Dexter "A Horse Of A Different Color" Episode Guide

Dexter seems to be in the habit of packing the shocks into the last two minutes of episodes this season. After the creepy Horsemen scene of the last episode, this week elaborated on the nature of the killing and started to delve into the men behind it. Dexter, in a continuing examination of faith, faces circumstances that seem to push him towards believing in something. As Harry notes, he’s already speaking with one imaginary father figure. Now, he just has to decide where the role of faith comes into play.

Want to know what shocked us this week? Read on to find out.

• Miami Metro arrives on the scene to find four horses trotting around with a combination of mannequins and body parts as their riders, and there’s a mark on one of horses reminiscent of the strange mark found on the snakes victim, the alpha and omega Greek letters intertwined. The new detective, Mike Anderson, inputs that the whole scene is reminiscent of the Four Horsemen in Revelations, in the Bible.
• Dex has been chilling with Brother Sam some more. He attends one of his baptisms and cracks up his car again so he can bring it into the shop. But Brother Sam actually provides some insightful remarks into why exactly people would kill in the name of religion. Although it’s not ideal, he explains that some people use God as an excuse and, even though the killer may have faith in something crazy—like the Professor’s ideas of justice and retribution—it’s still faith nonetheless.
• Masuka discovers that Ryan, his intern, has been selling Ice Truck Killer evidence on eBay to make rent. He’s actually quite hurt by it and has to fire her.
• Dexter finds a message hidden in the Four Horsemen victim’s eyelid, 1237, and one in the snakes victim’s intestine, 1242. The only difference Dex is able to discern, for now, is that the two numbers are five apart, and the two murders occurred five days apart. But Dex also realizes that the inconsistency in the Horsemen crime scenes—the body was meticulously sewn together but roughly cut apart—means that there are actually two people behind Doomsday, Deb’s new name for the case.
• Because Matthews is still angry with LaGuerta for blackmailing him for a promotion, Deb has to make the press statement about the Horsemen incident. Because she’s Deb, she lets a few colorful words slip, and LaGuerta almost seems happy about it. Instead of chewing her out, Matthews encourages her spitfire public persona.
• On assignment and waiting for dispatch to give them an address, Quinn finds a joint in Batista’s car and the two light up. They do find some evidence, however, as they speak with a preacher who is obsessed with an expert on Revelations—the one Professor James Geller. They’ve also discovered that Geller went underground after being fired five years ago for stealing an ancient Roman sword that allegedly belonged to John the Revelator, author of Revelations, and could very possibly be the murder weapon.
• Harrison’s appendix burst, and Brother Sam visits Dex in the waiting room for moral support. It’s there we learn that Sam and Dexter have quite a bit in common—both born in blood, in the presence of death and violence from a very young age. Sam’s conversion experience includes almost throttling a man to death in a chapel and suddenly realizing the wrong in it. For the first time, Dexter prays. It’s not very religious, but it’s desperate—he is scared for Harrison.
• Miami Metro gets called to a crime scene in the final minutes. The same symbol of an alpha and omega is drawn in blood in a circle of fish, but Dex follows the blood trail into a greenhouse. The woman is still alive, dressed in a white outfit complete with angel wings, and tied to a contraption in the middle of the room. Deb sees the trip wire but can’t stop the other detectives who step right into it—sending the girl careening to her death. Batista then opens a cabinet to release a swarm of locusts over the scene, and Dexter follows them outside to see Travis standing in the middle of it all, smiling. Because normal people don’t usually smile in the middle of crime scenes, Dexter deduces that Travis is the other half of Doomsday.

Dexter’s back next week with even more crazy. Don’t forget to tune into Showtime at 9PM EST next Sunday to catch "The Angel of Death."