who cut the cheese?

10/5/2010 12:15:31 AM

I totally called it last season w/ the kids living w/ the grandparents. I kinda hope we still see the kids here and there tho. And I didn't catch it, but what about Dexter's kid?

10/5/2010 8:32:57 PM

he's staying with Dexter

I like Quinn a lot more in these two episodes than I did previously

10/5/2010 9:05:48 PM

^agreed. i'm cool with quinn being on dexter's trail. i just don't want him to turn into doakes 2.0.

10/5/2010 9:34:53 PM

Thank god Astor is gone. I was getting tired of watching Juno again.

10/5/2010 9:49:40 PM

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" i'm cool with quinn being on dexter's trail. i just don't want him to turn into doakes 2.0."

10/5/2010 10:53:52 PM

I'm all about a bigger Matsuka storyline.

10/6/2010 10:20:11 PM

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"Thank god Astor is gone. I was getting tired of watching Juno again."

Yes I started to cringe when Astor and Cody had to actually act.

10/6/2010 11:46:52 PM

^^ hell yes

10/7/2010 7:43:21 AM

ive been watching dexter since 2008 but finally signed up for showtime today

best part, i got it for $5.99 for 6 months. long enough to finish the season

oh yeah and i get a $25 rebate from showtime by sending in 3 months of bills

im interested to see what happens this season. anyone read the show boards over at showtime? people have some interesting ideas of what might happen based on episode titles

http://www.sho.com/site/message/boards.do?groupid=1609

10/9/2010 12:34:30 AM

did anyone watch tonight?!?! WOWZA, the season has officially arrived! it only took 3 episodes and of course the best part happened in the last 60 seconds.

can't wait to see what they do with this!

also, i think something is up with the nanny. im getting a creepy vibe from her i just can't seem to shake. makes me not want to trust her

hint but not spoiler... julia stiles character is introduced & it makes a splash

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 12:03 AM. Reason : nanny]

10/11/2010 12:01:11 AM

Was that arthur mitchells son in the car that she runs up to in next ep thing?

10/11/2010 4:24:27 AM

I'm Calling it:

The Venezuelan cop is behind the santa muerte killings.

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 11:31 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2010 11:31:44 AM

^ she looked nervous as shit in front of deb in the episode where she was introduced, so that would be a good guess.

10/11/2010 11:46:54 AM

And her explanation of what that dude in the shop said when they were alone sounded a lot like "some puerto rican guy"

10/11/2010 12:46:39 PM

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"Was that arthur mitchells son in the car that she runs up to in next ep thing?"

I think so.

10/11/2010 9:14:24 PM

i liked the scene when they are both eyeballing one another being taken into the hospital lol

10/12/2010 11:21:25 PM

^ haha yeah. its funny i kinda started liking that dude, kinda felt like Dexter killing him off in that episode seemed a bit premature but i'm sure they didnt want to repeat the same kyle butler thing (I LOL'd when Dexter made up that other fake name, what was it like Daryl something?)

10/13/2010 12:25:51 AM

Santa Mierda was pretty funny...only Debra could say that.

Any guesses as to why Boyd Fowler thought he was helping those women he killed? Obviously there is more to the story. It was hard to tell but I don't think all the women were very young. I could be wrong though.

Oh yeh, and it seems like Arthur Mitchell's son doesn't want Kyle Butler implicated in his father's disappearance.

[Edited on October 13, 2010 at 5:38 PM. Reason : j]

10/13/2010 5:34:10 PM

At the hospital the Dr. said that it was the 5th time Fowler was admitted to the hospital. The nurse said she "didn't know he had an addiction". What type of addiction?

10/13/2010 6:18:35 PM

^ probably pain killers. i could see him sitting at home trying to make a choice on whether or not he should get addicted to pain killers.

so he turns to his only source of advice:

"YOU WANT THOSE PILLS? JUST TAKE IT!!!"

[Edited on October 14, 2010 at 10:57 AM. Reason : ]

10/14/2010 10:57:03 AM

^^I understood that to just be the Dr. talking about a patient, I'm not sure that it was Boyd. It just seemed like they were trying to show the doc distracted.

