Episode 9


Wiggles seemed like he was really trying to be Joaquin Phoenix.

Kurt was an idiot for burning down the house without even making sure they were inside first.

Angela has clearly checked out of the relationship and is just keeping Dexter close until she can figure out what exactly to do. Would love it if they reveal she figured him out a bit earlier than we thought and has been planning something.

The ending was about what I expected, just not as intense, I thought it'd be more like Debra walking in on him killing Travis.

Next week, the final episode. I bet Harrison gets away undetected to start a new life elsewhere, maybe Miami, where he'll become the next Dexter. Or, rather, Nexter. It'll be the plot for Season 10/spin-off.

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(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.

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Oh, and spot on about Wiggles and Joaquin's Joker.

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Still, I wonder why Hannah didn't try to contact Dexter when she learned she had terminal pancreatic cancer. That still bugs me


Same here. I suppose Hannah being Hannah, she figured she could “beat” cancer the way she beats everyone else, by killing it. But she seemed way too practical a person for that kind of self-delusion.

Maybe she did sense darkness in Harrison and thought he’d be better off never meeting his serial killer father.

We’ll never know at this point.

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