Title:  BoneMan’s Daughters

Author:  Ted Dekker

Hardback:  401 pages

ISBN:  9781599951959

They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who’s abducted six young women.  He’s the perfect father looking for the perfect daughter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kills them by breaking their bones and leaving them to die.

Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, on the other hand, has lost all hope of ever being the perfect father.  His daughter and wife have written him out of their lives.

Everything changes when BoneMan takes Ryan’s estranged daughter, Bethany, as his seventh victim.  Ryan goes after BoneMan on his own.

But the FBI sees it differently.  New evidence points to the suspicion that Ryan is BoneMan.  Now the hunter is the hunted, and in the end, only one father will stand.

-From the front flap of BoneMan’s Daughters by Ted Dekker

When I first heard of this book, I was excited to read it.  The interactive site has creepy music and graphic pictures, and it looked as if it was going to be a suspense/horror novel.  I was all geeked out when I won a copy from The Literate Housewife’s giveaway.  Alas, it has not lived up to the hype.

It is possible that I am disappointed in it because of the genre confusion.  It is, as it turns out, more of a crime/detective novel… something like Coben, but not nearly as good.  There is nothing like wetting your whistle for a tall glass of icy sweet tea, only to guzzle down lukewarm pickle juice instead.  So the fact I was geared up for some Clive and got Coben-knock-off didn’t help.  But… that wasn’t all.

As I read along, there were ways that Dekker wrote than just annoyed me.  Choices in words and phrases, as well as the way he stretched credulity beyond its snapping point.  By the end of the novel, I honestly didn’t know if the bad guy was going to win, not because his snazzy and clever writing, but because “Hell, at this point, anything’s possible.”  Honestly.  The Iraqi boneman takes Ryan, then the Texas BoneMan takes his daughter… and then that final connection between the serial killer and Ryan’s daughter was too much.  It made my “willing suspension of disbelief” impossible to maintain.

Add to that the complete lack of character development, or believable motives, or any reason I’d feel any sympathy for any of them.  By the end of the book I was hoping BoneMan would kill Ryan, the detectives, the publisher, me… Dekker, even.  Just get it over with!  End my misery!  Kill me now so I don’t have to finish!

A positive thing to say about it… Dean Koontz can sleep well knowing he’s not my least favorite author anymore.  Also, Dekker does present a fascinating moral dilemma.  How far would you go to protect your child?  Would you be willing to let another die in your child’s place?  Would you be willing to kill innocent people to save them?  I’ve found myself returning to this concept long after putting the book down. 

I give BoneMan’s Daughters by Ted Dekker 2 out of 5 stars.

I am writing this for All Hollow’s Eve; A time of mystery and mysticism, which this story will contain both. I want all of you to know there is more to me than laying people to rest. To understand a man’s mind, listen to his words.

The Gathering

They met in a heavily wooded forest, under the cloak of darkness atop an eerie peak. Those of the unseen world came from the four corners of the earth to unite for this one night, for their one night, to perpetuate the mayhem of past ages. They gathered in the stillness, hidden by the darkness of the night.

“This is our night” the leader atop the peak proclaimed with a guttural echo that could be heard throughout the forest.
“We will no longer hide from them, masking our presence, they will know us.” was his proclamation.

Flanking this big muscular creature were two vampires and a werewolf. The vampires looked to be in the prime of human life. They were beautiful. The woman’s long flowing hair and glowing eyes could spark a man to dare to dream of the possibilities of coupling with this death dealer; A serpent of sorts; a slender sylph with alabaster skin, full bosom, and pouty red lips. She wore red velvet cascading from her waif like form. The other vampire was a muscular male, pale skin with those same glowing eyes. He placed on display his well formed muscles absent his shirt wearing black leather pants.

The vampires stood to the right of their leader. They must have been made when they were young or from a time when people had to be fit to survive. The werewolf, standing to the left of the lead vampire, stood upright like a man but was in transformed state. Something only the king of the Lykens was capable of, his loyal subjects bowed to him and him alone. The vampire that spoke understood this lyken custom. The king of the vampires considered werewolves to be lower so he pardoned their flagrant disobedience.

After the self proclaimed leader of the unseen world spoke of the destruction and carnage to come, the werewolf howled bringing the crowd of vampires, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and many others to a grotesque definitive roar. They were united in their plans of annihilation of humans.

Together these creatures of the unseen world would reclaim the night of the dead. Make the living run and hide. Their night of revival, our night of survival.

Gilmar Rodrigues escreveu um livro para tentar entender por que Francisco de Assis Pereira, o Maníaco do Parque, recebeu mais de mil cartas de amor um mês depois de ter sido preso por estuprar e matar pelo menos dez mulheres. O livro se chama    “Loucas de Amor – mulheres que amam serial-killers e criminosos sexuais”. Saiba mais em http://e-paulopes.blogspot.com/2009/11/livro-diz-por-que-mulheres-tem-desejo.html

Siamo nella Londra di fine ‘800, i vicoli della East End, adornati da case fatiscenti, lottano contro le tenebre con i loro lampioni a gas senza sapere che la sconfitta era vicina…

Il suo volto rimarrà avvolto dal mistero, nessuno saprà mai il suo vero nome, ad eccezione però delle 5 vittime di questo mostro inglese.

4 omicidi non sono un numero eclatante per un serial killer, soprattutto nell’Inghilterra degli anni ‘80 del XIX secolo ma Lo Squartatore suscita ancora oggi interesse, sia per la sua identità mai svelata che per l’efferatezza  dei suoi delitti.

Le cinque prostitute, questa caratteristica conferma il movente sessuale, presentavano mutilazioni post mortem evidenziando aspetti ritualistici.La Nicholls venne sventrata così come la Chapman  ma con la differenza che la prima indossava un corpetto che impedì ogni tipo di mutilazione al di sopra del diaframma. Quando la ritrovarono, gli agenti di Scotland Yard videro l’orrore sul corpo della povera Chapman, i suoi intestini recisi e penzolanti da una spalla, l’utero tagliato e asportato.

Non andò meglio per la Eddowes, a cui venne asportato pure il rene sinistro molto gradito al crudele  Squartatore, che decise di far recapitare una lettera in cui faceva sapere quanto gli fosse piaciuto mangiarlo…

Con Mary Jane Kelly,l’ultima delle sue vittime, egli si presentò nella sua stanza e non aveva fretta….La rese irriconoscibile, la gola è stata tagliata tanto in profondità da far sembrare la donna decapitata ,le asportò il naso e i seni adagiandoli,come dei soprammobili, sul comodino vicino al letto imbrattato di sangue, insieme ad alcune striscie delle sue cosce.

La fronte scuoiata ,il ventre squartato, utero e fegato, posto in bella vista tra i piedi della ragazza, asportato.

Infine le tagliò una mano e la mise in fondo al ventre dilaniato.

Il rituale quindi era fondamentale per il serial killer , il suo modus operandi simile in tutti e cinque i delitti, stessa categoria di persone e stesso luogo in cui scegliere le proprie vittime…. Tutte queste caratteristiche  rappresentano i serial killer di sempre nella speranza però che vengano catturati e puniti e non, come in questo caso, lasciarti avvolti nel mistero per l’eternità….

