Another really solid episode, with a lot of stuff in play and just about all of it being at least a potential problem for Dexter. Picking up where we left off, Deb literally flees from Dexter's apartment to go vomit, which is considerate of her. After catching her, Dexter at least does not hold anything back, confessing that he's been a serial killer since he was 20, that he's the Bay Harbor Butcher -- and that Harry gave him his code. Back in the apartment, Deb points out that horrible things happen to people and they still don't turn out to be serial killers, but Dexter tries to make her understand, even using the words "Dark Passenger," and I'll save Deb's reaction for the full recap but it's pretty great. They have a philosophical argument about whether it's okay to kill when the justice system fails, and Deb wonders what she's supposed to do now, but she does come up with the stopgap measure of punching Dexter in the face.
Deb reads back on some of Keith Carradine's writings, which tell her that serial killers have an addiction, and will continue to kill until they're caught. Instead of turning him in, though, as is her strong first instinct, she offers Dexter a form of rehab -- he'll move in with her and she'll watch him 24/7 to make sure he never kills. Dexter is not too optimistic about the potential efficacy of this plan, but agrees to it. Deb is not kidding around, even sleeping in her living room so she'll always be between Dexter and the door and telling Dexter he's going to have to be completely honest with her. But she also tries to get Dexter to explain how it feels to be him, and Dexter responds by telling her in detail about his relationship with blood, which maybe suggests that this wasn't the best dinnertime question. He does promise, though, that he'll tell her when he gets the urge to kill.
LaGuerta goes rogue in confirming that the blood on the slide she found belonged to Colin Hanks, thus confirming her suspicion that the Bay Harbor Butcher is still at large. She's surely doing this as much to try to exonerate her friend Doakes as to find the real killer, but whatever her motivations, this isn't good for Dexter.
In Ukrainian news, Batista and Quinn go back and shut down Jason Gedrick again; while Gedrick takes Batista to his office, Quinn works on a blonde girl named Nadia, who tells him that Soroka was dating one of the bouncers there -- the same guy Batista learns hasn't been to work since the night Soroka disappeared. Quinn and Batista haul him in, and it doesn't take long for him to give up Viktor's name, which, given that he killed him, could bring Dexter into this plotline as well. Jason Gedrick's problems don't end there, as Isaak Pullo shows up in his office and menacingly wonders if someone in "The Brotherhood" decided to get rid of Viktor without his approval. Jason Gedrick swears that didn't happen, which is good news for his continued existence, if the sinister visit Isaak Pullo pays the bouncer is any indication. Nadia, however, calls Quinn, and although she doesn't yet give up any further information, she does appear to be interested in, um, keeping their dialogue open.
When he has time to consider it, Dexter wonders how the Ice Truck Killer hand came to be in his apartment. While he's checking on it in the evidence room, Masuka comes in and confesses what happened with The Horrific Nightmare of an Intern and Greene, and Dexter immediately suspects Greene is the one that kept it. He resolves to get closer to Greene, and uses a work assignment to check out Greene's place -- and via a video diary discovers that Greene has it in for him, and has been ruthless with his enemies in the past. With Dexter in the place, Greene unexpectedly comes home, and Dexter attacks him physically, but even though Greene fakes being a total pussy about the whole thing, he's going to be a problem, and Dexter knows it. When Greene shows up at his place and flaunts how unafraid of Dexter he is, Dexter resolves to kill him, and drugs Deb's food and then Greene. But, remembering what he promised Deb, he calls her and comes clean, saying he's a monster and she should arrest him. In a reversal, however, Deb takes the fact that he didn't go through with the murder as a positive sign, and declares that neither of them is going to give up on him. Dexter's left with the issue of how he's going to get Greene out of his life without killing him, but that momentarily seems like a smaller problem to have. However, in the end, the killer with whom Dexter bonded spectacularly offs himself, showing Dexter he never changed -- he just wanted a couple days in the sun before he ended his life. I still think it could fall apart at any point, but this is two episodes in a row of a show I actually want to watch.
