A Little Reflection
- Episode aired Aug 4, 2013
- TV-MA
- 55m
Dexter monitors a young psychopath to see if he meets the criteria of the code. Dexter and Debra finally get back to normal, but are surprised when someone from Dexter's past pays them a vis... Read allDexter monitors a young psychopath to see if he meets the criteria of the code. Dexter and Debra finally get back to normal, but are surprised when someone from Dexter's past pays them a visit.Dexter monitors a young psychopath to see if he meets the criteria of the code. Dexter and Debra finally get back to normal, but are surprised when someone from Dexter's past pays them a visit.
- Harry Morgan
- (credit only)
- Niki Walters
- (as Dora Madison Burge)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaZach's studio is 301, but from inside the numbers are transposed. This is another play on 103 seen throughout the series.
- GoofsWhen Niki asks Dexter what he uses his boat for, he starts to mumble, then awkwardly tells her he just likes to take it out at night. A seasoned liar and murderer, Dexter does not need to rack his brain and quickly come up with such a poor, suspicious excuse. His type of boat is specifically designed for fishing. Dexter's boat has fishing equipment mounted and Dexter has been shown to use it for fishing several times before.
Nobody is suspicious about anything and he is not making an excuse. Far from it, he is being a believably awkward, tongue-tied man set up on a date by his nanny. He makes reference to that at 16:30, when his inner monologue says: "Dating is harder than I remember".
- Quotes
Debra Morgan: This steak tastes like asshole.
Dexter Morgan: Yeah. Let's order pizza.
Debra Morgan: With pineapple, please.
Dexter Morgan: Not on my half.
Debra Morgan: Sorry, cow...
Dexter still chases the killer of Hamilton's girlfriend. In previous series This Little Piggy he has a guess that Zach Hamilton murdered father's girl. But having no prove, he continues to study him. Zach turns out to be easy to find, since he visits every crime scene, taking tons of pictures of blood and victims. Morgan knows what this means and one day invites him to closer look at murder scene. Fresh blood makes Zach to open his emotions to the most wrong person he could imagine. But Dexter finds out more about him, than he hoped - a thing that they both share - love and passion for blood and crime scenes. For the first time, Dex sees himself in someone.
This helps him to get closer a lot and get a prove enough to kill him. Before putting him on his table, Morgan tries to understand why Hamilton is visiting Vogel, is this because of him being a serial killer? Or are there any other reasons?!
Dexter is also worrying about Harrison who accused him in lies, which obviously does not have anything with his dark passenger, but Morgan can't escape the thoughts - what if son is smarter than he thinks?
Dr. Vogel tries to convince Dexter not to kill Zach and suggests the same experiment she & Harry did with him - to teach a code. Morgan is against, because he believes Hamilton shall be killed since he murders an innocent and he is going to kill another. Accordingly this young boy perfectly fits his table.
The writing for this episode is really good. I enjoyed the smart parts of it - dialogs, story line, development of characters, especially Zach and Dexter who both show something we did not think of before. Jennifer Carpenter is getting my more and more favorite part of the show, she steals every single episode with extremely dramatic and extraordinary enjoyable acting. Frankly, this episode was not hers, but she keeps being amazing. And Vogel stays in the center of everything. I have a feeling that the whole show evolves around her and Dexter is not going to rid of her that easily.
This episode has some tricky points, that bumped my heart couple of times. It delivers a great emotion of satisfaction and brilliant twists. The ending part of it just made my scream loudly and I am sure, this is gonna happen to everyone, unless you are already spoiled.
- nikashvili
- Aug 4, 2013
Details
- Runtime55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD