This episode had just the right amount of fervor, excitement and heart. Things continue to heat up as the plot thickens and our characters are put into weirdly unprecedented situations. And we've still got four episodes to go! I love, love, loved the cheesy, creepy, really unsettling Jordan Chase "Take It!" opening. What a weirdo. Dexter's there, naturally, in the blue-lit audience of Chase's seminar to get some info on his soon-to-be latest victim and tap into his "primal self." He wants to kill Mr. Chase and Co., starting with security guy Cole, for kidnapping and raping Lumen. "You're all going to die; some of us sooner than others,' Chase says, as Dexter thinks it.
In Miami Metro Land, the cops are taking some heat after three people died at their club stakeout last episode. Poor Yasmin is dead, and now her family is bringing a lawsuit against Maria LaGuerta for running the operation. There's a lot of LaGuerta/media tension, and lots of shots of her with a microphone shoved in her face. She's desperate; desperate enough to come up with a bunch of shifty stories about the operation that place the blame on anyone but her. Deb gets into it with LaGuerta, who wants to discipline the new cop gal for following her orders and subsequently starting the gun fight that resulted in the deaths. In the end, LaGuerta throws Deb under the bus, blaming her very publicly for what happened at the club. Deb is not happy. She's placed on paid leave, which either really sucks or is really great, depending on what she does with her time. I don't look forward to seeing her not do police work, tough.
This article appears in Nov 11-17, 2010.