I picked up The Pawn, by Steven James, during an Amazon “Freebie Sale”. What was funny about this is that I was actually looking at purchasing the book about a week prior, but was putting it off until my book budget caught up with my expenditures. Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.

The full title of the book is The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 1) because it is the beginning of a series featuring FBI Agent Patrick Bowers. In this first book, Agent Bowers must help track down a serial killer that leaves a yellow ribbon and a chess piece with each body.

4 3/4 Stars

Plot/Storyline: 4 3/4 Stars

An edgy mystery, this plot brings a little something extra to the serial killer genre. There are several unexpected twists and turns that Mr. James manages to maintain secrecy of even while telling a portion of the story from several viewpoints, including that of the killer.

The amount of research that went into the writing of this novel is strongly evident in many places. I always tell people that I read only fiction so that if I learn something, it will have been quite by accident. I have to admit that this book managed to not only entertain, but also slip in a little information that I didn’t know. The new, innovative process for tracking down serial killers was an added thrill.

The ending was a gripping, nail-biting scene. However, there was one portion that I found unbelievable. To avoid spoilers, I will not go into detail, but will just say that the unrealistic event could possibly have been avoided while still leaving the suspense and ending intact. Because it was not integral to the culmination of the ending, it didn’t spoil it for me.

The motives for murder were fantastic. I was truly impressed with the imagination involved with this.

Character Development: 5 Stars

Mr. James truly excels in the area of character development. Patrick Bowers is an engaging, believable character. His experiences and actions evoked true emotion.

Unlike in many adult books, Mr. James managed to portray an extremely realistic teenager in the chatacter of Bower’s daughter. She wasn’t too weak or too strong, just a typical teen. While shown to be very intelligent, that line wasn’t crossed into making her into some kind of genius.

Writing Style: 4 1/4 Stars

Two things bothered me regarding the writing style. The first was the odd, little insertions of Bower’s thoughts in italics here and there. While I love to know characters’ thoughts, the method of delivery tended to jolt me out of the story.

The other item was certain portions of the narrative told from the killer’s viewpoint in the beginning. Like most serial killers in novels, this one was extremely intelligent. However, in the beginning, when we are first introduced to him, he comes across as being more immature than later. The usage of exclamation points with certain statements in his thought processes just made him seem too childish to have pulled off these intricate murders.

Other than these two items, the writing style was excellent. The dialogue was very realistic with each character maintaining their own voice. The suspense was maintained throughout with terrific foreshadowing techniques.

Editing/Formatting: 5 Stars

Both were of professional quality.

Rating: R for Violence along with some Blood & Gore.

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I’m really looking forward to purchasing the next book in this series, The Rook. Mr. James obviously knows how to write smart thriller novels with intricate plots that operate outside of the normal serial killer genre.

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Here are some comments from the author, Steven James:

The Pawn is the first in my series of eight novels featuring FBI criminologist Patrick Bowers. He’s unique among detectives in novels and film because he doesn’t look for motive, use psychological profiling, or depend on DNA. Rather, he uses 21st century, cutting-edge geospatial investigative techniques to track serial offenders. It’s a little complex to explain in a short interview like this, but in essence he combines research in environmental criminology, the geography of crime, geospatial technology, and crime mapping and site analysis to zero in on the most likely location where the serial killer might live.

Although I’ve been writing for more than a decade, this series is the most exciting and challenging work I’ve ever worked on. Not only does it take a tremendous amount of research to craft the stories and stay up-to-date on emerging technologies, but the stories are multi-layered and include my (now!) trademark triple-twist endings that my readers have come to expect. It takes months to shape the stories, but in the end, I have to write the kind of stories I would want to read.

Readers often ask me what writers have inspired me, and honestly, it was short stories that got me interested in novels. When I was younger I would devour Alfred Hitchcock Magazine stories as well as Poe, Guy de Maupassant, and many others. My love of twist-endings and the tight writing style of short stories greatly influenced the way I craft my novels.

Currently, I live near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee with my wife and three daughters–two of whom are teenagers. Since Patrick Bowers has a teenage stepdaughter, you can only imagine how much material I’m mining from my own family.

The Pawn, by Steven James

Killing black women in south Los Angeles

In a case that is reminiscent of the police oversight in Cleveland, by being remise in their investigation of a series of missing women reports in the same neighborhood for over 15 years, they only recently were able to arrest convicted rapist Anthony Sowell for the killings.

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As in the Cleveland serial killer case, the perpetrator was able to get away with his murderous rampages for several years, due to the fact that police departments around the country continue to fail to follow-up and thoroughly investigate the murders, or the missing case reports, of black women that they deem to be street trash.

In Los Angeles, we see that black women are treated like dirt, as compared to the way a white women would be assisted, and if they go missing, it is the top priority for the department.

We see that with the mishandling of the Mitrice Richardson disappearance by the Malibu Police Department, after they released her after she clearly was acting disoriented as if her life and safety did not matter.

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In LA, the name of the serial killer is ‘The Grim Sleeper’. A citizens action group has been set up to keep a focus on finding and prosecuting this killer. In south LA, the police were not very quick to connect the dots to incriminate one killer.

The following is quoted from their website, http://www.blackcoalitionfightsback.org/, and I encourage you all to look at it and support their effort to capture this killer…

Because the killings were not connected as serial murders, the tragic enormity of the situation has been hidden and downplayed, and vital evidence, connections and patterns may have been missed.

 Public and media attention which would have been greater if the total numbers of deaths had been known, would have spurred the police into a more vigorous investigation. Lives might have been saved and the community better protected from further attacks.

The first set of murders was announced in the mid-1980s after eleven women had already been killed in a 40-mile radius in South L.A. The police falsely referred to the killer as the “Prostitute Slayer” a name then picked up by the press.

By the end of the 1980s the public was told that the murders committed by the South side Slayer were solved.

The police named the second set of murders the “Strawberry Murders” (a name given by LAPD because they said the victims were mainly women who exchanged sex for drugs). A Sheriff’s Deputy, Ricky Ross, was arrested and charged with three of the murders and then subsequently released for lack of credible evidence.

 After 11 dead victims and one surviving eyewitness, LAPD have finally re-released 1988 composite sketch of serial killer infamously known as the “Grim Sleeper.”

A well spoken, 20 or 30-year-old man began attacking women, typically those working as prostitutes in South Los Angeles in 1985. Police found fingerprints, DNA and other compelling evidence that point to the same killer. All victims, including the surviving woman, were shot with the same small-caliber gun.

One woman, ‘Enietra’ Margette, survived an attack in 1988. The alleged serial killer shot the victim in the chest and sexually assaulted her.

Families of several of the victims were never notified by law enforcement that their loved ones were killed by a serial murderer—and neither was the lone survivor of the attacks.

 Each was made to believe that it had been a random killer. Many families had to learn from press articles or from television! Crucial patterns of evidence have been missed.

The public is deeply disturbed by the lack of information released over the past 20 years. The  Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders challenged the LAPD to take more aggressive actions toward solving the cold cases.

