On the one hand, we have the cases of the detectives of the precinct, and on the other, Dexter Morgan (Michael C Hall). It would be nice if those two things came together - and naturally we do have the crossover of Quinn (Desmond Harrington)'s vendetta against Dex - but for the present the decapitations have little to do with the animal clean-up expert or the young lady he was holding hostage.
I'm enjoying Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) a whole lot this season. I have always found her foul mouth highly entertaining, but between watching her interact with an enthusiastic uniformed cop who is not so different from the Deb we met at the beginning of season 1 and watching her fend off the advances of Quinn who can't seem to shake his desire to bed her again, she is my favourite character this season. I LOVED her nanny interviews at the beginning of the episode. Her expectations and terrifying questions made it near impossible to not trust the nanny that she and Dexter ended up picking.
Watching Dexter, on the other hand, isn't entertaining. It's too heart wrenching. Even while he was chasing his victim around and got shot in the chest with a tranquilizer, I wasn't really laughing because I'm still too upset over the effect Rita's death has had on him. When he finally got his kill, his dissatisfaction was equally dissatisfactory to me. What it led to - a still living victim who had witnessed his crime - will lead him to a problem far more complicated and far less easy to let take care of itself than he had when Doakes was on his trail. And when you add Quinn's hunt and the mysterious trail to locate Kyle Butler to the mix, I can't help but feel that getting over Rita's death is one of many major difficulties in his life.
But as long as the plots remain cohesive and tight, bring on the complications.
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