Dexter: Season 8, Episode 7: Dress Code was the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the season: a new subplot was introduced with its own villain, the subplot had a middle where decisions and actions occurred, and then a resolution happened that dispensed with the subplot and the bad guy at its end. There was a Forever Peace-like curve ball within its confines that was unexpected but the remainder was by the numbers and predictable.
The Next Generation subplot also introduced blatant lunacy into the episode: even with new identification, your face and finger prints are still the same (they still show who you really are). Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahovski) probably is the prettiest killer in Miami’s history. Every cop would know what she looked like and at least her first name. Going back to the city she escaped from under a transparent umbrella of protection was suicidal. State imprisonment for life or lavish servitude? Hannah’s eventual choice showcased her mental ineptitude and her loose grip on reality.
Example: Hannah walked into a swank nightclub, face exposed. Some nightclubs employee off-duty police officers or ex-cops. Nightclubs, especially the high end ones, make sure cops are around to quickly extinguish an incident should one arise. A wanted fugitive walking into a hotspot club is the act of a person who wants to be caught. It was like watching Wile E. Coyote going over a cliff except it was perpetual.
Hannah flippantly showed her face everywhere in Miami again and again. Granted ‘The Machine’ in Person of Interest is not present in Dexter‘s universe but someone, somewhere would (and could) recognize her at some point (her face was all over the news). Her money umbrella could not protect her from basic, ocular recognition. Why was she not afraid of this?
I surmised why.
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The Next Generation subplot also introduced blatant lunacy into the episode: even with new identification, your face and finger prints are still the same (they still show who you really are). Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahovski) probably is the prettiest killer in Miami’s history. Every cop would know what she looked like and at least her first name. Going back to the city she escaped from under a transparent umbrella of protection was suicidal. State imprisonment for life or lavish servitude? Hannah’s eventual choice showcased her mental ineptitude and her loose grip on reality.
Example: Hannah walked into a swank nightclub, face exposed. Some nightclubs employee off-duty police officers or ex-cops. Nightclubs, especially the high end ones, make sure cops are around to quickly extinguish an incident should one arise. A wanted fugitive walking into a hotspot club is the act of a person who wants to be caught. It was like watching Wile E. Coyote going over a cliff except it was perpetual.
Hannah flippantly showed her face everywhere in Miami again and again. Granted ‘The Machine’ in Person of Interest is not present in Dexter‘s universe but someone, somewhere would (and could) recognize her at some point (her face was all over the news). Her money umbrella could not protect her from basic, ocular recognition. Why was she not afraid of this?
I surmised why.
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Interesting!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Hannah is just not relevant and Reese is on vacation these days! ;)
ReplyDeleteWell said bro...
ReplyDeleteI think it's good question, but I don't think we know just who her husband is yet. This show has ALWAYS had unfathomable plots, as the show is audaciously fate-orientated. -There's a possibility then, that the political magnitude and wealth of her husband could make it hard to get to Hannah. if he would be like an Issac Prado type character (yes the two different names from two diff characters was intentional).
ReplyDeleteI also don't agree with Hannah being Inept, but rather someone who wants to be the be the Captain of her own ship and is still pining for that [South] American Dream. There most likely is a reason she has taken this risk, or a reason she ends up in an unexpected situation. The writers have clearly saved her for the end of season for a reason, and lets not forget that Hannah has an endearing disposition that can be motherly (in fact wanted to be a mother), which in turn fares well in relation to Dr. Vogal healming the mother and/or parental themes running through the end of series, which clearly ties back to season one and the brutal death of Laura Moser and by extension, Rita Bennett-Morgan.
I also know from spoilers that someone will be hot on her trail, so don't you worry! Let's see how it unfolds before we invite Reese, Finch, and Bear into this XD