It is a love letter. It is a death threat. It is Brian begging Dexter to remember who he really is.
★★★★½ (Essential viewing) Best Line: "I don’t have friends. I have victims." – Dexter Morgan (Internal Monologue) Body Count: 1 (on-screen kill by the Ice Truck Killer) Dexter - Season 1- Episode 7
While Dexter wrestles with his identity, the women of the show suffer beautifully. It is a love letter
He killed Hicks anyway. Efficiently. Cleanly. But as he dismembered the body and bagged the parts for his oceanic dumping ground, he felt a crack in his own mirror. He had always believed he was a monster created by trauma, given a code by Harry to survive. But what if the monster was born? What if his birth father wasn’t some nameless drifter, but something far worse? Efficiently
He stood up, walked to his knife roll, and selected a scalpel. His hands were steady. His face was blank. But behind his eyes, the dark passenger was no longer alone. A new voice had joined the chorus—the voice of a boy in a shipping container, whispering, Let’s play.