Dexter 7.4: The Lesson in Speltzer's Smoke

As I said in my review of the first three episodes of Dexter season 7, this may be the best season of Dexter, ever, and certainly the best since the last superb Dexter season - which would be the Trinity season. It's so satisfying that Deb now knows. Her struggle to come to terms with that knowledge, and Dexter's struggle to in turn deal with that, is story with Shakespearean potential. And so far the season its living up to that.

Episode 7.4 can be considered an act in three parts, in the unfolding story of Debra and Dexter.

Act 1 finds Deb unaccepting of who Dexter is, an emotion which is strengthened by Deb's success in breaking Speltzer - getting him to confess - with a brilliant interrogation. If the system works - if it can put monsters like Speltzer away - than you don't need a... [via Paul Levinson]