Dexter: Season 6, Episode 9 “Get Gellar” (B+)
Talk about a major bombshell. Looking back on this season, it’s very much true that Gellar has interacted only with Travis and never with anyone else, save for Erin the doomed waitress. The important distinction here, as far as I can tell, is that Travis doesn’t realize that he’s killed Gellar. He’s delusional and still sees Gellar talking to him on a regular basis, and assigns the deaths of the waitress and his sister to this already-deceased figment of his imagination. No matter how it’s interpreted, it’s a fascinating development, and an enormous game-changer, since Dexter hasn’t been subtle or secretive with Travis, which means that the hallucinated Gellar knows everything that Dexter told him. Just as she’s making some recovery, I fear that Deb is the one who is going to pay for Dexter’s crucial mistake, though I’m sure she’ll survive whatever trauma she endures. The way that the writing on the wall for Travis was revealed was quite frightening, and definitely indicates that Travis is suffering from a multiple-personality disorder. That fact means that the part of him that’s still Travis may not be beyond saving, but I think that Dexter is going to kill him anyway for the murderous deeds he’s committed, consciously or not. The blood getting dumped on the cops was heavily disturbing, and even the perceptive Dexter wasn’t able to stop it from happening as he noticed too late. Aside from all this DDK-related news, we have two decently unsettling developments with the other cops, and I’m not talking about Quinn’s drunken night and near-loss of his gun. Louis’ possession of the Ice Truck Killer hand doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but I have a feeling that it’s going to come up later and probably drive Jamie away. Matthews’ direct complicity in the death of Jessica Morris is not a good thing, and I wonder how that will be handled.
