Dexter - "Remains to be seen" - 10/4/2009

MickeS · 10-05-2009, 10:48 AM

Lots of suspense in this one, IMO. It's funny that one of the commenters in last week's thread said that he probably hid the body under the boxing ring, which was the first place Dexter looked too.

Lithgow is freaking creepy.

goblue97 · 10-05-2009, 10:55 AM

Does anyone else think there is something more to FBI guy coming back around or is it simply what he is saying it is?

MickeS · 10-05-2009, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by goblue97

Does anyone else think there is something more to FBI guy coming back around or is it simply what he is saying it is?

I don't know, but I keep thinking his obsession with the case must be about more than it just being an unsolved case. Maybe he has some personal connection to one of the victims.

retrodog · 10-05-2009, 11:31 AM

I enjoyed the "don't flatter yourself" moment when sis figured out why he was really back in Miami.

I expected it to take a few episodes for him to figure out where the body went to. I'm a bit surprised by this amnesia thing though. Is it supposed to be just due to lack of sleep or something more serious going on here? I once went for a couple of weeks with very little sleep and never experienced anything like that.

goblue97 · 10-05-2009, 11:38 AM

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I'm a bit surprised by this amnesia thing though. Is it supposed to be just due to lack of sleep or something more serious going on here? I once went for a couple of weeks with very little sleep and never experienced anything like that.

I thought it had to do with the concussion he suffered during the car accident.

retrodog · 10-05-2009, 11:46 AM

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I thought it had to do with the concussion he suffered during the car accident.

Yeah, good point. Probably a combination of the two.

I loved how he told the wife that it was only a fender bender and the look on her face when she saw it in person.

Then the guy said, "There's probably a bent fender in there somewhere." Priceless.

MickeS · 10-05-2009, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by retrodog

I expected it to take a few episodes for him to figure out where the body went to. I'm a bit surprised by this amnesia thing though. Is it supposed to be just due to lack of sleep or something more serious going on here? I once went for a couple of weeks with very little sleep and never experienced anything like that.

I think it's a combination. In this case, he hid the body because he was afraid he was too tired and might screw up if he took on the whole operation of bringing the body to the burial place at sea. And then he was in the accident, which knocked him out and made him forget what he had done in his sleep-deprived state.

EDIT: forgive the smeek.

retrodog · 10-05-2009, 11:54 AM

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I think it's a combination. In this case, he hid the body because he was afraid he was too tired and might screw up if he took on the whole operation of bringing the body to the burial place at sea. And then he was in the accident, which knocked him out and made him forget what he had done in his sleep-deprived state.

EDIT: forgive the smeek.

Thinking about it a bit more... I believe he hid the body for the specific reason that he didn't have time to go get rid of it in the traditional way. It would take you almost two hours in ideal conditions to get rid of it. He had to go straight to the pharmacy and pick up the drugs for junior. The accident and lack of sleep just caused him to forget about that part.

Hunter Green · 10-08-2009, 09:33 AM

And it turns out in hindsight to be smart he hid it where he did instead of where he, and we, assumed, in the back of the car.

Rob Helmerichs · 10-08-2009, 09:54 AM

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And it turns out in hindsight to be smart he hid it where he did instead of where he, and we, assumed, in the back of the car.

Although if you think about it, it would have been insane for him to hide it in the family car on his way home. And Dexter is not that kind of insane!

retrodog · 10-08-2009, 11:09 AM

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Although if you think about it, it would have been insane for him to hide it in the family car on his way home. And Dexter is not that kind of insane!

That wasn't necessarily the intended or expected assumption. Most of us probably didn't really think about it that much but if we had... some of the natural assumptions would have been:

1. He's got it in the car, but he's going to go by the pharmacy and take the drugs to the house to drop them off and be on his way. His lack of awareness of family matters would have made him believe that he'd be able to just drop off the drugs and head off to the boat with some typical excuse.

2. Maybe he thought he'd store the body parts somewhere else till he could dispose of them the next day or night, as there was little reason to think the training center would be the acceptable place to leave them.

3. He was so damn tired that maybe he thought he'd just keep them in the van till he could get rid of them at first light, instead of going to work. (this probably being the most expected theory and corresponding to your point.)

In any case, any of these would have resulted in the body parts being in the van and subject to discovery, especially when Dexter himself was having thoughts/concerns of this nature.

People who are suffering from severe sleep deprivation can do things that appear to be insane but are really just results of temporarily delusions. Maybe even temporary insanity if you want to put a common label on it.