Sunday, December 5, 2010

Dexter 5x05

Dexter, Beauty and the Beast, on Showtime
“We all have something to hide,” Dexter intones. That’s one of the show’s premises from which it draws its attraction. In some way we all are a little bit like Dexter, hiding in plain sight “some dark place we don’t want the world to see.” That is something he shares with Lumen – and they both are victims of terrible circumstances that have happened to them. She tells him there were others, not just Boyd and she wants Dex to help her kill them. Having no clue as to who these accomplices might have been he pays a visit to Boyd’s house. He finds someone else has ransacked it already, leaving blood as he cut himself smashing the window – and finger prints. When he checks the prints in the database, they match with none other than Lumen herself. She beat Dexter to it. Next he breaks into her motel room and finds she’s been keeping tabs on Boyd’s former cell mate due for parole, one Robert Brunner, who did time for rape and torture. Dex worries she might try and kill him on her own. He finds the guy under the Julia Tuttle Causeway (a sex offender colony), tranquilizes him and prepares to kill him. Then he realizes Brunner is wearing an ankle bracelet monitoring his whereabouts. He could not have been involved in abusing Lumen.

Meanwhile, Deb and Sierra are trying their might to get any leads on the Santa Muerte machete murders. They learn that one of the Fuentes brothers has an eye tattoo on his hand. There’s a great scene with Deb and Mazuka in a tattoo parlor. You just got to see it. When Sierra checks ATM footage, she realizes the victims were all freaking out while withdrawing maximum amounts from their accounts. It gives them another clue, which brings them to a home where they discover two maggot-infested decomposing bodies. It’s too gross to watch. Imagine the stench! I’m not too keen on Deb and Quinn becoming friends with benefits. Her penchant for the wrong types is getting painfully obvious. Moreover, Quinn has recruited a suspended colleague, Stan Liddy (Peter Weller) to keep tabs on Dexter. Then there’s the growing suspicion between LaGuerta and Batista. She is working hard to get the Internal Affairs charges dropped, but he worries she is having internal affairs of a different kind. For her part, Lumen goes looking for Brunner under Tuttle Bridge intending to kill him on the spot. Dex stops her in the nick of time. He then convinces her to return home to Minnesota and even got her a plane ticket. Yet when she is searched at airport security she panics and hails a cab back to Miami.

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