Dexter has perfected the end of the episode punch to the groin this season. Right around the end of the episode, I’m all certain about what’s occured, where the show is going, et cetera. And then in the last like minute and twenty-seconds, they deliver an uppercut and I’m left like, good god damn. This episode they decide to powerbomb the viewer with the knowledge that the dude Dexter hatcheted was innocent. Whoops! Can’t take that sort of shit back very easily.

I was fairly certain he was committing  the wrong dude to death while it was going down. I just, you know, expected Dexter to figure it out while it was going down. It was too obvious that Farrow did the stabbing, too obvious that the show would reference him having an assistant and then do nothing with that knowledge.

My first reaction was…didn’t Dexter kill an innocent dude last season? Isn’t that his second whoopsie in that regard? I could be wrong here guys, my memory of season three isn’t razor sharp. But if I recall correctly, the brother of Prado may have been a piece of shit, but he didn’t qualify to be part of Dexter’s killing streak.

That said, I like where they could be going with the whole Dexter guts the wrong dude angle. If they’ve been trying to blur the murky lines that separate Dexter and Trinity and the moral high ground Dexter allegedly holds, then this takes it another step further. Trinity and Dexter are both family men, Trinity totally hangs out and bonds with his kids just like Dexter, and oh yeah, now they’re both skilled at killing innocent people.

Obviously there’s tons of equivocating to be done – namely that for Dexter it was an accident, that he hasn’t done it forty or so times, blah blah. And I appreciate that. It’s just neat to see them being strung together a bit tighter. It makes the push and pull between the two of them more interesting.

As an aside, my girlfriend is fairly certain that the Trinity Killer is actually the Quadrilogy Killer, but he buries the fourth body every time. I’m not really certain, but it makes for pretty dope speculation. After all, the dude was making a pretty sweet casket, so I assume he’s going to stuff someone’s dumb ass into it.

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