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Originally Posted by ratbastid
That twist at the end was the most provocative thing they've done all season. We were left discussing the implications of it, here at our house. That hasn't happened after an episode since Season 1.
The Mitchell Family Descent into Madness was about the scariest thing I've ever seen done on TV. Amazing work. And it just kept getting worse. I thought the kid's hand was as horrible as it could get. Then the daughter offers to be a whore for her freedom, and I thought that was as horrible as it could get. Then the mother is WILLING to whore out her daughter for Dexter's silence, and I thought THAT was as horrible as it could get. And then it got about 100 times more horrible...
I wonder what happened last Thanksgiving when nobody said they were grateful for their beautiful home. I'll bet it was bad. They all knew for damn sure to say it this year!
Dex has a new real problem, though. The family had no idea they were having dinner with two sociopaths. Something came out of "Kyle" there that they totally weren't expecting, and I think it was new and scary in a whole different way from how Arthur is known and familiar and scary. What's going to happen when Trinity disappears into the gulf stream? They'll have to know it was Dex. Yes, Trinity will be on guard against him now, but he's also revealed himself to the rest of the Mitchells, which is a major Code violation.
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That's a nice analysis of it. Up until that portion of the episode, I was just going through the motions of the preamble and fading into a lull.
But then the kid showed up in his smashed car, and the real "show" was commencing. Regarding "the hand, the whore, and the hush", I appropriately reacted to each in the following manner: "Oh NO! .. Oh, Yes! .. Oh, Whoa!". It went on in a similar fashion once the dinner table gathering degraded into a melee of hysterics and attempted murders.
I'm still not entirely sure what is to come of the Christine-being-the-lost-daughter angle, (even though I was wishing that both theories offered up by SM70 would end up going nowhere) but I have a feeling Arthur is going to ask her to investigate 'Kyle Butler', and she'll say, "Wait? That's not Kyle Butler-- this is so-and-so, this is what he does, and this is his family.", all the while Arthur's face is gradually garnering steam at being deceived, and to what aim.