“Dexter” Season 4, Episode 5 Recap

Last night’s episode opened with Dexter running toward the crime scene where his sister Deb and Detective Lundy were gunned down.  Deb was being loaded into the back of an ambulance while Lundy was laying face down, dead, in the parking lot.  Of course, Dexter wondered what Deb and Lundy were doing together at a hotel at 5am but the looks on Batista and LaGuerta’s face explained it all.

At the hospital, Dexter tries to get Deb to tell him what happened and she recounted the tragic story but without any real useful information.  Anton arrives at the hospital to see Deb and she confesses to sleeping with Lundy and tells him that he deserves better than her.

The fact that Dexter retained his apartment was revealed when his landlord called and told Rita that a pipe in the kitchen had burst.  When she confronts Dexter about it, he makes up a lame story and it’s clear that she doesn’t believe him.

LaGuerta tells Batista that she has informed the brass about their relationship despite his objections.  The revelation doesn’t go well and he tells her that he’s upset that she made that decision for them without talking to him first.  She later apologizes and Batista tells her that they need to be honest with each other if their relationship is going to work.  Unfortunately, LaGuerta’s decision to do the right thing backfires when she is told that she has to transfer Batista out of Miami Homicide…

At his apartment, Dexter laments over the fact that he might have to give the place up and worries about how he will manage without having some private space.  Imagine his horror when he walked through the door at his sanctuary to find Rita (and baby Harrison) waiting for him.  She even told him that she had gone through his drawers looking for evidence of an affair or drug use.  Wow.

Released from the hospital, Deb asks Dexter if she can stay with him and he’s more than happy to let her stay with him (I’m sure he was glad she would be around to distract Rita).  Deb throws her pain medication in the garbage – maybe she’s hoping the physical pain will keep her mind off of her emotional turmoil.

Dexter reviews what Lundy had compiled about the Trinity Killer in hopes of finding his sister’s shooter.  Meanwhile, Trinity is at a local hardware store looking for a tool to complete his next task – he leaves with a hammer and then takes a tour of an apartment building.  Dexter figures out that this is the site of Trinity’s next murder and is stunned to discover that the kill is already in progress.  Dexter is able to follow him as he flees the scene of the crime and is stunned when he pulls into the driveway of a nice, suburban home.  Initially, he has a hard time accepting that Trinity belongs in such a domestic setting but after seeing the killer walk into the welcoming arms of his wife and children, Dexter comes to a frightening realization.  He and Trinity are the same – family men with a murderous secret.

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