Dexter Season 4 Episode 5: Dirty Harry

Dexter arrives at the scene of last week’s crime, frantic with worry.  Cops and ambulances are swarming everywhere and he sees a body covered with a sheet.  Batista and LaGuerta see another cop giving Dexter the business when he inquires about Deb and inform him that Deb’s alive and being loaded into the ambulance, having lost a lot of blood.  Lundy, however, wasn’t as fortunate, having been shot in the neck and chest and bled to death in minutes.  (To a degree, I wasn’t too surprised by this.  Death is usually par for the course for any Keith Carradine television character.  Wild Bill didn’t make it too long in Deadwood, but thankfully, Lundy got to stick around longer than a season.  Farewell, Frank.  We hardly knew ye.)

Spotting Christine, Quinn’s reporter/slam piece (who has a more-than-gratuitous sex scene with Quinn in this episode), Angel plants a Vacation Murderers story in the hopes that she leaks it.  Christine doesn’t disappoint and the newspapers catch wind that Vacation Murderer Johnny has syphilis.  Knowing that unlike her partner, Nikki’s name isn’t in the criminal STD database and this slight omission on her boyfriend’s part may turn her against him.  This eventually pays off with a kevlar-clad Batista and LaGuerta finding Johnny riddled with bullets and Nikki talking to herself/dead Johnny and holding a smoking gun. The Vacation Murders are solved and Nikki taken into custody… Which means now more attention can be paid to the Trinity case.