Though you’ve probably worked it out already, because it’s not a particularly hard thing to figure out. But still, I shan’t spoil it if you haven’t. Anyway. Apparently, someone must have noticed that despite all the chopping up of bodies and rampant swearing, there’s been very little sex in Dexter thus far. So this week, everyone has sex. A lot. There’s very little actually happening in this episode, because it’s all character-driven stuff; and that’s a really nice change of pace for this show. What little plot there is is mostly wrapped up with Laguerta interrogating the wannabe-Ice Truck Killer, and Dexter’s Victim Of The Week. Happily, it’s not just any old Victim Of The Week; it’s actually an interesting one. Dexter’s initial crime scene was that of an apparent suicide; a business woman who shot herself in the face. But it’s not as clear cut as it sounds, because Dexter’s seen this before – three times in the last couple of years, successful women with everything going for them have randomly shot themselves. And they all had the same psychiatrist… Cue lots and lots of scenes of Dexter chatting about his deep dark issues with a creepy shrink. I can’t quite decide if I like this, or whether the number of lines that will blatantly be lifted and shoved into trailers for the series annoy me. (See: “I’m a sociopath”, “I’m a serial killer” “I kill people”, etc.) Overall, I think I liked it, though the writers do seem to be taking Dexter in a weird direction. Instead of actually being the empty sociopath they kept telling us he was, he’s actually just a damaged man who’d quite like to be loved. Rather than having him be repulsed by sex and physical contact, he’s actually just afraid that if he has sex with Rita, he’ll open himself up to her and she’ll be scared by what she finds out enough to leave him. Which is sweet, if not quite in keeping with the person they keep telling us Dexter is. There’s a bit of a disconnect between what they say, and what they do, but I think this’ll be sorted out in series two. My final thought for the week: the “Ice Truck Killer”? It’s a bit of a misnomer, isn’t it, considering he only used an ice truck in about one episode? I really wish I’d given him a clever name of my own. The guy mostly kills prostitutes, so you’d think someone would throw the word “ripper” in there somewhere, but they haven’t. Oh well, too late now.