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EPISODE 10: "Seeing Red"
Episode 10: Seeing Red

Episode summary: After a long absence, the Ice Truck Killer creates a crime scene just for Dexter, which results in a flood of unwanted and disturbing memories. Deb's relationships with the most important men in her life become strained with Dexter's refusal to confide in her and Rudy's attempt to insinuate himself in her brother's life. Angel follows a blind lead in the ITK case directly to Rudy; LaGuerta gambles with her career when she goes against Capt. Matthews. Paul files assault charges against Rita and uses the system against her; after a deposition hearing, there is a real chance she could lose the kids ... unless Dexter intervenes.

Dexter, sent to investigate a blood-soaked crime scene, is gripped by a long-suppressed memory of childhood trauma. The physical sensations so overwhelm him that he has to excuse himself from the scene. Meanwhile, Rita is charged with assaulting Paul and could lose the children in a custody battle. But when Dexter finds out, he decides to take matters into his own hands to remove Paul from his and Rita's lives, but only temporarily. Debra has a falling out with Rudy over him spending more time bonding with Dexter then with her. She thinks that, once again, Dexter is being chosen over her. But deluded Debra is still too naive and neurotic to see Rudy for the person he really is. Angel investigates a hunch regarding the Ice Truck Killer when, during an evening out with the rowdy coroner Vince Masuka, Angel has a run-in with a local prostitute with a prosthetic hand whose fingernail polish resembles one victim of the Ice Truck Killer victims--this clue leads him back to Rudy. Also, Lt. Laguerta's feud with her superior, Captain Matthews, intensifies over their handling of the Ice Truck Killer case--he is more concerned about bad publicity, whereas she is interested in knowing all the clues in the case.

Original air date:12/3/2006

Written by: Kevin R. Maynard

Directed by: Michael Cuesta


Dexter's Open Case Files
Description of crime: "A carnival of blood": Bloodbath in Room 103 at the Marina View HotelDexter in blood

Victim(s): The blood from at least five previous Ice Truck Killer murders (women)

Assigned officer(s): Doakes, Debra

Crime scene: Room 103 at the Marina View Hotel. Room is soaked in blood. Station 103 is on the radio and verse 10:3 is marked in the Bible.

Suspect(s): Ice Truck Killer

Clue(s): Blood from at least five different women (ITK left five bloodless victims)

Blood spatter evidence suggests...The blood was not coagulating:it was old blood. It was loaded with Coumadin (an anti-coagulant) and Heparin (a preservative). It was spattered against the wall with an electrical tool (probably an electrical chainsaw as Rudy suggested).

Killer calling card(s): A bloody re-creation of the slaughter of Dexter's mother
Add image of victimDescription of crime: Angel got stabbed in his parking garage.

Victim(s): Angel Batista

Assigned officer(s): Doakes, Debra, LaGuerta

Crime scene: Angel's parking garage

Suspect(s): ITK
Add image of victimDescription of crime: Dexter knocked Paul out with a skillet, then drove him to his hotel room, shot him up with heroin, and planted drugs and Paul's gun for the police to find.

Victim(s): Paul (Rita's ex-husband)

Assigned officer(s): none

Crime scene: Paul's hotel room

Suspect(s): none


FLASHBACKS

  • Dexter flashes back several times on his mother's slaughter in a blood-soaked room with several other dead bodies. She keeps telling him to close his eyes. In the end of the episode, you hear her saying, "Dexter, Mommy loves you."


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CLUES TO DEXTER'S PAST

  • Dexter saw his mother brutally murdered in front of him.

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DEXTER'S RELATIONSHIPS
Developments with Rita:

  • Very supportive: helps get the kids ready for school, arranges for a locksmith, files a police report, arms her with pepper spray, gets her a lawyer, accompanies her to a hearing ...

  • ... And injects Paul with heroin and calls the police: Paul is arrested for breaking Florida's Three-Strike Law and the charges against Rita are, of course, dismissed.
 Interactions with others:
  • Deb is jealous of her brother's interaction with Rudy. She feels she deserves to be Dexter's listening ear.




SIGNIFICANCE OF EPISODE TITLE

Someone is said to be "Seeing Red" when they are angry. There isn't really any anger per se in this episode, but the Ice Truck Killer does leave his bloodiest crime scene yet at a hotel, and when Dexter walks in and sees all of the red blood, he faints momentarily.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Best Moments:

  • Dexter's unknowingly comic reaction after smacking Paul across the head with an iron frying pan.
  • Dexter finally confronts the flashbacks of his mother's death.
  • Dexter and Rudy acting like a couple of "normal" guys hanging out drinking beer and eating steak.

  • Doakes actually displays three ranges of emotions in one episode: humorous, panicked and sympathetic.

  • Angel's drunken ramblings about his ex-wife and Neil Diamond.
 Best Lines:
  • Deb: "Hey, you want some of Kirk Blylock's cake?"
    Doakes: "I had some -- at Kirk's birthday ten days ago. You have lunch with your boyfriend everyday, you miss a thing or two around here."
    Deb: "Cake's still good: it's mocha, I think."
    Doakes: "Started out vanilla."
  • "A jar of blood: dramatic, cryptic, playful. Could it be him?"
  • Doakes: "She's not kiddin'. It's your wet dream in there." [to Dexter before entering the crime scene]
  • "I can always see other people's problems clearer than my own. Fortunately, Rita's has a name."
  • Deb: "You've spent our entire lives keeping me at a distance ... Dexter, you are the only family I have and I barely know you. So if you're going to eat a couple of steaks after a rough day, if somebody's going to break through your walls, I think it should be me. I think I have earned it!"
  • "So this is doom: I've been the architect of it, so it's only fair I know what the fuss is all about. He left me this room for a reason: five women gave their blood -- their lives -- for this moment. There's only one way to find out why."


EPISODE TRIVIA
  • The beer Dexter drinks is "Jeckyl and Hyde."
Goofs:
  • Crew or equipment visible: After Dexter gets the jar of blood they cut to Debra getting out of a red car. The crane is clearly reflected in the rear windshield.
  • Goof: When Deb and Doakes first arrive at the hotel, the reflection of the camera crane can be seen in the car's rear windshield.
  • Crew or equipment visible: When Dexter returns to the hotel room, the steadicam spins around him and the shadow can be briefly seen on Dexter.
  • Factual errors: Dexter says the mystery blood was "loaded with Coumadin and heparin," and Masuka explains, "One is an anticoagulant, the other is a preservative." Both are anticoagulants.
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