According to reports, the police have recently released a 911 tape of witness who saw the driver of a van dump a body.

The Black Coalition begs the questions, “Why was so little done in 20 years to solve these murders?”

I know the answer to that is easy….”because it is easy for many in law enforcement to believe that black women are trash”….

Their treatment of our women proves this to be true.

Known Victims Of The Grim Sleeper

“This guy’s targeting people on the streets. Most of our girls have had issues with narcotics or prostitution, so it’s not so much that he’s creeping around, taking innocent mothers off the street. We suggest people just use caution when they’re out.”

“It’s the difference between the valuing of Black life versus the valuing of White life.

 Clearly if these were White women, as opposed to being Black women, especially if these were White women sort of in the working class, there would be an all-out onslaught. It would be national news … whether or not they were prostitutes,” said Atty. Gyamfi.

Family members of victims held a meeting with task force investigators to determine what else they didn’t know, like police had a composite sketch of the suspect but have never released it.

“They have a sketch that was done back in 1988 and that is something that normally you get out everywhere. You think about the Craig’s List killer, and how they had pictures of him and his head was always down or turned to the side. They didn’t care. They put that mess up and said if you have any information let us know,” she said.

And the 911 tape about Barbara Ware’s murder existed in the 1980s—but wasn’t made public until earlier this year.

LAPD is currently composing an updated sketch of the serial killer who may be in his late 40s to mid 50s now.

At the time of the eyewitness’s attack, the alleged murderer was described as well spoken, 20 to 30 years old, pockmarked face, between 5’8” to 5’10.” He was last seen driving an orange two-door 1970’s Pinto, hatchback with tinted windows and green interior.

Anyone with information is urged to contact 800 Task Force Detectives, Robbery-Homicide Division at (213) 473-0346 Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. During non-business hours, call the Detective Information Desk 877-LAPD-247.

If the murders had not happened in South L.A. against working-class Black women but in Beverly Hills or some other affluent neighborhood would they have been handled with the same lack of care and seriousness, would they be so under-reported by the media?

What do you think?

Source…

http://www.lawofficer.com/news-and- rticles/news/2009/11/lapd_releases_sketch_of_1985_serial_killer.html

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_6366.shtml

I denne uge har jeg taget en film, som går under et noget specielt navn, sådan bliver du seriemorder… Filmen handler om den meget karismatiske seriemorder Mike, som har besluttet at andre også skal have lov til at føle glæden ved at dræbe folk. Han finder derfor Bart, som er en Mr. Nobody, han arbejder i en videobutik, hvor folk ikke laver andet end at klage. Han lokker Bart til at blive hans lærling, ved at spørge hvad han ville gøre ved en sur kunde, hvis det nu aldrig blev opdaget, da han har sagt dette, går Mike ud og skyder en dårlig kunde, og Bart er med. Hans træning er delt op i flere kategorier, selve mordet, hvordan man vælger et offer, hvordan man skiller sig af med liget igen mm. Og det hele er fremstillet på en sjov måde, så man aldrig rigtigt tænker, Mike er den onde, man “glemmer” hvad det egentligt er han laver.
Filmen er generelt ret underholdende, især fordi det virkeligt ikke er noget man har set før, det er ikke bare endnu en ungdomskomedie, det er noget originalt, derfor får den 3/5 stjerner.

Ditlev

Title:
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
Rated:R
Directed by:
Richard Friedman
Written by:
Scott Schneid and
Fredrick R. Ulrich
Starring:
Derek Rydall as Eric Matthews
Rob Estes as Peter Baldwin
Pauly Shore as Buzz
Jonathan Goldsmith as Harv Posner
Kimber Sissons as Suzie

By Scott Foy aka The Foywonder

Pre-Screening Memories: Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge was one of numerous movies I would see commercials for on TV as a teen but the movies never came to a theater near me, but you better believe I was the first to rent them on the day they hit VHS. I also put the film firmly in the category of being one of those movies you want to be better than it actually is because you dig the premise and you still have a soft spot for it despite being fully aware of its many shortcomings. One more rewrite is probably all the film needed.

I was never completely sure if I was supposed to be rooting for or against Eric. He’s a movie slasher with a sense of righteousness, out for revenge against the greedy developers that tried to kill him and his parents by burning their house down in order to steal the land they need to build a new shopping mall and protecting the girlfriend who believes he is dead as she and a new hunk embark in a Scooby-Doo mystery to learn the truth about the house fire. But then he turns right around and becomes a psychopathic ex-boyfriend when she starts falling for the new guy.

I also never understood why he waited until the mall was built to strike. Where was he during that period of time and why didn’t he do everything in his power to sabotage the construction?

For that matter, how crummy must your town be if they believe a shopping mall alone will put them on the map and even the Mayor is willing engage in a murder conspiracy in order to make it happen?

There is no forgetting the signature scene of the film when Eric rappels from banners hung from the mall rafters and crashes through an office window in order to confront Mayor Morgan Fairchild, who was in on the arson conspiracy against he and his family, and then gorilla presses her above his head (quite a feat of strength given Eric never looked to be a physical powerhouse) and throws her out the two-story window to her death. I saw that scene on multiple TV movie and review shows at the time, which after seeing the movie for the first time struck me a dubious since they essentially gave away the end of the movie as a promotional clip.

Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge also featured in a supporting role a pre-MTV Pauley Shore in what may have been the least Pauley Shore-ish performance of his career. Eric does not kill him, and for that I am forced to further deduct points.

Other things I recall: the mall is the same from Chopping Mall, a pre-Silk Stalkings Rob Estes as the new love interest, not the best make-up job on Eric’s face (a big reveal in the movie given away on the VHS artwork), the lead actresses nude scenes being an obvious body double, and the awesome theme song played during the closing credits is almost worth the price of admission alone.

One last question I have always wondered about is why they included the “Eric’s Revenge” sub-title instead of just simply calling it Phantom of the Mall. Tacking on “Eric’s Revenge” to the title seemed a bad idea because it’s not a sequel and the name Eric is hardly distinct. I wasn’t going to see that Phantom of the Mall flick but now that I know Eric will be getting his revenge…

Download Natsukashi’s ‘Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge ‘podcast here

or have a listen at our own little on-site food court below:

Our featured guest: Derek Rydall

Derek is the titular “hero” (though much better looking than the film’s poster would have you believe) and has since gone on to help others in the industry, publishing two best-selling books (There’s No Business Like Soul Business and I Could’ve Written a Better Movie Than That and operating two sites, ScriptwriterCentral.com and EnlightenedEntertainer.com to help others recognize their potential. Derek had some rather interesting tales of what was originally planned for Phantom that would have further cemented its cult status.

Thanks again, Derek. Revenge was sweet,

La rabbia giovane (Badlands, 1973) di Terence Malick

Il Nebraska non è una terra facile da vivere, così come non lo sono in generale le periferie di questo pianeta.  E il destino dei suoi abitanti a volte sembra essere scritto nei propri cognomi, come accade a l protagonista Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen), il cui nome, come suggerisce il ragazzo stesso, sembra essere “carrozziere”.  In realtà il 25enne lavora come netturbino ma è scontento del suo lavoro e della vita che conduce in questa cittadina del Nebraska. Tutto questo fino a quando incontra la ragazza che le cambierà la vita: la giovanissima (appena 15 anni) Holly Sargis.

