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Episode summary:Dexter is faced with a momentous decision that affects those closest to him, while his relationship with Lila (Jaime Murray) hits another snag when she discovers a secret about him and tries to use it to blackmail him.
Details: Dexter catches one of Jimenz's dealer contacts, discovers he is wanted for murder, and kills him in front of Doakes. Something Doakes says ("Stay away from me") triggers a memory, and Dexter remembers the reason his father killed himself; a few days before the suicide... his father walked in on Dexter killing a pimp who Harry failed to convict for murder. Dexter realizes that his father realized that to develop a code for Dexter to kill was one thing and to see his son kill is another (Harry gets sick and then a few days later takes an overdose of his heart medicine).
Lila sleeps with Angel (they have rough sex at her instigation), and then she goes into her bathroom, takes wine and Rohypnol (that she bought in a park from a dealer) and hits herself over the head. Angel calls 911, when she wakes up in the hospital, she claims no memory and asks for a rape kit, claiming Angel raped her. The hospital calls Dexter to come in as her "emergency contact."
He leaves Doakes still alive and rushes back to the hospital to confront Lita. She offers to drop the charges against Angel if Dexter will take her back.
The police discover Dexter's tools with Doakes' fingerprints (which he threw in the water last episode). They also found Doakes at a gas station a few days earlier, and the manhunt is off. They know he was in the Everglades. As he was planning how to get Doakes caught (and then charged for the murder), he realizes that he's making an "awfully big mess". Meanwhile, Doakes manages to get out of the cage at the cabin in the Everglades.
Police officers arrive to arrest Det. Angel Batista for sexual assault.
Dexter gets a call from Rita that her car died... and rushes off to her side. He justifies what he's doing to Doakes because he's "sparing Rita and Deb."
Dexter gives Rita his minivan and makes a date with her and the kids for a fieldtrip/picnic out on the water.
Doakes escapes and tries to flag down a boat in the water, turns out to be two bad guys who were going to the cabin for the drugs... they kidnap Doakes and go to the cabin, where Dexter had returned with food for Doakes and sneaks up on them (Doakes sees Dexter and the fact he's there to help him). Dexter shoots one of the bad guys and then pulls the gun on Doakes and puts him back in the cage (they throw the cocaine in the water).
Dexter tells Doakes he's thinking about turning himself in and leaves the cabin (with Doakes still in the cage) to clean up his affairs before turning himself in.
Dexter calls Deb while leaving the cabin, says he's going to bring by some papers for her to sign (legal papers for after he turns himself in). Deb then goes out drinking with Masuka and Batista.
The same day Dexter goes to see Lila... to ask her "respectfully to drop the charges against Angel." He tells her that he's going away and going to be out of reach, permanently, so there is no point in continuing her game.
Deb asks Lundy to access FBI files and do research on Lila. She has no records at all under the name she's been using... no social security number, no green card, no records at all. Batista brings in his microwave (which she'd used) to try to get her fingerprints.
Dexter goes to Deb to ask her to sign his living trust and asks her to sign it and take over all his assets in the event that anything happens to him.
Meanwhile Lt. LaGuerta takes a leave and goes to Haiti on a search for Doakes. She learns that Doakes was in Haiti looking for a lab to have blood slides analyzed, he can also alibi Doakes on two missions that occurred when BHB victims were known to have disappeared.
Lila is spying on Dexter (he's taking the boat out with Rita and the kids for the day) and looking crazier by the moment. She breaks into Dexter's minivan (through a half-open passenger window). She finds his GPS and looks at it for previous destinations... she steals it.
Dexter and Rita have a touching moment on the boat, and then he gives her the pink slip to the minivan.
Deb learns that Lila's real last name is "West" and she's on a visa that expired 2 years earlier. She wants to deport her... but Lundy tells her that it won't happen as she's a British girl without a criminal record, while there are dangerous felons that need attention.
Lundy's boss finds someone who gave Doakes directions in the Everglades a few days before.
Deb approaches Lila and tells her to leave and not contact Angel or Dexter before, tells her she's contacted INS and she's going to be arrested and deported. Lila tells Deb "you don't want to do this" and Deb leaves. Lila takes the GPS she stole from Dexter and follows it out to the Cabin.
Dex cooks dinner for his sister and starts thinking of scenarios of how she'll react when he tells her that he's the butcher. She arrives, they start talking and she says that she finally feels like she's recovering from the ice truck killer and she's back to being herself. They talked about how she got through her pain after the Ice Truck Killer, and it changed his mind about turning himself in.
Deb gets a phone call... they found Doakes' rental car. The search grid is closing in... and he needs to run out and make sure they don't find Doakes in a cage (cut to the Cabin... and Lila arriving at the Cabin to find Doakes).
Original air date: December 9th, 2007
Written by:Scott Buck & Tim Schlattmann
Directed by:Marcos Siega |  Description of crime: The continued investigation of the "Bay Harbor Butcher"
New Breakthroughs: After the kill tools Dexter placed in the ocean to frame Doakes was found, Agent Lundy's boss, Deputy Director Adams, was brought in to personally supervise the case, leaving Lundy out cold. With D.D. Adams on board, the FBI was able to locate Doakes' rental car in the woods, which means they aren't very far from finding the cabin Doakes is locked up in.
Meanwhile, La Guerta is able to find some information that could prove that there is no way Doakes is the BHB. She discovers Doakes was trying to get the blood slides in his car analyzed (which he wouldn't need to do if they were his), and also that two different black ops missions Doakes took part in directly conflict with known Butcher murders.
