DJariya

Synopsis:

Dexter searches for the Brain Surgeon. Meanwhile, Dr. Vogel tries to prove to Dexter that he is perfect as a psychopath; and Debra makes a desperate plea when her post-traumatic stress disorder kicks in.


Episode 3 of 12


Promo:

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johnnysd

Wow, show just needs to end. The nonsense with Debra confessing just jumped a pool of sharks.

Goat3001

Couldn't disagree more. I thought it was great and a very logical road for Deb to travel down. The guilt is getting to her. Seems like a natural progression.

It seems that Vogel may not be the Brain Surgeon after all. She got the text and saw those boxes without Dexter being around, so it seems that it really isn't her. Which is good, it would have been too obvious.

Though Vogel seems to really be pushing Dexter to give in to his psychopathy and let go of Deb.

mickey65

Great episode - altho the sneak preview for episode 4 looks even better.

anomynous

Agreed.







Episode was definitely the best this season, and it was vintage Dexter.

Mike86

What?? That made absolute sense coming from Deb. She's been guilty over killing LaGuerta and has been trying to cope all season by drinking. So she shows up in a drunken state overcome with guilt and wanting to confess what she did. Deb is a good person she can't live with the fact that she killed someone innocent. How is that jumping the shark?

Anyways great episode. Seems as though I say it every week but damn Jennifer Carpenter has been great this season thus far. The above mentioned scene where she's trying to confess especially was great tonight. The scenes with Dexter and Deb were good with him trying to convince her that she's a good person. I do think Dexter cares about what happens to Deb and not just to save his own ass but that he genuinely cares about her. It's a bit interesting finding out after all this time that even though Dexter obviously is a bad person that he was probably geared that direction in large part due to Harry/Vogel. Also liked Dexter scoping out the kill of the cannibal killer (Galuzzo) but found it a bit odd that when he took him out it didn't show the kill.

Spoilers for what I think will happen later in the season:


I'm loving this show this season though and am really glad that it seems to be getting a fitting ending. As long as the quality stays as good as these past three episodes for the remaining nine we should be good (and the trailer for episode four looked better than anything we've seen).

Neil M.

I enjoyed the episode. I've come to expect that any major event that threatens Dexter will somehow go his way. I'm sort of expecting the series to end that way too. Also, I hope we don't have a serial killer of the week thing going on.

Jadzia

Interesting that Dexter found another killer just by going through Vogel's old cases. I wonder if perhaps she is using him to clean up some of her messes.

Neil M.

Mike86

johnnysd

OK. Let me clarify:

Debra confessing, awesome and made huge amounts of sense.

Dexter being able to swoop in, drug his sister and then carry her out including the written confession- all types of stupid and ridiculous. Plus, Quinn hates Dexter and would have given way more credence to her testimony. I mean they have to be wondering why she quit, right??

Mike86

I'm sure Quinn has questions in his head as to what happened to not only make Deb quit Miami Metro but also drive her and Dexter apart, especially since they were so close. It does seem that he and Dexter have a sort of respect for each other at this point though so I think he's just kind of minding his own business and trying to let them work their situation out and not get involved. I do think eventually something will happen that will trigger Quinn and possibly Batista to look into LaGuerta's death more.

Dragon Tattoo

Quinn hasn't hated Dexter since Dexter saved his ass at the end of Season Five.

DJariya

at the Fitness guy being a cannibal.

Loved when Dexter broke into his house and discovered all the "evidence."

at how repulsed Dexter was by him.

With Deb being wasted as shit, there is no way anyone in Miami Metro, including Angel and Matthews, who would take her confession seriously. They would just attribute it to PTSD and depression as Vogel said.

ezln94

So, several scenes are implying that Dexter might not really be a psychopath? I wonder if this ends in some kind of redemption (despite tonights ending).



As for Deb confessing, it makes sense and i felt that the season was building towards a confession. My only problem is that it was handled so quickly and too easily, but like Mike86 said this could trigger a Batista/Quinn to look into LaGuerta's death.


They're doing a good job at disguising their direction this season.

dalbowski

Vogel is definitely pushing Dexter towards putting Deb on the table. I don't think Vogel is going to help Deb; she is either going to push Deb towards doing something that Dexter will have to react (table) to or try to make Deb into a psychopath.

uteotw

The Deb thing may make sense, but yeah, not sure how he carried her out on his shoulder without a single person seeing. I just hope something changes so Deb comes around at least a little; hard to watch the final season with her so wildly different. At least Dexter got a real bad guy on his table.

Quinn's really come around for me. I like how he told Dexter because he was genuinely worried for Deb, but didn't tell Bautista that was the reason he was late. Also there really did seem to be a lingering look from him, like maybe something's starting to make him wonder about Deb's confession...

Goat3001

I think Dexter drugging her and carrying her out with the confession with no one seeing was a stretch but it's on par with the suspension of disbelief that we have come to expect from this show.

Quinn doesn't hate Dexter. It's actually become abundantly clear how much he respects Dexter.

I think Quinn picked up on the survivors guilt and realized that was why she quit and why she's fallen down this hole. If you were in Quinn's spot it would make more sense than believing that she pulled the trigger on Laguerta.

Neil M.

I don't think there is going to be any investigation into LaGuerta's death. It sounded like they did a good job of covering it up. Quinn is a moron so he totally believes Dexter and Vogel. Plus, he still loves Deb. It would be a stretch to have him start looking into the case.

Neil M.

boogieman03

A serial killer/blood splatter analyst was disgusted by the finger in the soup.

I found that funny as hell.

dex14

I'm glad you guys found humor in that. I thought it was hilarious as well. His face was gold.

Bill Needle

Deb was sure lucky she wasn't found drunkenly knocking off Florida parking meters by this guy:

johnnysd

Here is my prediction for the ending of Dexter

uteotw

I'd actually be just fine with that ending.