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“If I Had a Hammer”

In “If I Had a Hammer”, viewers learn more about Trinity’s personal life. As revealed in a previous episode he is a husband and father. Episode 6 reveals that he is also a teacher, humanitarian, and decon of his church. Dexter finds himself unable to kill Trinity without learning the secret of how he can be a serial killer while living as a normal suburban family man.

Dexter’s own relationship with Rita is strained, due in part to his lie about getting rid of his apartment and partly because of his inability to open up. Rita insists on attending couple’s therapy sessions. During a session Dexter reveals to Rita that he kept the apartment because he needs personal space. Rita in turn promises and provides Dexter with a padlocked shed in the back yard.

While attempting to get close to Trinity and learn how he balances his two seemingly different lives, Dexter learns of losses that Trinity suffered early in his life. His sister was found murdered in a bathtub. His mother jumped to her death, and his father was bludgeoned to death. Over the past several decades Trinity has recreating the deaths of his family. It is unclear whether Trinity himself was responsible for his family’s deaths.

Meanwhile, Debra comes to the conclusion that it must have been Trinity that killed Frank Lundy and shot her. This complicates things for Dexter because he fears Debra getting herself on Trinity’s radar before he is able to kill him himself.