He takes out a small glass vial and pours its ashy contents into the urn, replacing the lid. He sits down in one of two chairs and pours a glass of whiskey, then a glass of water. After The Trinity Killer bludgeons a man to death, Dexter follows him home. He is astonished to discover that he has a wife and two children, and wonders how he manages his cover life.
He found an opportunity when he assisted Arthur with building a house at a Four Walls One Heart site. Dexter purposely sliced his hand so that Arthur would take him into his house to apply first aid. While inside, Dexter discovered that the wall plaques were Arthur's trophies. Also, Dexter felt Arthur's wrath when he picked up the urn containing the ashes of his sister, Vera. Arthur worked on making a homemade coffin in his garage, after he took a wary Dexter into the woods to help him cut down a tree.
After he finished his coffin, Arthur prayed over it. Dexter parked in front of Arthur's house and approached the family, who were then all outside.
They greeted him cheerfully, but soon Arthur began to criticize Jonah for the way he was polishing the car, and his daughter for how she was watering the flowers. Dexter learned that Arthur was planning a trip to Tampa the following day and he developed a scheme to join him.
He followed Jonah and ended up agreeing to protect him by attending Thanksgiving dinner at the Mitchell house the next day. Log in No account? Create an account. Remember me. Previous Share Flag Next. I just got finished watching Slack Tide and a thought occurred to me when they revealed Trinity was building a coffin This is pretty rough around the edges, but I wonder if Trinity is setting up for his final kill cycle.
There's been some heavy exposition from Dexter emphasizing the cycle theory, which of course is a common aspect of true serial killer psychology and profiling. In many real life cases, serial killers often just Other times they end up in jail on another charge, or they just get old. After sitting down in one of two chairs, he slowly pours a glass of whiskey and a glass of water.
He pushes the whiskey across the table, and clinks it with the water glass. Arthur is sitting at a library computer, looking at photographs and blueprints of an office building.
He shushes a group of teen girls, and then notices a newspaper headline about Lundy returning to Miami to hunt a serial killer. After dark, Arthur lies in wait behind a tavern. The first man to emerge is joined by a woman, so Arthur ignores him.
Arthur rises to his feet, with a look of determination. Lundy is speaking into a tape recorder outside the office building that replaced the tavern where a beating victim died thirty years ago. Arthur apologizes and keeps on walking. Lundy notices that Arthur dropped his keys. He picks them up, calls out, and returns them, Lundy then follows Arthur until he hops on a bus. Lundy records the encounter with a description of the stranger. At the end of the episode, Debra and Lundy are gunned down and robbed outside his hotel.
In the next episode, i. At a hardware store, Arthur is having difficulty picking out a hammer. The salesman recommends the framing hammer, and Arthur thanks him for his help. Thirty years ago, a man was found bludgeoned to death on this site and he thinks Trinity will strike at the same place.
He suspects there is still another tape being held in police evidence. Posing as a recently laid-off man, Arthur is given a tour of the office building by a security guard. That night, Arthur enters the office building, carrying a black duffel bag. Running inside, he hides when the guard exits the elevator. To distract him, Dexter hits an elevator button and sends it to the twelfth floor.
Meanwhile, Dexter breaks into the surveillance room and discovers the recording disk is gone. He frantically scrolls through the screens until he sees Trinity beating the man to death. When Trinity takes off his blood-spattered visor, Dexter gets a clear view of his face. Dexter races up the stairs, but the fourth floor door is locked. He runs outside just as Trinity drives off in a gray van.
In a residential neighborhood, Trinity pulls into the driveway of a brightly lit house. As he approaches Trinity with a syringe of M99, a woman suddenly opens the door and they warmly hug each other. Through the window, Dexter watches Trinity lovingly greet a girl and a boy.
Lundy was wrong. I was wrong. Trinity is a husband, a father. Dexter is among the parishioners, singing along. Masuka determines the cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head from a framing hammer. Blood spatter indicates that the killer was over six feet tall.
When he tries to collect the sample, Masuka demands it. At church again, Arthur and his family are listening to the sermon. From a nearby pew, Dexter watches as they display affection for each other. He decides to delay murdering Arthur so he can learn from him. While looking at the flyer in his lab, Dexter decides to skip work and stalk Arthur. Before he leaves, Masuka reveals that the killer is related to the cremation ashes. At a build site, Arthur is hammering a nail into the frame of a new house.
Nearby, his family is helping out. Dexter notes the make and model before nailing a beam into place. Jonah praises his parents and says his father just gave him his prize convertible. Arthur hangs up the hammer on a wall in the garage and leads Dexter into the house, insisting they take off their boots at the door.
Arthur goes off to get the first aid kit after telling Dexter to make himself at home. Arthur stops short, takes the urn from Dexter, and places it on the table. Grimacing, Arthur charges forward, and pins Dexter to the wall with his forearm across his neck. Dexter feigns shock and Arthur explains his behavior by saying that his sister died when he was young and it was very painful for him. While Arthur bandages his wound. Dexter asks why the ashes are kept out; Arthur says his sister is a part of him.
He goes on to tell Dexter that he used to push people away, which led to the loss of a relationship. As Dexter is leaving, Arthur gives him a bag of tools, which includes the framing hammer.
Dexter thanks him and they agree to meet at the next build. Later, Arthur stealthily opens a bathroom door. His wife is soaking in the tub, and she notices him watching her. He joins her in the bathtub and puts his arms around her. She smiles, leans her head on his arm, and closes her eyes.
