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Dexter: "My Bad"

Wow! Time for another season of Dexter already? How time flies!

When we last left Dexter Morgan, he had just found that a certain much-beloved character had been found murdered in her own bathtub. At the beginning of this episode, said character was still dead, doomed to return to the show only in flashbacks. Given that said character was one of my favorite characters on this show, it's hard to pretend that this made for an especially fun episode.

That said, the most memorable part of the episode was Dexter's oddly emotionless response to the death of said character. One character on the show describes his 911 call as a "lab report" and for a while, it looks like Dexter is going to attract some unwanted attention. But years of covering up his true self pay off and Dexter gets away with not being suspected of one of the few murders in the Miami area he had nothing to do with.

In addition, we get an in-joke reference to Dexter star Michael C. Hall's former role as an undertaker on Six Feet Under. Only this time around, Hall gets to play the client, not the undertaker.

Moreover, we get to witness the clumsiest murder in Dexter history. A murder so ill-conceived it seems a miracle Dexter got away with it. Is Season 5 the season we find out Dexter Morgan has a death wish?