This season, we haven’t had any sort of consistency as far as story or theme. The one thing that keeps coming into focus though is an eleventh hour romance for a titular psycho. So far this season, love has been wafting in the air only in subtle douses. With their relationship on the mend, it was looking like Deb and Dexter were about to head into the incestuous romance we have all been dreading. More than a few times it felt as if Deb or Dexter were only a head turn and smooch away from realizing an actual relationship. Then, we also had the cute neighbor popping up randomly. We all knew that she was destined to be apart of the picture in more ways then just a love interest though, and tonight that proved to be true, but we’ll get to that later. So with a few options on the table, it seemed unneccsary for Hannah to come back in as Dexter’s real one true love, but here she is. I’m also not happy with Zach Hamilton. Like many times throughout the course of television and film history, someone had the bright idea that a kid sidekick would freshen things up, like Indiana Jones and Batman, and just like those instances, this guy was wrong. Zach is the annoying kid sidekick that Dexter desperately didn’t need, and he only proves it more this week. I’m glad to see that this was what Dexter’s neighbor was being set-up for, however, because the other things she could have been, like a love interest or a possible threat, just didn’t seem likely. Now we get to watch Dexter reconsider his whole mentoring of Zach, which seems like more of a tedious internal struggle than an interesting plot twist. The clock is ticking folks, and they’re pissing the minutes away. Den of Geek Rating: 2 out of 5