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EPISODE 3: "Popping Cherry"
Episode 3: Popping Cherry

Episode summary:After the dead body of another of victim of the so-called "Ice Truck Killer" is found on the ice rink at Miami's Hockey Dome, Dexter helps out Debra, newly transfered to the homicide squad to investigate when Lt. Laguerta, ambitious for a promotion and the media spotlight, decides to have the department pursue a security guard whom they believe is the Ice Truck Killer. Meanwhile, Rita receives an unpleasant visit from her imprisoned ex-husband's drug dealer who confiscates her car, leading Dexter to drive her to and from her hotel receptionist job, while at the same time, Dexter zeros in on his next victim, a recently paroled teenage murderer who harbors some dark secrets of his own. Dexter also flashes back to committing his first killing: a nurse who was taking care care of his sick father, Harry told him that the nurse had been overdosing her patients (including him) and was slowly killing them, he told Dexter to kill her. Elsewhere, Sgt. Doakes continues to hound the drug kingpin Carlos Guerrero, but gets in over his head when a group of dirty cops decide to take matters involving Guerrero into their own hands.As the manhunt for the ice truck killer continues, another victim is found and a suspect emerges. Have they Identified the Ice Truck Killer at last?

Original air date: 10/15/2006

Written by: Daniel Cerone

Directed by: Michael Cuesta


Dexter's Open Case Files
Ice Truck Killer victimsDescription of crime: Latest victim of the Ice Truck Killer is found at the Miami Blades ice arena.

Victim(s): Sherry "Cherry" Taylor, a prostitute

Assigned officer(s): Angel Batista, Vincent Masuka, Debra Morgan

Crime scene: Victim is posed inside the goal on the ice inside the arena

Suspect(s): Night watchman from the arena, Tony Tucci, who is missing; a stolen surveillance tape found in his apartment shows him assembling the body parts in the goal.

Clue(s): The body is missing her fingertips, which are assumed to be the ones found frozen in the block of ice in the back of the ice truck in the previous episode.

When Debra questions prostitutes, she learns that Cherry got into a wood-paneled station wagon the night she disappeared.

The killer uses liquid nitrogen to process the body parts.

Blood evidence suggests... No blood to analyze

Add to Dexter's victim files
Mary, the Angel of DeathVictim name: Mary, AKA Angel of Death

Age/Occupation: 40s; nurse

Where/how Dexter stalks victim: She is the nurse attending his father in the hospital. Dexter's father encourages him to make her his first purposeful killing.

Dexter's first murderWhy victim deserves it: She over-medicates her patients, killing them.

Victim's victims: Her terminally ill patients

Dexter's kill methods and rituals: He stabs her in the chest with a knife.

Victim's last words: "I helped them, all of them. I take their pain away."

Location of killing: Nurse's apartment

FLASHBACKS

  • He recalls hunting with Harry, learning the chief tenet of the Code of Harry: a killing must serve a purpose, otherwise it is just plain murder. Harry says: "When you take a man's life, you're not just killing him, you're snuffing out all the things he'll ever become."

  • A flashback shows us Dexter's first kill. Dexter killed a nurse who was overdosing Harry's medication, she was slowly killing him.


 CLUES TO DEXTER'S PAST



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DEXTER'S RELATIONSHIPS
Developments with Rita:
  • Dexter helps Rita with her kids and gives her a car from the impound lot to help with transportation.




 Interactions with others:






EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Best Moments:

  • One of the most intense scenes is when he follows Jeremy and Lucas into the swamp, and he is surprised by an alligator.

  • [about going to the Captain behind LaGuerta's back]
    Shanda: [Whistles]
    Debra Morgan: What?
    Bella: Never p*** off your pimp.
    Debra Morgan: LaGuerta's not my pimp.
    Shanda: Is that right... b**** tell you what to do?
    Bella: Is your p**** taking all the risk?
    Prostitute #1: Does she steal everything you earn?
    Debra Morgan: Yeah, she definitely does that.
    Bella: She's your pimp, baby, and she will mess you up if you play her.




Best Lines:

  • "the man who raped you may of deserved to die but Lucas didn't"
  • "things were a little messy in the beginning, hey perfecting a new craft takes time" (dexter reminiscing his first kill)
  • "it was messier than i anticipated, but still a special day" (dexter reminiscing his first kill)

EPISODE TRIVIA
  • Goof:Deb tells Captain Matthews she got a tip about a wood-paneled station wagon from Gabrielle, one of her vice contacts. In fact, it was a different hooker named Bella who gave Deb the tip

  • Popping Cherry: The episode title comes from the slang term for piercing a women's hymen, usually during sex for the first time. In this episode, there is a flashback to Dexter's killing a human for the first time.
    The episode title also refers to the dead prostitutes name, Cherry.
    Popping is also a slang term for killing someone, so it ties into the sex theme of Cherry being a prostitute and also the fact that she has been murdered

  • Jeremy Downs goes to Dade County Juvenile Prison.


ORIGINAL VERSUS NETWORK BROADCAST
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