Tra i due nascerà una storia d’amore silente e straziante, fatta di poche parole e ancor meno effusioni. E forse errato anche chiamarlo amore, perchè la ragazza ammira nel giovane soprattutto la somiglianza che ha con la star hollywoodiana James Dean. Ma se l’attore americano era divenuto celebre per la sua interpretazione di Rebel Without a Cause (Gioventù bruciata), i due ragazzi diventeranno protagonisti di una nuova storia che si potrebbe intitolare “Assassini senza motivo”.  In effetti, più che la passione, è la violenza gratuita che traspare negli atti dei due ragazzi, una freddezza spietata che porterà ad uccidere 11 persone, tra cui, per primo, il padre di Holly Sargis.

L’alienazione che Terrence Malick mostra è inquietante, nessuna giustificazione agli atti di violenza, nessun idillio per i due fidanzati, nessun senso di colpa per gli atti di brutalità che seminano nel loro percorso. Il loro, in effetti, è un viaggio nel nulla. Le frontiere in Nebraska sono inesistenti, così come lo sono i pionieri, sostituiti da fantocci nati per emulazione, marionette che sembrano muoversi all’interno di una pellicola senza regista, frutto di un montaggio casuale. Anche il rapporto uomo-natura è annullato. La natura non è ostile e non è amica, è solo un grosso nulla che icombe, che osserva l’uomo consumarsi nella sua disperazione. Forse può essere un riparo dalla legge ma alla fine dalla legge non si vuol scappare.

Il giovane Carruthers terrorizzò l’america assonnata del dopoguerra a suoni di pallottole, la destò dalla noia e dal torpore e regalò uno scenario brutale di sangue e violenza. Questo era il suo messaggio, questa la sua bruta e spietata fantasia. Il film di Malick è ispirato, in effetti, ad un storia veria, quella del giovane Charles Starkweather e Caril Ann che nell’inverno del 1957 seminarono il terrore negli Stati Uniti. La storia è così brutale che nemmeno a Quentin Tarantino sarebbe saltata in mente di scriverla, e infatti, il giovane sceneggiatore si limitò a registrarla riadattandola per la stesura di Natual Born Killer (1994). Anche il Boss ne rimase colpito fortemente e ne trasse una splendida canzone, Nebraska, che diede il titolo a uno degli album più belli della storia del rock.

Testo Nebraska di Bruce Springsteen

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Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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Dex continues to insinuate himself into Trinity’s life and makes some startling discoveries. His family isn’t picture perfect. According to his son, he beats and terrorizes them. Even Dex finds this appalling. He sticks around for Thanksgiving to get the full skinny on Trinity, only to have his Dark Passenger wrench itself loose to stop Trinity from killing his son.

That’s not the only shocker in this episode. Elliott, the single neighbor, makes his move on Rita and kisses her. Deb starts piecing stuff together and figures out who shot her. There’s more to Christine than meets the eye. There is something wrong with her and now we find out what: she’s Trinity’s daughter and she shot Lundy and Deb.

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Dex is spying on Trinity again. He sees him breaking some of his son’s baseball trophies for being bad at baseball. Dexter goes after him. He sees him hitting some baseballs. He also sees him take a baseball bat at his father’s Mustang GT500. Jonah says that his father hits him. Jonah says that living with his father is like a tour of duty. He treats his father and his sister like shit. Jonah says that he could come by for Thanksgiving.

Deb tells Dex that she is lead detective on the Trinity case. Baptista informs the squad that the DNA sweeps are like Christmas for their cases. They are closing a lot of open cases. They’ve got 72 hours before the sweeps are stopped because the ACLU, which is filling suit. Deb says that she isn’t coming for Thanksgiving. Dex has his kids record a plaintive video message. Deb gets it and invites Matsuka to come.

Christine wants to spend Thanksgiving with Quinn, but it’s too much of a commitment initially for him.

Elliott is over again. He is helping prepare the turkey. He’s insinuating himself into Rita’s life. Dex doesn’t sense it yet.

It’s time for Thanksgiving. Deb arrives at Dexter’s. She surprised to find Elliott there. Matsuka arrives. Rita and Elliott leave to use both of his ovens.

Dex is at Trinity’s. It’s not a smart idea. Dex finds the wooden coffin that Trinity made. Jonah arrives. Trinity sees the GT500. It’s covered in dents and the windshield is broken. Since Dex is here, Trinity doesn’t go all mental. I wonder if Jonah was telling the truth.

Deb realizes that Trinity is on a school schedule. He’s in the education system. That’s why his kills happen on specific days.

Quinn decides that having a hot girlfriend isn’t a bad idea. She gives him head.

Dex finds out that Trinity locks his daughter in her room. The room isn’t really like a teenager’s. The cracks aren’t apparent. While Dex is outside with the daughter, Trinity breaks his son’s finger. The girl wants to get away from her family. She propositions him. Dex says that she’s 15. He refuses. Sally comes out. She apologizes for Rebecca. She begs him not to say anything to Arthur.

There is a family emergency with Cody and the kids. He needs to leave. Elliott had to break down the door to get Cody out. He fell through the skylight. He comes back inside and finds Jonah taping up his finger.

Angel tells Maria that he loves her. She returns the favor.

Elliott makes his move on Rita. He kisses her. She runs off. Matsuka sees this. He tries to leave, but Deb forces him to stay.

Things get ugly during Thanksgiving dinner at Trinity’s. Jonah says that he is a killer. Trinity hurls his daughter away. Trinity starts to strangle Jonah. Dex gets him off and he almost kills him. He doesn’t have the chance. The family is there. The Harry-in-Dexter says that he’s shown his monster to Trinity. He’ll see him coming. Dex comes home.

Deb realizes that Christine knows something about the Lundy shooting. She knew that Deb looked directly in Lundy’s eyes while he died. Christine mentioned this to her earlier that day. She’s the shooter. Deb calls Quinn to see if she saw the file. She didn’t. Deb is onto her. Deb realizes this after Cody was asking her questions about getting shot and looking at Lundy’s eyes while he was dying.

Trinity comes to see Christine. She’s his other daughter. OMG. That’s messed up. A happy serial killer family.

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Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

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* * * * *

Dex and Trinity go on a road trip. Trinity makes some startling revelations. Dex learns that there is a reason why he did this. Deb makes a discovery about who shot her. It’s not Trinity, so it gets her back onto the Trinity case. One of the kids’ friends dad hits heavily on Rita while Dex is away. She doesn’t know what to do with all of this male attention.

Deb’s colorful language is always a highlight in any Dexter episode. It was particularly noticeable in this episode. I jotted down the best ones. It would have been simpler for Dex just to let Trinity die. That would have solved his problems and gotten rid of Trinity. It was a bad move for him.

This was a good, yet frustrating episode. Now that Trinity no longer has any ash, will his killings stop, or will he just evolve?

