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All I can say is that I watched it and am still waiting for something to happen.
I’ve always been a Deb champion even when I realized everyone hates her (how could you hate anyone who is not Rita?) but damn her character is just stupid weird right now. She’s going to fix a serial killer by watching him 24/7?
In her line of work you’d think she’d know how clever serial killers could be. And that maybe he could trick her whenever he wants. And by golly, he does.
The storyline with the video game guy is sort of interesting.
Glad there are no spoilers here. In fact, after last week’s great episode, it sounds as if *Dexter *may have jumped the shark.
Had to happen sometime.
If I’m wrong (and I’d love to be), someone please correct me.
Loved this episode. The parallel betwen Dexter/Deb and the prisioner and his woman was kind of awesome I think.
I feel for Deb. Dexter’s going to keep lying to her and she’s going to fall for it again and again and is just going to get hurt more.
So is Batista’s niece just watching Harrison 24/7 now? I was surprised that during all the Deb/Dexter conversations, there wasn’t even a mention of him.
I laughed when Deb made a funny face while telling Dexter she downloaded some step-by-step instructions for his rehab.
Deb also looks amazingly good for someone who was woken up in the middle of the night. It’s like she’s had her hair and makeup professionally done!
I have been feeling this same way since last season. The blindness that Deb has been showing has strained my willingness to disbelieve. Unless they get something moving in the next week or two, I suspect my interest will drop all the way off. But I’ll probably continue watching the show. What else is there at that time? We DVR both Dexter and The Good Wife but watch Dexter as it’s airing because of the lack of commercials.
I do hope Titus Pullo can make a good showing for himself. 
Yeah pretty weird. Why not Deb move in with him and Harrison? He’s got a double-sized apartment!
Considering the scene where he said he had go go visit Harrison, it’s as if he’s the non-custodial parent now.
Introducing kids into an adult series almost always leads to these sorts of situations, because in real life kids restrict the free movement of the adults. I’m sure the writers and producers thought that introducing Harrison would open up a lot of new ground for the characters and make Dexter more “human,” or some such crap, but I’ll bet when they thought of the baby they had not even come up with the idea of killing Rita off.
Plus kids make shooting difficult and expensive, since babies are only allowed on set for an hour or so. Many shows use twins and triplets to play toddlers to get around shooting restrictions.
Now they’re stuck with a kid that is only marginally associated to the plot, that they have to show us periodically so we know they didn’t forget about him – but for the most part is just a reminder of how little Dexter’s work/home/sleep schedules resemble a biological human as opposed to a TV human.
Now on top of all that, they’ve moved Dexter out of the apartment altogether, leaving the kid to be raised by the babysitter and her creepy psychotic boyfriend…
Edit: note how quickly they got rid of Rita’s two kids after they wrote her character out!
This episode so stretched plausibility, I for the first time thought, “This is ridiculous and I don’t know that I care what happens anymore.” But, I’m willing to see what the next few episodes are like.
Irritant #1: Deb finds out Dexter is a serial killer. Deb knows Dex’s wife was murdered. HOW IS NOT ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS OUT OF HER MOUTH “Did you kill Rita?” Rita’s murder never even comes up. Seriously??
Irritant #2: Dexter is the WORST. FATHER. EVAR. And not just because of the whole killing thing. He never sees his kid, which is absolutely outrageous. Deb says, “Move in with me.” okay. So what happens to Harrison? How is she not saying “You and Harrison move in with me,” or how is Dex not saying SOMEthing about Harrison coming along? Or the sitter? W. T. F. It’s pretty obvious, as jrepka pointed out, the writers just don’t know what to do with him anymore. Yeah, kids are inconvenient like that.
Irritant #3: Deb knows he’s an accomplished serial killer, and she thinks she’s going 1) cure him by 2) keeping him under lock and key? Really. Really?
At one point in the episode, Deb said something like, “I must be the worst police officer ever.” I laughed and said out loud, “Yes you are!”
Irritant #4: Then there’s the Ukrainian organized crime. They run a tight ship, supposedly. They control those girls, supposedly. How the hell is one stripper, then, going to talk to an officer off to the side of the club–and take a shot–and not get noticed, and then later call him and get a ride with him without the Mobsters Above Her either badly beating or killing her for being so stupid? I think I’ve been watching too much Boardwalk Empire, because they would NOT tolerate that kind of visible availability.)
