Dexter “Ricochet Rabit” Episode Guide

The only way to kill the dark passenger is to take out the driver.

So much happened in this episode, and nearly all of it was DDK-centric. After the big reveal of last week, Dexter’s scrambling to fix his oversight and do something about Travis before he can kill again. He’s back to questioning why people put so much faith in religious stock when it results in things like DDK, and he can’t help but notice the parallels between Travis’ now invisible Dark Passenger and his own. They’ve both been dark from the beginning, and Dexter is beginning to wonder if there is anything that really makes his justified killings different from Travis’.

Read on to find out what went down this week in “Ricochet Rabbit;”

• Dexter stands over Geller’s body, realizing that Travis is the only Doomsday killer, and that he’s made a terrible mistake. When he confronts Travis about it, Travis seems confused and locks him in the basement. He’s all levels of Tyler Durden-crazy, having killed Geller for not believing in his religious claims. Travis shifts his blame to Dexter the False Prophet and leaves the church to continue on his mission, this time without Geller’s presence.

• Dexter breaks out of the basement easily enough and plants dead Geller’s fingertips around the church so that when Miami Metro shows up, they’ll think Geller is still a part of DDK just as much as Travis is.

• Deb and the team get to the church and realize they’ve found DDK’s hideaway. Deb has a small panic attack. In her therapy sessions, she realizes that she associates churches with losses, but also that it was Dexter who calmed her down, reaffirming her belief in her brother. She’s still looking into the call girl case and, through tracking down the number of a flower shop, finds out that it was Captain Matthews who sent flowers to Jessica on the day that she died.

• Miami Metro discover that the next tableau is something called Wormwood, and get Travis’ medical history from his doctor’s name on a bottle of antipsychotic drugs that only confirm he’s off his rocker. Deb wonders how his sister could have been so oblivious to Travis’ true nature, but Dexter self-reflexively comments that maybe she just didn’t know.

• Dexter turns some animosity towards Harry, claiming that lots of people kill for reasons, including himself. Harry taught him that the code justified his killings, but he wonders if that’s any better than people like Travis, for example, who justifies his killings through religious beliefs. It’s a throwback to Brother Sam, but Dex can’t even believe that he bought into that stuff.

• Travis, in an attempt to find a replacement for Geller, meets a married couple named Steve and Beth from his blog and convinces them to his work with, “The faithful will be given untold riches in God’s new kingdom... if you trust and obey.” -

• Meanwhile, Dexter is busy tracking down Holly Benson, the one victim that Travis let go in his moment of weakness. He tracks her to a yacht – named Ricochet Rabbit - but the problem is that Travis, Steve, and Beth have gotten have gotten there first. As part of their initiation into DDK, Travis and the couple kill Holly and create the poison for the Wormword, the next planned tableau.

• Lewis and Jamie are out at breakfast, and Lewis wants to impress Dexter by showing him his video game. In the game, Lewis has set it up so that the user can play as a serial killer, any serial killer from Jack the Ripper to the Miami’s own Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter tells him honestly that the game’s pretty offensive and doesn’t understand why anyone would choose to be a serial killer.

• Lewis notices that Steve has been posting a lot on the blog about being chosen to help with DDK, and Batista heads over there to question him. He meets Beth instead, and she spins him some lies about just wanting to be famous on the Internet. As he’s leaving, he notices the plethora of books by Geller sitting on their bookshelf and starts to turn, but Travis creeps up from behind and knocks him out cold. Travis takes it as a sign – they are to stage Wormwood at Miami Metro Homicide.

• When Dexter finally catches up to the yacht, he stabs Steve in thinking he was Travis. He hoists anchor and finds Holly’s dead body and chemical bottles that indicate Wormwood as some sort of poison gas. Harry tells him that he needs to go to the police and, although Dexter initially resists, he remembers that Brother Sam often told him that he needed to give into something bigger than himself. He calls up 911 and leaves an anonymous tip.

There are only two episodes left of the season! Don’t forget to watch “Talk to the Hand” next Sunday at 9 PM on Showtime.