Dexter: Original Sin 1.4: The Role of Luck in Dexter's Profession and Life

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(Well, I better warn you about spoilers ahead .... ]

Dexter fails in his mission.  Well, mostly.  Harry warns Dexter, more than once, that Mad Dog, a professional hit man, might well be too much for the relatively inexperienced (in killing) Dexter to handle. And Harry is right.  Mad Dog breaks loose, Dexter runs after him, and the only reason Mad Dog doesn't live to see another episode is he's hit by a car.

Now, since Mad Dog was running to get away from Dexter, in an important sense Dexter was responsible for Mad Dog's death.  Which is why I said Dexter "mostly failed".  Dexter certainly failed to kill Mad Dog that way Dexter wanted, in the technique we've seen him start to perfect in the previous episodes.  But it was sheer luck, from Dexter's point of view, that that car along at just the right time.

Come to think of it, I have the sense that Dexter would be lucky again, more than once, in the long career he has ahead. But I can't think off-hand of any specific example, and it's been years since watched the original Dexter in real time.  But I'm inclined to agree that luck has always been a part of Dexter's profession, if it not in his specific plans.  And with Dexter played by Michael C. Hall coming back to the screen this coming summer in Dexter: Resurrection, I think it's safe to say that Dexter had a lot of luck in not being killed when his son shot him at the end of Dexter: New Blood.

And there were other good things to see in this fourth episode. It was good to see Joe Pantoliano on the screen playing Mad Dog.  It was good to see Deb connecting with that guy, though it's almost certain there will be trouble ahead for her in that relationship.  It was good to see LaGuerta beginning to see Dexter's acumen in identifying the reasons that people become corpses (it's always good to see LaGuerta).  And most of all, it was good to see Harry finally getting totally together with Dexter's mother.  (Well, he'd been resisting her only for an episode or two, but it was still good to see.)

And I look forward to seeing you back here next week when I review the next episode of this fine prequel series.

See also Dexter: Original Sin 1.1: Activation of the Code ... 1.2-1.3: "The Finger Is Missing"

And see also Dexter: New Blood 1.1: Back with a Vengeance ... Dexter: New Blood 1.2: Dark Tendencies ... Dexter: New Blood 1.3: Fathers and Sons ... Dexter: New Blood 1.4: Harrison and Kurt ... Dexter New Blood: 1.5: No Satisfaction for Serial Killers ... Dexter: New Blood 1.6: Breaks and Arm Breaks ... Dexter: New Blood: 1.7: Dexter vs. Kurt ...Dexter: New Blood 1.8: The Hug in the Car ... Dexter: New Blood 1.9 One Down, One To Go ... Dexter: New Blood Finale: Superb, and I Didn't Like It All
And see also Dexter Season 8 Premiere: Mercury in Retrograde, Dexter Incandescent ... Dexter 8.2: The Gift ... Dexter 8.3: The Question and the Confession ... Dexter 8.4: The "Lab Rat" and Harry's Daughter ... Dexter 8.5: Just Like Family ... Dexter 8.6: The Protege ... Dexter 8.7: Two Different Codes? ... Dexter 8.8: "A Great Future" ... Dexter 8.9: The Psycho Son ... Dexter 8.10: Watch Out, Buenos Aires ... Dexter 8.11: "Not the Old Dexter" ... Dexter Series Finale: Solitude, Style, and a Modicum of Hope


And see also Dexter Season 7.1-3: Sneak Preview Review ... Dexter 7.4: The Lesson in Speltzer's Smoke ... Dexter 7.5: Terminator Isaac ... Dexter 7.6: "Breaking and Entering" ... Dexter 7.7: Shakespearean Serial Killer Story ... Dexter 7.8: Love and Its Demands ... Dexter 7.9: Two Memorable Scenes and the Ascension of Isaac ... Dexter 7.11: The "Accident" ... Dexter Season 7 Finale: The Surviving Triangle

And see also Dexter Season 6 Sneak Preview Review ... Dexter 6.4: Two Numbers and Two Killers Equals? ... Dexter 6.5 and 6.6: Decisive Sam ... Dexter 6.7: The State of Nebraska ... Dexter 6.8: Is Gellar Really Real? .... Dexter 6.9: And Geller Is ... ... Dexter's Take on Videogames in 6.10 ...Dexter and Debra:  Dexter 6.11 ... Dexter Season 6 Finale: Through the Eyes of a Different Love

And see also Dexter Season Five Sneak Preview Review ... Dexter 5.4: Dexter's Conscience ...Dexter 5.8 and Lumen ... Dexter 5.9: He's Getting Healthier ... Dexter 5.10: Monsters -Worse and Better ... Dexter 5.11: Sneak Preview with Spoilers  ... Dexter Season 5 Finale: Behind the Curtain

And see also Dexter Season 4: Sneak Preview Review ... The Family Man on Dexter 4.5 ...Dexter on the Couch in 4.6 ... Dexter 4.7: 'He Can't Kill Bambi' ... Dexter 4.8: Great Mistakes ...4.9: Trinity's Surprising Daughter ... 4.10: More than Trinity ... 4.11: The "Soulless, Anti-Family Schmuck" ... 4.12: Revenges and Recapitulations

And see also reviews of Season 3: Season's Happy Endings? ... Double Surprise ... Psychotic Law vs. Sociopath Science ... The Bright, Elusive Butterfly of Dexter ... The True Nature of Miguel ...Si Se Puede on Dexter ... and Dexter 3: Sneak Preview Review

Reviews of Season 2: Dexter's Back: A Preview and Dexter Meets Heroes and 6. Dexter and De-Lila-h and 7. Best Line About Dexter - from Lila and 8. How Will Dexter Get Out of This? and The Plot Gets Tighter and Sharper and Dex, Doakes, and Harry and Deb's Belief Saves Dex and All's ... Well

See also about Season 1: First Place to Dexter 

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