* * * * *

The squad is investigating Farrow’s disappearance. It’s been turned into a homicide, much to Dex’s chagrin, who killed him by mistake. During the meeting, Deb presents her serial bludgeoning case. During the case presentation, she mistakenly shows one of the bathtub murders. LaGuerta is quick and notices the smudge present there too. She wants Morgan to tell them the whole story. Deb obliges. She tells them about Trinity. LaGuerta buys it, but she isn’t happy with the way that Deb went about it.

Dex pops by Trinity’s place. Trinity is starting to crack. Dex thinks that it makes him look normal. Trinity is going to Tampa alone. Dex needs to go to so that he can take care of Trinity.

Deb tells Dex that LaGuerta took her off the case because she was the victim of Trinity. Dex finds some weather conference to go to. Trinity is also packing his killing tools. He’s running out of his sister’s ashes. What will he do when he runs out? Instead of following him around, Dex convinces him to give him a lift to Tampa. Dex is treading dangerously. He is annoying a very successful serial killer. He tells Trinity that he killed a man during a hunting accident. Trinity says that the remorse and guilt is eating away at him.

Deb tells Quinn to try for DNA sweeps on tall, blue-eyed Caucasians. Dex wants to go out shopping when Trinity asks him out. He says that he’s got a surprise for him in store.

While Maria and Angel are trying to find money in the budget for the DNA sweeps, a tipsy Quinn walks in to inform them that a bunch of guys will donate their vacation days. Angel and Maria get busy in the conference room.

Quinn is woken up by Christine desperately looking for a lead. While they get busy, she sees his paperwork and sees that he’s going to do some DNA sweeps.

Trinity takes Dex away with him. He’s got his tools with him. Dex doesn’t suspect a thing.

Matsuka tells Quinn about Leila. Dex was seeing a crazy Leila while he was dating Rita.

Trinity takes Dex to his old house. He grew up here. Trinity just barges in. He goes to the bathroom and recounts how his sister died while he was peeping on her taking a shower. He tells how his parents blamed him. His mother committed suicide. His father beat him relentlessly. He was mean drunk. Trinity killed him. He doesn’t say this. Trinity says that he never told anyone about this.

Christine comes to bug Deb. In order to stop her from reporting about this, Deb capitulates and offers her the hero interview.

While Dex goes to check in at the conference and create his alibi, he comes back and finds Trinity pontificating to some random family about his sister dying. Dex takes him away. It looks like the walls in Trinity’s psyche are breaking down.

Fuck me. Mother shit fuck.
Deb in the bathroom

Deb notices something about her wound. The trajectory doesn’t match Trinity’s height. From their evidence, they know that Trinity is 6’4”. From the trajectory, the shooter is Matsuka’s height. Considerably lower. It wasn’t Trinity who shot Lundy and Deb.

Rita’s neighbor took Astor and Cody out for fishing. They have a family dinner after they come back when he offers to gut the fish.

Dex finds Trinity gone from his room. He’s on foot with his killing tools. Dex finds him at the building site. Trinity is about to jump off the building. Dex saves him. He’s about to let go when workers come to help him out. That was a stupid move by Dex. He should have just let him jump. Dex is an idiot. He wanted to kill him himself. Before trying to jump off, Trinity dropped the bottle containing the last of his sister’s ashes.

LaGuerta tells Deb that since there is no longer a conflict of interest, she can work the Trinity case.

-Nobody know this case better than you. You’re taking lead.
-Motherfucker, really?
LaGuerta to Deb

When Dex and Trinity drive home, they face the random DNA sweeps. Dex lets Trinity know what the roadblock is so that he drives the other way.

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A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

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* * * * *

Dex has a new target and delays taking on Trinity to study him further. He doesn’t know that he’s arousing Trinity’s suspicion. Trinity has been a serial killer for decades. Dexter’s appearance won’t strike him as coincidence once he starts putting two and two together. Meanwhile, Quinn is following Dexter. He thinks that something is up with him. This doesn’t look good for Dex. Luckily, Dex spots him quickly enough.

* * * * *

Dex is relaxing with his family on his boat when he gets a call for another body. A man shot a gator. The gator had the arm of a woman inside of it. Dex is overwhelmed by the kids after coming home. It’s like he has two jobs. Being a father is hard work. For some reason, Dexter asks Trinity’s advice. He tells him that his kids have outside interests.

Deb comes back to the station. Dex warns Christine off from pursuing her article. He makes it clear to Quinn that he doesn’t want Christine around Deb.

Let’s all welcome back Detective Fucking Morgan!
LaGuerta to her crew

They’ve identified the arm. It’s from Estrella Carazo, a Nicaraguan student that was here on an expired visa. She had a fashion shoot with Jonathan Farrow. He was accused of rape, but the charges were dropped. The detective on that case said that the witness was bought off.

Dex starts getting focused on Farrow, who says something completely inappropriate to her during the interview. Harry-in-Dexter wonders why he isn’t getting ready to kill Trinity. Dex tells himself that Harry didn’t teach him everything. He taught him to be alone and that he couldn’t be with anyone.

Dex decides to try and find stuff for the kids to do. Cody likes the Sailing Club that Dex found for him. Astor isn’t impressed with Dex’s choices for her.

Dex meets up with Trinity to cut down a tree. It’s just getting creepy and dangerous. Trinity tells Dex not to suggest things to Astor, but impose them. Trinity is getting worrisome. Dex is pushing his buttons. On the way back, they hit a deer. Trinity can’t kill it, so Dex has to do it.

Angel has found 3 other models from South America that have mysteriously disappeared. They were all models for Farrow. Dex investigates Farrow’s studio. He finds splatter evidence and a fingernail, which matches Estrella’s arm.

By interfering with Trinity, Dex might have changed the way he behaves. He’s getting quite worked up.

Deb meets Valerie. She says that she was one of his girlfriends. She says that he picked his CIs by how good he was in the sack. It’s too much. She tells Dex. Deb says that she should just leave it alone. Dex agrees. He finds his mother’s file on top of Deb’s pile. He starts to shred it. He keeps the photo.

Dex learns that he has to go with Cody to the sailing thing. She says that he can’t cancel. He has to go with Cody. This puts his plans with Farrow in jeopardy. Actually, he uses the excuse to prep his supplies for the trip to go examine Farrow. He’s got no idea that Quinn is following him. He spots Quinn in the bar. Dex uses a hot girl to ditch Quinn. Quinn knows that he’s been made.

Dex goes out with Cody the next morning. Deb presents her ideas on Trinity to LaGuerta. She gets the OK to start an investigation. It’s limited and Deb kept out her theory about Trinity shooting her and Lundy. Quinn looks like an ass in front of Angel and Deb does the same for LaGuerta.

Dex skips out while the kids are sleeping to deal with Farrow. He takes him out and dumps the body. Trinity used the lumber to create a coffin.

Dex comes back and finds out that Angel had Farrow’s assistant arrested for the murders. This means that Dex killed an innocent man.

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A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

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* * * * *

Rita finds out about Dex’s apartment and he’s in deep trouble. Meanwhile, Dex starts to study Trinity. He’s astounded at what he learns. He’s got a loving family, a career and fits in generally. Dex wants to learn more.

