Hey man, maybe he just has a good insurance policy.

Yeah.. i'm not sure if i remember correctly, but the car that he used to ram the skinners house was a red one with front defenders, not his cadillac.

Thou art correct.

Whoops. Wasted three minutes of my life on that train of thought. Cars in this show keep changing. Needs a clearer car continuity.

I agree with the last part. The rest of your post is just dumb though imo.

This.

What? Yeah, no way getting gashed in the face would stop someone in their tracks. Completely unrealistic.

Didn't the records lady on hear deathbed tell Dexter that she destroyed the file before she left? If so, then Deb's request is going to come up short and she won't find out that Dexter is the Ice Truck Killer's brother.

Am I mistaken?

Yeah i think deb wont find anything

To clarify for the repeated wrongness in this thread:

Deb and Dexter are in no way related. Harry may have ****ed Dexter's mom, but he is not Dexter's father. Dexter inherited his father's house in s1 (I forgot his name), but they did do a DNA test to prove he was the real biological father.

Sorry to be a nit, but it was annoying me.

Who said they were biological siblings in this thread?

Yeah dude...WTF are you talking about?

Except for the end, episode sucked compared to last week's.

Main prob: way too much Deb.

Still psyched for the finale.

Re: strangulation: IIRC only the skinners last victim was killed via skinning (and possibly was attempting to do the same to the CI). The other ones he killed and then skinned (i.e. Freebo's girl, who was only missing a small patch). So while yea he seems to have progressed into death by skinning, the fact that PRado was killed then skinned wouldn't disqualify the skinner.

This about it, you're Angel or someone from the dept:

1 - Skinner kills and skins people, once killed by skinning
2 - Skinner met Prado, knows Prado is investigating him
3 - Prado turns up dead, skinned

That's probably enough, but possibly Dexter will add a final piece, like
4 - Trophy piece of Prado's skin with Skinner

You're the detective; you don't think you've got your man? If the skinner ends up dead, you don't close the file on Prado's death?

if you read my post, this is what i'm saying...it wasn't a gash at all, if he had really messed up his face then it's much more believable. but he basically had a standard band aid on his face after he got cut like it was half inch paper cut.

interesting i never thought about this but i agree, what happens to him eventually is what the writiers think about these differences in personality and the morality in these differences.

I thought the chase scence was pretty realistic except maybe quin not shooting him when he could have maybe had the chance (did he even have a gun?). If quinn didnt have a gun and he even saw the skinner with a knife it would make sense to stop pursuing him.

I still don't think Dexter did any actual skinning on Prado.

why do so many people in this thread have hate for debra, i just dont get it, she seems in all reality a pretty good actress with kind of a wierd character

True.. King is the main (already proven) suspect in a serial killing case. They should consider him armed and dangerous and be ready to take him out using lethal force if necessary. Quinn and Deb were both carrying but Deb was the only one who unholstered her gun (she had it out the whole time), but she got scared when she saw Quinn on the ground.

Completely agree with this, with his marriage falling apart, brother murdered, career be ruined, and the pressure from getting caught for the Ellen Wolf murder suicide would had been very plausible. And if it weren't a TV show trying to tie all of the story lines together, this would've been the likely outcome. Also now that I think of it he faked his brothers suicide at the end of season 1, so a fake suicide could have been a little redundant.

My prediction for the finale is Dexter some how kills the skinner in self defense, which will be plausible as now the skinner is coming for the police department. This cleans up the Miguel killed by the skinner angle. Ramon ends up getting arrested and sent to prison for his previous transgressions. And season 4 is about the people close (Deb, Rita) to Dexter suspecting there may be more to Dexter than they realize.

If this happens then the PD can just back burner the Freebo investigation with the Prado's out of the picture. This is another loose end that needs to be tied up in the last episode. Its very possible that Miguel told Ramon about Freebo at least, but he has lost some credibility with his outbursts and drinking problems. The only way to tie it up nice and neat is to have Ramon go to jail or killed in self defense.

I think Deb will catch the skinner and get her shield.

Or Quinn actually makes the skinner arrest but gives Deb credit (because of all the hard work she's put into the case), leading to her getting her shield, thus leading to some sexytime beteen the two.

This is what I was referring to earlier, fwiw. I also think I could find some more if I really combed through the thread, but I'm not going to bother.

not true in my experience

i had a nasty, deep cut on my forehead, went to the ER, the doc told me he could see my skull while he was sewing me up and then sent me on my way

This is being pretty nitty, and I don't think anyone in the thread doesn't actually understand the relationship.

Is there even an actual term for stepbrother's brother?

i thought the kill room was in laguerta's house at the time which really tilted me cause that would be ridiculous. but i just read here it was ellen wolfe's house. just curious how we know this?

right, so the close-ups of his baller watch was just there cause the producers like close-ups of baller watches, and that whole loose thread was randomly tied thanks to a random remark from deb and quinn explaining it like "umm i inherited some random building"... good call sherlock.

i also thought it was ellen's house when i first saw the episode. i could tell by the furniture and layout, it looked just like when laguerta went to visit ellen, i was reminded of her house when that scene first started even with the plastic covering the room.

Laguerta definitely wouldn't have believed a suicide. Quinn probably just got a couple of stitches and put the bandage ontop until they come out, or just had a bandage on. He got slashed in the face, close to the eyes, was prob bleeding down into his eyes, he clearly wasn't going to keep pursuing.

I don't know about you guys, but when you're running at full speed, it's not James Bond....shooting someone also running at full speed isn't easy and not entirely protocol either.