Episode 9: "Resistance is Futile"

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EPISODE 9: "Resistance is Futile"

Episode summary: Dexter notices that he is being tailed by an undercover car as he leaves Rita's house, where he had fallen asleep in a lawn chair. He follows Harry's Code and goes to his apartment to get ready for work instead of heading to the cabin to dispose of Jimenez's body. LaGuerta tries in vain to reach Doakes on the phone to see why he stood her up the night before. Deb and Lundy wake up after spending the night together after they discovered that the Bay Harbor Butcher is probably someone in Homocide. After pillow talk, they end up discussing whether or not they should announce their relationship at work; Lundy believes in "full disclosure" while Deb appears reluctant tell everyone just yet. Their discussion is interrupted by a phone call for Lundy, and Deb and viewers are treated to a shot of Lundy's bare backside as he hurriedly gathers items from his closet before heading for the shower. Lundy has to leave, perhaps for a break in the BHB case, and the issue of letting people at work know they are dating is unresolved. Deb later tries to let Lundy know that she is neither unsure or embarrassed about being with him, but notes that he is preoccupied with work ("something's up") matters that he does not reveal to her. Doakes is named the #1 suspect in the Bay Harbor Butcher case because Dexter's "trophy slides" were found in his possession, and he goes M.I.A. Dexter is picked up by an FBI detail and taken to the station. Lundy and Matthews ask Dexter what the slides "mean" and end up making him the first forensic tech in the chain of evidence. A protective FBI detail is assigned to guard Dexter at all times. Matthews remarks that Dexter has more reason than most to want to get to the bottom of things. To keep Deb from becoming part of his layer of protection, Dexter tells her that he would be worried for her safety if she were near him, and urges her to move into her new apartment. Lila continues to try to get under Dexter's skin by cozying up to Angel and reminding Dexter that she's the only one who can accept him for who is really is. Dexter and Rita make plans to have dinner together and talk about a reconciliation. When LaGuerta approaches Deb and asks her to intervene with Lundy about Doakes, an over-defensive Deb blurts out the news that she is "sleeping" with Lundy as Angel and Lundy are strolling by. Dexter escapes from his protective detail by climbing out of his bathroom window and making his way to his boat. Doakes surprises Dexter as he is disposing of Jimenez' dismembered body and they engage in struggle that leaves Dexter with a gunshot wound and Doakes unconscious in a cage in the cabin deep in the Everglades.

Original air date: 11-25-2007

Written by: Melissa Rosenberg

Directed by: Marcos Siega

Description of crime: The continued investigation of the "Bay Harbor Butcher"

New Breakthroughs: At long last, a real suspect has been named in the BHB case and it is... Sgt. James Doakes. Doakes was known to have fled the country, and when the FBI got a warrant to search his car at the airport, they found a rosewood box full of blood slides hidden in his trunk (the same box Doakes stole from Dexter's apartment the night before). The manhunt is on for Doakes, who is officially only "wanted for questioning".

Description of crime:

Victim(s):

Assigned officer(s):

Crime scene:

Suspect(s):

Clue(s):

Blood evidence suggests...

FLASHBACKS

Harry and Dexter attend the execution of a criminal. Harry's idea here is to hammer home the point that the number one rule is to "Not get caught". This rule seems like it'd be better suited as a goal or intention, and there should be other rules to help facilitate that. Having the number one rule be "Don't get caught" is a lot like having the number one rue is basketball be "win the game". Could a ref penalize you for not winning?

DEXTER'S RELATIONSHIPS

Developments with Rita:

Rita finds Dex sleeping outside her house, not realizing he's protecting her from Lila.

Dexter apologizes for getting mixed up with Lila. He even expresses regret, and says Rita and the kids were "a lot to have" and that he had messed it up "stupendously." Rita can't let go of the fact he was with another woman.

Rita calls Dex because she thought about his apology and wants him back. They agree to meet the next day. Dexter's protective detail looks on as he has the extremely intimate conversation.

