By Jeff Long
This is the Deb episode to end all Deb episodes. Dexter has to find a nanny, and Deb takes charge. She grills prospective caretakers as if they were murder suspects. They finally end up with Sonya, a Brit who seems, according to Dex, "practically perfect." I'm sure she's a human trafficker or dog fighter or something, but, right now, she does seem really nice.
Dex goes to counseling, for Harrison's benefit, and the doctor tells him that he's too young to be able to remember Rita's murder. She tells him to do something for himself. So, he befriends Boyd Fowler, the animal collector/lady killer. He calls himself Darrel Tucker. He decides to use an old tourist welcome center as the site to kill Boyd. Harry tries to criticize him about killing him in the daytime. He tells him that the kill won't "bring Rita back," which brings this episode down a whole letter grade. He calls in a dead animal near the center, before he goes on a ride with Boyd. Shawn Hatosy is a killer, but he's stacked and sexy. They meet at the location and, when Dexter injects him with a syringe of knock-out stuff, he shoots Dex with a tranquilizer gun. They both end up in the hospital, where they both lie that they got knocked out by accident. So, Dexter follows Boyd to his house and finishes the job. HOWEVER, someone was watching. Who? A lady in danger, who Boyd was going to kill, in the form of one Julia Stiles.
Quinn is coming on really strong with Deb, and she is not having it in really amazing, Emmy-winning ways. He calls the FBI agent who questioned Dex and begs him to tell him where Arthur Mitchell's family is.
Deb has to work with Sgt. Lopez, the lady cop with whom she seems to have a problem, in order to canvass the neighborhood where that trinket-surrounded lady's head was found. She initially seems to have a problem with her. Then, they get info from a dude who ends up getting his head cut off.
Laguerta finds out that Batista's bar fight was about her making more money than most men in the department and how good her blow jobs are. Seriously, I think that last part is an actual element of the conflict. The guy that Batista beats up ends up having internal bleeding and presses charges against him.
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