By Angel Cohn
So, this is the big episode with the big shocking twist which everyone (including our regular recapper) saw coming a mile (or at least the larger part of a season) away.
At the church, Dexter frees Travis from his shackles and tries to predict the location of the tableau so they can stop Gellar. Travis plays the shell-shocked victim and is utterly useless, but Dex sees "2LoT" written on a painting and a matching parking pass, and with some Internet searching, it looks like a Professor Casey (an atheist) is the victim. Dexter also takes Travis and puts him in a safe hotel room, so that Gellar can't get to him. But that doesn't stop Gellar from blogging about false prophets (Dexter) and returning to the fold or whatever.
Dexter goes back to college and listens to Professor Casey's lecture and figures out a plan to save the dude. So he grabs Travis, they go back to the school late at night, split up (really?) and Dexter ends up trapped in an elevator because he's too damned lazy to run up the stairs. Naturally, Travis saves him, but its too late for Prof. Casey, who has had his hand chopped off and has turned up dead. His hand is in Travis's hotel bathroom, with a bloody message on the wall. Hope Dexter doesn't have to pay that security deposit, because blood on yellow walls has got to be a bitch to get out.
Dexter is still bound and determined to save Travis from his dark passenger (to somehow prove that he's a good father), so they return to the church where they split up (again!) and Travis ends up unconscious on the floor, and Dexter stumbles down to the basement to find Gellar's body in a freezer, where it has been for quite some time. Turns out that Gellar was Travis' dark passenger, but not of the actual alive kind and that Travis is the Doomsday killer all by his very lonesome. Since we've seen The Sixth Sense, this really comes as little surprise. Still, its nice to know that someone gives the killer figment of their imagination a kindly Mr. Rogers sweater.
Deb is still having feelings. And talking about them. A lot. She's also oblivious about the DDK killer and is shocked that Dexter took the time to read up on the subject matter. She's also shocked that Louis knows how to use the Internet. And after finding the latest DDK victim, they all end up covered in pools of blood Carrie style, which was the highlight of the episode... hell, the last few episodes. At least she finally gets the balls to tell LaGuerta off about the whole dead call girl case, and the other non-shocking reveal that it was Matthews who was with the call girl at the time of her death. Who else would LaGuerta have been covering for, really? Guy is the king of making bad decisions -- he's the one who promoted Debra, who clearly has no business trying to solve crimes when she's so emotionally unstable.
And in stupid subplot, Quinn's passed out on the floor and Angel has to go wake his ass up. Turns out Quinn doesn't know where his gun is, so they track down the stripper he hooked up with... but in truth he banged her unfortunate-looking mom from the waffle house. Then their car breaks down and they beat the shit out of each other. It's like they are on a USA show of their very own.
Also, Louis and Jamie make up, go to his expensive and bizarrely decorated apartment and have lots of sex. He also has a creepy prosthetic hand in his apartment. As in the Ice Truck Killer. Do with that information what you will.