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I feel like ominous music is playing in the background of the Masuka & intern hacker scenes even though it isn't, because I can't see this leading to anywhere good. My current speculation is that if and when the missing Ice Truck killer evidence becomes an issue, Masuka will be unable to prove that he didn't sell the hand himself precisely because the hacker, trying to be helpful, removed all traces of the sale from the internet.

The other time bomb for the department is the Quinn/Professor one night stand, though honestly given Quinn/Christine and Deb/Anton, not to mention the backstory of Harry/Dexter's mother, the show already did the cop/person-involved-in-case thing a couple of times.

Noted with interest: Mike Anderson saying he was married when the landlord assumes he and Deb are a couple.

My theory about Head!Olmos: still possible, especially given Travis' "all I hear is my own voice in my head" line and the fact they still are careful to have only Travis perform the physical action of knocking people out etc. Here's what frustrates me to no end, though: our main character keeps making the same mistake which never leads to anything good, to wit, withholding information and/or sabotaging evidence that could lead the cops to arrest the killer of the season far sooner (and spare a lot of lives). The Doylist reasons for this are obvious, but on a Watsonian level it becomes increasingly hard to justify because this selfishness of Dexter's culminated in getting Rita killed by Trinity, and you'd think after that he'd try to get the personal satisfaction of killing from people who actually aren't pursued by his team, and help the investigations that are trying to get killers arrested. So when Dexter checked out Travis himself you could hear me howl in frustration because BEEN THERE DONE THAT HOW OFTEN MUST WE REPEAT THIS DAMMIT.

When Dexter actually talked about his mother on his own and unprompted to Brother Sam I started to get seriously concerned about Sam's life expectancy and/or good guy status. So the trailer for next week, showing Sam rushed off to the hospital, felt somewhat reassuring because by the rules of tv if someone doesn't die from getting shot immediately and makes it into the emergency room, he or she survives in 90% of tv cases. Otoh sadly I don't think Sam will survive the season because it has occured to me that if the writers want to move things with Dexter to a wrapping up point then one way to do this could be that Dexter manages to quit because he feels compelled to take up Sam's work by the later's death. Not as a mechanic, obviously, but as someone helping various ex cons and street kids and by this keeps his own darkness at bay.