10/14/2010 12:15:16 PM

Wow I just finished season 4... OMG I am in shock I never saw that coming wow just wow

10/15/2010 11:01:50 PM

So I just re-watched season 1-4 this last week and got around to the first three episodes of season 5, wow. Next episode looks intense with the whole kidnapping deal. Personally, I too don't like quinn's role in season 4 and honestly, his suspicious nature of Dexter seems a little misplaced since it was ruled out in episode 2 that the FBI didn't find Dexter to have any foul play with the death of Rita in their eyes. Those sketch arts from the Trinity family and him taking a personal interest seems like a long stretch, specially when he took the photo of the bowling team. It's nice that the writers were trying to give it some sort of connection with Arthur, but this seems forced.

Also wtf with the quick sex between quinn and debra at Dexter's house when they were cleaning up. I was completely at a loss. That just seemed so out of context or misplaced as though the writers were like "what else can we thrown in the story to make it more dynamic and stressful? oh I know, lets have them shag".

Astor's acting of her being pissed could have been a lot better and the way that they portrayed Cody seemed a bit off since they are suppose to be grieving. I mean this is what taking place over 3-4 days? I would have thought the grand parents would have stayed in Miami to help out the whole time while they were down there instead of them packing up and go back to Orlando? Shit, if a death in the family happened, my cousins, aunts, uncles from China would fly here for a week or two to support my family. The whole nanny thing looks interesting though.

10/18/2010 7:24:42 AM

From this past Sunday...the girl Dexter saves from Boyd Fowler, it seemed to me that the role was written for a much younger actress, only to change their mind when it came casting time, as I find it hard to believe a 35 year old women needs to run away from her parents home. Or did I miss-understand the letter?

10/19/2010 6:18:29 PM

she seemed younger than 35...

10/19/2010 6:38:02 PM

The actress is only 29... Also I think that she ran away from home quite a while ago. She said something along the lines of "this isn't the first time this has happened to me" referring to being kidnapped/held, which makes me think there is a period of time between the current and running away from home.

10/19/2010 6:51:23 PM

im thinking Boyd bought Julia Stiles from someone else that had held her

hence her "are you going to sell me?" question ... so she might have been a victim of something similar to what happened in that Taken movie w/ liam neisen

10/19/2010 8:03:13 PM

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"im thinking Boyd bought Julia Stiles from someone else that had held her hence her "are you going to sell me?" question ... so she might have been a victim of something similar to what happened in that Taken movie w/ liam neisen"

I thought that was pretty obvious, but maybe I was just jumping to conclusions. To me it sounded like there was some kind of weird human-trafficking ring that Boyd was part of. I am guessing Stiles and Dexter team up to take down the whole thing.

10/19/2010 11:30:14 PM

i won't say what the previews showed, but that's about right, at least for some part of it

10/19/2010 11:37:13 PM

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"Also I think that she ran away from home quite a while ago."

Well, long enough for the hotel to still have her luggage.

10/20/2010 2:27:10 AM

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"kidnapped/held"

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"some kind of weird human-trafficking ring"

yeah, i was thinking she was referring to being raped ("this isn't the first time..."), but i could be wrong

if boyd were part of a human trafficking ring, how could he do that and still shove all the girls into barrels of formaldehyde and dump them off? or do you mean he was the final destination of the girls (like he paid to have them delivered to him)?

10/20/2010 8:01:14 AM

yea. when someone in the trafficking ring sells off a girl they probably dont care what happens to her next. We dont know of boyd was buying the girls or if he was stealing them from. Either way he was probably only looking for ones who had been previously abused in order to "save" them.

i think its pretty obvious this is all to set up dexter killing some of the guys who previously abused lumen, but I bet she might toss in some who might not meet dexter's full criteria.

10/20/2010 10:24:54 AM

^ OMG. I just got that. He did say he was saving them, didn't he? Although, who cut her up? Did he do it, or did she come that way?

10/20/2010 10:35:03 AM

pretty sure he did that. they were pretty fresh. if he got her like that she'd probably have already died from an infection.

10/20/2010 10:42:14 AM

[Edited on October 20, 2010 at 9:08 PM. Reason : .]

10/20/2010 9:07:31 PM

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"if boyd were part of a human trafficking ring, how could he do that and still shove all the girls into barrels of formaldehyde and dump them off? or do you mean he was the final destination of the girls (like he paid to have them delivered to him)?"

I really don't know the answer to that. I think Shaggy's explanation is as plausible as any. In my head (granted I can be very dense sometimes when it comes to TV) I was thinking that there was a human-trafficking ring Boyd was involved with. He could buy/sell/trade as he pleased, however he felt he was doing them a service by killing them rather than selling them back into the ring.

