Holy Trinity

I've gone through all the non-story sidequests of GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, less winning the fighting championship, leaving me just the real missions to tackle. I've noticed an achievement called "Trinity", which undoubtedly will tie in with the main game's "Impossible Trinity" achievement since in both that and The Lost and the Damned you end up at the same museum at the same time for a diamond heist, so I'm sure you find yourself there in this DLC, too. I did get the awkwardly described "Adrenaline Junkie" achievement, which tells you to get the longest possible freefall. It's not quite accurate since the "longest possible" would be to jump from the helicopter and never open your chute and slam into the ground or water (slamming into the water interestingly does no damage), but in reality you need to open your chute at the last instant to have it fully open and you survive.

Meanwhile, Dexter's got a Trinity of his own to contend with in the form of the serial killer who makes three kills in three different manners before moving on to another city: slicing a girl's femoral artery in a bathtub; taking a woman up a building—yada, yada, yada—she falls to her death; bludgeoning a man. It's looking like it will be a fantastic run to the finish for the series' fourth season, and John Lithgow is, as always, perfect for playing a character with just the understated creepiness needed to show a man who's clearly horribly conflicted over his compulsion to repeat this gruesome pattern over and over, to the point that he finds ways to subject himself to pain to alleviate the guilt. Dexter also has to deal with his wife, Rita, who has transformed into a nosy, annoying harpy since their marriage. I'm not sure which is worse.

And in a ploy to possibly shore up ratings that are starting to sag, all three CSIs are teaming up for their own trinity with the first case that will cross-over among all three shows in the franchise. It's been a year since I've seen an episode of the original and at least two since I've seen New York, so it'll at least be an excuse to see what those two shows are up to.

That's all for today. Thanks for reading, everybody!