Dexter - Slack Tide, S04E07

I've been waiting for this to happen all season. I think we all were. The moment when Dexter (Michael C Hall) would screw up irreparably. No, he did not leave evidence behind somewhere to implicate himself, but he did make a mistake.

He killed an innocent man.

Regardless of anything else that has happened this season, this is the moment that will show us who Dexter truly is. Did he enjoy taking that man's life? Well yes, but at the time, he was convinced that he was guilty...basing it entirely on circumstantial evidence. Hence why circumstantial evidence often means almost nothing.

But the moment he realized his mistake, something happened. He felt something. He was greatly distressed, shocked, angry with himself. A psychopath who will be forever haunted by the one murder he committed that he had a reason to regret. How many murderers has he killed that he felt nothing for, regardless of family members and friends who might have been pained? They were all dangers to society; they weren't innocent.

And whose fault is it that Dexter was not careful? What caused him to take such a short cut without thinking carefully about it? Dexter has too much on his plate, and an innocent man died for it. How will he live with that?

What do you think?