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![]() A. A gator-infested swamp referred to as "Alligator Alley"
Q. Where is it supposed to be on the show? A. Somewhere
near Miami. Q. When did we see it on the show? A. In Episode 7 (of Season 4), "Slack Tide".
A gator hunter shot the critter in the head, and then discovered the arm when he was gutting it. Dexter extracts the arm from the gator's belly, and then examines it, remarking that it's te arm of an adult female, that the bite was post-mortem, and that her wrists were tied when she was killed. The arm turns
out to be that of Estrella
Carazo, a fashion model.
A. A botanical garden.
Q. Where can I find it in real life? A. This scene was shot near the lake at the South Coast Botanical Garden, at 26300 Crenshaw Blvd, in Palos Verdes Estates, CA. That's on the east side of Crenshaw Blvd, about a mile southwest of Pacific Coast Highway. ( It's the same
location where they filmed the At one time a landfill, the land was turned into a lush garden with a lot of palm trees and semi-tropical plants, making it a good starting point for any producer looking for a swampy, Everglades look. Of course, they enhanced the look a bit, adding at least one additional coconut palm tree, and placing the trailer/home (of the local gator hunter) on a clearing next to the park's lagoon. And as usual, they shot more than one scene while they were there this season. In addition
to this arm-in-the-gator scene, they also shot the scene where Trinity
and Dexter were cutting down a
tree, as well as the scene where Trinity is driving a van when he hits
a deer. I shot the photos below in 2008.
Here is an aerial
photo. And here is a map
link.
Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was? A. Having seen this area before, in the Doakes cabin scenes, and having visited here to shoot photos for that page, I'm pretty sure I would have recognized it on sight as the South Coast Botanical Garden. However,
I didn't have to. Dexter fan Kerry Weiss sent me a copy of an article
in Entertainment Weekly, in which the reporter described the scene
where Trinity hits the deer, mentioning that it was shot at the botanical
garden. This alligator scene was, naturally, in the same episode as the
deer scene, along with the cutting-down-a-tree scene, all three of which
were filmed at the garden.
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