I could be way off though.

10/21/2010 2:29:35 AM

i haven't seen the preview for next week's episode.

I assumed she was talking about her dad or someone in her family when she said "this isn't the first time this has happened to me." She said that after Dexter was telling her to go home and she was going on about it being complicated or whatever.

I can see the human trafficking angle with her "are you going to sell me" comment - it seemed really out of nowhere unless she'd experienced that. But there really wasn't much about human trafficking that i saw.

But again, i haven't seen the preview which may have made it more clear. And maybe someone in her family sold her. I don't know. But it was very apparent she did not want to go home to her family.



Regarding Boyd's possible "addiction" (assuming the nurse was talking about him), maybe he was faking something to get some sort of drug for the girls he had captive.

10/21/2010 6:57:37 PM

woah, anyone see episode 4, really ties the whole kidnapping thing down, and quinn's little hunch gets close. Although the on going murder cases with the religious killings or whatever they were seemed like the story was put on the back burner a bit in this episode. Wonder how it's going to develop with the new cop, although it was more towards setting up the human trafficking background.

Can't wait for next episode, hope they chew bubble gum and kick ass.

10/23/2010 12:35:53 AM

Meh...the trailer pretty much told you what was going to happen in the episode. The Quinn twist at the end was interesting though.

[Edited on October 25, 2010 at 4:36 PM. Reason : d]

10/25/2010 4:32:35 PM

i found the guy quinn sort of "hired" to look into Dexter to be really annoying and unnatural. I thought the last few minutes of this episode was some of the worst acting of all time on the show. I really hope that guy doesn't get a lot of screen time or at least tones it down a bit.


And while I don't mind the idea of Quinn going after Dexter... he's really got nothing to go on. It just doesn't make sense. The cop from the first season never liked Dexter and always thought he was "a freak." So I get that, I just don't get why Quinn has such a hard-on for dexter being a killer.

10/25/2010 6:26:50 PM

^I don't think he suspects Dexter of being a killer specifically, he just suspects that something is out of the ordinary.

Also did I miss/forget something. Did he set Julia Stiles character free in the previous episode or was that just assumed in between eps?

10/25/2010 8:22:53 PM

yeah, i guess he just thinks he's Kyle Butler and not necessarily a killer. It just doesn't seem like there's much of a "cause", ya know? His big thing was that Dexter said "I did it" after they got to his house. - The FBI said he wasn't there when she was killed. Where is the idea that he's Kyle Butler coming from? - the sketch is really stretching it. I don't know, it just seems really out of nowhere of nowhere and kind of force for the sake of having it happen.


And yeah, I was wondering if I missed something as well. I think it was supposed to just be assumed that it happened between episodes.

10/25/2010 8:39:53 PM

"it was me"

10/25/2010 9:15:41 PM

^^^^ Haha yeh...he reminded me a of a carny from the Fair.

You think Lumen had something implanted in her? This could be off-base but that would be an interesting twist since the metal detector kept going off.

10/25/2010 9:51:24 PM

yeah, I agree with the whole Quinn forced storyline and his bad acting since his character was introduced. He's not a really a good repeatable character for what the series needs. Was surprised that he was confronted by Laguerta during the episode, would have thought he would play that a lot smoother and stay under the radar for a few more episodes. Should have let him go before the season started.

What I kind am a bit iffy about is the whole Boyd kill room, why didn't Dexter drug him and transport him to the 1st kill room? I mean he was trying to make it back to the baby sitter and save time, right?

Oh damn, missed episode 5.

10/26/2010 12:32:17 AM

what a boring episode. not really sure i'm liking where they're trying to go with lumen

10/26/2010 12:52:25 AM

That was a slow episode, I feel lost to whats going on compared to the rest of the seasons. It's like they are over trying with the plot twists and trying to keep you guessing even when they are far-fetched at best.

10/26/2010 11:09:44 AM

i thought we were supposed to assume that Lumen broke into Boyd's place, but they acted like it was a big mystery until her prints matched up

10/26/2010 11:21:38 AM

yeah, seemed like it, I donno why Dexter's Monologue didn't say that it was a possibility at first. Also, how did Dexter get the sex offender guy from the bridge to whatever killzone location since the rift-raft place/tent he was living at had a shit ton of people living there. I would think that someone would have seen something or even see that some guy was dragging a body off.

10/26/2010 11:31:49 AM