Things are really beginning to heat up for Dexter: Doakes’ suspicions about him are growing, his victims are escaping, and his body dump site has been found. Meanwhile, Paul is troubling Rita over the missing shoe and Debra is going through a trauma over the Ice Truck killer incident.
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Dexter is finding it hard to have closure on killing his brother. There is a new FBI agent to head the Bay Harbour Butcher case. Debra is finding it tough to put the past behind her.
Dexter sets his sights on a new victim: a murderer, so repulsive, it seems only fitting that he’s a used-car salesman. Dexter almost admires the man, though, for his smooth-talking charm and effortless lying, which Dexter knows he lacks himself these days. Dexter’s been unable to lie to Rita about his midnight activities, which has her thinking that he’s a drug addict. She’s threatened to leave him if he doesn’t commit to a 12-step program to deal with his supposed addiction. While in this recovery, though, Dexter meets a sexy, mysterious woman named Lila.
First aired: 10/21/2007 Production Code: 204 Rita’s estranged mother visits and senses something is wrong with Dexter. Masuka thinks he’s developed a lead in the Bay Harbor Butcher case, which has Dexter concerned. Angel’s interrogation of a witness crosses a line.
Dexter finds out that the man who killed his mother, right in front of him, is still alive. When he tells this to Lila, she suggests he face the man, as part of his road to addiction recovery. But then as his sponsor she insists on tagging along.
A copy-cat killer follows the lead of the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter must destroy an incriminating surveillance video.
Dexter manages to get Doakes off his back. He devises a plan to get the police in another direction. Lila and Dex’s relationship intensifies, and he has some interaction with Rita and the kids.
Dexter is attacked by the man who murdered his mother. Meanwhile, Lila wants to get closer to Dex, and Debra and Lundy close in on the Bay Harbor Butcher.
Dexter realizes it won’t be easy to end things completely with Lila. Dexter tries to stay ahead of the investigations as the manhunt for the Bay Harbour Butcher intensifies. An enemy of Dexter figures out his secret.
Doakes follows Dexter to his next crime scene and shocks him with a revelation about Harry. The Bay Harbor Butcher task force feels they are zeroing in on their man.