See-Through 

Rita finds herself threatened by Dexter's sexy new NA sponsor Lila, and stressed by a visit from her estranged mother, while Dexter tries to throw the dogged FBI Agent Lundy off his bloody trail.

Director:

Nick Gomez

Writers:

James Manos Jr. (developed for television by), Jeff Lindsay (based on the novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by)

Stars:

Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Michael C. Hall	...	Dexter Morgan
Julie Benz	...	Rita Bennett
Jennifer Carpenter	...	Debra Morgan
Erik King	...	Sgt. James Doakes
C.S. Lee	...	Vince Masuka
Luna Lauren Velez	...	Det. Maria LaGuerta (as Lauren Velez)
David Zayas	...	Det. Angel Batista
James Remar	...	Harry Morgan
Geoff Pierson	...	Capt. Tom Matthews
JoBeth Williams	...	Gail Brandon
Judith Scott	...	Lt. Esme Pascal
Dominic Janes	...	Young Dexter
John Marshall Jones	...	Curtis Barnes
Bertila Damas	...	Soto's Widow
Albie Selznick	...	Psychiatrist

Storyline

Dexter begins to question Lila's suitability as his sponsor, and Rita encourages him to find a male one. Rita's visiting mother, Gail (JoBeth Williams), becomes sure that Dexter is hiding something from the family. Cody starts having nightmares about the Bay Harbor Butcher. When Vince announces that he has found a way to identify the marina where the Bay Harbor Butcher moors his boat, Dexter attempts to destroy some of the evidence. Doakes ends up in stand-off against one of his old special ops colleagues, after he murders his own wife. Debra starts dating Gabriel (Dave Baez), whom she met at the gym. LaGuerta returns to her job as lieutenant following the mental collapsing of Pascal, who suspects her fiance of cheating; it turns out that he was cheating on her with none other than LaGuerta.

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Plot Keywords:

boat | algae | gym | estranged mother | romance episode | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Did You Know?

Trivia

The newly erected morgue building would have been surrounded by tight security. Perhaps Dexter disabled the cameras, but the home viewers never saw it.

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Goofs

When Lila is pulling the horse head post from under her car the chain is still attached. When Dexter goes to help and lifts it into the back of her Bronco it no longer has a chain attached.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Dexter Morgan: Just as the worst heat wave in years hits Miami, the heat is also on me. It's week 3 of the Bay Harbor Butch investigation, and super-duper Agent Lundy has yet to throw up his hands and say, wow this guy's good, I give up.

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Soundtracks

Wink
(uncredited)
Written by Daniel Licht
Performed by Daniel Licht

User Reviews

One of all the episodes...

The Bay Harbour Butcher investigation is now into its third week, and agent Lundy's task force is making gradual progress, much to Dexter's dismay. Debra makes even more progress re-adjusting to a normal life and Rita is jealous of Dexter's new female friend from his addiction group. The story lines feels a bit slow and never really catch my attention in the same way as they usually do.

The general pace of the episode is a bit slow for my taste, there is very little happening in the first half of the show, and it kind of drags along. There are a couple of mildly entertaining subplots, including Doakes hunting down a very competent killer and Pascal's continuing jealousy becoming a big problem at work, but unfortunately the real thrills are absent this time.

I'm sure future episodes of series 2 will be more interesting, because this is a filler, no doubt about that.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 October 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Long Beach, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions, John Goldwyn Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

53 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1