Jeez, the twists and turns! Let me see if I can even organize this logically. In no particular order:
LaGuerta's gotten nowhere with her correct theory that the BHB took out the Barrel Girls perps, prompting Deb to, unwillingly enough, take the opportunity to convince her that they should drop the investigation. But LaGuerta doesn't give up – and in the end, in researching county boat registrations, she finds Dexter's name. That's right – so much happened in this ep that I am leading with that.
After a request from Isaak Pullo's lawyer to independently confirm the DNA evidence, MM discovers that Isaak Pullo's blood is gone. Quinn feels terrible enough, but at least does get to reunite with Nadia, who's shaken but unhurt. Jason Gedrick casually reneges on his promise to Quinn to let Nadia go, prompting Quinn to donate the money from last week to Batista for his restaurant, and the fact that even these two produced a genuine "Aw" moment shows how head and shoulders this season is above any other in ages. Deb makes Dexter promise that he won't kill Isaak Pullo, as she's going to have a tail on him 24/7. This proves true, as the newly free Isaak Pullo finds Dexter at an outdoor café; since he's being watched, he merely wants to know what makes Dexter tick. Dexter taunts Isaak Pullo with details of how he killed Viktor, and Isaak Pullo lets him know he's going to find a way to pay Dexter back for it. Like Isaak Pullo wasn't scary enough, Dexter – now you're motivating him to get creative?
Much as Dexter did last episode, Deb has been doing a little thinking about Hannah's husband dying at 40, and suggests to Price that she have the body exhumed and tested for aconite. Price supplies the address of the late husband's sister, to whom Deb goes to for permission to dig up the body. From her, Deb learns that Hannah was pregnant when the husband died but had a miscarriage immediately after, and following those twin tragedies, she cut herself off from her husband's family. Deb's happy for all the information, but less jazzed when an examination of the body reveals no tissue – Hannah apparently requested the body not be embalmed, which resulted in complete decomposition and as such precludes the test from being run. Deb also goes to Dexter and asks him how he messed up so royally on the blood-spatter report; when he dissembles, she pegs him once again, accusing him of covering up the real evidence so he could save Hannah for his table. Funny she should say that!
Even though they initially agree that sex in front of the reindeer was a mistake, Hannah learning that Dexter is a serial killer only strengthens their bond. Unfortunately for Dexter, Price spots him dropping Hannah off at her house and quickly confronts him with the accusation that he covered up the true story of the blood spatter from the double murder because he's involved with Hannah. Thinking quickly, Dexter offers to tell Price what Randall's last words about Hannah were if he'll keep quiet about Dexter's involvement with her. Price agrees to think it over, only to turn around and blackmail Hannah into giving him her story firsthand (she does get him to agree to leave Dexter out of it) – but he's not the only one playing multiple angles, as Dexter attempts to throw suspicion on Price for some of the murder cases he covered that were never solved. Once he lifts Price's DNA (and while he's up, deletes all Price's digital files on Hannah), he triumphantly tells Price what he plans to do – whereupon Price keels over. You see, noticing Price's habit of chewing on his pen, Hannah cried crocodile tears during her story of how she killed the girl, and then when he got her a tissue, she dipped the pen in an apparently untraceable (which, I suppose, means it wasn't aconite) poison. Dexter's attempts to revive Price, genuine as they seem, fail, so he's got, to put it mildly, some 'splainin' to do.
Although she doesn't divine Dexter's issues with Price, Deb correctly guesses that Hannah murdered him, and she hauls Hannah in with a gusto only increased by her feelings for Price. She tells Hannah that she expects to match Price's tox screen to that of Beverly Grey's, and when she does, Hannah can expect to take up residence in the county jail. She also drops the bomb that she knows about Hannah's pregnancy, whereupon Hannah's ersatz emotion turns real in a hurry. When Dexter storms over to her place to confront her about killing Price, she confesses that she killed her husband because he was the one who didn't want a family – he threatened to leave her unless she got an abortion. They realize that they've been protecting each other, and fall into each other's arms with, this time, a real tenderness. Which is interesting timing, as Deb, having been thwarted by the tox screen coming back negative, calls Dexter and urges him to take Hannah out before she can kill again. And I know I've said this about Batista, but this time Dexter's the one whose expression is reminiscent of that Danny Glover Lethal Weapon quote.
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With an appropriate amount of liquid having been sprayed onto him by a trusty PA, Dexter lies post-coitally on the forever-sullied Christmas table as DVO wonders about chemistry, and it's not super-interesting, but I'll agree with him that it's possible he only wanted to get Hannah on his table in order to deny the effect she has on him. His incomprehension of his own tendency to babble idiotically in her presence supports the theory, at least. DVO wonders what happens now, whereupon Hannah obligingly answers the question by rolling over to straddle him and holding his own knife to his throat. I did warn you about this, Dexter. She asks him how he likes it, and although he replies he doesn't, much, the excitement in his eyes says otherwise. She asks him if a normal date for him ends up with the girl wrapped up in plastic, but he tells her he doesn't date, so she wonders why he wanted to kill her. He tells her that killing bad people is what he does, prompting her to, somewhat more kittenishly, ask if he thinks she's bad, and he barely manages to breathe, "You fit the general description." Heh. She responds, just as breathily, that he has no idea, and while that's wholly untrue, I don't think Dexter's going to disabuse her of the notion, given that they're already going at it again.
Deb has brought Price back to her place, but instead of the promised making out, they're still talking about Hannah. Oh, I can't remember if I mentioned it, but last episode it was established that Price has quite the oral fixation, and they're reminding us of it by having him mercilessly decimate a straw with his teeth. Deb remarks on that, but Deb, if you really find it that irritating, you could put something else in his mouth I'M JUST SAYING. I mean, I'm not even trying to be provocative - I just hate welchers. After some more talk about his book, Deb tells Price that she's been mulling over a new angle, and brings up the dead husband Dexter told us about last episode. She thinks that if she could get permission from a next of kin to have the body exhumed, they could have it tested for aconite. Price pipes up that Hannah's husband had a sister, and she'll probably be easier to ask for permission than, you know, Hannah. Both satisfied with the plan, they proceed to have sweaty sex that puts Dexter and Hannah to shame. Well actually, Price leaves after giving Deb a kiss so chaste I would have thought Showtime's Standards and Practices would reject it as not nearly prurient enough, but given Deb's talk of getting a life and the fact that Price is about to croak, I'm rewriting the scene as Deb probably now wishes it had happened.
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