Dexter - Season 4 (Ep 1-12) (2009)

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Dexter is now a married family man, and Rita has given birth to a baby boy named Harrison. The family has moved to the suburbs, where Dexter struggles to reconcile his new life as a family man with his killing urges. Special Agent Frank Lundy returns, having recently retired from the FBI, and is hunting the "Trinity Killer" (John Lithgow) who he believes always murders three people in a very specific sequence: a young woman in a bathtub, an older mother of two falling to her death, and a father of two bludgeoned to death. Lundy also states that Trinity's pattern has been repeated in various cities across the country dating back over decades. The character of Christine Hill (Courtney Ford) is introduced, a journalist who begins a relationship with Detective Quinn.

Lundy begins working with Debra to capture Trinity before he completes his cycle. Debra renews her relationship with Lundy but shortly after an unseen assailant shoots them both, killing Lundy. Debra explains the idea of the Trinity Killer to the department, but she isn't allowed to work the case since she is one of his victims. With Masuka's help, Debra discovers that Trinity did not shoot her. Since she is no longer considered a Trinity victim, she is put in charge of the case.

While investigating Lundy's data about Trinity, Dexter determines Lundy was killed because Lundy had determined when and where Trinity would claim his third victim. Dexter stakes out the building, and witnesses Trinity bludgeoning a man on a security camera (the third victim in a killing cycle). Dexter is unable to stop the murder, but he does follow Trinity to his home where he is surprised to discover that Trinity is a family man named Arthur Mitchell. Using the alias Kyle Butler, Dexter attends the same church as Trinity and eventually befriends him. While investigating the reasons behind Arthur's crimes, Dexter learns how he manages to consolidate his family life with his killing urges and utilizes that knowledge to deal with issues in his marriage with Rita.

Dexter visits Arthur at his home and discovers that Trinity will be traveling to Tampa on another building project, which could be the start of another cycle. Dexter decides to make the trip with Trinity to ensure this doesn't happen. In Tampa, Dexter and Arthur visit Trinity's childhood home. Arthur reveals that at the age of 10, he spied on his older sister in the shower out of innocent curiosity. His sister, who is startled when she sees him, falls and slips, shattering the glass shower door, cutting open her femoral artery, leading her to bleed to death. Arthur's parents blame him for his sister's death. His mother committed suicide and his father died soon after his mother; Dexter assumes Arthur murdered him. Trinity's victims therefore die in the same manner as his family. During Thanksgiving, Dexter learns that Arthur has been terrorizing his family in their own home, locking his daughter away in her bedroom and physically abusing his son. Trinity's son snaps and begins destroying Arthur's trophies, finally destroying the urn containing Trinity's sister's ashes, which provokes Trinity to nearly strangle his son. Dexter garrotes Trinity with a belt and drags him to the kitchen but is interrupted by Arthur's wife and daughter. Arthur goes to see Christine Hill, who is then revealed to be his daughter.

Later Arthur kidnaps a boy while being pursued by Dexter. Dexter does some research and finds out that Trinity's pattern begins with an abduction first; the boys disappear days before the first bathtub death. Dexter locates where Arthur is holding the boy. He arrives late to confront him, but he deduces that Trinity is planning to bury the boy alive at the Four-Walls build site. Dexter arrives just in time to save the boy from the cement pool, but Arthur escapes.

Debra begins to investigate Christine in Lundy's murder, as she knows too many details. With the help of Qunin, she has Christine's toothbrush analyzed at the lab by Masuka. The results dictate that Christine is related to the Trinity Killer. Christine is interrogated at the station regarding her involvement in Lundy's murder, and following a search of her apartment, Batista and Debra surmise that she is the Trinity Killer's daughter. They let her go for lack of evidence, but she eventually confesses to Debra. Christine secretly contacts Arthur Mitchell, but Arthur refuses to help her and instead disowns her for killing Frank Lundy without Arthur's prior knowledge. A distraught Christine seeks forgiveness from Debra, but after Debra refuses to forgive her, Christine pulls a gun and commits suicide in front of her.

LaGuerta and Batista have renewed their relationship and—in danger of losing their jobs for lying—decide to marry. They confront the Deputy Chief, and say that if he files perjury charges against them, he will be seen as an anti-marriage, anti-family, and anti-love person. He is furious, but cannot file the charges because of the future implications against him.

Dexter decides that he must draw police attention away from Arthur, so he finds a man whom he can blame - Stan Beaudry. Dexter sneaks into his home and plants a comb, toothbrush, and the framing hammer that Arthur used to bludgeon the man in the office building. He sneaks into Beaudry's truck, kills him, and plants Lundy's Trinity files on the passenger seat.

Arthur begins to follow Dexter, and soon learns his true identity. After Dexter learns this, Dexter follows Arthur to a bank but hits a car on the way. He captures Arthur and takes a large envelope off him containing money. When he leaves the van, he sees the other driver talking to the police. He quickly hides the envelope and confronts the man. Dexter—irritated by the driver—smashes his cellphone, and is detained by the police. By the time he is released, Arthur is gone.

Meanwhile, one of Harry's informants takes Deb to the house of the informant that Harry left her for. Deb immediately recognizes the house as the home of Brian Moser, the Ice Truck Killer. The informant says that the woman's name was Laura Moser. Deb looks for information about Laura, and finds out that Dexter is her son, and the brother of the Ice Truck Killer. Deb confronts Dexter about his true identity, and Dexter feigns surprise. He says that Brian must have tried to get to him through Deb.

Dexter tracks down Arthur and captures him. Arthur wakes up in the Bomb Shelter room where he held the missing boy. He kills Arthur with a framing hammer and dumps the body. He returns home and picks up a message from Rita on his cellphone. She had to come back home to get her ID. After listening to the message, he decides to call her back, only to hear Rita's phone ring from within the house. After finding Rita's phone, Dexter soon hears Harrison crying, and rushes to the bathroom, where he finds Harrison sitting on the tile in a puddle of blood. Rita appears to be dead in the bathtub, presumably murdered by Trinity. It was later confirmed by John Lithgow in an interview with Michael C Hall that Rita's death was indeed Trinity's handiwork[9]

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