Apparently picking up pretty much where we left off, Deb exits Dexter's place onto the second-floor access balcony, and when he follows, not looking his least threatening, she runs, downstairs and out of the complex -- until her need to vomit can be contained no longer and she kneels down in front of the street and yaks. DVO: "I've dreaded this moment my whole life." Wait, Deb's never thrown up before? Jerry Seinfeld would be so proud. Oh, he means about her discovering his side gig as a serial killer. Dexter tries to put a hand on her, but she -- rather violently -- shoves him away and groans, in response to his question, that she's not okay. "I am never gonna fucking be okay!" Well, she's still working blue, so hope isn't lost. Getting to her feet, she asks, with the same barely-controlled rage in her voice, how long he's been doing this, and he admits he started when he was twenty. This threatens to bring a new round of chunks forth, but she presses on to her question, which is: Is Dexter the Bay Harbor Butcher? Dexter tries to get her to come inside, pointing out that this could be bad if they're overheard, but he certainly does not deny her question. Deb's falling apart, though, so he has to try to tell her that he only kills certain kinds of people, like Colin Hanks, and it was Harry who gave him the code. This, you may not be surprised to hear, is not at all soothing to Deb, but I suppose after that revelation she has to hear the rest of the story, so she steels herself and heads back inside. It's not what you normally use it for, Dexter, but you might want to put some plastic wrap down.
Inside, Dexter confesses (and he's not faking; he's emotional for him here) that Harry found him in a pool of his mother's blood, and he understood why he had the urges he does. However, Deb, sitting on the floor, points out that horrible things happen to a lot of people, but they don't turn out like Dexter. Well, I'm not disagreeing with her in a general sense, but I'd have to say that the specific circumstances for Dexter seem pretty rare. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd unsuccessfully looked for a support group. With the dim light from outside flickering eerily, Dexter replies that he doesn't know about anyone else, but he has this need deep inside him -- he calls it his Dark Passenger. Deb: "You gave it a name?" It's been a long time since he recapped this show, but if that's not a shout out to my pal Joe Reid, I don't know what is. Dexter goes on that Harry's diagnosis was that the evil was within Dexter too deep and he couldn't change it, so he came up with the code as a means of harnessing it. Deb, with mild (but clear) disbelief, says that Dexter's making it sound like he's the victim. "The people in that box" -- she gestures to the blood slides -- "they're the victims." This gets Dexter's hackles up for the first time, and he rattles off a few of the horrible misdeeds of some of his victims; Deb spits that dealing with such people is what the police are for, but Dexter counters that sometimes the system doesn't work. Obviously, there's some part of us all that can understand the frontier justice Dexter administers or we wouldn't watch the show, so there's no point in debating it, but I wonder what Deb's reaction is going to be if and when she realizes the collateral damage of Dexter's little hobby. She already mentioned Doakes, and with LaGuerta's investigation, the question will surely come up as to what happened to him. Will Dexter be truthful about that, or about Jimmy Smits's character? Finally, will he come clean to her with the real story about Trinity, and Rita? At least I can't imagine she's going to be too upset about Lila.
Anyway, Deb replies that she certainly knows that killers slips through the cracks. "I'm talking to one right now." Looks like the literal taste of bile really does help with your sarcasm. Deb looks at the blood slides again and seethes that she's the worst detective in the world -- the shout-outs are coming at breakneck speed -- and wonders how she failed to see it. Dexter tells her she's not responsible, but Deb points out that she is now -- she's an accomplice to covering up Colin Hanks' murder. Live to the accusation in her tone, he tells her she surprised him and he had to think on his feet, but she snaps out a sarcastic apology for interrupting his fun before wondering just what the eff she's supposed to do now. "My name has the word 'Lieutenant' in front of it." Getting to her feet (gun in hand, so that was her piece I wondered about last week), she tells him that all this is "very fucking wrong," but having explained as much as he can, he stands to face her and asks what she's going to do. And as I said in the recap, it looks like she hasn't gotten much beyond hitting him with a right cross in the planning department, but you have to give her props for the execution. (Also, make your own joke about divorced actors and on-screen physical violence.) Deb leaves, whereupon the camera swings around to show Harry (I so preferred Flashback Harry to Dexter's Mind Harry), who whines that he never wanted Deb to go through this, and that Dexter should have been more careful. Yeah, I believe I might have covered that at one or five million points in the past. Dexter sits down in front of all the evidence Deb laid out for him before picking up the hand and quizzically wondering, "What is this doing here?" He wonders if someone else is on to him, and they don't show Harry roll his eyes in response but I think you can take that one to the bank.
El Paso Metro. Deb is reading an old piece on the Bay Harbor Butcher in which Keith Carradine is quoted as saying that serial killers have an addiction, and will continue to kill until they're caught. How sad is it that this expert on serial killers was brought down by that dingbat who was in love with Quinn? Deb looks at a photo of her and Dexter as kids with Harry...
