This week opens with Dexter’s imagined father Harry warning Dexter to leave Hannah alone. Usually Dexter follows Harry’s Code, unless the code impedes Dexter’s compulsions and this week his Lizard Brain is telling him that Hannah McKay is guilty and she must be put down. After only just last week promising Deb that he will not interfere with Miami Metro cases, Dexter purposely sabotages the blood reports on the recently discovered Wayne Randall victims to hide Hannah’s involvement in the murders. He doesn’t want Miami Metro obstructing his own investigations and procedures. Dexter travels to Hannah’s flower shop to show her the new report and to apologize for accusing her of being a killer, but really Dexter is only getting closer so he can dig up more dirt. While casually conversing, Dexter learns that Hannah not only has a dead husband, but a dead mentor as well. The two mysterious deaths of people close to Hannah all but confirms for Dexter that he must take Hannah McKay down. Finally, when the two have their date, they share a starry-eyed moment as Dexter takes her to a place that she longed to visit while she was with Randall. Before things get too romantic, Dexter drugs Hannah and she awakes to find herself on Dexter’s table. After giving his pre-murder monologue, Dexter gives Hannah a chance to say her last words and the confident femme fatale only stares unwavering into Dexter’s eyes and says, “Do what you got to do.” Dexter raises his knife to finish Hannah, but at the last moment has a change of heart and quickly cuts Hannah free and the two engage in fervent, complicated sex. Now with Dexter’s real motives revealed, how will Hannah respond to Dexter’s Dark Passenger and how will Dexter protect Hannah from Price’s looming accusations? These aren’t the only future problems Dexter has. Deb isn’t exactly thrilled with her brother lately, and her patience is being strained the more she learns about his true self. Deb learns from LaGuerta that she is looking into the Jordan Chase murders, the murders Dexter committed with Lumen during season five. When Deb lets this information be known to Dexter, she pries for knowledge about Dexter’s actions involving Jordan Chase. When she finally discovers that Lumen was Dexter’s accomplice, she reacts with pure disgust. Debra cannot believe that Dexter was romantically and criminally involved with another woman so soon after Rita’s death. The hurt that Carpenter shows is multi-layered. Not only is this information shocking, but it also proves that Dexter may not be the love interest that Deb was beginning to think he was at the end of last season. The major shift of Dexter’s focus from Isaak to Hannah has been a strange detour that has definitely dulled the action in sunny Miami. Reminiscent of seasons past, the show seems to be using Hannah as mid-season filler to break up the action of the main storylines and seemingly fill time. Hopefully the Hannah McKay plot will grow and blend nicely into the main action and serve as a focal point in the season’s endgame. Let’s hope the diversion isn’t just a pretty distraction.
