Season 1, Episode 6 – Return to Sender

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