Dexter – Anyone else see Rita as a victim some day?

Now that Dexter has a wife (still a hard concept to grasp), said-wife Rita has taken a larger role in the season, whereas previous seasons she was featured as a mere convenience for Dexter when he wanted to “appear normal.” With that is Rita rather forcibly making herself part of Dexter’s life. Her going out of her way appear at Dexter’s workplace, baby in-tow, shows she’s going to be more of a distraction to Dex that he bargained for.

Last week left us with quite the cliffhanger, with us wondering how the hell Dexter could possibly get away with the law not finding body parts in the back of his car. The writers handled this aspect of the season brilliantly, leaving us hanging in the premiere and throughout the second episode, then cleaning it all up and leaving us with little to no questions as to whether he’ll have some aspect of it pop up later to haunt him.

Something I’m not quite sure about so far is Quinn’s attempts at buttering up Dexter. It appears that there’s no good conclusion to come from that … and by “no good” I mean for either Dexter or Quinn, but most likely the latter. What I really hope is that we won’t wind up with yet another Doakes storyline in order to clean up a mess from another Miami cop finding out about Dexter. I’m pretty confident the writers won’t go down that alley and there will be something a lot more substantial to come from it, in the end.

The Trinity killer storyline, while creepy as hell, is definitely an intriguing one. What is it that will connect back to Dexter in some way? My only gut feeling is that he’ll wind up targeting Rita or the kids, which is why I’m thinking she might be on the victim menu this season. We won’t know for sure, though, until we get a bit more info about Trinity’s past killings from Lundy.

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Oct 04, 2009 @ 23:02 EST5EDT