Dexter 5x07

It’s been over a month since Dexter killed Boyd Fowler. Lumen is still trapped in the trauma of her monstrous experience. He’s been allowing her to be part of the plan catching the remaining men who used and abused her. She tells him there were two more, whom she identifies as Watch Guy and Suit & Tie: the first would put his watch against his ear and say “tick, tick, tick, that’s the sound of your life running out”; the other would fold his suit very carefully and lay it on a chair, he’d always take her blindfold off, thinking she’d be dead soon. Next we see Suit Guy (Chris Vance), neatly folding his jacket, while paying some Mexicans to drag the barrels from the lake onto a pick-up truck. Then, with his truck loaded up with barrels filled with dead women in formaldehyde, he drives off toward the highway – and BAM! Another car crashes into the truck sideways. Excellent! The whole Miami Homicide team gets called in. The press is already on site. Meanwhile that shitty Stan Liddy has been trailing Dexter and learned there’s a pretty blonde girl staying at his old house – even took down the “For Sale” sign. Quinn spots Dexter talking to Lumen near the crime scene and puts two and two together.

Suit Guy turns out to be the head of security of none than Jordan Chase (John Lee Miller), a well-known motivational speaker, famous for his “Take It” instructional CDs. Boyd Fowler used to listen to all his CDs. So does Masuka. The truck was registered on Chase’s name. With Suit Guy in tow, Chase arrives at the police station. He is wearing a fancy watch. He must be Watch Guy. He gives his alibi, which checks out, while security guy Cole makes up a story that someone must have stolen their truck – although the key was still in ignition. Masuka’s forensics tell that all the evidence points to Cole, but if Dexter wants to help Lumen kill the men who held her hostage, raped and tortured her, they must derail the police investigation. So he suggests they give the police Boyd Fowler, since he was the man who killed the young women. They raid Boyd’s house and find the torture room (neatly cleaned by Dex and Lumen before). Boyd immediately becomes their primary focus of investigation.

As for the Santa Muerte machete murder case, the whole team is brought in to sting Club Maya, where Deb has learned the Fuentes brothers often hang out in the VIP lounge. Their bait Jasmine has arranged for the brothers to come. From the start LaGuerta disagrees with Deb how to set up the stake out. The Captain is up her case to get it right this time. Nevertheless, things run afoul pretty bad. When Cira Monzon approaches the guys, one of them notices her gun while feeling up her leg. The other shoots Jasmine. Then Cira gets a gun up her face and Deb has to choose whether to let him go yet again or shoot him on the spot. Her bullet hits him right in the forehead. Bull’s Eye! An innocent bystander got killed, too, though, and three were wounded. The Captain is furious. LaGuerta refuses to take responsibility for the mess, even though it was on her orders (overruling Debra) that Cira approached the Fuentes brothers. Needless to say, this was another exciting episode.