...while her grownup brother is in the evidence room checking to see if the hand is missing. Sure enough, it's gone -- but who should turn up but Masuka, who I guess has had one eye on this place ever since the days of the Horrific Nightmare of an Intern? That would seem to be the case, given his quick babbling confession about the hand. Dexter gets interested when Masuka reaches the part about Greene being involved, and DVO wonders if Greene found the hand and kept it -- but if that's the case, why send it to Dexter? "Does [Greene] know what I am?" Reasonable question, I suppose, given that he's already caught Greene poking around in his place once, but for now he has to deal with Masuka giving him a big hug once Dexter promises not to reveal all this to anyone else. I wouldn't even bother mentioning the part where Masuka adds that he was ready to blow Dexter, except that Dexter's delivery of his answering "Not necessary!" is pretty sublime. Masuka then gets a beep notifying them all of a briefing...
...and as everyone files in, Dexter casts an appraising eye in Greene's direction as DVO says he'll have to find out how much he knows, which will mean opening up. "One way or another." Hee. Even Dexter's little murder puns seem sharper this season. Deb starts by serving a big photo of Andersen on the projection screen and some angry words about how his killer is still walking the streets, so Quinn and Batista offer that shutting that club down every night still seems like the way to go. Masuka pipes up that those places do big business during lunch too (weren't they there during the day last time? Also, big shock to hear from you on the subject, Masuka), so Deb instructs Batista to factor that in. She then moves on to some jailbird named "Wayne Randall," who with his girlfriend committed several murders fifteen years earlier and is now serving back-to-back life sentences. Now, he's come forth with a claim that he committed three other murders back then about which he wants to come clean, and as such is offering to take investigators to where he buried the bodies. I... don't know if this would really happen, even though Deb does go on that Randall gave a description of one of the victims that matches a missing-persons report from the time, but regardless, she goes on that the jail has asked the Department to give them one detective and one lab tech to assist at the scene. Dexter volunteers, a little too quickly, but Deb shuts him down, a little too harshly for no one to raise an eyebrow, in my opinion. She puts Masuka on it despite his protests that he's so busy with Anderson's case (again, not sure what there is to do on that one), and then asks Dexter if they can head outside and have a little chat...
...and outside, she tells him, "I was this close to arresting you this morning." I'm guessing Dexter can thank Deb's coffee maker for his continued liberty. She adds that she even thought about what she would say to the press, and I'd love to hear that little speech, but maybe the difficulty of it is what made her decision in the end. Deb confesses that she doesn't know what to do, but goes on to relay what she read about serial killers being addicts -- so maybe Dexter can get rehab. Dexter, looking a little touched in spite of himself, points out that murder clinics are in short supply, but Deb thinks they can make their own -- he'll move in with her and she'll watch him 24/7 so he doesn't stray. Of course, I don't know how this is going to work with Harrison -- it seems more logical for her to move in with him, especially since that would seem easier to explain to anyone who might ask questions. However, I guess Deb has to try, and she wonders what would have happened if Harry had taught Dexter to quit killing rather than merely channeling it. At least Dexter is not blowing sunshine up her ass about how well he thinks this is going to work, as he quietly confesses that he tried to stop before, with lacking results. Deb, however, tells him that this time he has her, and she's "someone who loves you more than you will ever fucking know." If she's referring to that plotline of last year, all I can say is GOOD. Deb, threatening to fall apart again, tells him that she still believes there's good in him, maybe even more than is in most people. He asks if he has any choice, and the answer is a firm no, so he agrees, and I think he's sincere about giving this a try, while being just as sure that there's no way in hell it's going to work.
So LaGuerta has gone slightly rogue, it seems, as she gets news from a private lab that the blood on the slide she found in the church belonged to Colin Hanks, which obviously means there was more to the story than the apparent suicidal tableau. LaGuerta's kind of beside herself with excitement, and after taking a moment to consider her move, calls the operator and asks for the regional FBI office. I hope she has snacks in her office, because this is going to be a long conversation.
At Boobs Central, our two favorite idiots shut the place down again, and Jason Gedrick isn't too happy about it, but does agree to head into his office with Batista to go over the employee list again. Meanwhile, an attractive blonde complains to Quinn that he's ruining her livelihood, but Quinn, after prevailing on her to have a shot of something, tells "Nadia" that he does care about the strippers, but the problem is that no one is helping him find out who killed Soroka. After some thought, Nadia tells Quinn that Soroka was dating a "Tony," one of the bouncers there, although he's not there now. She adds that she hopes Quinn finds the killer and puts a bullet in his head, and Quinn gives her his card before Batista reappears and tells him that one of the bouncers hasn't come to work since the night of the murders. Quinn's like, um, is that Tony? Between the two of them, they have enough brainpower to realize they should go talk to the guy, but not before Quinn gives Nadia a look to suggest the poor girl hasn't seen the last of him.
