S01.E09: Blood Drive

[Snazzy Daisy]

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In the fallout of a SWAT raid gone wrong, Dexter closes in on the child kidnapper.

Deb goes to work with her dad and sees Miami Metro in a new light.

Harry digs deeper into the serial killer case but keeps his theory from LaGuerta.

Air Date: Feb 07, 2025

 

Edited February 8 by Snazzy Daisy

[catherinejane]

Loved how they made Harry “be in uniform” to find Dexter. To match the original series of course! 

[Snazzy Daisy]

A ridiculous modern error In Dexter: Original Sin's '70s flashback!

In the earlier scene, the container's name has been digitally scrubbed.

But not in the later scene.

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The shipping container color, font, and what can be seen of the lettering match up with the branding of Tyler The Creator's latest album, Chromakopia, which was released in October of 2024. Either Dexter is trying to make the rapper a '70s superstar, or they didn't understand the reference and figured there was no harm in leaving it in the scene.

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[Chicago Redshirt]

I guess it's good to find out that Harry and Doris attempted to open their home to Brian initially. But I have to call BS on them giving up on his potential for rehabilitation so easily. Yes, trying to smother Deb is scary. But I think it's a lot to conclude from that he's broken beyond repair. I also suspect that there are some non-psycho kids in real life who have tried the same thing.

I guess we'll just have to accept not getting an answer as to why the cartel didn't kill Brian and Dexter once they were done with Laura.

The question also remains what happens to Brian between now and OG Dexter. 

As to Spencer:

I like the confrontation scene in a lot of respects. But doing it in an arcade at night seems problematic Most arcades aren't going to be all that isolated. Also it's a lot of plastic sheeting to put up and down.

I think it would be way more effective to torture Nicky's location out of Spencer than to pretend to have screwed up so that he could follow Spencer there. First of all, there's no guarantee that Spencer will go to where Nicky is. Second, if he were thinking straight, he would engineer some way to make sure that Dex got taken out, or at least, disbelieved. 

[leighdear]

Better than last week due to very little Deb drama.  I prefer her in baby form than in teenager form. 

I think they're showing Doris as overwhelmed by the amount of attention both boys need in addition to the baby.  If Dexter is still not talking, just keeping him would definitely quiet things down in the house.  

Patrick Dempsey plays such a BAD bad guy.  He just cannot pull off the swearing and rage.  It makes me laugh, he's still such a Mcgoofball. 

I liked the end, us seeing how he set Aaron up to lead the way to Nicky.  I thought at first he was just being careless to allow him to "escape".  Good plan. 

I've never really warmed up to Christian S. as Harry.  I think James Remar set such a high bar as the OG Harry, I can't make room for Christian.  Sorry, pal!

[Affogato]

3 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

I guess it's good to find out that Harry and Doris attempted to open their home to Brian initially. But I have to call BS on them giving up on his potential for rehabilitation so easily. Yes, trying to smother Deb is scary. But I think it's a lot to conclude from that he's broken beyond repair. I also suspect that there are some non-psycho kids in real life who have tried the same thing.

I guess we'll just have to accept not getting an answer as to why the cartel didn't kill Brian and Dexter once they were done with Laura.

It is possible that even cartel guys aren’t fond of killing kids. 

if you think that Harry and Doris had a child die on Harry’s watch and that Harry had recently cheated on Doris, you could say that Harry owed Doris. He would continue to keep cop’s hours, caring for two traumatized kids is a big additional load for Doris, and one had just tried to kill the baby, which freaked Doris out. It kind of follows.  Harry would back her up. But maybe they should have taken more time making the decision. 
 

Deb being smothered is also a big deal. That is frightening. It would be scary if it was your own child doing it.

Edited February 8 by Affogato

[Snazzy Daisy]

What? Brian has been trying to kill Deb since she was a baby!

The most gruesome episode especially the image of Laura’s severed head in a pool of blood.

Hey Dexter, Captain Aaron Spencer is not your first child killer. Remember Levi Reed?

The closer we get to the end of this season, the more worried I am about how this show is going to connect its storylines involving Aaron Spencer, Maria LaGuerta and Brian Moser to the OG Dexter. 😣

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*️⃣ How are they going to explain why Aaron Spencer’s name is never mentioned again? 

