'Dexter' Season 4, Episode 11: 'Hello, Dexter Morgan'

In 'Dexter' Season 4, Episode 11 'Hello, Dexter Morgan', the race between Dexter cornering Arthur Mitchell, aka Trinity, and ending him and Debra finding and arresting the same is turned up into high gear.

Spoilers surely follow.

With Christine, the impetuous girl reporter and the daughter of Trinity now in custody, Dexter has no time left to trap Trinity and end his career of slaughter once and for all. At any moment, Angel might break Christine and it will be all over not only for Trinity, but for Dexter. If Christine gives up Trinity, Trinity will give up someone he knows as Kyle. Awkward questions would ensue.

To buy himself sometime, Dexter finds himself a convenient fall guy, a serial killer long haul trucker whose own 18 wheeler can serve as a kill room. The trucker roars defiance and vows revenge up to the moment that Dexter approaches with the power drill. Into the drink goes the trucker, into the truck does enough evidence to finger him as Trinity.

Dexter is coming to realize that he is more than just one person. He is Dexter, the loving father and husband. He is Dexter, the blood splatter expert. He is Dexter the serial killer. And he is Kyle, the extortionist. This is all mulled over in a scene that rams home the underlining symbolism of the metaphor where an arrangement of mirrors shows four different images of Dexter.

Kyle the extortionist did I say? That is how Dexter plans to lure Trinity into a trap. "I want fifty thousand dollars or I will tell everyone you are a pedophile pervert."

"Stop calling me that!" Finicky Trinity, mass murderer, to be offended by the accusation that he molests little boys. In any event it is Dexter's plan to lure Trinity into a controlled location, knock him out with the needle, and then have one last conversation with him with duct tape, cellophane, and knives.

In the meanwhile, Trinity makes a serious mistake by berating his daughter Christine one too many times. Christine fesses up to Debra, but then kills herself in front of her before she tells anyone who Trinity really is. Another victim of Trinity. This shakes up Debra to such an extent that she needs comforting from Dexter. Now Dexter has a fifth identity. Dexter the comforting brother.

In the meantime Angel and Laguerta find a solution to get the Department off their backs about carrying on. They get married. Married people cannot be compelled to testify against one another. Also, in heavily Catholic and Hispanic Miami, people would take umbrage against the Police for punishing two of their finest for being married. Mind, it sounds like a cold blooded reason to tie the knot, but the two are crazy in love and one supposes they just needed the extra incentive to do what they wanted to do and needed to do anyway.

The episode ends when Dexter, as clever as he is, comes to realize that he may be facing an enemy that is cleverer still. Trinity follows Dexter to the police station where he works and tracks him down. "Hello, Dexter Morgan."

Now Trinity knows who Dexter is and where he works. He can track down Dexter's family, the one thing that keeps Dexter tied to something resembling sanity. Dexter, loving father, husband, and brother is about to merge into Dexter, serial killer. This time it will not be just about feeding the Dark Passenger. It will be personal and primal, between two skilled predators, to the death or one or the other. It is a story as ancient as when men first learned to use tools as weapons to kill.

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