Chez Deb. She opens the door for Dexter (wonder if he killed anyone on the way over; great start to the watchdogging, Deb), and he enters with his stuff (but not, as I mentioned, his son), whereupon she informs him he'll be sleeping in the bedroom, while she takes the couch. Dexter's like, between me and the front door, and Deb duhs her agreement. She informs him that while she's still figuring out the details, she knows this much: This can only work if they do everything together -- eat, watch TV, drive to work. Dexter makes a joke about the shower that I'm sure Saint Therapist would just love, but Deb won't be distracted as she goes on that Dexter is going to have to be completely honest with her, and I'll give her credit that she is not coming off like she is fucking around in the slightest. Dexter does look the tiniest bit cowed, so he goes to unpack while Deb gets dinner ready. Unfortunately, Harry is in the bedroom to tell him about how he's a killer and can't change and whatever, and doesn't he think that if it were as easy as keeping an eye on him all the time, Harry would have tried it? But in good news for Deb's plan, Dexter replies, "Maybe you should've!" I mean, I've never murdered anyone, but I have to imagine it's harder to do with your sister watching, even if your sister is secretly in love with you and OH GOD NOW I CAN'T STOP.
Well, at least until this scene is over. Quinn is sitting across from a gentleman, who, from the fact that a look at his body brings the words "brick" and "shithouse" to mind, is very likely the bouncer Tony both Nadia and Jason Gedrick mentioned. He claims barely to have seen Soroka the night she was killed, and while Quinn does not so much believe him, Batista enters to tell Quinn that as it happens, the security tapes back up his claim that he was working all that night. However, once the two of them start questioning him in tandem, he slips up and confirms that he and Soroka were an item, which he had apparently denied up to this point. They threaten to turn their harassment tactics on him, and he immediately gives up Viktor's name. And before you make fun of him for folding like Superman on laundry day, think what your life would be like if you had Mutt and Jeff here dogging your every move.
At the station, Dexter finds Masuka and asks how the assignment is going, and Masuka complains about all the waiting around -- the diggers haven't even found anything yet. Dexter confesses to being a little stir-crazy, and offers to sub in for him. Masuka is all over that, but tells Dexter he's going to have to get his sister's permission, so Dexter marches over and puts on his best innocent face as he tells her that Masuka's miserable and is "begging" Dexter to take over for him. Deb is like, sure, that sounds great -- let's go! Heh. Dexter does his best not to visibly deflate, but catches a break when Batista and Quinn corral Deb with the news about Viktor. Turns out Dexter's not the only one who knows how to use Interpol, and Quinn and Batista learned that Viktor "is" a member of some Brotherhood in Ukraine known for drugs and human trafficking. Faced with a moral dilemma, Deb tells Dexter she has to deal with this news and pointedly asks if they're good, and Dexter replies that he'll be surrounded by Federal marshals, so he thinks he'll be okay. For someone who was worried about the neighbors overhearing earlier, he doesn't seem too concerned about Quinn and Batista figuring out what they're discussing. I have to confess I probably wouldn't be either.
Out at the dig site, one of the aforementioned Federal marshals is none too pleased with yet another fruitless dig, which the orange-jumpsuited and shackled Randall heatedly blames on his assertion that the geography of the place has changed dramatically since he last saw it. Once the marshal turns his attention away from him. Marshall faces Dexter, who's hanging nearby with his kit, and makes a disparaging comment about the Fed before reminiscing about how pretty the area used to be. Dexter blandly says that everything changes, and Randall agrees before happily noting that the ice-cream place across the street, the "Frosty Swirl," is still there. Well, if an ice-cream place can't make it in Miami, we'll know that the world has really gone to shit. Dexter turns the subject to what they're doing there, wondering why Randall had the change of heart about confessing to these new crimes. "People say you grew a conscience." Randall counters that it was always there, but he finally surrendered to it. Further discussion is forestalled by the Fed announcing an hour for lunch, and DVO says that while getting to Greene's place and back in that time will be tight, he's got little choice...
