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EPISODE 11: "Truth Be Told"

Episode 11: Truth Be Told

Episode summary:Dexter investigates when the Ice Truck Killer strikes again, killing the prosthetic arm prostitute and leaving her body before a Christmas tree in Miami's Santa's Cottage. Sgt. Doakes continues to grow more suspicious about Dexter after catching him in a series of lies about his connection to the Ice Truck Killer. Dexter finally finds a connection between him and the Ice Truck Killer over a past case involving Harry Morgan and a bloodbath crime scene back in 1973 involving Dexter's biological mother. Meanwhile, Lt. Maria Laguerta braces herself for dramatic changes in the department when the officious Captain Matthews maliciously makes her the scapegoat for the department's failure in the case to find the Ice Truck Killer, and he has her replaced. Rudy and Debra spend some quality time together in which he proposes marriage to the smitten detective. With Angel in the hospital recovering from the stabbing, his estranged wife pays a visit, while Rita decides to take her children, Astor and Cody, to visit Paul who's now back in prison.

Original air date: 12/10/2006

Written by: Drew Z. Greenberg, Tim Schlattmann

Directed by: Keith Gordon


Dexter's Open Case Files
Add image of victimDescription of crime: Angel's stabbing in his parking garage

Victim(s): Angel Batista

Assigned officer(s): LaGuerta, Dexter, Masuka, Doakes, Debra Morgan

Crime scene: Angel's parking garage

Suspect(s): none

Clue(s): Drop of blood found on the inside of the back collar of Batista's shirt collar. When Dexter goes to inpect that back of his head, Dex finds teeth marks.

Blood spatter evidence suggests...He was stabbed from behind, then walked a few steps until he fell

Killer calling card(s): none
Add image of victimDescription of crime: Body parts left at Santa's Cottage. A hand is missing.

Victim(s): An amputee prostitute (Her prostehtic hand had each fingernail painted a different color, which was exactly like the frozen fingertips the Ice Truck Killer left.)

Assigned officer(s): Debra Morgan, Doakes, Dexter, Masuka, LaGuerta

Crime scene: Wrapped body parts left at Santa's Cottage.

Suspect(s): The Ice Truck Killer

Clue(s): Exact same M.O.

Blood spatter evidence suggests...no blood

Killer calling card(s): Card reading "Merry Christmas, Miami", same bloodless body parts.


FLASHBACKS

  • More flashbacks to his mother's (Laura Moser's) bloody death.




 CLUES TO DEXTER'S PAST

  • Dexter finds out his mother was chopped up with a chainsaw because of a drug deal gone bad.

  • Camilla (the file clerk at the Miami PD) knows something but says she can't help Dexter. She said she destroyed his mother's case file the moment Dexter's adoption papers went through.


DEXTER'S RELATIONSHIPS
Developments with Rita:
  • Cody runs away because he's upset that his father, Paul, is back in jail.

  • Dexter finds Cody and wants Rita to tell her kids the truth about Paul. Rita takes her kids and leaves the playground.


 Interactions with others:
  • Doakes notices that Dexter doesn't feel anything when they find out that Angel will live. Doakes pushes Dexter up against the wall by putting his hand on his shoulder and pushing him. Dexter tells him to not touch him.

  • Dexter has lunch with Rudy (Debra set it up) and discovers that Rudy wants to propose to Debra.
  • Dexter visits Angel at the hospital to check the back of his head to make sure that the blood on the back of Angel's shirt isn't his. Angel asks him how his relationship with Rita is going. Dexter tells him they had a falling out and that he thinks it's easier to be alone. Angel does not agree with him.

SIGNIFICANCE OF EPISODE TITLE

The title for this episode is a little harder to decipher. It most likely just refers to the fact that in this episode both Dexter and Deb discover Rudy is the Ice Truck Killer (although Deb finds out a little too late).

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Best Moments:

  • Doakes' intense confrontation with Dexter at the hospital after the news that Angel will live.

  • Rita standing up to Paul during her visitation.
  • Dexter realizing that Rudy is the one that stabbed Angel, and then that he is the Ice Truck Killer.

  • Rudy's revelation to Debra on his boat
  • Captain Matthews telling LaGuerta that she's no longer the Lieutenant.



    		Best Lines:

    • "You cheated on me, you broke my heart, you broke my bones." (Rita to Paul)

    • "Why would loving and helpful Rudy need an industrial-grade lock and a security camera?" Dexter
    • Doakes: That him?
      Debra: Yeah, how do you know?
      Doakes: Cause you have that stupid ass grin on your face again.



    EPISODE TRIVIA

    • Nina expresses her disgust at Angel when she finds him about to eat "two Doublemeat" hamburgers. The Doublemeat Palace is the fictitious fast food restaurant suspected of serving ground-up human murder victims in Buffy the vampire slayer (1997), where Drew Z. Greenberg also worked as a staff writer.

    • Rudy's apartment number is 23.


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