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Description of crime:
Victim(s):
Assigned officer(s):
Crime scene:
Suspect(s):
Clue(s):
Blood evidence suggests...
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Victim Name: Estaban
Age/Occupation: Drug Runner
Where/how Dexter stalks victim: Dexter returns to the cabin to feed Doakes and finds that two drug runners have Doakes tied up and are stealing all the cocaine in the cabin.
Why victim deserves it: They pose a threat to Dexter by having discovered Doakes at the cabin and will presumably kill him once they've loaded all their drugs onto the boat.
Dexter's kill methods and rituals: For Estaban, Dexter sneaks into the cabin when the other Cuban isn't looking and dispatches of him in some sort of silent manner (presumably snapping his neck).
Victim's last words: None.
Location of killing: Jimenez's cabin
Close calls/slip-ups: Dexter was armed with only his hands while Estaban was armed with a pistol.
| | Victim Name: Estaban's accomplice
Age/Occupation: Drug Runner
Where/how Dexter stalks victim: Dexter returns to the cabin to feed Doakes and finds that two drug runners have Doakes tied up and are stealing all the cocaine in the cabin.
Why victim deserves it: They pose a threat to Dexter by having discovered Doakes at the cabin and will presumably kill him once they've loaded all their drugs onto the boat.
Dexter's kill methods and rituals: After having killed Estaban, Dexter takes his handgun and hides outside the cabin. Doakes tosses all the cocaine into the man's face, blinding him momentarily, giving Dexter a perfect window to shoot him in the heart.
Victim's last words: "Estaban!"
Location of killing: Jimenez's cabin.
Close calls/slip-ups: I suppose Dexter could've missed and accidentally shot Doakes.
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FLASHBACKS
- Deb exits Harry's hospital room to inform Dexter that Harry has died.
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DEXTER'S RELATIONSHIPS
Developments with Rita:
- Dexter tries to help Rita repair her car when it breaks down. Of course he is unable to help her fully.
- Dexter takes Rita and the kids out on a day trip to go fishing. While out at sea, Dexter gives Rita his minivan. They also kiss for the first time in a long time.
| Interactions with others:
- Dexter has a heart-to-heart with Doakes and seems to be planning to turn himself in.
- Dexter signs a living trust with Deb in case he goes to Prison.
- Dexter invited Deb over for dinner with the intent of telling her he's the Bay Harbor Butcher. Before he is able to, she sheds some light on his current dilemma and makes Dexter reconsider what he's doing.
- Dexter goes to Lila's loft and tells her to drop charges against Angel. He tells her he's going to be gone permanently so there's no point in what she's doing.
- Dexter tells Angel that if he could be like anyone in the world, it'd be him.
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| SIGNIFICANCE OF EPISODE TITLE |
| When Lila steals Dexter's GPS unit from his car and begins to follow instructions on how to get to wherever Dexter really was the night before (he had lied to her about his whereabouts), the first instruction it gives her is "Left Turn Ahead". |
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Best Moments:
- Dexter and Rita's kiss on the boat.
- Deb asking Lundy to use the FBI files to check out Lila.
- Deb telling Lila to get out of town before sundown.
- When Batista brings his microwave into the station to be analyzed for Lila's fingerprints.
- Deb telling off Lundy's boss.
- Doakes scares off the alligator in the woods.
- Dexter imagines what would happen if he told Deb that's he's the Bay Harbor Butcher.
| Best Lines:
- "I'm the helpful handy man - how evil could I be?" (Dexter, to himself).
- "I always thought hardening arteries squeezed the life out of my father, but it was me. Harry gazed into the eyes of his creation and saw evil. Pure and simple. My evil. It killed him" (Dexter, to himself).
- "All the things Harry taught me. Everything. It's bull$hit. It's the only way I know how to live" (Dexter, to himself).
- "You know Angel, if I got to choose a person, like a real person to be like, out of anyone, it'd be you" (Dexter, to Angel).
- "It's strange. It should be difficult but a sense of peace is settling over me. Calm. Maybe it's the moonlight" (Dexter, to himself).
- "For so long my boat has been a tool of my dark trade. A graveyard transport. I'd almost forgotten it can double as a pleasure craft" (Dexter, to himself).
- "I keep expecting to come to my senses but the pressure is lifting with each step I take. I've spent a life time keeping up my guard, watching my back, wearing my mask. Relief was never in sight. It is now. If anyone deserves to take me into custody it's Deb. But how do I tell her what I am?" (Dexter, to himself).
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EPISODE TRIVIA
- Goof: Fingerprints on non-porous surfaces such as metal would be destroyed if exposed to water
- Dex'n'cars: Dexter concedes to Rita in this episode that he doesn't understand cars, or just all around mechanics. He certainly didn't have a problem figuring out how to sabotage Trinity's car in season four.
- A piano in the house: Rita mentions in passing that Astor is taking piano lessons. Not much to say about that, just it's interesting that she'd do that and not have a piano in the house for her to practice on.
- Between the lines: Dexter tells Lila that she taught him to accept things he can't change. Lila taught Dexter a lot of things, but it is unclear where in the curriculum this was taught since we never saw her tell him that.
- Poor Astor: While out on the boat, Astor excitedly proclaims, "Look, there's a pelican!", to which Rita shuts her down with, "Yeah, there are bunch of pelicans". Little Astor can never get a break. Listen carefully, cause it's easy to miss.
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