* * * * *

Dexter is going to Trinity’s church. He’s a deacon and a teacher. Rita is still angry with Dex for keeping his apartment. Rita made an appointment for them with a therapist.

Deb needs a ride to the station. Dex is called to a bludgeoning. Deb knew where this would happen. Dex is trying to get the beat on Trinity, but Matsuka is fast.

Angel is getting a promotion and a desk job out of homicide. He isn’t disappointed. He tells Maria that she did the right thing telling Matthews.

Matsuka found out that the smudge that Dex found was DNA. The smudge is composed of saliva and human bone fragments. Angel sends Deb home.

Dex is in deep shit with Rita about the apartment. Dex is trying to study Trinity.

Deb asks Quinn about going on the record and saying that she saw Rhodes shooting her and Lundy. Quinn’s girlfriend also wants to interview Deb.

Matsuka learns that the killer is related to the remains. Dex decides to work with Trinity on some housing project that he’s involved in. Dex talks with the kids as well.

Instead of leaving it alone, Deb goes to question Nikki. She tells her that she will say that she saw her.

La Guerta tells Matthews that she wants to transfer out of homicide. Matthews isn’t too keen on the idea. He’ll let her know what he decides. She tells Angel. She doesn’t want him to leave homicide. She should have just kept quite. That would have solved their problems. They both tell Matthews that they broke up. They’ve got sworn affidavits. He tells them if they are lying, there will be severe consequences.

Dex is trying to learn to open up to others. Trinity can do this without problems. He needs to learn to do this as well. He’s used to keeping everything inside.

Matsuka finds out that the smudged DNA is female. Deb tells Quinn that she isn’t going to lie about seeing Nikki. She thinks that Nikki is right. Someone else killed Lundy. Deb is going over Lundy’s file. She says that some things are missing, including notebooks and audio tapes.

Dex finds out that Arthur Mitchell’s sister was found dead in a bathtub 1959. Marcia Mitchel jumped to her death in 1961. Henry Mitchell died in an alley of a fatal head wound in 1964. He’s recreating their deaths, decade after decade.

Dex cuts himself to find out where Trinity keeps his killing tools. Trinity’s trophies are hidden in plain sight. He doesn’t need to hide things. Dex provokes Trinity by touching the urn of her ashes. Arthur almost crushes his larynx, but is able to reign in his anger. Trinity says that he jumped in with both feet. His family saved him. Before leaving, Trinity gives him some tools. He gives him the murder weapon.

Dex has an epiphany about his family. He shares this in his next therapy session. He says that he wants space to store his stuff, physical and emotional.

-Have you told LaGuerta your theory?
-Not yet. Need to make sure that I have a case first, I don’t want to step on my dick.
Deb and Dex talking

Deb and Dex talk. She tells him that she believes that Trinity killed Lundy and shot her, after he stole some of the evidence that Lundy had amassed on him.

Dex and Rita build a shed for him to store his stuff. Much to his surprise, Rita gives him a padlock to lock it up and keep it away from the kids.

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* * * * *

LaGuerta tells the brass about her relationship with Angel. This won’t be pretty. Deb was shot in the last episode. She’s still alive, but Lundy was killed. Trinity outplayed Lundy easily, because he wasn’t astute enough.

* * * * *

Dexter arrives on scene. Some idiot uniform tries to stop him from seeing Deb. Deb is still alive. Lundy is dead. The MO smells like the Vacation Murderer. LaGuerta and Angel send him to the hospital. Lundy was shot twice. Deb was left alive. It sounds like the MO.

Christine arrives to see Quinn. Dex checks Lundy’s hotel room. He made his life to search for Trinity. Dex takes his evidence.

Rita answers Dex’s phone and learns that Dex still has his apartment. Deb wakes up. She didn’t need surgery, just a couple of stitches. Anton arrives, as well as Rita. Rita tells him about the pipe bursting at his apartment. Rita wants to talk about it later. Deb tells Anton that she slept with Lundy. She wants to break up with him.

LaGuerta told the brass that she made disclosure about their relationship. The Deputy Chief is waiting and hovering around. Baptista planted a story about Johnny Rhodes in the papers, using Christine. It may pit Nikki against Johnny.

Dex is at his place. It’s no more his sanctuary. He needs it for his Dark Passenger. Deb calls him. She needs him to pick her up. She also needs a place to stay. Dex is starting to listen to Lundy’s tapes. Dex figures out that Lundy was killed by Trinity because he go too close. Lundy couldn’t put together the pieces.

Trinity is shopping for hammers. Dex is staking out Trinity’s next murder place. He realizes that he doesn’t have all of Lundy’s tapes. The last one must be in his recorder, which is locked into evidence.

Quinn is giving Christine some head. They start their relationship back up. Deb stays at Dex’s place. She senses some tension between Dex and Rita. Dex manages to stall her.

Angel and LaGuerta have made up. Dex manages to swipe the tape easily enough. Trinity gets the skinny on the office building. He gets a tour and a lot of info on how to get in.

Rita asks Deb if she knew about Dex’s apartment. Deb is punishing herself by not taking her pain pills. Dex listens to the tape. Lundy ID his encounter with Trinity. There is a shooting at a motel. It’s Johnny Rhodes. Matsuka works the scene. He was shot 3 times. Nikki is cornered behind a liquor store. Quinn tasers her.

Quinn phones Deb that they got Nikki and Rhodes. Deputy Chief Matthews wants a word with LaGuerta. Matthews says that Angel will have to be transferred out of homicide. He will get a promotion included in the transfer.

Deb talks with Dex. She’s freaking out. She tells him that she is broken. He replies that he is. He comes to his apartment and finds Rita waiting for him. She went through his stuff and didn’t find anything. He opens his trunk and there is a gun in there. He says that he wasn’t comfortable bringing it home. Rita says that she is seeing how good he is at lying. He should sleep here tonight. When he comes home, they’ll have a lot of work in order to make their marriage work.

Dex arrives at the building. He’s too late. Trinity is already killing the sandwich guy by bludgeoning him to death. The security guard is fine. Dex goes to the security desk and sees Trinity doing his dirty work. He follows him in his van. He leaves the city. He goes to a home in the suburbs. He’s got a wife and a family.

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* * * * *

Dex confronts a serious killer in this episode. Zoe is a cop gone bad and Dex has his sights set on her, but she’s wary of people poking in her life and Dex arouses her suspicion.

* * * * *

Dex is taking some time off from his family. He’s staying home while they are going to a wedding. The kids left him a present. It’s an “I Love Dad” mug. He’s got 72 hours alone. Dex will be recharging with Zoe Kruger. Her family got killed while she survived. Zoe’s husband and daughter were shot and killed. She was shot twice. The blood swipe at the scene belongs to a drug dealer named Ray. The blood guy’s theory is that Zoe planted the evidence. Ray was killed in a drug related incident.

Dex comes to his lab and finds his sister and Lundy looking through some photos. Quinn’s reporter fuckbuddy put Lundy on the front page. They are hiding from LaGuerta, who tells Lundy that his visitor’s badge has expired.

