Season 1, Episode 6 – Return to Sender
It's been a while I know ...I apologize for that. Stupid real life got in the way!!! But I'm back and hopefully will not have to take that long off again. I really, really want to finish all 7 seasons before June when Season 8 starts, so I really need to get my Dexter groove on every day ...
Okay, so down to business ... Episode 6: Goldfish funeral … this setup makes me think originally they
were going to maybe try to follow the book more where Cody is a “Dexter” … they
flush the fish and the kid says “can I have my cereal now. I do love watching domestic Dexter to a
certain extent. Later they go a bit
overboard with it but in season 1 watching him struggle with it in certain
areas and succeed in other areas is nice.
Dexter has to investigate
his own crime scene in this episode.
Wonder if this is a first for him … assuming it is. And now he is shocked because Valerie
Castillo is there. She was taken out of
the ocean and placed back on her death bed by … yes … the Ice Truck
Killer. Is Dexter finally nervous?? Doesn’t seem so … Dex thinks he did it to get
back at him for not killing Tony Tucci.
And Masuka finds a needle mark … Ice Truck Killer is really trying to
fuck Dexter up. How rude.
They find the immigrant room … And they find the boy in the
trunk … the witness to Dexter’s crime!!
The police get Mariel (an immigrant that the coyote brought in) to tell
about the salvage yard and what happens and the release fee. Also Mariel testifies that the wife was in on
it.
And Masuka finds a needle mark …and they trace the
m-99. And Dexter is on the list of m-99
purchasers but it’s an alias … will they track him?? Plus, the 7 year old is going to come in and
do a sketch. Dexter climbs in the trunk
of the car to see what the kid could have seen and figure out that the kid
definitely saw him. Dex hacks into
Masuka’s email and deletes his name from the M-99 list. The boy seems to really love LaGuerta … what
is wrong with this kid? She does give
him Cinco donuts … they had a whole conversation in Spanish…but that was the
only word I understood. Dex looks at the
start of the sketch but it’s just eyes.
Dexter dumps his kill kit in the ocean … well, most of it. He can’t bring himself to throw in the
slides. His precious slides. He relives some of his kills as he goes
through the box. And Valerie Castillo’s
slide has a smiley face on it. He’s
still calling the Ice Truck Killer his playmate. Damn serial killers have a funny way of
playing. Dex then plants evidence that
makes Jorge Castillo the killer. He
frames his own victim. Brilliant!!! LaGuerta considers adopting the boy, but they
find his uncle, so it’s a no go for her … I don’t really feel too bad. Deep down she’s a heartless bitch, even if
she did give him 5 donuts. The sketch
the kid did … is Jesus.
Deb asks Doakes if she can work on a profile of the
killer. He says yes and then brings Deb
to his mother’s house. This is
hysterical. Morgan tells funny stories to
his family and the mom gets in on the dirty stories. Deb punishes him by saying she’s staying for
dessert. Doakes does NOT look pleased. But later he seems pleased, telling Deb she
held her own.
Deb shows Dexter his profile. I might have to take the bad things I said
about her … the profile is scarily accurate.
Then he discourages her … and DAMN I feel bad for her. She calls him on it … she’s having a hunch
like he always has. And then Dex has a
flashback where Harry is really mean to Deb.
She hashes it out at the departmental meeting anyway … good for her. In a flashback we see Deb yell that she
wishes Harry had never brought him home … obviously there was a lot of jealousy
on her part when harry was still alive and now she probably feels like he is
proving to be the better “detective” because his planted evidence proves that
Jorge Castillo did it and not a copycat serial killer. And then they find the knife that Dexter
planted in the salvage yard. And yes, of
course the wife’s blood is on it - case closed.
Needy Rita calls and requests Dexter presence … she was
ALWAYS a nag … because Paul called and wants to come to Aster’s birthday
party. Dex watches the kids and wonders
if they’ll remember him as anything other than the man who broke their mother’s
heart. Awwww … he really does care about
those kids. We find out that Aster is
the one who called the police on her father last time. That Cody doesn’t really remember the bad
parts, but Aster does. And some of her
friends now can’t come to her birthday party because her dad got out of
jail. How sad … really. Aster wets the bed and asks Rita if it’s okay
if she doesn’t have a party. Seriously,
drugs mess up families. Rita gets super
tough and tells Paul she’ll call the police and his parole officer if he comes
near the house because her restraining order is still in effect. Say what you want about Rita … but she’s a
good mom. And it made me cry a little
bit … how happy Aster was that her father didn’t come. And how Rita stood up to Paul, who she has to
fear after what he did to her, and made Aster’s birthday wishes come true.
Dexter has a funky dream where HE is on the table and Deb is
making a blood slide. Then the Ice Truck
Killer comes in with the keychain and Deb kills him with a cleaver … oh boy …
He then does that sexy voice narrative where he says he doesn’t have bad
dreams, that he’s never felt a moment of doubt or regret and wonders what is
happening to him.
Dexter changes his locks .. guess he’s tired of playing with
the Ice Truck Killer.
Dexter’s Body Count:
None. He was busy
with cover up this week!
Quotes of the Episode:
What’s up with you today?
You’re throwing off my chi
This is how it ends.
In the hands of a 7 year old. And
I usually like kids
My neat little world of lies is crumbling all around me
What we do on these weekends your sister can never know
about. Keeping the truth from the people
you love is how you survive and how we protect them … if something goes
wrong.
That’s it. No more
donuts for Masuka
Personally I’d shake this guys’ hand … Eh, you say that now.
Nothing lasts forever.
Just ask the Ford Pinto.
First words out of my brother’s mouth was God Milk
Motherfucka