By Buzz Byrne

Do not read any further if you have not seen this week’s episode of DEXTER. I’m very serious.

This is officially your last warning.

Fine. Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) and Special Agent Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine) were busy squishing haha’s. Slapping silly’s. Making the beast with two backs. They did “it.” And I’m not sure I will ever recover. Something about the whole thing gives me the ever-loving willies.

But we are here to discuss Dexter (Michael C. Hall). He is feeling a sense of loss and regret over ending his relationship with Rita (Julie Benz) and shacking up with the whackjob Lila (Jaime Murray). He spends the night outside of Rita’s house after chasing off the aforementioned nutball. In doing so, he is also leaving the quickly decomposing corpse of his latest kill in a drugrunner’s shack in the everglades.

After the Deb and Lundy ick-fest, things heat up in the Bay Harbor Butcher case but Lundy won’t tell Debra what’s up. Trouble in creepy paradise already.


Doakes (Erik King) is in Haiti after blowing off a big meeting with a private security firm, set up by LaGuerta (Lauren Velez). He is meeting his old fixer from his black op days, the guy who will get him anything for a price. Doakes is looking for a clean lab to analyze the slides he stole from Dexter’s apartment.

The slides, the slides, the slides. Dexter finally gets home and finds them gone. “It’s over,” he says. And maybe the suspense could have borne this out but even when the federal agents show up to escort him to Lundy’s feet you knew they weren’t after him yet. Doakes left the slides in his car at the airport and his international trip allowed Lundy to get a warrant to search his place and the car. Doakes is their main suspect. Not Dexter.

This was a misstep by the behind-the-camera team that has been so flawless this season. I think they got cute with the misdirection. The pacing was off, too slow, allowing the viewer to think ahead and realize Dexter wasn’t really in danger. Lundy wants someone on the department working to close the case on Doakes and Dexter is the man. The slides are back in his possession. But because of the bad blood- so to speak- between Doakes and Dexter, Dexter now has a round-the-clock FBI protection detail.

And a corpse he needs to clean up.

He also makes some headway patching things up with Rita, albeit in front of the feds. “Communication is the key,” says the agent on his left.

LaGuerta is coming apart trying to help her old partner and lover, Doakes. She tells him he is the prime suspect and then corners Debra hoping she will put pressure on Lundy to hold off making this all public. Debra counters this by announcing she and Lundy are…you know…doing it.


Dexter slips out of his detail’s watchful eyes. Perhaps a bit too conveniently. He hurries off to his last kill site to finally clean up. Along with the corpse he is confronted by Doakes who attached a GPS device to Dexter’s boat to follow him. They finally have a moment of honesty, truly facing each other without guile. Doakes get the cuffs on Dexter but the struggle is inevitable, right? The number one rule Dexter has to follow is “Don’t get caught.” He takes a bullet to the leg but subdues Doakes and puts him in a cage in the shack. I told you last week this season wasn’t going to work out well for Doakes.

Now Dexter has to get back to his apartment, disguise his bullet wound, dispose of the corpse and get a pair of handcuffs off before he sees his detail in the morning. No problem. Only three episodes left in this great season. It’s going by too quickly.