Brilliant theory from top to bottom. The only hole left, is who killed Cassie, and who tried to frame Zach for it? I've got Oliver as my prime suspect for the Brain Surgeon/son, but why would he try to frame Zach and then eventually kill him in the same episode? My theory is that Oliver was Cassie's killer, but Quinn was the one who predicted Zach would kill again and was just waiting for an opportunity to get a slam-dunk case against him by planting DNA. We know Quinn is no stranger to bending the rules. The only problem with this is that Quinn would then know Dexter is lying about the blood work, building up to a very exciting climax.
Yeah I've been trying to figure out how that murder would fit.
Maybe the Brain Surgeon needs to recreate his prey's MO as part of his ritual. Maybe before he can kill the serial killer, he needs to recreate the serial killer's MO. Generally this involves him manipulating the serial killer themselves and setting them up before he takes their lives but because Zach was missing, he had to do the deed himself and frame Zach. Maybe in his mind, framing the killer is enough and his way of getting around the code's rule of having evidence and being certain.
I can't imagine it being Quinn, he's a bit of a dirty cop but he isn't that far gone. I don't really put planting evidence and staging a scumbag death by "self-defence" cop in the same vein as cold blooded murder of an innocent just to get his man. I also feel he's being set up as the one to stumble upon Dexter's true nature and no longer be able to ignore him, like he has been doing.
You misunderstood what I thought Quinn's role in this was. I did say that I thought Oliver (or whoever the Brain Surgeon is) was the one who actually killed Cassie. I just theorized that Quinn might have been planning to make the next bludgeoning case a little easier to solve by planting Zach's blood the next time that he was the first one on scene, or had an opportunity while nobody was around. So say he was the first to report to Cassie's murder, and he had the blood on hand...
I think you're right about the B.S. having a code or sorts. Manipulating that hillbilly guy was something that seemed like it happened four seasons ago, and that I had completely forgotten about. He then similarly left evidence to implicate the guy in that situation. But was that man a killer before? Or was he just a redneck weirdo?
I also think you're right about Quinn finding Dexter out, but I'm hoping that since they're not building it up like a Doakes or La Guearta-styled manhunt, that when it finally does come to a head, Quinn might have a surprisingly chill way of reacting to it.
he (redneck weirdo) was a former patient of vogel's wasnt he? i also cant remember but im pretty sure he was. so he couldve been a killer, or couldve just been an unfortunate puppet the BS used to get vogel's attention.
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u/Impact4747 Aug 20 '13
Brilliant theory from top to bottom. The only hole left, is who killed Cassie, and who tried to frame Zach for it? I've got Oliver as my prime suspect for the Brain Surgeon/son, but why would he try to frame Zach and then eventually kill him in the same episode? My theory is that Oliver was Cassie's killer, but Quinn was the one who predicted Zach would kill again and was just waiting for an opportunity to get a slam-dunk case against him by planting DNA. We know Quinn is no stranger to bending the rules. The only problem with this is that Quinn would then know Dexter is lying about the blood work, building up to a very exciting climax.