*️⃣ LaGuerta works on the Ice Truck Killer case but Brian Moser’s name doesn’t ring a bell to her. Selective amnesia? 

*️⃣ After Brian’s 1991 revenge tour, why would he be going away, then to return 15 years later to reconnect with Dexter? This show needs to explain on the time gap.

Aaron’s motives have yet to be fully explained. It cannot be just the divorce. Dexter takes a calculated risk by counting on Aaron to lead him to Nicky’s hideout.

Nine episodes in and Tanya’s role still feels insignificant. It’s purely a stunt casting, isn’t it?

[CarpeFelis]

Back on my soapbox again… Pre-med is JUST PLAIN COLLEGE. It does not mean you know how to draw blood as if you’re already halfway through med school!

For a hot minute there in thought Dexter really did screw up since he’s still relatively new to this. Seeing him follow Spencer was a relief. But he’d better have another syringe on him.

[Chicago Redshirt]

4 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

What? Brian has been trying to kill Deb since she was a baby!

The most gruesome episode especially the image of Laura’s severed head in a pool of blood.

Hey Dexter, Captain Aaron Spencer is not your first child killer. Remember Levi Reed?

The closer we get to the end of this season, the more worried I am about how this show is going to connect its storylines involving Aaron Spencer, Maria LaGuerta and Brian Moser to the OG Dexter. 😣

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*️⃣ How are they going to explain why Aaron Spencer’s name is never mentioned again? 

*️⃣ LaGuerta works on the Ice Truck Killer case but Brian Moser’s name doesn’t ring a bell to her. Selective amnesia? 

*️⃣ After Brian’s 1991 revenge tour, why would he be going away, then to return 15 years later to reconnect with Dexter? This show needs to explain on the time gap.

Aaron’s motives have yet to be fully explained. It cannot be just the divorce. Dexter takes a calculated risk by counting on Aaron to lead him to Nicky’s hideout.

Nine episodes in and Tanya’s role still feels insignificant. It’s purely a stunt casting, isn’t it?

To address some of the spoiler stuff:

Brian has adopted a fake identity of Rudy Cooper in OG Dexter S1, so there's no reason for LaGuerta to connect Rudy Cooper to Brian Moser at that point. Indeed, she might buy Harry's line that he was just curious about what happened to Brian Moser, his old CI's kid without making the connections we audience members make because she doesn't have all the puzzle pieces we do. I do wonder if they can connect the dots between the LaGuerta who seems to be nonplussed toward Dexter in 1991 and the one who was totally horny for him in 2006 in OG Dexter. 

I would say that OG Dexter rarely mentioned stuff that happened within its timeframe unless it was essential to the plot. You didn't have people mentioning Brian Moser that much past season one if memory serves. When we went into the "Dexter wants Deb" thing, I don't think they touched on "hey it's weird that he's not only hot for his adoptive sister, but his bio brother was sleeping with her too or maybe hooking up with one serial killer is enough to impose on Deb. I don't find it that much of a stretch to buy that no one talked about a police captain from 15 years ago, especially if his disappearance is chalked up to "the Cartel took him out in revenge" versus "all the disbelief over the Bay Harbor Butcher being a cop seeming misplaced with a high-ranking cop being a known murderer."

The disappearance of Brian for 15 years might be explained in part because of him honing his craft. With his latest kill this episode, he finally has hit upon a way of killing that mirrors a crude version of his Ice Truck Killer M.O. of dismemberment of the bodies. He still has to develop things further and get his Rudy Cooper persona established as a medical professional.

 

[bilgistic]

9 hours ago, CarpeFelis said:

Back on my soapbox again… Pre-med is JUST PLAIN COLLEGE. It does not mean you know how to draw blood as if you’re already halfway through med school!

I was yelling at the TV when Tanya told Dexter to draw blood. A random joe cannot just start drawing blood for a blood drive!

[Affogato]

17 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

A ridiculous modern error In Dexter: Original Sin's '70s flashback!

In the earlier scene, the container's name has been digitally scrubbed.

But not in the later scene.

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I would never have given it a second thought or known what it was. Thanks. 