Arthur lowers the mirror into the water. Dexter sees how that strategy would benefit a serial killer. At daybreak, Arthur takes Dexter for a drive in his van through a forest, stopping at an isolated area.
Arthur opens the back of the van and reveals an array of cutting tools. Given his expertise with the chainsaw, Dexter chooses the ax. Arthur takes a chainsaw, a hacksaw, and a regular saw, and they walk further into the woods.
Dexter learns that Arthur plans to cut down a tree. However, Arthur is unable to start the chainsaw. He curses and throws his hands up in the air.
Dexter offers to help and easily starts the chainsaw with one pull and repeatedly revs it. Not handing back the chainsaw, Dexter fells a tree with one clean cut, which annoys Arthur. You let them do whatever they want, they suck their thumbs and diddle themselves all day.
Driving home, a deer jumps out of the bushes and slams into the front of the van. However, Dexter insists they put it out of its misery. Dexter offers to do the deed, which relieves Arthur. As Dexter prepares to deliver the fatal blow, Arthur turns away and Dexter is tempted to kill him. Instead, he takes one swing which kills the deer. In his garage, Arthur is obsessively sanding a plank, made from the tree that Dexter cut down.
Later, Arthur is seen fitting two boards together, looking fatigued and troubled. In his garage, Arthur Mitchell is hunched over a newly-made coffin in prayer. He then caresses the wood and covers it with a tarp.
When Arthur chastises his son for not waxing the car correctly, Dexter notes the "small cracks in the perfect family.
Arthur's wife, Sally, brings him a glass of pink lemonade and mentions that his clothes are ready to be packed. Dexter learns that Arthur is going to a build site in Tampa the next day, without his family. Dexter obtains permission from Lt. LaGuerta and his wife to supposedly attend a meteorological conference in Tampa. He tucks it in among his clothes and shuts his suitcase. At the end of the school day, Arthur is about to take off on his Tampa trip when Dexter suddenly appears outside his van.
Arthur relents when Dexter says that he gives him a sense of purpose, and remarks on his generosity of spirit. Dexter only says he made a big mistake, and Arthur accuses him of being purposely vague.
While Dexter eats a burrito from a vending machine, Arthur sips a soda. He pressures Dexter to reveal his problem, saying that he wants to help because good deeds are rewarded by God. Arthur says remorse is what separates us from the animals, and confession is good for the soul. Dexter finds Arthur standing outside his door, poised to knock. Dexter wonders what kind of surprise. However, Arthur is already waiting in the parking lot, holding two coffees. Arthur parks at a small suburban house , runs to the door, and frantically knocks and rings the bell.
An Asian man thinks they are salesmen, but Arthur says he grew up in this house. Dexter bows to the couple and runs up after Arthur.
Arthur is standing at the bathroom door. This is where it all started, Arthur says. He goes on to tell Dexter that when he was ten, he was innocently watching his sister, Vera, take a shower. Vera was startled when she saw him in the mirror, causing her to slip, shatter the shower doors, and slice her femoral artery. Before the ambulance arrived, Vera had bled to death. Born in blood, Dexter thought. Both of us. Arthur was blamed by his parents for her death.
Overcome with depression, his mother killed herself. His alcoholic father would beat him and call him a pervert. When Arthur says his father is dead, Dexter suspects that Arthur killed him. Embracing Dexter, Arthur asks if he feels better. Dexter and Arthur are seated in a hotel coffee shop, Under the ruse of using the restroom, Dexter ducks out into the lobby, where the convention is being held. He signs up as proof that he attended and takes a photo with a weatherman. Dexter promptly returns to the coffee shop.
However, Arthur isn't at their table. Instead, he's sitting in a corner booth with a clearly uncomfortable family of four. Arthur is on a tangent about speaking the truth and he invites Dexter to confess his own sins. Instead, Dexter forces Arthur to leave the family in peace.
Once outside, Dexter suggests stopping at a hardware store to pick up items for donation to the Four Walls build.
After Arthur leaves, Dexter sets up a kill room in the bathroom. Unfortunately, Arthur is not there. Dexter takes off running to the build site. As he stalks through the partially built house, he hears the thud of Arthur dropping his tool belt. Looking up, he sees Arthur standing on the edge of the roof. Dexter quickly grabs Arthur as he falls, but Arthur begs Dexter to let go. Dexter weighs whether to keep him alive just to kill him. But God had another plan.
He sent you to save me. Not exactly, Dexter thought. Dexter is viewed as a hero, as he secretly vows to not spare Arthur again. Nearing the city, they approach a police checkpoint.
As he drives away, Arthur begins to laugh. Dexter is parked outside Arthur's house. Dexter follows Jonah to a deserted area and finds him beating the car with a baseball bat.
Dexter offers to go with Jonah when he breaks the news to Arthur about the damaged car. Dexter begins helping Arthur and Sally prepare the meal. Arthur grumbles that Jonah seems to have forgotten the holiday. His wife assures Arthur that Jonah knows how important Thanksgiving is to him and he will be there. In response, Arthur gives her a cold look. Arthur remarks that he has at least one perfect child. Arthur finds that ridiculous and expounds on why traditions matter.
At that moment, Jonah arrives home, driving the damaged car. Angrily, Arthur walks to the garage and returns with a crowbar. He wedges it into the wheel well, pulls out a dent, and declares that the car is now fit to drive.
During the plays, Arthur yells at the television, but Jonah remains calm. Thinking that Jonah is safe, Dexter excuses himself. More disturbing are the locks on the window and the door.
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