‘DEXTER: Original its’ Recap Ep. 9: Blood drives

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If you set in on DEXTER: Original sin For Gore I’ve got good news for you: “Blood Drive” is the most violent rate yet. We have rivers with blood, we have cut limbs, we have sliced ​​fingers, we have another chain-saw-execution-it is a real smorgas table of disgusting images, maybe designed to distract from how much wheel spinning we do here. The penultimate hour of this series’ first season could probably have been the final, but instead the show is taking water, a frustrating feature after last week’s progressive episode. On the other hand, an explosive final paper over a lot of Original sin‘S, yes, sins.

In the meantime, we have cases to resolve, even though the show has essentially already resolved them. Harry and Laguerta arrive at the hospital to see Bobby who is in operation after shot at the neck. Maria immediately pulls Harry aside to confront him about the stolen Brian Moser file – couldn’t she have said anything when they were on their way? – But Harry insists that he only tricked it to find out what happened to the son of his former CI. It is a private matter he is lying, and nothing laguerta needs to worry about. Don’t remember Brian Moser is definitely the serial killer they track, and he currently sees his next victim, a sweet older woman named Barb, he sits next to Church Bingo. (Barb is played by the lovely Kathleen Rose Perkins, saddled with inappropriate old age makeup and a face of the face they must have added to make sure we would know that it was her in flashbacks.)

DEXTER Seasons usually gave us a big bad and a secondary antagonist – I’m honestly not sure which Brian counts like, but Dexter is fully fixed on the other. Captain Spencer, which is flanked by his tearful ex -wife, in turn requires his officers to find Nicky. “We can’t leave Bobby’s victim in vain,” he says, and at this point I wondered if the show had unconsciously killed Bobby Offscreen. (He is doing well!) Dexter’s voice-over calls Spencer “True Evil Incarnate” and identifies him as DEX’s first children’s decor. Can’t he remember Levi Reed, the man he murdered … Three episodes ago? It seems that he does not think clearly at all because he breaks into Spencer’s apartment and is almost caught – not only by Spencer but by Harry. Dexter escapes by jumping out of the balcony, which could also have ended badly, Spencer had not lived on the second floor of his building.

At Morgan Family Breakfast the next morning, Harry Dexter thanks for picking up a Deb in Bimini (as you do) and telling him he no longer believes the NHI murder is the work of a serial killer. “I will never forget the first time my dad lied in my face,” says DEX’s voice-over, and I have many questions about this whole thing. If he ends up with DEXTER? (I have … Many more questions but I will spare you.) Deb is up and apologizes for his recent Jaunt to the Bahamas, for which Harry is too understandable. After Deb says she has dumped Gio, Harry asks her to stop dating older men. “The heart wants what the heart wants,” says Deb, and unfortunately I am now thinking of one of the story’s Most notorious age-gap conditions.

Her averted affair with Gio aside, Deb is very distressed to learn about Bobby’s critical condition, so Harry invites her to the blood -driven Miami Metro has put together. (Realistically, how much blood does Bobby need? But I suppose it’s still a nice gesture!) When Deb is there meets Deb Laguerta, who doesn’t share details about the series-murderer case she is working on, In spite of Deb’s love of The silence of the lamb. Tanya is much friendlier – in fact, she gives a whole talk about how she loved basketball when she was in high school, but solving crimes gives her the same rush of endorphins that sports once did. It’s a sweat scene uncovered by Tanya who asked Deb if she would ever consider the police and notice, “We could always use more Kickass women around here.” I will be deeply annoyed if Sarah Michelle Gellar’s whole role on this show ends up being as a source of inspiration for the future COP Deb.

To be fair to Laguerta, she has no time to entertain Harry’s daughter because she is busy trying to solve the mystery he is actively hindering. She even heads to items to find out more about the Laura Moser case, but – as Camilla again confirms to Harry – all references to Dexter have been scrubbed from the files. To his part, Harry is busy with more flashbacks than ever. He remembers the cruel discovery when the shipping container was opened and blood and body parts flooded (some exciting disgusting effects here). He remembers Dexter and Brian hugged himself in the corner next to Laura’s cut head. He remembers having taken both traumatized boys and having to tell Doris that their mother was the woman he had an affair with. Barb (Kathleen Rose Perkins, Sans Old-Age Makeup) proves to be an employee of Child Services who emphasizes that the state does not like to separate brothers. And yet we all know where this goes.