Trinity is staking out his next murder. He sees Lundy on the cover of the paper. LaGuerta tells Angel that they should inform the brass about their relationship. Angel is against this. He messes it up.

Dex finds out that Zoe was still wearing gloves when she shot herself.

Anton isn’t happy that Deb is spending so much time with her ex Lundy. She tries to reassure her, but Anton knows her pretty well.

Trinity provokes a drunk to rough him up a bit. Dex visits Zoe’s house. Dex meets her. She offers to give him a tour. Her story is that she’s separated and her daughter is with him. That doesn’t make any sense. Usually, realtors have to make full disclosures about murders that happened in their houses. Dex thinks that the gloves that Zoe used are in the garbage disposal. He finds some trace evidence just in time before Zoe walks in.

Lundy and Deb figured out where Trinity will strike next. There is some obvious sexual tension. He tells her about his feelings and it makes Deb uncomfortable. She leaves.

Angel tells Dex about LaGuerta. Angel wants to keep their relationship private. He doesn’t want the brass to know. It’s kind of ridiculous.

Quinn tells his reporter buddy Christine that he doesn’t want to work it out with her. She messed it up by reporting their pillow talk. Dex finds some blood on the glove he found in Zoe’s garbage disposal.

Lundy is at the site of the bar, which isn’t a bar anymore. Trinity is there and spots him from a distance. Trinity runs into him to provoke a meeting. Lundy is suspicious and follows him to a bus.

Dex gets stopped by a cop. It must be Zoe. She found out about Dex being a blood spatter analyst. Zoe knows that he has her file. She threatens him. Dex wants to call it off. Harry doesn’t let him. He needs to take care of her. Dex comes up with a plan. He asks for Ray’s file. He’s batting the beehive. The record clerk tells Zoe.

LaGuerta talks with Dex. She knows that he knows about her relationship with Angel. He tells her that he never leaves anything to chance. Krueger comes snooping around again. She’s out of her jurisdiction. He tells her that he’s got proof that she killed her family. There was blood on her glove in her garbage disposal. Also, there was gun residue on it. He’s going to tell his superiors in the morning. She pulls a gun on him. She dares him to tell them.

Deb turns up at Lundy’s place and starts to kiss him. He called her earlier to tell her about Trinity.

Dex is waiting for Krueger. She comes to his house with the intention of killing him and making it look like a home invasion gone wrong. She’s no match for him. He gets her quickly enough. She wakes up in Dex’s kill position. He’s made is so that they will believe that she went to the Philippines. There is no extradition theory. The glove evidence is back in her place. He also packed her a suitcase. Her car will be left in the port.

While taunting her, Dex realizes that he’d rather have his family find out the truth than lose them. The house is a mess. Dex has to scramble to clean it up. Rita and the kids arrive. They are beat.

Deb says goodbye to Lundy and gets shot by Trinity. Lundy also gets shot. Trinity takes his valuables. We don’t see Trinity’s face, but it’s obvious that it’s him.

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Quinn tries to bribe Dex, but it doesn’t work. Trinity is in full swing. Things just get worse for Dexter in this episode.

* * * * *

Dex is at a backyard BBQ in his new neighborhood. Rita tells Dexter that she talked with his doctors. She says that she will be driving him around, as per his doctor’s orders. There is a neighborhood vandal.

Meanwhile, the Trinity killer is getting ready to kill another victim. He throws her down a building. He actually makes her jump.

Dexter’s door gets marked. Getting driven around by his wife is slowly driving Dexter insane. At the precinct, they’ve come up empty on Johnny Rhodes. Quinn bribes Dex with some tickets to the Dolphins. Dex gives them to Matsuka.

Dex and Deb takes the next victim of the Trinity killer. Lundy arrives on the scene. Her name is Tarla Grant. Lundy thinks that she is married with two kids. Maybe there were other murders that happened here.

Matsuka gives Dex a ride home. He arrives to a neighborhood watch meeting. He sees that Astor little friend has spray paint on his shoes. He takes his soda can to match with a spray can that he found on his property. They actually match up. That means that Jesse Brightman is the vandal.

There is a matching suicide 30 years ago at the same place. Anton arrives at the station to have lunch with foul-mouthed Deb. They join Dex, and Lundy pops in as well.

LaGuerta and Angel take the opportunity to go out on a case and play hookie. They check up on an old flame of Rhodes. She isn’t home. They find Nikki and Rhodes, who immediately starts firing at them. They both start shooting at them. They return fire and pursue. They get away in a car.

At his house, Dex is trying to catch Jesse in the act. Dex gets spotted by the neighbor hood watch and has to run off. The vandal struck again. It’s getting more dangerous.

Deb can’t believe the evidence that Matsuka has gathered. With the autopsy report, it means that it’s a suicide. LaGuerta wants her to work on another case. Quinn is in Dex’s face. Dex tells him that he doesn’t give a shit that Quinn is dirty.

Dex tells Deb that fear is a powerful motivator. Grant might have been compelled to jump.

Quinn is getting massaged by his topless girl. He makes the mistake of unloading on her, and she is recording this in her mind for a big story.

It turns out that the vandal is Jesse’s father. While he comes back, he breaks the security floodlights that his neighbor installed. Rita sees him.

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Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

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Dex has an accident with body parts in his car. They are mysteriously gone. What happened? Meanwhile, Angel and LaGuerta are still sleeping together. Quinn is seen by Dex taking some money from a crime scene.

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Dex wakes up with first responders getting him out of his car. The highway patrol officers give Dex the meds for Harrison. Dex wonders where his car will go. Dex sustains a concussion. The doc isn’t letting Dex leave. He has to be under observation for 12 hours. Dex leaves the hospital. He needs to stay awake and deal with Benny’s remains.

Angel has to leave before LaGuerta so that they don’t arouse suspicion. They are still sleeping together.

The Trinity Killer has spotted his next victim.

Dex has got to get to Benny’s body. It isn’t in his car. He finds his kill tools though. This means the body was thrown free of the car while it was tumbling. Angel calls him to go onto another murder scene. Another tourist caught a bullet.

If you smell me again, I’ll punch you in the throat.
Deb

LaGuerta tells Angel that she is going to take the lead on the Vacation Killer. She promised it to the mayor.

Dex hallucinates Harry while trying to find Benny’s body parts. Dex is dizzy. The bags aren’t at the accident site. He can’t remember what he did with the body because of his concussion.

Deb tells Lundy that the guy who killed Noonan in ’79 is out of jail. She had him picked up. Lundy wants to tag along.

Quinn opens the victim’s safe and palms a few hundred dollar bills that he found in there. Dex sees him. Dex also finds some blood on a cactus.

Noonan’s convicted killer is Noonan. He copped a plea because the jury was stacked against him. Florida is a death penalty state. Lundy thinks that Noonan didn’t kill his wife. He asks Deb out for dinner to talk about the case. Deb hesitates, because she is seeing Anton tonight, but agrees nonetheless.

Dex arrives at his crime scene and does some cleaning up. He can’t find the body. He goes to the pharmacy. Rita sees Dex’s car. She is shocked. Dex told her that it was a fender bender. Quinn apologizes to Dex for riding his ass about getting his testimony wrong.

