wanna make a small wager? I'd bet that robocop doesn't get killed by dexter (even if robocop killed someone)

why are you guys still citing the code as some holy bible that Dexter must follow when we've now seen him kill multiple "innocent" people and go against so many of the things Harry taught him? this isn't like the Doakes situation in season 2 where Dexter was still heavily influenced by Harry and followed his teachings religiously. he has moved away from a lot of that stuff, hes becoming more daring and bold, much sloppier, letting people into his dark world, rage killing an innocent guy etc...if Robocop is a direct threat to his future/life as a free man i don't think it would be much of a surprise to see him on the table even though, as far as we know, he isn't a murderer

I think you are being a bit contrarian. The code is quite prevalent in his monologues. I don't recall anyone besides the photographer, as for innocents. The rule he always violates or at least is in tension with is "Don't get caught," but that is essentially the show.

killed the guy talking **** to him while he was putting gas in the boat during the 1st (maybe 2nd?) episode this season

Wow. Don't know how I forgot that.

CheckRaise is right. I don't like it, but the code is 100% dead. Weirdly, the character's who supposed to be guiding him through that code, ghostly Harry, has changed massively through the seasons: in the beginning, he was a guy who loved his son but loathed his immoral instincts, and morphed into a guy who advocates killing civilians and not getting caught above all else. Dexter's become the morally upright one, trading "I love yous" liberally with his family, while Harry's become kind of nasty, in the season advocating killing Lumen and abandoning Astor. Dexter still takes pleasure in the final bloodletting, but he's no longer a character who would say something like, "I"ve never seen such clean, dry, and unique looking dead flesh...wonderful" In removing some of the more squeamish parts of Dexter and transferring it to a character who isn't real, who has no power to effect things and hurt anyone, they cheapen the show by reducing its moral complexity.

The code clearly isn't 100% dead. It was made clear that Deter killed the innocent guy early in the season as part of an out-of-character emotional response to Rita's death. He has never knowingly killed an innocent person in a clear state of mind.

The dentist is a good example. It would have been much easier to kill him right away, but Dexter didn't until he knew he was guilty.

Dexter mentioned the code this past ep, lol at it being 100% dead

Argumentative people will be argumentative. The show cannot exist without tension with the code.

Can't remember when he transitioned from using killing tools to just doing the "killing stab", was that this season or last season?

One thing that bugged me about this episode...

Although I know the show is shot in Long Beach, I suspend disbelief and allow myself to believe it's all in Miami (I used to live in Miami, now I live in L.A. 20 miles north of Long Beach).

But when Barry was busted, I quickly recognized the gas station as the one on Franklin and Argyle by the 101 in Hollywood. Just the way it was filmed made it so obvious to me (and other L.A. locals I presume), and for the first time in 5 seasons I was ripped out of the this-is-Miami dream and reminded that awww-it's-California.

(Also Miami police are actually Miami-Dade Police Department [MDPD] and not "Miami Metro," but whatever).

you want to pick nits? He said he was punching his liver when he was punching the left side of his body. Shocking failure of anatomy.

It was a great episode and Julia Stiles was fantastic. Again.

*diaphragm

I always believed it was actually Miami and now you've ruined it! Same with the guy who posted that Jordan Chase was Sickboy from Trainspotting. When I watched this episode I kept hearing his weird accent on certain words.

meh, am i the only dude that thinks its sloppy by the writers to let dex "slip" by not driving his boat far out enough to drop the bodies safe? I mean the dude snaps pictures with a $20,000 telescope head (LOL_AFFORD_washed_up_cop),.. OK, but everytime before dex have been going out ridicously far so the big ocean currents in no ****ing way on earth end up on his shore. This with that the earth shape being round would make it impossible to take snapshots of dexter standing on ground level in a ****ing parking lot, not to mention waves and **** probably blocking the view pretty good.


nah, i really thought meh of that moment... boat obviously turned convienently in the exact right angle aswell. Sloppy sloppy dex getting sloppier. Or show getting messier, dunno. Me dont like.

he only took pictures of them when they loaded the bags onto the boat.

The first rule of the code has always been "don't get caught". Sure Dexter might be slipping up more that he has in the past, but he still knows that he needs the code to keep on doing his thing.

It was a pretty sweet grunch of almost every point though!

Ughhh why did I decide to catch up on the past few episodes today? Fml. The only thing that will make me happier than seeing that dickhead get his ass beat is when dirty cop guy gets his comeuppance, whatever that may be.

Also, to all those arguing about the code, it was designed for killer robots. Dexter obviously tries to follow it as close as possible, but in the end he's still human and mistakes and comprises will be made.

Liddy dies because Deb kills him, and then we find out that she's been living a secret life, killing serial killers and other people who "deserve to die"

I'm sure you're joking, but this would be the worst plot twist ever.

My prediction: Liddy captures Dexter and prisons him in his basement or w/e and wants to set up some big press event where he, a cop forced to stop working, captured the biggest serial killer ever in Miami. Someone knocks on his door, he steps towards it and the door suddenly flies at him and pushes him to the ground. You hear some mechanical movement as the camera focuses on Liddy getting up, we see at the same moment as Liddy sees it that Robot Doakes just trashed his door. He yells "LEAVE DEXTER ALONE, MOTHER****ER!" and empties an entire minigun clip on his body. He then destroys the basement door and as Dexter sees him he says softly "miss me, mother****er?" and they start kissing very passionately, after which Doakes says "I'm a mechanical woman now, we ca finally express our love without being ****" and the credits roll obv

yes, that was a joke.

Skinny girl with no boobs: I'm shocked

Can somebody refresh my memory on this: wasn't Deb close to connecting Dexter to Rudy at one point in one of the later seasons? What happened with that?

She did. They briefly talked about it at the raid on Trinity's house.

She knows they are linked, she now knows he knows they are linked and she knows their dad knew but she doesnt know that he knew before she knew.