There was the matter of Dexter lying about what he did to Paul, which indirectly led to his death. And he “lied” about being addicted to heroin, which was really just to coverup what actually happened with Paul.
Okay. I missed the episode where Paul died. I also missed the one where Dexter told Rita he was an addict. (I wonder what I was doing on those Sunday nights.)
How did he convince Rita that he was an addict? She lived with Paul. Surely she knows what addictive behavior looks like. Except for Dexter’s odd hours and sometimes secretive behavior, there’s nothing. She didn’t look for tracks? Don’t heroin addicts have tracks on their arms?
Or was she quick to believe him because she thinks she attracts that kind of guy?
Several episodes ago, Rita found Paul’s shoe in the back yard, leading her to suspect that his crazy story about Dexter attacking him might be true. She eventually confronted Dexter, who admitted that he did it to protect Rita and the kids. Rita then wondered how he knew to cook the heroin, and where he got it, and put that togehter with his odd hours and frequent excuses, and he “admitted” that he was also an addict.
When that happened, I wondered why he didn’t just say “I know how to cook heroin because I’m a forensics guy and I got it from the evidence locker,” but whatever. There was that one episode where he said he’s a bad liar, so I guess that’s why.
She had also caught him in the lie right then - he said that he had done all of it at the spur of the moment - and then when asked about the heroine, he said he had obtained it from the evidence locker - indicating pre-planning - so he was a bit stuck -
Ah, right, I forgot that part. If she wasn’t so mental she’d be a good lawyer.
Clearly, it was Diet Meth.
If she’s such a fan of the 12 Steps, I’d have to repeat Dex’s question after fucking her: “Which of the 12 Steps is this?” Because I doubt screwing your sponsor is part of the program. In fact, she was rather predatory about poaching him from his girlfriend in a way that makes me think (along with the rampant stealing) that she’s a scumbag.
AuntiePam, Dexter didn’t have to convince Rita he was an addict. She pretty much came up with it herself, and then threatened to leave Dexter if he didn’t get help. She left very little room for disagreement or explanation from him. He didn’t have much choice but to go along with it if he wanted to stay with her. Thus, him leaving her for his sponsor is a bitter “reap what you sow” situation.
I don’t know who I like less, Rita or Lila. I think Rita is sincere and is trying to do the right thing, though she’s a self-righteous idiot. She let Paul manipulate her and walk all over her until the day he died, but she’s totally pushy and bossy with Dex-- overcompensating I guess? Lila is just the cartoon vamp type character. I wish she had something unique to recommend her, but it’s just lazy writing IMO.
Prediction: Doakes is going to discredit himself re: Dexter in advance, so when he does finally get the piece of evidence that proves Dex is the Butcher, no one will believe him.
Deb is already having feelings towards Lundy that are beyond employer/employee. Her pouting and whining about Lundy liking Dex better (just like her dad and Ice Truck Lover) was unprofessional and immature. The question is, are her feelings romantic or paternal? Or both? Ewww.
I don’t like the “ease” at which Dexter is getting out of tough spots – busting the a/c in the temp morgue and quickly erasing the footage of him cleaning the boat. It’s too simple. There were no guards or other people at the morgue all night? There is only one file of the video that can be deleted in 10 seconds?
Besides, being the clean freak / OCD type, Dex would have (1) made sure there was no blood on the boat after each dump, and (2) would have cleaned it out at sea, not sitting in a marina he knew was of interest.
I think I’m bothered that Dexter isn’t being shown as “smart” as I want him to be. :eek:
(Really, sometimes I think I watch just for the techniques. Same with CSI. They’ll never get me!)
Dunno about the video files, but the A/C unit was as near as I could tell around the back of the building, on the property of a police unit. Would it be a reasonable use of manpower to station a guard at the back of the building on secured property? Probably not.
Agreed. It lessens the tension when we see Dexter handle these problems so easily – especially the videotape. If there were two days of video, he shouldn’t have found his section that quickly.
And thanks to everyone for answering my questions. I was worried that maybe I was coming off as argumentative, and that wasn’t my intention. 
Breaking the AC bugged me, too. There were, what, 16 corpses or remnants of corpses? I’d’ve though a case this big would have forensics experts called in from all over the place to study and analyze. The makeshift morgue should have been manned 24/7 just from a few dozen coroners working the evidence in shifts. Having Masaka and two or three extras doing all the autopsies isn’t convincing. It’s, dare I say it, CSI-ish, with Greg running DNA in about two minutes flat.
Not something I’d fret about, unless they overdo it. Next up, they recover a partial fingerprint! Dex hacks into the police computers when everybody is at lunch and changes the prints in his file! Saved again!
There’s still time for it to come crashing down on him. *Someone * could be watching and taking notes. 
ETA:
Besides, the AC thing didn’t help much after all.
It looked like they were reviewing the old video. They were almost to the incriminating section, so Dexter did whatever he could (pulled the fire alarm). He wiped either the current file they were reviewing or the next. Granted, either should have set off a serious red flag with whoever was reviewing the video.
Don’t forget that last season he hacked into Batista’s e-mail and deleted the name he was buying the knockout drugs with. Another quick solution.
I think he hacked into the database where the list was maintained but I could be mistaken. Cute little in-joke there, the alias he used was “Patrick Bateman,” the name of the protagonist of American Psycho.
Dexter knew what section to modify, because he was in the footage. All he had to do was substitute an hour from one night with another nighttime hour of the same location, maybe with modified time stamps, and hope nobody noticed the difference. It wouldn’t stand up to careful investigation, but probably would work if someone’s just casually watching the screen for activity.
For what it’s worth, that episode was titled “An Inconvenient Lie.”
But that’s not how it was shown - and would take more than a ‘few seconds’ of editing to get it done to that degree - I’m going to chalk this one up to the magic of TV computers - unless it comes back to bite him.
If the file name was time coded, that solves all the issues. He knew when he was there so he knew which file to delete. He could simply copy another file of video recorded at night and rename the file to cover the missing time period. Very quick and easy to do, and tough to figure out unless something very unusual happens on the file that was copied twice.
My point exactly. It wouldn’t be perfect, but Dexter’s banking on the fact that most people only see what they expect to see.