Interactions with others:

Dexter is given a protective detail, so he asks Deb to stay away, saying she'll be safer, but he really needs her out of the way so he can dispose of Jimenez's body and in case he has to deal with Doakes.

Lila starts getting real cozy with Angel. Dexter tells Angel she's only trying to manipulate him so she can be with Dexter again. Angel doesn't care.

Dexter is pulled away from his home and whisked away to the station. Matthews and Lundy make him examine his own box of slides and asks him to explain them. He says they are "trophies", thinking he's confessing. Fortunately for him, Lundy and Matthews thinks they are Doakes' trophies. Dexter is relieved to be off the hook.

Dexter confronts Lila and tells her to stay away from him and his friends. She won't listen and proclaims that she's his soul mate.

SIGNIFICANCE OF EPISODE TITLE

Doakes catches Dexter in the act of disposing of dead body and holds him at gunpoint. Doakes would think that for Dexter at that moment, resistance would be futile, however he'd be wrong. "Resistance is Futile" is also a phrase used by the Borg of the Star Trek fictional universe.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

Best Moments:

Dexter describing Doakes to Lundy and Matthews in the same negative way Doakes would describe Dexter.

When Dexter was "looking" for evidence on "Doakes'" box of slides.

Doakes telling LaGuerta how much she means to him over the phone.

Dexter and Doakes confrontation on the dock. Very intense.

Lundy and Deb in bed. A great scene.

EPISODE TRIVIA

Goof: Doakes took a plane to Haiti, and while he's there he becomes the prime suspect in the Bay Harbor Butcher case. Somehow, he is able to fly back into the country without anyone there to arrest him at the airport. Later, he calls La Guerta and tells her that he is not the Butcher, which is a nice scene, but Doakes calls her before Lundy decides to give Doakes' name to the press (which happens two scenes later). How did he find out he was a suspect? Finally, how did he get a GPS tap on Dexter's boat (without causing any sort of suspicion) all within a 24 hour period from when he found Dexter's slides? It was never revealed Dexter ever had a GPS unit, just a fish finder
.When Dexter wakes up in front of Rita's house after sleeping outside his shirt has a wet spot right under the buttons, then it's gone, then it's there, etc.
- Also interesting to note, in episode five of season three, "Turning Bimenese", Rita is emitted into the hospital while Dexter is out killing a man. Miguel Prado cannot find Dexter, and goes so far as to send the coast guard out to find him. Why wouldn't he just call in some sort of GPS tap on Dex's boat if it was so easy?
Magical Dexter: Lila walks across the bar to go the ladies room. We see her enter through the only entrance. Then suddenly, Dexter appears. How'd he get there before her?

Failure in Judgment: Dexter tells himself early in the episode that he shouldn't worry about Jimenez's body since it's locked away in the cabin. He says nobody could break into the cabin since it's basically a "bunker". It's interesting to note then, that Lila breaks into that very same cabin with relative ease two episodes later. Since when does a lock and a couple of chains constitute bunker?

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wodny

Doakes friend

Jan 6 2008, 8:50 PM EST by wodny

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Does anybody know who plays Doakes's friend on Haiti?

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maisambob

Cackling Witch Lila (page: 1 2 3 4)

Dec 13 2007, 1:27 AM EST by jwnelson11

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When I heard Lila's witchy cackle as Dex turned to leave his office it made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. And howcan his coworkers be so crass as to wine and dine her knowing she and Dex broke up and he looks horrified to be near her. For cops they are very dense. They should be able to pick up on this or maybe his outright statments about her being nuts.

Come on guys think with your brain instead of your ......

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Preview for: "Resistance is Futile" (page: 1 2)

Dec 1 2007, 9:19 PM EST by dexgal

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You can clearly see that Dexter is given a "place of power" in regard to the slides. Whether or not this is Lundy's chance to "trap" him is the only question

Soon enough we will know...

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