Dexter 5x06

Midway through the season and the plotlines are starting to converge in unforeseeable ways. Miami Homicide is following Deb’s lead on the Santa Muerte machete murders. They’ve organized a stake out at the club frequented by the Fuentes brothers. This despite the Captain’s warning he isn’t pleased with their lack of progress. Batista is teasing Deb how many girls approach Quinn at the bar. She’s doing her best to hide her jealousy. For his part, Dex is trying to bring back some normalcy into his life – and prepares his next kill: another perverted serial killer (of which there seems ample supply in his neck of the woods). When he is leaving his condo, his Irish superwoman nanny tells Harrison to say “bye-bye, daddy,” and the little kid says “dye-dye.” “He said ‘die, die!’” Dex responds shocked. “Don’t be silly,” she retorts, “He said ‘bye-bye.’ Harrison’s first words!” Just when he is about to start his ritual kill, Lumen calls repeatedly. She never left Miami – and now she’s shot one of the men who raped her (or so she claims). She doesn’t know what to do. He hurries to Lumen at some bayside warehouse, with a victim of his own in his car. When he arrives, she’s anxious and confused. She cannot really tell this is the man who raped her, she just knows, even though she was blindfolded the whole time she was abused, but she feels she’s right, he smells the same. But now the man is gone!

They have to follow the trail of his blood, revealing how much Dex knows about blood and what kind of gadgets he carries with him in his bag. The man is losing so much blood he can’t be far. They soon enough find him and he denies ever seeing Lumen before. Then Dex gets a message on his cell of a reported homicide – at the very same warehouse. Someone must have heard the gun shots. Dexter and Lumen keep arguing. He doesn’t trust her instinct. Then they overhear him talking on Lumen’s cell phone: “She shot me! That last fucking bitch is alive!” Lumen was right all along, and now the others are warned. With one guy wrapped in plastic foil coming to in his car and another body at the warehouse, Dexter has to take care of both situations at once, while Deb and Masuka are already following the trail of blood. And if that isn’t enough, Dex needs to argue with Lumen to make sure she leaves – and then the first guy breaks out of Dex’ SUV. Only in the nick of time is he able to catch the guy, run back to the dead body, dump the other body on the scene with Lumen’s gun, and pretend he found them before his sister did. Amazing! “Two words,” Masuka intones, “auto-erotic mummification.” “What a night!” Deb exclaims. This was sure one heck of an exciting episode. What a terrific plot development! I’m a little more reticent about Deb’s continuing dalliance with Quinn, or the marital troubles between Batista and LaGuerta, not to mention Quinn’s persistence to investigate Dexter with the help of his suspended colleague Stan Liddy.