Five-Legged Iguana

DEXTER
Season 2 Episode 10
‘There’s Something About Harry’
Written by Scott Reynolds
Directed by Steve Shill
(WARNING: SPOILERS)

This one’s a fascinating installment, as Doakes spends the entire episode locked in the cell in the drug cabin, alternating between goading and debating with Dex, and in the final portion, trying to talk reason with him.
But it’s not all Doakes, though. There are still the subplots.

Rita visits Dex and begins to tentatively reach out, not yet willing to start dating again, but maybe, just to hang first, with Dex and the kids, at the beach.
Meanwhile, Angel gets to have his daughter for a day, and wanting her to have some fun (“… ideally more fun than she has with her mother…”), tags along on the beach outing. That however, puts a crimp in Lila’s plans of having Angel finish re-painting her walls. So the gross, English titty vampire gets Angel to her place later in the evening, has wild sex with the guy, then secretly takes some roofies she bought on the sly, which conks her out cold in the bathroom. She bashes her head and Angel finds her unconscious, forehead bleeding, and he calls an ambulance.
Crazy bee-yutch is up to something…

On the Deb-Lundy front, there’s a little scuffle as Lundy casually blurts out that he won’t always be around, particularly once the Bay Harbor Butcher case is closed. This pisses Deb off, as the hope she had for their relationship lay in her not knowing what would happen when the case was wrapped up.
Lundy, on the other hand, understands that this is what he does: he catches serial killers, and they don’t all live in Miami. He also thought that as soon as the case was closed, that Deb’s fascination with him would shrivel up and die, which strikes Deb as the sweetest thing any guy’s ever said to her. Their conversation is interrupted however, when they get a hit on one of Doakes’ aliases (used during his Special Forces days), and a car rental.

So, at the cabin, Dex drugs Doakes and gets his fingerprints on some kill tools, which he dumps in a place he knows they’ll be found quickly.
Meanwhile, his conversations with Doakes bring up some Harry stuff, and he finds out that Harry didn’t die from his heart disease, but rather from ODing on his heart meds.
Trying to work this all out, Dex’s plan for Doakes is put on fast-forward when some goon who had a deal with the late Jimenez starts to text the drug dealer’s cell, which Dex now has. When it’s clear that the goon is about to show up at the cabin, Dex intercepts him, and brings him, drugged, to the cabin.
Dex then proceeds to kill the goon, while Doakes tries to convince him not to. The sight of all that blood makes Doakes quiet and all he says to Dex is, “Stay away from me,” which triggers a memory.
Three days before Harry’s death, he walked in on one of Dex’s kills, and for the first time, he saw the reality of his Code and the training, he saw exactly what he’d made Dex into, and after throwing up, all he could say was, “Stay away.”
And it dawns on Dex: it’s his fault Harry committed suicide. He caused his adoptive father’s death.

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