Bret Easton Ellis

When the Griffins are selected to have their television viewing habits monitored, Peter attempts to take over television airwaves.

The body of one of Dexter's previous female victims has been found, despite Dexter's having thrown both of the corpses into the ocean. A young Cuban boy had witnessed the previous night's events, and Dexter dismisses his colleagues' leads that could direct them towards him. Eventually, Dexter frames the husband, whose body is still missing, with his wife's murder. The witness had described Jesus rather than Dexter. During this time, Rita dissuades her abusive husband Paul from attending their daughter's birthday party after he is released early from prison.

Less Than Zero is a film about Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas for the first time since Thanksgiving. Once he has returned home, he finds out that his girlfriend Blair had been having sex with his high school friend, Julian, who is also a junkie. Now at Christmas he finds Blair still trying to recreate the good times, as if nothing has happened and Julian sinking further into drugs and being hassled by his dealer to whom he owes money.

It is a first-person narrative of the life of a wealthy young Manhattan-ite and self-professed serial killer.