...and when he returns to the scene, Deb asks where the fuck he's been. Dexter tells her he was running an errand, like, might want to come up with a slightly more specific cover story, especially since when Dexter assures her he didn't kill anyone, Deb asks, "Well how the fuck do I know that?" As they get into earshot of Randall, she berates him a little more before telling him to finish what he needs to do (has he started?) and then they'll go visit Harrison. Okay, arrangements were made for him, but what are they, and more importantly, how are they explaining the separation? Anyway, once she's gone, Randall, who's just been served an ice-cream cone from a marshal like HOW CONSIDERATE OF HIM, wonders what's up Deb's ass, and Dexter confesses that she's both his sister and his boss. He then asks Randall what he meant earlier about surrender, and Randall tells him he just accepted his situation, which dissipated his anger. Having heard what he needs to, I guess, Dexter goes off to do some "work."
Back at the strip club, the cops are there yet again, but Jason Gedrick is unmoved, even when Batista threatens to bring a portable polygraph time and test every single person there. When they're gone, though, Jason Gedrick heads into his office -- to find Isaak Pullo seated, unassumingly waiting for him. Jason Gedrick subtly blanches when he sees him, but Isaak Pullo doesn't seem to notice, explaining that he seems to be there for the same reason as the police -- to find Viktor. In response to the unasked question, Jason Gedrick says he has no idea how the police got Viktor's name, and while it's true that he didn't give it up, I'm not sure that "no idea" is quite accurate. A henchman joins them as Gedrick adds that he thought Viktor was in Kiev, and Isaak Pullo displays the first hint of temper as he asks why he'd be there if that were the case. Isaak Pullo then stands and starts gregariously invading Gedrick's personal space as he confesses that Viktor's caused them some problems. "Shooting a policeman's never good for business." But, he goes on, he can't help but wonder if someone in the Brotherhood decided to make an example of him. Gedrick, however, says that would never happen without Isaak Pullo's approval, and goes on that while Viktor was "impulsive" (I guess that's the go-to euphemism for guys who murder strippers on a whim), he was one of "us," and they'd always protect him. Judging that Gedrick's evident discomfort is being caused merely by justifiable fear of Isaak Pullo rather than untruths about the Viktor business, Isaak Pullo puts a hand on Gedrick's face, leans in -- and says he believes him. If you'd said that a little earlier, Isaak, it'd smell better in there. Isaak removes his jacket, and tells Gedrick they have a lot to discuss after sending the henchman for something or other. If it's vodka, I think Jason Gedrick would be grateful for some too.
Nadia calls Quinn and says her car won't start, so could he give her a ride home tonight? I feel like I'm going to have to ration my lines about this plotline, given that I'm tired of it already.
LaGuerta closes the blinds in her office HILARIOUSLY furtively before opening up a box of evidence (I see, this is why she called the FBI office); after lingering with a fond look over a photo of Doakes, she opens up the blood-slide case and finds -- you'll never believe this -- blood slides! She holds one side by side with the one from the church and looks thrilled, but... would any blood slide appear that different to the naked eye? I'm not sure why this is such a big discovery now; wasn't she already there?
Okay, so Jamie seems to be staying in the apartment with Harrison. Does she have time to do this 24/7? Again, more importantly, what's the cover story, and how long can it go on? In cuter news, Harrison is talking; in news that Dexter finds less cute, Greene appears and makes it clear with a few pointed words and sloppy kisses for Jamie that he did not at all mean what he told Dexter, as DVO notes: "He's not going to quit -- unless I stop him." Again, I'm not sure this fits into Harry's code, but it's not like that hasn't been ditched in the past when it's proved too inconvenient to abide by. Still, Dexter, you're going to kill the guy who's got a video on his computer naming you as his sworn enemy? Maybe it's a good idea that Harrison get used to not having you around.
In Quinn's car, the most interesting thing is that Nadia the Russian stripper knows the word "ploy." Bad flirting ensues, and although Quinn thought she might be freer with her information, all she wants is continued rides to and from work for the few days. Well, Quinn's probably a better chauffeur than he is a cop, at least.
Deb is pan-frying some meat as she notes that Dexter is awfully quiet, and asks if there's anything she can do. Dexter asks if she has any A-1, which Deb hilariously takes as another shitty review in the Zagat Guide known as Dexter, but as she deflatedly heads to the refrigerator, Dexter pulls out a needle and injects her food with something as DVO intones, "Just enough for a good night's sleep." God, Dexter, some melatonin in her beer would have been a little less dramatic.
