Beware Spoilers Below!
Already I like season seven of Dexter more than last season. The tension is palpable, with several different characters following a trail of discovery that all lead to one place: Dexter. Episode two, “Sunshine and Frosty Swirl,” has Deb dealing with the newfound knowledge that Dexter is a serial killer, as well as lab geek Louis harassing Dexter and more Russian mobster stuff. While this season has been better, I still don’t find myself interested in Louis or the Russian mobsters, as right now both are pretty lame and the Deb/Dexter stuff is really compelling.
Now, I enjoy watching Dexter, but, as most long-time fans will tell you, the show does lean towards the idiotic, and even its stronger episodes aren’t immune to bouts of dumminess. For starters, upon finding out her bro is a serial killer, she insists that he moves in with her. Really? Good idea, Lieutenant Deb, Dexter will totally behave now. Also, there are some weird romantic undertones between the Morgan stepsiblings, working their way up to Deb and Dexter hooking up, and I don’t want to see it! No, no, no!
The best moment out of episode two by far was when Deb said, “I am the worst f***ing detective in the world.” Yay!! At least she figured out one thing! If only she’d listened to me – I’ve been saying that since the beginning of the series.
Here’s what happened:
Picking up right where the first episode left off, Deb runs out of the apartment, freaking out over Dexter being a serial killer. He runs after her and convinces her to go back inside. She asks how long he’s been killing and pieces together that he’s the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter also spills the beans about Harry teaching him everything he knows and how he has a code. His “victims” were very bad people and deserved to die. Obviously impressed with his code, she punches him in the face and walks out.
Dexter looks at his ransacked apartment and finally realizes that the hand from the Ice Truck killer wasn’t his. The next day, he looks in evidence to make sure it’s the real hand when Masuka tells him his blond intern girl stole it and auctioned it off, and that Louis tried to find out who bought the hand but couldn’t.
Deb insists Dexter move in with her so she can watch him 24/7, and then maybe he can “get over” his addiction to killing people, so Dexter moves in with Deb and she’s all up in his business, talking to him about killing like it’s not big deal.
“Hey, Dex. What’d you do today?”
“Slit a man’s throat in a gas station bathroom.”
“F***ing cool, man.”
It seems like Deb is being PRETTY FREAKING CASUAL around her brother, the newly revealed Bay Harbor Butcher. She says she’s doing this because he’s her brother, and she doesn’t want to see him rot in prison or worse. Also, where the hell is little Harrison during all this!?!
The next day, Dexter goes out on a work thing but sneaks away to break into Louis’ penthouse, in the process discovers that Louis cancelled all his credit cards and recorded a video stating how he wanted to ruin Dexter’s life. Louis comes home, Dexter pins him against the wall, and he spills that it’s all because Dexter didn’t help him with his video game. Dexter lets him go and says he doesn’t want to see Louis ever again. However, when Dexter goes to his apartment to see Harrison (where Jamie has apparently been watching him full time?), Louis is there like nothing ever happened. Dexter realizes Louis isn’t scared of him at all and he needs to be gotten rid of.
Dexter puts tranquilizer in Deb’s steak and then sneaks off to snatch up Louis. Still happy you asked a serial killer to move in with you, Deb? When Dexter is about to kill Louis, he remembers that he promised Deb he’d call before he killed anyone…so he calls her. She meets him in a parking lot and he tells her he wanted to kill but didn’t go through with it.
Deb is excited, thinking he can control his urges. She leaves and Dexter dumps a very alive Louis on a park bench.
Batista and Quinn search for Mike’s killer by shutting down the mob club. Quinn makes nice with stripper, Nadia, who tells them the dead girl was dating a bouncer. They get the bouncer to give them Victor’s name, who is a member of the mob. One of the head mobsters notifies the club manager that Victor is missing, then kills the bouncer who gave up Viktor’s name to the police. Boooooo. #nobodycares
LaGuerta, another one of Miami Metro’s finest f***ups, breaks a ton of police protocols and sneaks off to test Travis Marshall’s blood slide, then gets all the evidence from the Bay Harbor Butcher case.
Also, there’s a dumb subplot with a prison inmate, and it really doesn’t go anywhere. However, it does lead to one of the most hilarious endings of any episode of Dexter where the inmate commits suicide by leaping in front of a semi.
Until next time, play me off, Sgt. Doakes!
Got my eye on you, motherlover.
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass.
I think that the subplot was actually quite necessary. The convict in a way acted as the trinity killer did a few seasons back and the preacher last season. The trinity killer made him think he could have a normal life while still killing. The preacher made him think that he could be redeemed. And then this convict in his own way, made dexter think that he could ‘let it all fall away’ and lose his need to kill, lose his dark passenger. However like with all of the past cases, it turned out that infact it was all a lie. The convict only wanted out to enjoy a few last days of sun and some ice cream. Once he had his fill, he did the only thing that would allow him peace, death.