Episode Report Card Jeff Long: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Father Kills Best
By Jeff Long | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2008
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Dexter is in the grocery store and sees a grown man talking to Astor. His radar tells him that the guy is a predator, so he jots down his license plate number. He looks him up later and turns out he's a registered sex offender.
At the station, Deb hasn't discovered the identity of her Jane Doe (Teegan). Javier, the pimp who helped her connect Teegan and Freebo, turns up dead with a patch of skin missing -- the same way that Teegan was found. So, everybody's fired up to get Freebo, though Dexter and Miguel know that they're not going to have any luck. Miguel tells Dexter to lead him to Freebo's body so they can divert the station from their current wild goose chase. Dexter begs off this task, insisting that an inexperienced killer like himself would have left evidence on the body. Miguel's brother, Ramon, is really rude to Dexter about Freebo not being "found." Also, Miguel brushes off the statement of the person who could exonerate Chicky Hines.
Deb tries to get more info from Anton about Javier, but he doesn't want to do it. In an attempt to get her off his back, he pulls out a joint in front of her and lights it. She arrests him. Quinn freaks out (making him seem a little suspicious), but Deb insists that she was right and Angel agrees. Then, she lets him out and goes to the club where he plays music in order to patch things up. He sings a song in Spanish that he tells her he wrote for her and it ends up being something about a "skinny mean bitch." Those two are going to fall in love.
Sensing that Dexter was uncomfortable with him, Miguel gave Dexter the shirt that he was wearing the night of Freebo's death. The one with Freebo's blood on it. It incriminates him, so he wants Dexter to have it, so they're in this together. Dexter has a buddy!! Dexter catches the guy from the grocery store taking pictures of Astor at the beach, so he strangles him later at his house. It brings out a very paternal quality in him, so he goes home and lets Rita know that he's down for raising his child.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: Rita is pregnant, but Dexter is unsure about how involved he will be in the child's upbringing. The ADA Miguel Prado's brother, Oscar, was killed (by Dexter, by accident). His murder, as well as the murder of an unidentified (though Dexter knew her -- Teegan) girl, were pinned on Freebo. Teegan was missing a patch of skin on her shoulder when she was found. Debra has been using the help of Anton, an informant referred to her by Quinn. He has warned her not to use Anton too much. Internal Affairs wants Deb to help them monitor Quinn, but she's resisting. Maria knows of information that would exonerate a man prosecuted recently by Miguel. Dexter killed Freebo and Miguel caught him. He told Miguel that it was self-defense and a grateful Prado pledged to keep it their secret.
Dexter is at the grocery store. He VO's that the grocery store is the modern day equivalent of the Serengeti, where the mighty lion goes to hunt. That doesn't say a lot for our hunting skills, does it? Though I'll be damned if I can find everything that's on my list, EVER. And, could you look at me, lady at the register? I'll be out of your hair just as soon as you ring up the third of the fucking items I could find from my list. You can pick up your conversation with the clerk two registers over just as soon as I'm gone. We see a kindly old lady offer Dexter a sample of cheese on a toothpick, which he gladly receives. He continues his VO, saying that his "weaker brethren" reward him with gifts. Do lions do that? Reward the mightier lions? Britannica doesn't say anything about that. I think maybe Dex is just partaking in a half-baked metaphor.Rita sidles up to his cart and points at a display of diapers. She says that they will need a lot of diapers soon. Dex just sort of nods at her blankly and VO's that "the lioness" has her own agenda. Actually, the lioness does most of the hunting. Just saying. Astor and Cody show up and put things in the cart. They're helping Dex complete his grocery list. Seriously, there should be a service. He sends them away for the next two items on his list. Mac n' cheese for Cody and mayo for Astor. Rita is stunned that he alphabetizes his grocery list and he responds, "How else would you do it?" Well, Dex, I don't remember things that I need for my pantry in an alphabetical fashion. So, I'd probably just make a list, just like yours, but not alphabetized. Not trying to nitpick, but someone who exhibits an OCD is usually aware that it's out of the ordinary. Just because you have an uncontrollable urge to lick buttons or straighten the tassels on the Persian rug all of time doesn't mean you aren't aware that it's a freak thing to do. His comment effectively ended the conversation, so maybe that was his tactic.