Dexter and Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahovski)
It’s one thing to feel joy when a terrible serial killer and rapist is killed; it’s another to lie to your colleagues at the police station. That’s what Deb figured out when she discovered that LaGuerta found a blood side at the Travis Marshall crime scene and was re-investigating the Bay Harbor Butcher case. Suddenly, Deb was not just letting Dexter do his thing. She was derailing police work. It’s a slippery slope.
This was a pretty juicy episode, despite some sexual tension between Dex and Deb in a motel room that had me positively cringing. I’m begging the Dexter writers to pull a Glee and just entirely drop that storyline. It would be for the best. I love that Deb has had to compromise her values as a cop to save Dexter, by lying and tampering with police work. The revelation about what her brother is has changed her and she doesn’t like it.
Dexter discovered that Louis had been killed on his boat, which has him in deeper with the whole Russian mob mess. Like, in hiding deeper. I’m trying really hard to get into this storyline, but for some reason I still find I tune out a little when the show turns to this plot.
Yvonne Strahovski was back this week as Hannah McKay, helping Dexter and Batista locate the bodies of her ex-boyfriend’s victims. There’s more to her than a naive accomplice. Dexter knows she killed once, and she has immunity for all crimes that were with her ex-boyfriend. But what about other crimes? She has killed more than once, that much feels given.
I’m still much more intrigued by Dexter’s relationship with Hannah, and by LaGuerta’s investigation and Deb’s involvement, than I am the other parts of the show. Luckily, I’m captivated enough by those aspects of the season to more than make up for the parts I’m not as in to.
And you didn’t say anything at all about seeing that Quinn is dirty, which I alluded to last week. I agree, Deb having to thwart a police investigation is huge, and I think there is no way that she can draw that line and stay left of it. Her instinct to protect Dexter from being discovered is too great, otherwise she would have turned him in already. She is just getting sucked deeper and deeper into Dexter’s world. And even though Dexter’s voiceover at the end made it out that he is going to go it alone from now on both he and Deb are dreaming. They cannot unring the bell. I think it will not be LaGuerta that does them in but Batista. Deb having to lie to her mentor was a huge thing. Last week he said something about giving up police work, my guess is Deb’s attitude and Quinn and his general frustration with being a cop will serve to have him file his papers and leave and then LaGuerta will bring him back in to help her figure things out.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that – good call on your part. I find I’m really over Quinn. Also good point on Batista – certainly Deb betraying him is a much bigger deal than anything with LaGuerta. I wonder if it will come down to Dexter having to kill Batista when he finds out.
So far, this has been a huge improvement over last season. I like the Russian mob storyline, mostly because Ray Stevenson (of Rome fame) is playing the mob boss. I don’t really like the Hannah McKay character so far, but that might be an intentional part of the story. We’ll see how it goes but it seems like it complicates the story and I’m not sure how everything is going to come together. So far, Dexter has to worry about LaGuerta , McKay and the Russian mob, and I don’t see how it all fits together yet. I think that the title of the last episode is a small clue how one of them will pan out.
I think I’m drawn more to Hannah just because I like the actress so much from ‘Chuck’. That always helps. Dexter will have to worry about Batista as well soon too, it’s getting very exciting!
I’m enjoying this season so much that I’m not caring about the hokey stuff. Consider that last conversation between Dexter and Isaac over the prison phone. Someone in Dexter’s position would have to worry about the line being tapped, with Isaac being a mob boss and all. He just said too much – in real life it would be all over for him now. It’s similar to the first episode where Dexter finishes off Victor at the airport and there is no security to be found. But like I said, I’m not caring because the passion is back. The actors are more convincing and I’m being drawn into their everyday lives. I’m still thinking that Quinn will be the one to get the axe … but you know, I could see LaGuerta on Dexter’s table by the end of the season if she gets too close. I didn’t like Deb’s action towards Batista – not convincing enough and it will just make him more suspicious. And yes! Drop the Deb-in-love-with-Dex storyline. At least the therapist hasn’t been around.
I also think Quinn will be offed soon – and it’ll be for the best.
Why are you reviewing an episode that the public has yet to see. You are in fact 2 episodes ahead. I don’t get it. Fuck you.
You suck,
Your comment is very strange, as well as excessively angry and rude. As you can see from the other comments on this post, everyone who is up to date on the show has seen this episode. It aired on Sunday, October 28th. I’m not a professional TV critic and do not have access to episodes in advance. Did you even read this review, or watch the October 28th episode, before posting such a vicious comment? You’re kind of the worst.
Here is a list of Dexter episodes to validate what I have said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dexter_episodes#Season_8_.282013.29
I await your apology.
Isaac is one scary dude. I loved his whole speech about the grandfather in Kiev.
The only story I’m not loving right now is Quinn’s. How is it he still gets to be a main character? He’s not dating Deb at this point. He’s just another dirty cop.
I agree, and I think the show is prepping to get rid of Quinn once and for all.