Starring: James Remar, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas
Seeing Red - S1-E10
Visible crew/equipment: When Dexter is walking towards the entrance of the Marina View Hotel to examine the crime scene, a boom mic is visible in the glass of the window on the right. (00:07:35)
Shrink Wrap - S1-E8
Visible crew/equipment: When Dexter is picking up the fruit dropped by the man carrying groceries, the cameraman is reflected on the side of the car. (00:17:30)
Dirty Harry - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: When Dexter listens to Officer Lundy's tape recording, we hear Lundy say that the Trinity killer's weight is 190 to 200 pounds. When we saw him recording that, he said 200 to 220 pounds.
Dexter: I am a father, a son, a serial killer.
Question: Dexter tests the blood on Miguel's shirt, to see if it's Freebo's. It looks like he's just using a DNA sequencer and the blood result comes back "bovine." Can a DNA sequencer differentiate which species the blood came from like that? Or perhaps he was using a different type of blood analysis machine? Is there an analysis machine that's capable of that? I thought the way to test if blood is human or not, "anti-human serum" is mixed with the blood to see if it will clot. So wouldn't the only way to tell it was bovine blood is to inject it with "anti-bovine serum"?
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Answer: The short answer is yes, it could. but, it would have to be set up to analyze results to differentiate species. The sequencer will report the base pairs for any properly prepared sample, but interpreting the results is a software package. The software is available, but I would think it unlikely that an analysis package used in a forensics lab would have the capability to be so specific. More likely it would report "Non Human Sequences Found."