer that leaped in front of his car. Dex also learns from Arthur that parents should prepare their children for their future, pushing them out in the open, and encouraging their hobbies, which will also offer the parents time off. Cody is happy to join the young sailors club, but Astor doesn’t like any of Dex’ suggestions. It does score him brownie points with Rita for his involvement. But, now he has to take Cody and his friends out on a camping trip. At night, Dex sneaks out and catches Farrow for his vigilant ritual.
The “Trinity Killer” seems to be punishing himself. First he provoked a fight in a dark alley behind a bar. Now he’s planing the wood he and Dexter fell on their trip. But what is he making? He said he was going to use the wood for his next Four Walls build, but why bring that to his own garage? Arthur is actually making a coffin, but for whom? The morning after murdering Farrow, Dex arrives at work to find that Batista and Quinn have arrested Farrow’s assistant for the murder of at least the latest model. Their case is airtight (which I find a little contrived, just a weekend has passed...). But what was bound to happen one day eventually did: Dexter killed an innocent man who did not even attack him! Slack Tide is over. Dex has been putting off killing Arthur, instead spending his time murdering Farrow.
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