Greene arrives home and warily checks around corners, like, if he really is afraid of Dexter I'd think he could have walked a more conciliatory line earlier. As we all know, Dexter certainly knows how to appear out of nowhere and pull off an injection, and just like that, Greene is down to the floor. But Dexter sees a drop of blood emerge from the tiny puncture wound, and gets A Look on his face, which is maybe good news for Greene, since his situation certainly can't get any worse.
Cut to Dexter, in an outdoor location, opening up the back of his SUV to reveal Greene, still unconscious. DVO remembers what he promised Deb...
...and then her phone rings, and she groggily comes to. If that thing is loud enough to wake her after the dose she took, she might want to look into turning down the volume. The neighbors would probably appreciate it. Once she answers, she casts an eye toward the bedroom and asks Dexter where he is...
...and then she's turning up to his location. She apologizes for how long it took, adding that she almost drove off the road due to exhaustion. She kneels down to Dexter, who's sit/leaning against the back of his car, and asks what he's doing there. He tells her about sneaking out of the house, and says although he didn't do anything, he wanted to -- needed to. All he could see was blood; all he could feel was the pressure. He seems genuinely lost now, and expresses the belief that Harry was right -- the evil is too deep in him, and he's a monster. Deb, however, sees the other half of the glass as she points out that he stopped, and that's what's important. She adds that it must have been so hard for him to call her, but he did, and that's a huge step forward. And she has reason to be pleased, but I wonder if she's really thought about what she would feel if he killed someone on her watch. She's got to have an awful lot of faith in him. Dexter wonders if she really believes he can control it, and she admits she didn't, but she does now, and she's not going to let either of them give up. After ascertaining that Deb's okay to drive, he asks her to leave him alone for a couple minutes, assuring her that nothing bad is going to happen, so she heads back home. When she's gone, he opens the trunk once again and hauls Greene out, eventually depositing him on a bench. As jaunty music kicks up, DVO muses that he still has to get Greene out of his life, but not by killing him...
...but in scenarios I suspect are going to end less mercifully, Tony is working on a bike in his garage when Isaak Pullo and his henchman enter. After introducing himself, Isaak Pullo goes through a song and dance about Tony's exit interview, like WHAT COULD THAT MEAN, and uses a hoary ploy (Nadia knows what I'm talking about) to get him to admit that he gave up Viktor's name. Isaak Pullo then declares, seemingly with some deeper meaning, that it's terrible to lose someone you love, and adds that love is the one thing that gives meaning in this life, although I'd have to say that the way he then plunges a screwdriver deep into Tony's eye socket is fairly meaningful as well. The Ukrainians then leave, but not before the silent henchman takes a handkerchief and wipes Isaak Pullo's prints off the tool. He also gets the screwdriver SORRY I COULDN'T RESIST.
Back at the dig site, Dexter tells Deb he could go for a Frosty Swirl, and she thinks it's a good sign that he's thinking about normal things. Dexter replies that he'll never be normal, but Deb, as playful as we've seen her since she learned her brother KILLS PEOPLE, tells him that none of them really are before hopping across the street to get them both ice cream. DVO wonders if he might be able to deal with Deb watching him all the time, and thinks that if Randall can make peace with his situation, so can he. Speaking of Randall, he comes over to make a little small talk with Dexter about how he never got to patch things up with "Hannah," who I'm assuming is the girlfriend with whom he natural born killed. "I was never as alive as I was when I was with her." That line sounds a bit more ominous than anything he's said up to this point, and he follows it up by saying he wishes he'd gotten the chance to tell her how he felt. Dexter tentatively offers that he still could, but Randall tells him his time has run out before looking up into the sunlight and saying he's surely going to miss it. And knowing this show, you're expecting a thematic reversal, but he could credibly be referring to going back to prison, so the show does manage to obscure what's coming effectively enough. Randall tells Dexter that Hannah used to think he was something special, but now she only sees him as a killer. "And you know what? She's not wrong. There's just one last person I need to kill."
And with that, he shuffles his shackled feet into the street and gets spectacularly hit by an oncoming truck, causing droplets of his blood to hit Dexter in the face. Deb drops both ice creams, which is as big a tragedy as anything else here, and then an overhead shot lets us see the impressive trail of blood stretching back from the stopped truck -- it must be about twenty feet long. As everyone looks on in horror, DVO says that Randall didn't care about leading anyone to any bodies -- he just wanted a couple days of sunshine and Frosty Swirl. Deb looks back at Dexter, full of fresh concern, as DVO intones, "Randall didn't change, and he couldn't take life in prison. Can I?" And with that question, we leave until week.
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