Remember how, last week, Rita smacked Paul around the head with a baseball bat instead of calling the police? Or even calling Dexter, who’s both her protective boyfriend AND associated with the police? Well, turns out she’s now being charged with assault. Even though supposedly Dexter filed a police report because Paul broke in and threatened her, somehow that got lost in the system and instead Rita’s being charged with assault. But no, they’re going to arrest Rita and possibly award Paul custody of the two children. Honestly? I nearly switched the TV off, or at least screamed in rage. There is no way, even assuming the entire Miami police force is as incompetent as the homicide department have been proven to be, that this would happen. It’s just stupid. Cripplingly stupid. So there’s that. But if I spend any more time worrying about that, I’m going to go completely insane, so let’s move onto the plot thread that makes me less angry: a jar of blood has been mailed to the Miami police’s homicide department, and inside the jar is a key. And inside the room that the key leads to? Lots of blood. Lots, and lots of blood. Into which Dexter promptly falls face first, because the sight of all that blood is stirring up long-buried memories in his sociopathic little head… Meanwhile, Mousaka and Angel have gone out clubbing to some club that doesn’t exist anywhere on Earth except on TV, and they’ve uncovered another lead: a prostitute with a prosthetic hand, and all the fingernails have been painted different colours, like one of the Ice Truck Killer’s previous victims. She remembers servicing a client who painted her fingers those colours in the first place – a lead! Hurrah! One that doesn’t even depend on Dexter! And also meanwhile, Deb is really annoying, and Dexter’s using power tools to spatter blood all over some walls. Hee. Rudy/Ice Truck Killer does some good skulking about, generally being suspicious when Angel comes calling and by bringing over some steaks to Dexter’s house (why does Dexter keep one knife in a drawer all by itself? That’s not suspicious at all, Dex…). Something’s gone wrong with him, and he’s stopped being all charming and nice and started just being a creep. Maybe that’s because we know who he is, now, but I think they’ve also changed the way he’s being written. And not for the better.