Much better than the first two episodes. I’m officially encouraged.
I liked Patrick Gibson’s Dexter a lot more this time. The way he carefully vetted and took down Handsome Tony Ferrer included some growing pains and amusing mistakes, but it still felt like OG Dexter: breaking into Ferrer’s house for evidence (why do killers keep records of their crimes?), creating a new identity to take out that loan, risking everything to get Ferrer to take a shot at him in order to verify ballistics.
And then Dexter ran it all by Harry and got parental permission. Harry was upset about it, so hoping that Nurse Mary would be enough and Dexter would somehow slide back into near normalcy, but he kept his word with Dexter. Hey, at least Dexter let Ferrer’s parrot go free. They’re always so careful about making Dexter too unsympathetic. Killing that parrot would have been too much for me.
Okay, even though Dexter has set up his murder rooms in some crazy public places, the jai alai stadium felt way too open. These days there would almost certainly be a camera somewhere.
There were several flashbacks to Harry developing Laura Moser as a confidential informant with way too risky situations. It occurred to me that Dexter and his mother were doing the same thing in this episode: putting themselves in grave danger in order to please Harry. At least Harry is starting to have feelings for Laura, enough so that he almost said yes when she made a pass at him.
Santos taking Laura on a field trip to the cargo containers was upsetting. The thing about these flashbacks to Laura and young Harry is we all know where it will end. Not this time, fortunately.
This week’s plotline with Deb centered on her friend Sofia and Nurse Mary’s earrings. In order to get an in with Tiff’s clique, Deb offered them a coke party, and Dexter created faux coke out of caffeine. Dexter gave Sofia the earrings Deb picked out and easily got his trophies back. One of the things I always liked about OG Dexter was how Deb made Dexter more human, and yes, they’re carrying through with that here.
Sadly for Deb, Dexter isn’t interested in Sofia. Harry was also disappointed. Not to mention Sofia herself.
Finally, enter Maria LaGuerta (Christina Milian), sent by the Commissioner to address the NHIs. She went over Captain Spencer’s head, and he did not like it. Maria is, unsurprisingly since we already know her well, ambitious and a hard worker, pointing out by word and deed that a white detective might not get a response from a Spanish-speaking witness that she could. Point made.
The ongoing kidnapping plot of the judge’s son Jimmy was almost an afterthought. We don’t know what just happened to him when he found the door of his cell open, although the fact that he screamed meant it wasn’t good.
What we did learn was that the severed finger didn’t excite Dexter; it just made him want to kill the kidnapper. But we knew that about Dexter already.
Bits:
We saw a calendar. It’s May 1991.
The episode title, “Miami Vice,” was an obvious double entendre. Possibly a triple entendre.
The moment they met, Angel immediately came on to Maria, his future wife.
Was Maria at Deb’s future desk?
While Dexter had Ferrer Saranwrapped to the wall, he hit him with a jai alai ball and slashed his cheek, much like the cheek slash with slide he used with his OG Dexter victims.
Dexter bonded with Masuka over an instant fake ID. “Patrick Bateman” is the lead character and serial killer in American Psycho.
Tanya was a textbook good boss to Dexter, helping him with the ballistics and praising his initiative.
Dexter tossed Nurse Mary's earrings into the swamp with the alligators. No trophy from Ferrer.
I don’t know how I feel about Captain Spencer. He seemed cool before but was a real jerk with Maria. Harry treated Spencer diplomatically, and did the same with Maria. Why isn’t Harry the boss?
Quotes:
Dexter: “I gotta go. (To himself) Take out the trash.”
Dexter: “Polly wanna killer?”
Deb: “Who knew filing blood and jizz was such great money?”
As I said, better. Three out of four earrings,
Billie
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Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.
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