Sunday, November 28, 2010

Dexter 5x04

Dexter, Beauty and the Beast, on Showtime
So much is already happening this season on Dexter! Det. Quinn is hot on Dex’ trail, suspecting him of using the alias “Kyle Butler” to get closer to the Mitchells, obviously not knowing at all why. Even when the FBI refuses to grant him access to the family, Quinn is resilient and persistent enough to find their safe house. It does mean he’s missing on the job a lot. At an unguarded moment, Quinn approaches Jonah and shows him a photo of Dex. Before Jonah can say anything, Quinn gets arrested. Lt. LaGuerta is furious and sends him on unpaid suspension. Sgt. Batista might lose his job and serve time for assaulting a fellow police officer. Maria encourages him to make amends with Sgt. Lopez. She tells him she isn’t asking. Lopez accepts Batista’s apologies, but it is not enough for Internal Affairs to halt the investigation. Deb, Vince Masuka and Cira Monzon pulled an all-nighter at the crime scene, but they really need Dexter’s help. He leads them to a clue, which gives them a partial finger print on a cigar butt. That leads them to the Fuentes brothers. When they raid their crowded apartment, one of the brothers slices a hostage’s throat with his machete and takes a run for it.

Most importantly, though, after he performed his latest ritual kill, Dexter is left with a feral woman (Julia Stiles). He won’t and can’t kill her. She’s innocent. But she saw what he did to road-kill pickup artist Boyd Fowler. The moment she comes to, he injects another needle to sedate her again. While trying to find out more about her, his nanny Sonya quits. He was gone the whole night, never called, she can’t trust him. Dex has to take Harrison to the office while checking the girl’s finger prints. Her name is Lumen Pierce; she’s from Minnesota. But when she comes to later, she says her name is Rachel. Although he can’t kill her, he can’t just let her go either. After all the abuse she’s been through, she rather dies than being locked up without knowing what Dexter is going to do to her. He still needs to find out more about her – and get his nanny back. He learns that Lumen has an unpaid motel bill and convinces the owner to give him her luggage. Having convinced Sonya to give him one more chance, he returns to Lumen, who’s slit her wrist. Well, it’s a ploy to escape, but Dex is able to catch her after a quick chase. Hoping to win her trust, he takes her to the lake where Boyd used to dump his victims. He explains that his own wife Rita was brutally murdered and he doesn’t want to see any more innocent people die. Lumen tells Dexter that Boyd wasn’t the only one, that there were others, that it’s not over.

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