Dexter 11/25

[Azizal]

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I don't know how Dexter possibly explains the gunshot wound when he was supposedly inside of his house.

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Decent chance he patches it up himself and plays it off as some other type of wound/pulled muscle. No one should have cause to take a close look, especially not the feds. After all, Dexter never left his house as far as they know.

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I also have no idea how the Doakes thing is resolved. I think that it is obvious that Dexter isn't going to kill him, especially since the previews made it look like he was about to kill him.

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Agree.

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Also, yeah, the [censored] with Doakes was incredibly cheesy abd I thought Dexter was going to somehow have to reason with him or distract him in the car forcing a car accident or something.

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I didn't think it was bad. Not particularly strong, but from Doakes' perspective you have to consider:

1) this is the biggest moment of his law career. He is probably not at his sharpest. Likely his head is spinning with elation of victory, pure amazement that Dexter is the BHB, and most important, knowing that he is about to be vindicated. It's dawning on him, as he's seeing Dexter put the handcuffs on, that everyone who thought he was crazy, all the people that didn't support him were WRONG, and he was right.
2) it was already established that killing Dexter is out of the question. (he should've headbutted revenge style)
3) he feels like he has the upper hand big time. Dexter is in handcuffs, after all. Doakes was confused/surprised by Dexter coming at him. i.e not particularly threatened. This is perhaps not the most likely or realistic possibility, but it's not strange either. Doakes is not lacking in confidence.

Put all that together and you have a reasonable explanation for Doakes' hesitation.

Dexter successfully reasoning with Doakes would've been far weaker imo. Dexter might be able to threaten Doakes, for example, but Doakes doesn't seem like the type to reason with Dexter. A car accident thingy would've been OK, but it's been done so many times.

[thirddan]

this isn't the first time that dexter has matched up physically with doakes and come out on top...when they are fighting at the docks in season1 outside the storage unit dexter is doing a pretty good job fighting and its gone into how he has martial arts training etc...not totally unreasonable...intense episode...

[nazahl]

the dialogue between dex and doakes was awesome during the whole scene btw.

doakes: jesus christ morgan!! youre the bay harbor butcher!

dex: I really hate that name.

lol

[so sick bro]

azizal put the whole dex taking on doakes thing very, very well. I was under the impression that last night's ep was going to be the season finale for some reason, and am so happy that it was not and was such a sick episode.

I also remember seeing in the previews the announcer said there were only 3 weeks left but I'm not 100 percent sure whether i'm remembering that from Brotherhood or Dexter. Are there still 3 episodes left?

[Pudge714]

Did anyone else think it was incredibly sloppy/uncharacteristic for Doakes to leave the slides in his car? I guess the test haven't come back yet, so they could be fake.

[nazahl]

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Did anyone else think it was incredibly sloppy/uncharacteristic for Doakes to leave the slides in his car? I guess the test haven't come back yet, so they could be fake.

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sloppy, yeah. but why would he think the task force would be after him?

doakes seemed genuinely concerned when leguerta told him the feds found something in his car so theyre probably the real slides.

[Miamipuck]

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azizal put the whole dex taking on doakes thing very, very well. I was under the impression that last night's ep was going to be the season finale for some reason, and am so happy that it was not and was such a sick episode.

I also remember seeing in the previews the announcer said there were only 3 weeks left but I'm not 100 percent sure whether i'm remembering that from Brotherhood or Dexter. Are there still 3 episodes left?

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Yes I think that was episode 9. So 10-11-12 left.

As far as Doakes fighting Dexter, they fought on the docks to a standstill and I think Doakes said,"Lab rat my ass" or something to that effect.

I liked the episode. I think the tension they have built is amazing as I said OMG 3-4 times this episode where something completely nuts happened.

I did question the Doakes thing on the dock. I know a S'fer or two and even a good cop and no way a serial killer let, alone a regular suspect gets anywhere near being able to do that in cuffs. Then again it still makes for good TV.

The Lyla thing is not going to end up well......... for Lyla that is. She has to have killed before. She is some kind of crazy black widow or something and I do not really believe that drug addiction thing with her either. She is too much a sociopath. The Angel thing was pretty funny. He and Matsuka are good for the comedy relief even with the Dark places this show goes.

One other thing for some reason I like the sister character more with this relationship with Lundy. They have improved that story line because at one point I really despised even seeing her on screen.

I do not think Dexter kills Doakes. One thing I noticed is that on the previews I think he is dressed differently in that cell. It does not mean much really other then he is in there awhile. Look no further then last week as previews are reverse tells as the opposite pretty much always happens.

I have no idea where the show is heading but it should be fun.

[danzasmack]

They love to lead us in the wrong direction with the previews, which is fine by me - but I think it means he most likely won't kill dokes.

I could see him brining his tools to the shed to be his way of getting rid of everything, and completely frame dokes.

Sick episode though. Wow.

[Dr. Spaceman]

I bet Dexter will take the time to plant more evidence on Doakes. In the preview they show him taking out his knives -- perhaps to get Doakes' prints on them. If Dexter can make a strong enough case against Doakes, combined with Doakes constantly trying to "set up" Dexter as the killer, Dexter should get off for now. This will create an interesting dynamic next season as Doakes tries to get justice while on trial/in prison.

[thirddan]

this is likely a terrible answer, but something that just came to mind...could dexter get rid of both doakes and lila by killing doakes in the standard way (bhb style) and then putting lila there as well and burning the whole place? use lila's history as an arsonist to link her as well as taking the knives etc there and planting fingerprints etc?

maybe a little too similar to the itk ending for season 1 with faking a suicide by the killer...just some random thoughts...