Dexter

Dexter - 04x06 - If I Had a Hammer

Previously on Dexter...

Deb's alive. They're taking her to the hospital.

Who did this?

He says it's smelling like the vacation murderer's m.o.

Then that's... Lundy.

Lundy devoted his life to hunting trinity.

If it was trinity, it would explain why deb is alive and lundy isn't.

I'm gonna follow lundy's theory and check his hotel room for clues.

You can't let these be logged into evidence.

I just unsealed the juvy records of johnny rose,

our vacation murder suspect.

Shoplifting with his high school girlfriend nikki wald.

Nikki!

Put the gun down.

We got 'em, morgan. Got who?

Nikki wald and johnny rose. Well, we got nikki. Johnny's on his way to the morgue.

This department can't risk a defense attorney

turning your romantic involvement into a courtroom sideshow

every time you work a case together.

What are you saying?

I am saying I need you to transfer sergeant batista out of homicide.

This is bullshit.

I would have been here sooner, but I got hung up on the phone. Your landlord called.

oh.

I was just hanging on to the place until the lease ran out.

Why'd you tell me you got rid of it?

So you didn't have an affair with my father?

I don't know who you're looking for, honey,

but it ain't me.

I'm halfway through the c.i. Files you gave me.

Maybe then I'll finally get some answers.

Can I help you?

I'm taking on a project.

I'd go with the framing hammer.

You made me do this.

What are you doing?

He doesn't belong here. It doesn't make sense.

Trinity's a husband,

a father.

He's...

Like me.

Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Hour by hour, the spitting image of a normal man.

Up at 6:00 a.m.

Breakfast, 7:00 a.m.

Work, 8:30.

Study session. Study session.

Even on a saturday.

Noon, lunch with faculty. Out at 3:00.

Dinner at 6:00.

Father, husband, teacher, deacon.

All in the name of blending..

Camouflage is nature's craftiest trick.

This is what makes a home:

the noise of happy children,

the warmth of a full house,

the chill of an angry wife.

Is that the last of it?

Just a few more things to pack up.

Not like you're dragging it out. Uh, that's for the kids.

If you're hungry, there's food in the fridge.

Oh, I could go for a sandwich.

We're out of bread.

She has to forgive me for my apartment eventually.

Doesn't she?

Maybe I should hang on to it just in case, huh?

This is so awesome.

Hello? Dexter.

Hey. Sorry.

Move out of the way. Sheesh.

I made an appointment

with the new therapist for tomorrow at noon.

New therapist?

It's an emergency, dexter.

It's an emergency, dexter.

No, of course. I mean, whatever you need.

This isn't for me.

This is for us.

This

doesn't belong here.

Hey, can you give me a ride to the station?

Batista's taking another run at nikki wald today.

She's confessed to everything except for the part where she shot me and lundy.

Because she didn't. Trinity did.

Bui I can't tell deb. I need a head start.

Morgan.

Yes, I know where that is. Thanks.

Got to go. Bludgeoning downtown.

Trinity's latest victim. About time.

100 ocean gate?

Yeah, how'd you know that?

Because that's where lundy thought it would be.

We could have stopped it if fucking nikki wald

and her shit-stain boyfriend didn't shoot us.

Deb, it's gonna be okay.

I'm going to kill trinity for you.

Can you just give me a ride to the station, please?

Yeah, I'll drop you off on my way downtown. Come on.

The is the last victim in the cycle of three.

Trinity's done...

For now.

He's retreated to the safety of his camouflage.

His defense will be down. Perfect time to strike.

Jesus.

I just have to stay ahead of my colleagues.

Two days' worth of decay. The body's been here since friday.

Building was closed over the weekend. No a/c.

What's the spatter say?

Blunt force trauma to the head.

Duh.

Judging from the spray, we're looking at somebody tall, over six feet.

That all you got?

That's all I can tell ya.

He moved the arm...

For a reason.

Can't leave this behind.

It might get them closer.

Give me.

That's okay. I got it.

Evidence hog. You got buckets of blood to worry about.

You see the oval grid pattern there?

Comes from a framing hammer.

Duh.

I'll check some out in the spatter room. See if I can narrow it down.

How do you know so much about hammers?

Not a tool I haven't played with,

my friend.

okay, the fbi agent, he was shot at a business hotel.

But you were so high, you don't even remember, do you?

No, no, no. No. I never blacked out. Never.

Bullshit, you fucking junkiehohore.

Do you remember shooting at...

Quinn. You shouldn't be here, morgan.

Watching this is only gonna fuck you up. I'm already fucked up.

Look, nikki's going away for a long time. She confessed to the vacation murders

and to killing johnny rose. But not to lundy.

The whole department knows she's lying, but we got nothing.

No evidence, no eyewitnesses, so it is what it is.

Fuck.

Fuck.

I came at nikki wald from every which way,

but she's still holding out on us.

Brass wants her transferred to county.

So it's out of our hands. Shit.

I didn't want to leave homicide with deb and lundy unsolved.

That's out of our hands too.

I haven't told anyone yet about me transferring.

There's no need until it's official.

I haven't even turned in the paperwork.

Is that it?

No, that's homicide.

Just come in today?

This morning.

Didn't make sense to call you in on something new.

Bludgeoning. Nasty.

You got any leads?

Hey, if I'd known you'd be transferred...

Maria, don't.

Telling matthews about us was the right thing to do.

Working fraud will be good for me.

15% pay bump, promotion to lieutenant, better hours,

and chances are i'm not gonna be getting shot at

sitting behind a desk all day.

You hate sitting behind a desk.

But I love being with you.

I'm perfectly comfortable with bodily fluids:

blood, snot, tears.

But the emotions that go along with them,

not so much.

Dexter,

are you hearing what rita is saying?

She's upset.

About the apartment.

The apartment isn't really the issue right now.

It's not?

You see?

It's like he doesn't even listen.

He's always in his head, and when he does talk to me, it's all lies,

all the time. Not...

All the time.

I thought we were past this. You know, with the drugs and lila.

Who's lila?

My sponsor. The homicidal bitch he slept with.

Okay.

Now

we're married.

You know, we have a child together.

And you're still keeping secrets.

Rita, I can see that you're upset.

But, as you describe it,

this isn't new behavior for dexter.

What do you mean?

It sounds like you knew about him

when you married him.

What? I hoped he would change.

When you married your ex-husband, did you think he would change too?

Okay. Okay, so I have some responsibility here too.

I don't want to keep making the same mistakes. - Me neither.

We'll work it out. We always work it out.