Dexter 2x04

So, Dexter suddenly has to deal with the remains of his victims laid out in a temporary morgue at work. Fortunately for him, he has no feelings, so it leaves him cold. That doesn’t mean, of course, he isn’t paranoid about getting caught... Following one of Debra’s hunches, super-dooper special agent Lundy has already discovered that most of the victims had felony records, were either convicted or suspected of murder. Then there’s another breakthrough of sorts... They found algae in the bags that they hope to trace to the harbor where the killer (i.e., Dex) docks his boat... In his desperation and fear to get caught, Dex unplugs the refrigerator of the morgue so that all the bodies decompose overnight! At work, Dex has to examine the body of a woman shot at home by some expert special ops (military terminology). Sergeant Doakes went to the same regiment as the woman’s husband. Doakes confronts the guy. He admits he killed his wife. He wants to leave the country, slip into Cuba. But Doakes is having none of it. They end up in a stand-off. Still, Doakes insists he’ll take the guy into arrest. The guy takes aim again, but Doakes shoots faster.

Things with Rita got complicated after Dex’s inconvenient lie that he’s an addict. Now he’s checked into a twelve-step program and his sponsor is this gorgeous woman with thick lips, a sexy body on her, and a heavy British accent. In her unconventional, unbalanced, artsy, liberal, kleptomaniac kind of way, she is able to let Dex open up. He tried ending the program, but she comes to his work and wants to see the bodies in the morgue. Her sympathetic response convinces him to maintain the relation. To make matters even more complicated, Rita’s mother returned to her life after a ten-year absence... They’re so alike, even their speech patterns are the same! Interestingly, she senses right away that there’s something amiss with Dexter. She thinks he’s hiding something.

Deb has been eyeing this guy at the gym, but dating is hard for her after her last boyfriend tried to kill her and all... She brings up the nerve to ask him out, takes him home, cuffs him to the bed, and right when they’re about to get it on ... Dex walks in unexpectedly! Hahaha! That newly appointed Haitian Lieutenant Esme Pascal is having a serious meltdown since she found out her fiancé is sleeping with another woman... She’s going so far as to ask for tests on his shirts... The emotional breakdown is so bad, the chief has to let her go and give the job back to Maria LaGuerta. The beauty of it is that we learn it was LaGuerta all along who was sleeping with Pascal’s finacé! Heehee! Manipulative byatch!!