To be fair strangers Harry and Doris originally both boys until Brian’s violent trends made known: In a flashback, Brian tries to strangle a crying debate with a pillow. When Harry puts him down later to speak-to, freaks out, scream that he hates them all and beats a hole through glass. Flashbacks in this episode are frustrating practical as they kind of let Morgan from the hook to separate Dexter and Brian – I thought this should be Harry’s original sin, and here it is presented as a much necessary evil. Harry and Doris are simply not equipped to handle Brian, especially with a newborn. (Retcon of the Boys’ ages complicates things further because in DEXTERThe idea was that only Brian was old enough to remember what happened. Dexter is a toddler here!)

At least today’s Harry feels guilt, and it was made clear in the cases last week that Harry’s rejection of him was a big part of Brian’s tortured psyche. In “Blood Drive”, however, the focus is much more on Brian’s occupation of Dexter. Harry looks at photos from NHI murder crime scene and spots Brian in crowds, eyes firmly on DEX performing forensic work. Harry is aware that Brian is pursuing his little brother, though he has other things in mind, such as inviting Barb to his creepy van with the promise of Applebees and knocking her out after he reveals himself. All this feels a little unfair to Barb that would never split the siblings in the first place. But when Barb separated Brian and Dexter, Brian decides to “separate” Barb (his words!), Brutally killed her with a chain saw.

As for Dexter, he is forced into a minor plot detour to pull blood, inadvertently abandon two pints himself (one because Clark has had an HIV exposure and needs to pass on someone else’s blood as his own, and the other because Masuka Corners Dexter I donate). Woozy, but resolute, he collects a killing room at the arcade and then pretends to be extortion of Captain Spencer so he can lure him there. Unfortunately, this whole thing is poorly imagined-arcade impractical aside, he can’t just disappear a police appetite without a major investigation. Also, not to stumble with the moral of a serial murder, but is not the whole point that he kills people who avoid punishment? As much as I’ve been eager for this show to reach the big showdown, this is terribly rushed. We still don’t know why Spencer did it!

And even on the killing table he doesn’t give up much. The captain insists that he is one of the good guys and not a serial killer who only really lets his mask slip when Becca comes up. “She betrayed me,” he sees. Dexter takes this to mean that Spencer killed Jimmy Powell and kidnapped and mutilated Nicky to hurt Becca, and I have to think Spencers “Are you a fucking genius?” is facetic because it cannot possibly be the answer here. It certainly does not explain the framing of the cartel and technique for shoot-out in the last episode. Dexter can’t get a straight answer out of his victim, including about Nicky’s whereabouts – and that’s after he tortures Spencer by cutting his finger off. So despite the “worst case of serial murderer blue bullets” ever, Dexter lets him escape so he can haul him wherever he has put his son. Let’s hope for some clear answers in the final about both Spencer and Brian. I need a really good reason why the latter waited another 15 years before returning as an ice cream truck killer and connected again with his brother.

• It looks like Bobby will pull through. He even wakes up long enough to tell Harry to “save Dexter”, which is probably about Brian, but could just as easily be about Spencer.

• Given that he lets Nicky see his face, Spencer has to plan to kill him, right? Again, I would love an explanation beyond his wife cheating him. “A single event could turn a good person into a monster,” Dexter’s voice-over offers, and doesn’t it beat him as bizarre reductive?

• There is so much seriousness in this episode that I almost forgot to mention Dexter accidentally stabbed Spencer through his hand with his needle. Cringe-inducing!

• Dexters spaces at the blood drive are funny enough, but I still don’t love Dex, comparing Clark’s closed sexuality with his own closed psychopathy.

• When Dexter rejects Tanya’s request to pull blood, she says: “It was not a question, it was an order but formulated nicely! Go forward, draw a lot of blood. “They give SMG Buffy-flavored lines fully? Or maybe my head is just in that place because of this week’s Revival News.

• Sorry again to largely neglect Deb, something Harry and I have in common. She gets a call from FSU, whose coach is somehow still interested despite his being kicked from her volleyball team. At this point, however, it seems pretty clear that she is fully on the road to law enforcement.