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| - Since her loft caught fire, Lila has been staying with Dexter, which is getting on Debra's nerves. Dexter finds an action figure that Cody slipped into his bag. Lila tells Dexter that Cody's trying to control him. On his way to work, Dexter stops by Rita's house to return the action figure and deliver donuts, and knocks instead of using his key. Rita lets him in, but later tells him never to come here again, as it's too hard on her and the kids. With Lundy having determined that the Bay Harbor Butcher is somebody in law enforcement, Deb and Batista are reluctant to consider the possibility that one of their own is the Butcher. Later, Lundy asks Deb to look into drug dealer Anthony Rodrigo, one of the BHB victims. He also asks her to dinner, which she accepts. LaGuerta and Doakes walk on the beach together and discuss the BHB investigation. After she tells him that he'll likely be brought in for questioning, Doakes expresses his desire to quit the force. LaGuerta then suggests that he become a security contractor, and agrees to set up a meeting with a friend of hers in the industry. While helping Lila clean up her loft, Dexter takes a closer look around and realizes that the fire seemingly had multiple points of origin. Suspecting that Lila started the fire on purpose, Dexter leaves somewhat hastily. Dexter meets with Lundy, who brings up the Rodrigo case. Rodrigo was arrested for murder, but the blood work allowed him to walk free; soon afterward, on April 16, 2002, he disappeared thanks to the Bay Harbor Butcher. Lundy notes that Dexter performed the blood work, which was later proven wrong. Dexter tries to cover for himself, arguing that the blood work was actually correct, but Lundy expertly counters all of his points. Eventually, Dexter "admits" that he made a mistake because he was overworked. Deb and Batista question Lenny Asher, a paranoid man who used to live next to Rodrigo. Though he doesn't know who killed Rodrigo, Lenny makes notes of almost everything he witnesses from his window, and gives them all the ones he wrote down in 2002. Back at the station, Deb tells Dexter that she found an apartment and will move out soon. She also tells him she has a date with Lundy, and Dexter passively and somewhat facetiously accuses her of sleeping her way to the top. Annoyed, Deb insults Dexter's choice in women—namely, Lila. That night, Deb has dinner at Lundy's apartment, and the two kiss. Despite his attempts to avoid Lila, she invites herself to Dexter's bowling night with his coworkers. Afterward, in the parking lot, Santos Jimenez attacks Dexter with a knife, but flees when Masuka and Batista come running. Dexter lies that it was just a mugger, and leaves with Lila. At her loft, Dexter tells Lila the truth about who the man was, and she comforts him as they lie in bed together. Later, however, Dexter resolves to stop being vulnerable and embrace who he is—he leaves Lila asleep in her bed, and drives to Naples to kill Jimenez. Rita finally tells Astor and Cody that she broke up with Dexter. Cody frets that this means Dexter doesn't like him anymore, leaving Rita saddened. As LaGuerta arranges the meeting with her security friend that night, Doakes meets with Lundy for questioning. Lundy notes that Doakes worked on several of the BHB victims' cases, but never got a conviction. Upon learning that it was erroneous blood work that let Rodrigo go free, Doakes has a sudden realization and quickly leaves. Lila drops by the station and asks to see Dexter, who told her he'd be working late tonight. Deb tells her that Dexter isn't here, and realizes with great satisfaction that he lied to Lila. Upset, Lila leaves. Deb and Batista find a note dated April 16, which describes an unconscious Rodrigo being carried into a car. They run the license plate that Lenny wrote down, and discover that the vehicle was registered to drug dealer Charlie Lewis. However, Lewis was arrested four days before April 16, and his vehicle was seized as evidence; the only people who had access to it were members of the Miami Metro Police Department. This proves that the Bay Harbor Butcher is one of their own. LaGuerta and her friend wait for Doakes. However, instead of going to the meeting, Doakes breaks into Dexter's apartment and inspects the place. He eventually looks behind the air conditioner and finds Dexter's collection of blood slide trophies. Dexter stakes out Jimenez's bar, and follows him to the Everglades. Jimenez arrives at an isolated cabin and prepares to make a cocaine run, but Dexter knocks him out. When he comes to, Dexter cuts him up with a chainsaw, avenging his mother. Rita and the kids come home, but strangely, the door is already unlocked. None of them notices Lila leaving the house. Dexter looks through Jimenez's wallet and finds the bowling alley's address written on a piece of paper. As he deduces that Lila gave Jimenez the location, Dexter gets a call from Rita, asking if he was there and telling him about the unlocked door. Realizing that Lila stole his key, Dexter tells Rita to take