Irritant #5: Ooh, and if Dex was about to kill the comic intern dude–how the hell does that gel with his Code Harry supposedly instilled in him? That’d be a simple “Fuck off, Code, I’m killing who is in my way” gesture.
And just a nitpick: Dude at the end gets killed when hit by a truck. Truck bumper/grill is covered in blood…but not dented?? We had a 5th grader hit by an SUV at my school–kid just ended up with a broken arm and a concussion, yet the SUV had a huge dent on the hood. Hmm.
Geez, I do love the show, which is why I think this episode irritated me so much. It truly was, for me, one of the Worst. Episodes. [of Dexter] Ever.
I was wondering that myself. Even if Deb accepts that Trinity killed Rita, I can’t imagine she wouldn’t be asking what Dexter knew about Trinity, especially in light of what happened to Lundy.
Cracked me up, too.
I find it impossible that Dex wouldn’t take the guy’s laptop - it contains at least one anti-Dexter rant, after all, plus possible traces of however hackerboy fucked up Dex’s credit, all of which points to Dex as a possible suspect in hackerboy’s disappearance - and since it also contains a video of the the guy getting blown by a hooker, why not use that to break up creepy hacker and Dex’s babysitter, thus greatly reducing Dex’s chances for contact with him?
She didn’t ‘go to bed’ though. Dex slipped her a mickey and she fell asleep in the middle of dinner. It would make sense that she woke up, more or less, the same way she fell asleep.
Any thoughts on why he didn’t ditch Lewis and then call her or redose him? And if not, it would’ve been a lot more fun to put him on the bench first so they could pan out after the brother/sister moment to reveal him there the entire time.
I was almost hoping he’d tell her about him so they could find some way to deal with him [Lewis] together. That might make for an interesting season. Deb finding a way to mindfuck him out of the picture (legal or otherwise, maybe pinning things (like the stolen hand, or something fabricated) on him) all the while Dexter just trying to scare him away (like he did in this episode) with the threat of death always there…if he knows that much as he keeps upping the ante.
The fact that he didn’t tell her makes me assume any chance of full rehab or them ‘working together’ isn’t happening this season. In fact, I’m guessing this season is not only going to involve two villains (the Russians and Lewis) but the final two episodes or so will probably spend a lot of time getting us ready for Season 8. Be it him in jail or breaking out of jail or on the run from Deb, whatever. But however it pans out, I assume he’ll be hiding the killing from Deb the entire season. With Rita gone he needs a reason to sneak around. If Deb was in on it, it would be waaay to easy.
Not that he had any intention of that, but Lewis walked in on Dex when he was still using the laptop. Even if he wanted to, he couldn’t have. I supposed after he ‘scared’ him, he could have said "Oh, and I’ll be taking this’ and hopefully been smart enough to shut off the wifi because Lewis, I’m sure, has software on it to destroy the data remotely.
I don’t mean on Dex’s first visit (during the tight lunch hour) but on his second, at night after Deb was drugged. Lewis walks nervously into his apartment and Dex (having, oddly, gotten there ahead of him) zaps him with a hypo.
There’s no indication Deb fell asleep in mid-dinner, though. When Dex calls her, she’s on the couch, covered with a blanket. Maybe Dex put her there, but there’s no evidence of it.
Of course, if Lewis was smart he’d realize Dex had been (or at least possibly had been) using Lewis’s laptop, and he’d destroy anything incriminating on it. If he was smart, though, he’d have at least a screen-saver password on a laptop containing anything incriminating.
Not to mention a webcam set up to catch Dex breaking into his apartment.
re: Ruffian nitpick #4 - the girl is a setup to get Quinn under neath the mob’s thumb - she’ll end up being nice later - but thats pure set up.
Quinn is a serious idiot, isn’t he? “Hey, I’ll go meet the stripper alone, without wearing a wire or bringing my partner, because there’s no possible way this could end up going badly.”
I assume that’s exactly the idea. He sleeps with her and testimony from either of them has to be thrown out for some legal reason. But the fact that she didn’t sleep with him right then in there and instead asked for money is odd.
IIRC it’s not the first time he’s done something monumentally stupid. He spent most of last season doing stupid stuff (including sleeping with a witness). On top of that, they reminded us of that recently when Angel and him went and had a drink.