The blood on the cactus doesn’t match anything in the database. LaGuerta warns Quinn to keep his mouth shut while he bangs the reporter. Deb asks LaGuerta for advice. She drops by to see Lundy to tell him that she doesn’t want to hook up with him. Lundy tells Deb that the bathtub murders are connected to a series of murders all over the country. He shows her some of the evidence he has amassed. Deb leaves. She feels very embarrassed. Rita and Harrison drop by the precinct. Dex makes a break in the case. He finds an STD in the cactus blood. He cross checks this with the health board and finds a perp, Johnny Rose. Quinn wants to weasel into Dex’s confidence, but Dex has got too much on

Angel didn’t like how LaGuerta took him off the case, so they decide to take a break, but then they don’t. Mastuka has been watching this.

Anton finally comes home.

Lundy calls Dex. He wants to talk about Trinity. Meanwhile, Dex has come back to the boxing ring. Dex says that he can’t tonight. Meanwhile, Trinity finds his next target.

Dex finally finds the body. He drops him in the water. Dex goes home to finally sleep. He immediately gets woken up by Harrison.

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Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

Dexter is driving around. Harrison isn’t sleeping yet. Meanwhile, a new serial killer is in town. He just got into a girl’s place and stripped naked. When she comes to the bathroom, he chokes her and cuts the femoral artery in the bath. He looks at her dying face with a mirror. The water turns red.

Dexter wakes up very tired. Astor is getting into her teens. Dexter is going to court today. They are living in a new place. Carpools and swimming pools. In court, Dex messes up. He mixed up the names of two perps. This means that his analysis is inadmissible.

Anton and Deb are fooling around. Deb is still going around meeting her father’s old CIs. Quinn is in Dex’s face for messing up. Messing up makes Gomez a target.

They are called to the next case. It was the new killer. Miss Belle was just promoted to sous-chef. Quinn meets a hot reporter. He gives her his number.

Deb is up to her crude self swearing around. Dex is yawning in the lab. He plans on doing some recon on Gomez before going home. He takes photos of his son with his crime scene camera. Julie Benz is so hot that it’s scary. LaGuerta and Angel are hooking up.

At the Lisa Belle crime scene, Dex finds another blood stain. Special Agent Lundy arrives to see Dex. This means that it’s another serial killer. That would be the only reason why Lundy is in town. He wants to drop by the station.

Deb meets one of her dad’s CIs. She didn’t have an affair with her father. Angel gets a new case. He’s not happy with this because it’s going to be a hard one to solve. They’ve got no evidence and no witnesses. It’s just a tourist that was killed.

Dex has found a place to kill Gomez. It’s an abandoned boxing ring. He sets it up but falls asleep while waiting for Gomez. A cop wakes him up. Gomez gets away. Rita wants to have sex. They get woken up by Harrison.

The hot reporter asks Quinn out. Matsuka tells Dex that the blood they discovered doesn’t have any viable DNA. Dex looks up the address and they find that a girl named Vicki Noonan was killed in 1979 the same way that Lisa Belle was killed. At that moment, Lundy appears. He’s retired and needs Dex’s help. The killer is called the Trinity Killer and, as the name implies, he kills in threes. Trinity is back where he started out. He’s come full circle. He’s the most successful serial killer in history.

Dex can’t pick up Morgan at the bar, so he has to get him from his trailer park. He takes him to the boxing ring. Rita calls him to get some medicine for Harrison. Dex has got no time to enjoy this.

On the way home, he falls asleep on the wheel and has an accident with his murder kit in his trunk.

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(from Twitter, obviously, via the very handy Tweetshots utility)

NOV27, 7-10pm LANGLEY ARTS TALKS: Pamela Masik, artist of the painting series The Forgotten: Vancouver’s missing women. Talks beside Fort Pub, Glover Rd $7 OR$5/members

From her website, more information on the project:

THE FORGOTTEN is a large-scale, powerful series of portraits of women’s faces. Sixty-nine portraits, to be precise – the number of women from Vancouver’s downtown eastside who have been missing for more than a decade. The majority of them have now been identified, yet the public’s knowledge of them has, for the most part, consisted of small police photos aligned in a grid on a poster, showing most of them as blurred and haggard representations at their worst.

At one time these women had multiple faces and roles in the community. They left thousands of memories and historical details. They were mothers, friends, wives or daughters. They had run from abusive relationships, they were drug addicts, mentally challenged, or had families to support and little means to do it other than prostitution. Many were First Nations people. At this point, 26 of the missing women have been identified as slain by Port Coquitlam farmer Robert Pickton.

And here is my own post about my run-in with Pickton. My book, by the way, is called Terminal City: Vancouver’s Missing Women, so I already feel we’re on the same page. I highly recommend checking out the video on her website.

O Cine Hall está de volta depois de tanto tempo, não com um estouro das bilheterias dos ultimos tempos, sim com  um “thiller” com a elegância eo charme de poucos que já vi por ai.Instinto secreto (ou Mr. Brooks no original) é daqueles filmes que não o faz desgrudar os olhos da tela, Kevin Costner tambem crava-lhe os olhos de um modo perturbardor mas sedutor ao mesmo tempo, somos capazes de ficar intimo deste homem de familia e profissional respeitado na sociedade, mesmo sabendo que ele é um serial Killer “de luxo” que nunca foi pêgo e nunca será, mas assustador é Marshall,”alter ego” Do Sr.Brooks que aparece sempre como se realmente estivesse ali,curioso temer Marshall, visto que ele não passa de uma vertente da mente do Sr.Brooks, mas volta  e meia nos perguntamos; “quem é Marshall?” e nunca viemos a saber de fato.Temos uma visão panorâmica de como funciona a mente destes assassinos por natureza que volta e meia aparecem nos noticiários norte americanos e dão dor de cabeça ao FBI, que no filme tem a “maozinha” da detetive/policial Demi moore, o tipo de mulher que sempre iriamos querer por perto, ela quase chega a exelência intelectual do Sr. brooks de Costner, se não fosse policial concerteza teria vocação para serial Killer, ela sim daria mais medo que o olhar de homem correto do Sr.brooks. Nada no filme é superficial e é tudo sobre medida incluindo trilha sonora e fotografia, tem a satisfação de uma receita que esta no ponto, suspenses a sim são raros, de tamanho deleite, para nos expectadores que fica a satisfação de saber que o crime perfeito no cinema realmente compensa.

The Sun reports -

Like many adopted children, Matthew Roberts set about finding his biological parents with a mix of nerves and excitement. In particular, he hoped that discovering his father’s identity would help him to work out what made him the man he had become. But nothing could have prepared him for being told his dad was… serial killer CHARLES MANSON.

Matthew grew up in Rockford, Illinois, and didn’t know he was adopted until his sister told him when he was ten. He loved his adoptive parents but always knew he was different. He says: “My parents were great people, but very conservative. “They were products of the Fifties and I didn’t relate to them. My biological parents were products of the Sixties and I take on a lot more of those characteristics.”

Read more HERE or HERE.