[Elizzikra]

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Yes, trying to smother Deb is scary. But I think it's a lot to conclude from that he's broken beyond repair. I also suspect that there are some non-psycho kids in real life who have tried the same thing.

A younger child might toss a pillow into a crib, not knowing it could accidentally smother a baby. But a child Brian's age, being irritated by a crying baby, picking up a pillow and holding it over the face of the baby - that is highly aggressive behavior and would be indicative of an issue. On top of that, Doris has already lost one child. I wouldn't say that Brian is beyond help at this point but I can definitely understand Doris and Harry deciding that they couldn't keep Brian. 

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I was yelling at the TV when Tanya told Dexter to draw blood. A random joe cannot just start drawing blood for a blood drive!

I thought she asked him if he went to medical school and he said, "no, pre med" and yes, it's ridiculous that someone who was pre med would be not just drawing blood but gathering a pint. Even if he had though, any doctor I know would tell you that they learn blood draws and IV starts in med school and then... never really do them again. You want a nurse or a phlebotomist. I did think the HIV test and the gay cop storyline was a nice touch. That is one of a thousand ways it would be challenging to be a closeted cop in the 90's.

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Aaron’s motives have yet to be fully explained. It cannot be just the divorce. Dexter takes a calculated risk by counting on Aaron to lead him to Nicky’s hideout.

Agreed, especially since Dexter doesn't know that Nicky has recognized his kidnapper as his father. I've been wondering how Aaron is going to get away with this without killing Nicky and and when he left the arcade, I was thinking he was going to Nicky as much to get rid of the eyewitness as he was to gather up and run off with his son.

Not to be an idiot, but the first kid who was kidnapped... was that to make Nicky's kidnapping seem like part of a larger cartel thing and help cover Aaron's tracks? How and why did he choose that kid to kill? Was there some vendetta there? Or did someone else do that and Aaron is copycatting?

[Chicago Redshirt]

15 hours ago, Elizzikra said:

A younger child might toss a pillow into a crib, not knowing it could accidentally smother a baby. But a child Brian's age, being irritated by a crying baby, picking up a pillow and holding it over the face of the baby - that is highly aggressive behavior and would be indicative of an issue. On top of that, Doris has already lost one child. I wouldn't say that Brian is beyond help at this point but I can definitely understand Doris and Harry deciding that they couldn't keep Brian. 

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Agreed, especially since Dexter doesn't know that Nicky has recognized his kidnapper as his father. I've been wondering how Aaron is going to get away with this without killing Nicky and and when he left the arcade, I was thinking he was going to Nicky as much to get rid of the eyewitness as he was to gather up and run off with his son.

Not to be an idiot, but the first kid who was kidnapped... was that to make Nicky's kidnapping seem like part of a larger cartel thing and help cover Aaron's tracks? How and why did he choose that kid to kill? Was there some vendetta there? Or did someone else do that and Aaron is copycatting?

I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of what Brian did, and it certainly makes sense that with the death of Junior, Harry and Doris would be acutely sensitive to threats to their other bio-child.

That said, given the "not splitting them up" thing, I guess it is surprising that they retained Dexter rather than found a foster home that was accepting of both Brian and Dex. 

A What If look into a plot where harry and Doris persevered more and tried to keep both, or one where they let both go to other foster parents would be interesting.

I'm presently operating under the assumptions that Aaron is the only killer, that he kidnapped and killed the judge's kid to put himself above suspicion in the kidnapping and killing of Nicky, and that while he may have originally planned to allow Nicky to be discovered and to pretend to be the hero, he has known since Nicky deduced his identity that he was going to have to kill him. (Part of me thinks that he was intending to kill Nicky from jump street anyways for reasons yet to be revealed, like Nicky is really not his bio-son or something).

[Snazzy Daisy]

Postmortem | Ep. 109 | Blood Drive | Dexter: Original Sin

 

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Dexter Captures Aaron Spencer | Dexter: Original Sin

 

[cmfran]

I guess we're not going to hear anything else about Deb's boyfriend? What was the point of any of that? Why show us that he's up to no good if it never goes anywhere? Oh, right, that's what this show does over and over again.