the kids outside and call the police. Forced to leave Jimenez's corpse at the cabin for now, Dexter returns to Miami. With a policeman standing guard at Rita's house and a unit patrolling her neighborhood, Dexter goes to Lila's loft. He takes his key back and interrogates her. Lila confirms that she called Jimenez, but she never planned for Dexter to get killed—that's why she arranged for it to happen when Dexter's colleagues were nearby. She did it to bring Dexter back into her arms, and it worked. Dexter orders Lila to stay away from him and Rita, or else "you will see the monster." |-| Season 2 = {| align="center" width="100%" class="mpheading3" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent;font-size:80%;color:black;border-color:blue;border-width:6px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px" | |Episode 201: It's Alive! | |Episode 202: Waiting to Exhale | |Episode 203: An Inconvenient Lie |- | |Episode 204: See-Through | |Episode 205: The Dark Defender | |Episode 206: Dex, Lies, and Videotape |- | |Episode 207: That Night, a Forest Grew | |Episode 208: Morning Comes | |Episode 209: Resistance Is Futile |- | |Episode 210: There's Something About Harry | |Episode 211: Left Turn Ahead | |Episode 212: The British Invasion |} |-| Season 3 = {|align="center" class="mpheading3" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent;font-size:80%;color:black;border-color:darkgreen;border-width:6px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px" | |Episode 301: Our Father | |Episode 302: Finding Freebo | |Episode 303: The Lion Sleeps Tonight |- | |Episode 304: All in the Family | |Episode 305: Turning Biminese | |Episode 306: Sì Se Puede |- | |Episode 307: Easy as Pie | |Episode 308: The Damage A Man Can Do | |Episode 309: About Last Night |- | |Episode 310: Go Your Own Way | |Episode 311: I Had a Dream | |Episode 312: Do You Take Dexter Morgan? |} |-| Season 4 = {| align="center" class="mpheading3" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent;font-size:80%;color:black;border-color:darkgoldenrod;border-width:6px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px" | |Episode 401: Living the Dream | |Episode 402: Remains to Be Seen | |Episode 403: Blinded by the Light |- | |Episode 404: Dex Takes a Holiday | |Episode 405: Dirty Harry | |Episode 406: If I Had a Hammer |- | |Episode 407: Slack Tide | |Episode 408: Road Kill | |Episode 409: Hungry Man |- | |Episode 410: Lost Boys | |Episode 411: Hello, Dexter Morgan | |Episode 412: The Getaway |} |-| Season 5 = {| align="center" class="mpheading3" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent;font-size:80%;color:black;border-color:darkviolet;border-width:6px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px" | |Episode 501: My Bad | |Episode 502: Hello Bandit | |Episode 503: Practically Perfect |- | |Episode 504: Beauty and the Beast | |Episode 505: First Blood | |Episode 506: Everything is Illumenated |- | |Episode 507: Circle Us | |Episode 508: Take It! | |Episode 509: Teenage Wasteland |- | |Episode 510: In the Beginning | |Episode 511: Hop a Freighter | |Episode 512: The Big One |} |-| Season 6 ={| align="center" class="mpheading3" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent;font-size:80%;color:black;border-color:#002999;border-width:6px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px" | |Episode 601: Those Kinds of Things | |Episode 602: Once Upon a Time... | |Episode 603: Smokey and the Bandit |- | |Episode 604: A Horse of a Different Color | |Episode 605: The Angel of Death | |Episode 606: Just Let Go |- | |Episode 607: Nebraska | |Episode 608: Sins of Omission | |Episode 609: Get Gellar |- | |Episode 610: Ricochet Rabbit | |Episode 611: Talk to the Hand | |Episode 612: This is the Way the World Ends |} |-| Season 7 ={| align="center" class="mpheading3" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent;font-size:80%;color:black;border-color:#000000;border-width:6px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px" | |Episode 701: Are You...? | |Episode 702: Sunshine and Frosty Swirl | |Episode 703: Buck the System |- | |Episode 704: Run | |Episode 705: Swim Deep | |Episode 706: Do the Wrong Thing |- | |Episode 707: Chemistry | |Episode 708: Argentina | |Episode 709: Helter Skelter |- | |Episode 710: The Dark... Whatever | |Episode 711: Do You See What I See? | |Episode 712: Surprise, Motherfucker! |} |-| Season 8 ={| align="center" class="mpheading3" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent;font-size:80%;color:black;border-color:#000000;border-width:6px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px" | |Episode 801: A Beautiful Day | |Episode 802: Every Silver Lining | |Episode 803: What's Eating Dexter Morgan? |- | |Episode 804: Scar Tissue | |Episode 805: This Little Piggy | |Episode 806: A Little Reflection |- | |Episode 807: Dress Code | |Episode 808: Are We There Yet? | |Episode 809: Make Your Own Kind of Music |- | |Episode 810: Goodbye Miami | |Episode 811: Monkey In a Box | |Episode 812: Remember The Monsters? |} |}
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