'Dexter' Recap: Just Let Go
E6 It’s almost pointless to introduce this episode of Dexter because something happens at the end of it that is so epic and shocking, I don’t want to waste your time with some thoughts on where we are in the season. But I will say this episode ends with some serious street cred.
“Dex, it’s Brother Sam. He’s been shot.” – Deb
As Dexter is following Travis through a street fair in Miami, he gets a call from Deb and he learns Brother Sam has been shot in his auto body shop. He rushes to the crime scene and doesn’t get to see Travis meet up with Professor Gellar and ask him if the girl they’ve captured can have some painkillers to numb the discomfort of her broken arm. Gellar denies Travis’s request and asks him point blank if he’s hesitating in following through with their plan. Travis denies he’s “slacking off,” and Gellar says he hopes the person he’s chosen to be his partner gets back into shape because if he doesn’t, he’s going to be “destroyed along with the rest of the scum.” Later that night, Gellar tells Travis to burn the girl and giving her their usual O inside an A symbol, but instead of following orders, Travis takes her in his car to the water and sets her free.
“…or Julio’s gang probably got even with Brother Sam for stealing Nick.” - Dexter
Dexter arrives at the auto body shop just as paramedics are taking Brother Sam to the hospital. Deb informs him Sam was shot three times and after he retrieves his blood kit from his car, Dexter enters the garage and begins to try and piece together what happened. Deb and the other detectives suspect someone came to rob Brother Sam but he fought back and got shot, but Dexter has the inkling that members of Nick’s old gang tried to kill Sam for taking away one of their own. After Dexter analyzes the spatter patterns and tells Deb in five seconds what transpired, he excuses himself to the office to look for a bat that he hit Julio’s number 2 guy with (Dexter already killed Julio, you’ll recall, and so he assumes the gang’s number 2 is now its number 1). He easily finds the bat and scrapes some blood off the end of it onto a piece of paper, scans it in his lab, and isn’t surprised to learn it matches someone in the police database known as Leo Hernandez. Later on, Deb learns from her new homicide detective, Mike Anderson, that the “Eighth Street Locos” blamed Brother Sam for the disappearance of Julio, their leader. Dexter realizes his killing Julio might be the reason Brother Sam was attacked, so he asks for Deb’s permission to go see him in the hospital. After he leaves, Batista and Quinn tell Deb that Gellar’s TA, Carissa, told them Gellar believed The Book of Revelations contained a code that would lead to the end of the world. They show her the books the TA had her apartment that depicted various forms of sacrifice, and Deb demands they bring Carissa back to Miami for more questioning. Quinn is hesitant to do this because he slept with her and doesn’t want Deb to find out about it, but Batista promises him privately that Quinn won’t have to interview her at all.
“About time, Leo.” – Dexter After Dexter figures out the guy who replaced Julio as the leader of the Locos is named Leo, and he sits outside his house waiting to follow him wherever he goes to learn more about him. However, Miami Metro ruins his plan and shows up with its sirens blazing, and Leo reacts by grabbing a shotgun and open firing. The police have no choice but to kill him, and Dexter watches the whole thing unfold from inside his car. He waits awhile before walking to the site of the shooting (so as not to suggest to the police he was there before them) and then notices that inside the house, Leo was watching footage from the security camera inside Brother Sam’s shop. The video shows Sam being shot, but the cops are unable to make out the face of his shooter. Deb, Mike and Vince all think it’s pretty safe to assume Leo shot Brother Sam since he was in possession of the security tape, but Dexter remains unconvinced because of the way Sam’s dog isn’t barking. He suddenly figures out the only person Sam’s dog doesn’t bark at besides Sam is Nick, the former drug addict Sam rescued from the Locos. On a hunch, Dexter goes over to Nick’s house to try and find a bullet fragment to compare to the ones were taken out of Brother Sam and luckily, he recovers one in the wall situated just next to a painting. And after he analyzes the shell casing at the lab, he concludes Nick shot Brother Sam – not Leo.
“Quinn, why aren’t you in there with your witness?” – Deb
As Batista is interviewing Carissa (Gellar’s TA Quinn slept with), Deb notices Quinn is not in the interview room with him and instead, is finishing paperwork at his desk. She goes over to him and instructs him to participate in Carissa’s questioning, and Quinn reluctantly enters the room to participate in her questioning. And when Carissa starts to show displeasure in the detectives’ insinuations that she’s involved in the Doomsday murders and is still sexually involved with Professor Gellar, she says “If I were still involved with him, would I have slept with Mr. Warmth over here?” The piece of information that one of her detectives (and her ex-boyfriend) slept with a person of interest in her case comes as a complete shock to Deb, and sends her into a fury. After Carissa leaves, Deb attacks Quinn for potentially ruining the case – but Quinn fires back with the idea that rather than her being upset with him for harming the investigation, she could just be pissed he slept with someone who wasn’t her. Later that night at Deb’s housewarming party, Quinn shows up wasted with a blond on his arm and ends up hitting on Batista’s younger sister Jaime, who’s also Harrison’s babysitter. And after one too many comments about her body, Batista knocks Quinn out.
