The Dexter Recap #407 – Slack Tide

Filed under: Crime, Crime Screen, Reviews, Serial Killer 

This week on Dexter, Dex (Michael C. Hall) maintains his contact with the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow). His family life and serial killing continue to mix like oil and water. Meanwhile, Detective Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter) settles in to her brother’s old apartment and promptly makes it her new, private war room to track down TrinityTrinity reviews. Angel Batista (David Zayas) and Lieutenant Laguerta (Lauren Velez) continue to try and stifle their feelings for one another to keep their jobs. Detective Quinn (Desmond Harrington) gets the bright idea to begin tailing Dexter for dirt to use as defense against Dex seeing him steal money from a crime scene. As usual with The Dexter Recap here at The Demon, beware of spoilers if you haven’t seen this episode.

I find it very interesting how when Dexter’s family life is on the rocks, his Dark Passenger thrives. Yet, in this episode, we saw the inverse of the equation – when Dex’s family life is thriving, his Dark Passenger suffers.

Dex and Rita are patching things up and he is slowly making ground with the kids. However, at the end of the episode we saw the outcome of the Distracted Daddy Dexter: the code has been broken, an innocent man was killed.

We’ve seen Dexter go off code before, but never so blatantly. And not only did he break the principle foundation of the code, but all of the little articles of the code that have always ensured his survival have been seemingly thrown to the side.

I mean, did anyone else get a S.P.B. (severely puckered b-hole) when Dex ran off into the night during Cody’s camping trip to kill a man?  What the FUCK, Dex?

All of this is further evidence of this season’s primary theme: Dexter does not have the emotional framework OR skill set to handle such an intricate double life. And while his life lessons from the Trinity Killer seem to be paying off for now, Dexter is playing with fire by befriending him in the first place, especially since Deb is now on the hunt for Trinity.

And let’s not forget Detective Quinn. Oh Quinn, why are you tailing our Dexter? The last thing Dexter needs during this adjustment period to family life is another Sgt. Doakes (Erik King) snooping around his private life. This can’t be going anywhere good.

Also this week, we were offered more mysterious insight into the mind of Trinity. Who is the coffin for? Is building the coffin simply Trinity’s way of blowing off his evil steam? My guess – that coffin has someone’s name on it… Kyle Butler. That’s right – Dexter’s alter ego that visits Trinity, invades his privacy, and even provokes him at times. Something was off about Trinity on the pair’s little jaunt off into the woods to cut lumber. But at least Dexter can sense that his provoking Trinity means he should take percautions to keep from being blindsided. At least he is being cautious for now, but what happens if Trinity begins to gain Dexter’s trust?

Only time will tell. And that time is 9:00 P.M. ET on SundaySunday reviews evening. Tune in to Showtime to find out!

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