This week was Dexter deja vu: The serial killer was faced with a similar dilemma to the one in the second season, when he had Doakes all caged up, and had to decide whether to kill him or release him. Except this time instead of a big black man, it was a skinny white girl.
More specifically, Lumen Ann Pierce, played by the ever-eyebrowless Julia Stiles. She was the dirty, ragged chick that Dexter saved from Boyd’s house in the last episode. Unfortunately, that also makes her a witness to her would-be killer’s murder. Dexter tries to convince her that he won’t hurt her, and that he only wants to help her get better, but I’m not sure that sedating her and locking her in a scary house helped his case. Harry, always insistent on following the code, isn’t happy about the route that his son is taking. Dexter’s fatherly instinct is beginning to have some influence on his dark passenger.
Lumen tricks Dex and attempts to escape but stops in her tracks when creepily approached by a car full of boys. That’s some Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder if I ever saw it. She admits that she was kidnapped not just by Boyd, but several men, and perhaps even sold to the serial killer. After re-capturing the witness, Dexter takes her to the swamp where Boyd had stored several canned women. It is there that he gains her trust by showing her what could have happened to her had he not come along. Of course, a la season three, the two become buddies and he teaches her the art of killing. The preview for next week’s episode shows us a scene very reminiscent of Miguel Prado as Lumen hunts down the men who kidnapped her. Let’s hope Dexter doesn’t have to prematurely end this friendship, too.
At the same time, Dexter is trying to convince his Irish nanny not to quit. She takes him back after he creepily shows up at her door. There’s not much to say about that.
Deb is just as irritating as ever. Miami Metro gets a tip on the Santa Muerte case, and raid the tenement home where they think the killers are taking refuge. I guess their information was right, because there’s a guy holding a kid hostage with a machete. He tells her to put down her gun or he’ll kill the kid – She doesn’t, of course. So he slits the kid’s throat and jumps out a hole, or a window, or something. She takes a shot and misses. He gets away. So…Instead of just putting down the gun and getting the kid back with no injuries, she purposely put him in harm’s way and didn’t even nab the suspect. And then everyone goes around telling her that she saved his life. You know, I’m sure he would have been a lot happier if his throat hadn’t been sliced open.
Quinn takes another step towards Dexter…And then two steps back. He approaches Jonah Mitchell in the convenience store and asks him about Kyle Butler. Before the boy can answer, his FBI tail grabs Quinn and arrests him. LaGuerta, who seems to have zero doubts about Dexter, suspends him without pay. I bet with all of his new found free time he’ll find a way to get closer to Dexter…maybe too close.
Batista apologizes to Lopez, but the agent from Internal Affairs doesn’t care. There is still going to be an investigation, unless LaGuerta can do something to prevent it from happening…I hear she gives great blow jobs. I’m sure she’ll suck the agent’s old dick to save Angel, but will fudge up their relationship in doing so. What a Catch-22. I can’t stress how much I hate these two and their little romantic side-story, but it’s Dexter so i’ll keep watching.