“I want you to give Nick a message for me. Tell him that I forgive him.” – Brother Sam
Dexter receives word Brother Sam is awake and asking for him, so he rushes over to the hospital to his bedside and tells him he knows it was Nick who shot him, and that he was going to make him pay it. But instead of Brother Sam resting easy with the news that Dexter was going to get justice for him, he tells Dexter he should tell Nick that he forgives him. Dexter says he doesn’t understand why he would forgive Nick for shooting him, and Brother Sam said he was the only one he trusted. And just before he dies, Brother Sam tells Dexter that even though he doesn’t think he’s capable of forgiveness, he really is and all he needs to do is “let it go.” As he’s leaving the hospital, Dexter meets up with Nick and asks him if they can take a ride together. They end up at the beach and Dexter confronts Nick about shooting (and killing) Sam. But Nick laughs in Dexter’s face because the police have no evidence to charge him with anything, and Dexter is so infuriated he lunges at Nick and drowns him in the ocean. The episode closes on Dexter walking past Nick’s floating body and out of the water and running into his brother, Bryan (aka The Ice Truck Killer, aka Deb’s ex-fiancée, aka Rudy, aka who Dexter killed).
“Dex, it’s Brother Sam. He’s been shot.” – Deb
As Dexter is following Travis through a street fair in Miami, he gets a call from Deb and he learns Brother Sam has been shot in his auto body shop. He rushes to the crime scene and doesn’t get to see Travis meet up with Professor Gellar and ask him if the girl they’ve captured can have some painkillers to numb the discomfort of her broken arm. Gellar denies Travis’s request and asks him point blank if he’s hesitating in following through with their plan. Travis denies he’s “slacking off,” and Gellar says he hopes the person he’s chosen to be his partner gets back into shape because if he doesn’t, he’s going to be “destroyed along with the rest of the scum.” Later that night, Gellar tells Travis to burn the girl and giving her their usual O inside an A symbol, but instead of following orders, Travis takes her in his car to the water and sets her free.
“…or Julio’s gang probably got even with Brother Sam for stealing Nick.” - Dexter
Dexter arrives at the auto body shop just as paramedics are taking Brother Sam to the hospital. Deb informs him Sam was shot three times and after he retrieves his blood kit from his car, Dexter enters the garage and begins to try and piece together what happened. Deb and the other detectives suspect someone came to rob Brother Sam but he fought back and got shot, but Dexter has the inkling that members of Nick’s old gang tried to kill Sam for taking away one of their own. After Dexter analyzes the spatter patterns and tells Deb in five seconds what transpired, he excuses himself to the office to look for a bat that he hit Julio’s number 2 guy with (Dexter already killed Julio, you’ll recall, and so he assumes the gang’s number 2 is now its number 1). He easily finds the bat and scrapes some blood off the end of it onto a piece of paper, scans it in his lab, and isn’t surprised to learn it matches someone in the police database known as Leo Hernandez. Later on, Deb learns from her new homicide detective, Mike Anderson, that the “Eighth Street Locos” blamed Brother Sam for the disappearance of Julio, their leader. Dexter realizes his killing Julio might be the reason Brother Sam was attacked, so he asks for Deb’s permission to go see him in the hospital. After he leaves, Batista and Quinn tell Deb that Gellar’s TA, Carissa, told them Gellar believed The Book of Revelations contained a code that would lead to the end of the world. They show her the books the TA had her apartment that depicted various forms of sacrifice, and Deb demands they bring Carissa back to Miami for more questioning. Quinn is hesitant to do this because he slept with her and doesn’t want Deb to find out about it, but Batista promises him privately that Quinn won’t have to interview her at all.
“Quinn, why aren’t you in there with your witness?” – Deb
As Batista is interviewing Carissa (Gellar’s TA Quinn slept with), Deb notices Quinn is not in the interview room with him and instead, is finishing paperwork at his desk. She goes over to him and instructs him to participate in Carissa’s questioning, and Quinn reluctantly enters the room to participate in her questioning. And when Carissa starts to show displeasure in the detectives’ insinuations that she’s involved in the Doomsday murders and is still sexually involved with Professor Gellar, she says “If I were still involved with him, would I have slept with Mr. Warmth over here?” The piece of information that one of her detectives (and her ex-boyfriend) slept with a person of interest in her case comes as a complete shock to Deb, and sends her into a fury. After Carissa leaves, Deb attacks Quinn for potentially ruining the case – but Quinn fires back with the idea that rather than her being upset with him for harming the investigation, she could just be pissed he slept with someone who wasn’t her. Later that night at Deb’s housewarming party, Quinn shows up wasted with a blond on his arm and ends up hitting on Batista’s younger sister Jaime, who’s also Harrison’s babysitter. And after one too many comments about her body, Batista knocks Quinn out.
“I want you to give Nick a message for me. Tell him that I forgive him.” – Brother Sam
Dexter receives word Brother Sam is awake and asking for him, so he rushes over to the hospital to his bedside and tells him he knows it was Nick who shot him, and that he was going to make him pay it. But instead of Brother Sam resting easy with the news that Dexter was going to get justice for him, he tells Dexter he should tell Nick that he forgives him. Dexter says he doesn’t understand why he would forgive Nick for shooting him, and Brother Sam said he was the only one he trusted. And just before he dies, Brother Sam tells Dexter that even though he doesn’t think he’s capable of forgiveness, he really is and all he needs to do is “let it go.” As he’s leaving the hospital, Dexter meets up with Nick and asks him if they can take a ride together. They end up at the beach and Dexter confronts Nick about shooting (and killing) Sam. But Nick laughs in Dexter’s face because the police have no evidence to charge him with anything, and Dexter is so infuriated he lunges at Nick and drowns him in the ocean. The episode closes on Dexter walking past Nick’s floating body and out of the water and running into his brother, Bryan (aka The Ice Truck Killer, aka Deb’s ex-fiancée, aka Rudy, aka who Dexter killed).
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