I thought it was sort of funny when Dexter mentally went through the list of his previous wife/girlfriend and how they all interacted with his dark passenger. There was some sort of hollow “but this time it’s unique” realization when juxtaposed with all the other seasons when they tried to give him a girlfriend who could understand him.
I am displeased with the continued obscuring of Yvonne Strahovski nudity. If you’re going to almost go there, why get all modest? Boo. Dexter had an internal monologue at some point about being inexplicably attracted to her. Yes, inexplicable.
Otherwise - good episode. They’re doing a good job of bringing the net closer and closer in on Dexter. I get the feeling Deb is going to ask Dexter to kill Hannah, which would be awkward - she’s finally on board, and he backs out.
Quinn should’ve kept some of the blood evidence somehow as leverage against the mobsters.
is it plausible that Sirko could walk on account of misplaced blood evidence? Seems like there’d be more there.
What I didn’t get was putting a police tail on Sirko until his tourist visa runs out. Can’t the State Department simply revoke the tourist visa of a suspected triple murderer and deport him immediately?
On reflection, I see an inconsistency: that Ukranian guy Dexter killed in the airport showed fatalism comparable to Hannah’s, and Dex didn’t have sex with him at all.
My guess is that it’s a list of boat owners amongst the Miami police department, since those were two of the clues they knew about the Bay Harbor Butcher. One of the previous lists she was looking at were boat registrations.
This season in general has been pretty good. I almost quit after last season, but glad I stuck around. I think they handled the reveal with Deb pretty well. I was worried they would just have her want to get someone really bad (like the Minotaur killer guy) and so end up accepting Dexter’s hobby too easily. Having her end up wanting Dexter to kill someone he doesn’t want to is a good twist.
Titus Pullo is a pretty good villain. Hope he doesn’t get killed off to soon.
I’m also amused by how Dexter’s babysitter is more of a plot-device then a character. She basically just appears whenever Dexter needs a babysitter, without comment or complaint, even if he’s running off at three in the morning to go kill someone. And in this episode Dexter can loudly explain his entire diabolical plan while she’s in the next room of his two room apartment without worrying about her hearing him, and yet as soon as the plot needs a witness to author-guys death she immediately enters the room.
She did ask him, in that final phone call to Dexter at the very end of the episode, as Hannah was in bed with him.
I’m enjoying this season much more than last. LaGuerta’s subplot is kind of a buzzkill though. It’s no fun watching her and Deb say nothing just to show she’s still poking into the Bay Harbor Butcher case.
That I can picture, in the sense that Miami Metro wants to keep close tabs on Sirko, with most of the force doing so in hope of more evidence and Deb doing so to keep him from killing Dexter or anyone else. I’m not sure what will happen when his visa runs out - can a local police force ask that it be extended to keep a suspect in the country, or will the State Department insist on kicking him out?
Of course, how Sirko hasn’t been killed already is a bit mystifying, unless his police escort is scaring off the Colombians.
Huh, I totally missed that. But then, I kinda skimmed the last two seasons.
(the show-runners seem weirdly attached to that apartment set. They’ve bent over backwards to keep it in the show, even when Dexter moved in with Rita. And now we have Dexter buy up the apartment next to him and put in a door between them rather then just get a bigger place).
