episode 9 predictions

All the pieces are coming together. It'll be a big cliffhanger for sure.

Just watched it. DAMN! I don't want to wait a week for the finale.

(Imagine Angela solving The Bay Harbor Butcher in just a couple of days -- a mystery that the entire Miami Homicide Divison and the FBI Task Force couldn't accomplish in months.)

I got the impression that in some way, Episode 9 is Dexter's epitaph. While Kurt was saran-wrapped to that table, Dexter's description of why he killed those young girls described his own reasoning for doing what "he loves," as Deb would say, to do. "You like the hunt" ...and so on. And we've never really seen Dexter cut up the body parts, etc. To me, that was the first this-is-just too-much regarding the Dexter character.

I sensed Harrison felt the same way -- at least at that moment. But we don't really know how Harrison feels. Is his own dark passenger gone for good? Will it return? Will Dexter die in some way only to become Harrison's "conscience" in the future the same way Harry and Deb were his? There are a number of ways this could end.

But I don't get any sense of twists or shocks yet. It's been pretty predictable thus far. And that includes Kurt's painstaking preparation of the dead girls on that same table which reminded one of preparing a dear head as some kind of trophy from a hunt. Still, I wonder why Hannah didn't try to contact Dexter when she learned she had terminal pancreatic cancer. That still bugs me.