Dexter "Smokey and the Bandit" Episode Guide

Dexter’s continuing his examination of faith this week, visiting a serial killer who inspired him from childhood and bears a striking resemblance to Dexter’s own murderous inner self. The episode also brought more of the parallel scenes with Travis Marshall and Professor Geller, although it looks like they’re finally about to make their move.

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• In Marshall and the Professor’s side plot, they’ve got the jogger from last week chained to the floor in an abandoned church. They keep telling him he must repent and when he finally does, they deem him ready.

• Quinn’s seeing other people – and having them ostentatiously drop him off at crime scenes – and it’s messing with Deb’s head. She’s having a hard time with the Lieutenant job, and even Harry’s thinking that Deb’s not cut out for it. She went against LaGuerta’s advice to interview someone for her old Detective slot, and although he seems like a patronizing ass, she talks him down and holds her own.

• Masuka’s new intern has a creepy interest in season one’s Ice Truck Killer case. She feigns interest in going out with him so she can nick the hand with the multicolored nails from the evidence box.

• Miami Metro finds a body with a chipped tooth that reminds Dexter of a serial killer he read about when he was a kid, appropriately named the Tooth Fairy for taking teeth from his victims as souvenirs. Knowing the Tooth Fairy is from Oregon, he heads to a nursing home to look into the only mobile resident originally from the aforementioned state: Walter Kenny.

• Dexter heads back to the golf course to scope out Kenny, but other than noticing that he’s missing a lateral incisor, Dex can’t find anything incriminating. After driving Kenny to all of his errands the next morning, Dexter drops him off at a sketchy storage garage and then waits for him to leave, sneaking in to get a look around. He finds a box full of lateral incisors with bloody roots, proving that Kenny is indeed the Tooth Fairy, starting back up again in his old age.

• Dexter picks Kenny up from the bus stop, but before he can make any headway, Kenny pulls a gun on him, knowing that Dexter had figured him out. Dex crashes the car, gains the upper hand, and tapes Kenny to his makeshift table.

• Dexter is disappointed that the Tooth Fairy evaded the police on a combination of luck and chance. Kenny provides a possible mirror for Dex in his old age, as he is alone and miserable because age has taken away his ability to kill and left him with little else to fill the void. His dying wish is that the police and his son know of his secret identity. This stops Dexter in his tracks, as he remarks that he would never want Harrison to know about his real self. He smothers Kenny with a pillow, letting the world think he simply passed away. Convinced that Kenny is not his future, Dexter returns home to put away his bloodslide, but he carelessly knocks the box to the floor, breaking slides and mixing them all until he has no idea who is who.

• The episode ends with a jarringly creepy image of body parts stitched together on a horse galloping down a main street in Miami. Next week’s preview started to explain that it may be a scene from Revelations in the Bible, but either way, Marshall and the Professor are about to take their religious crusade into the public eye.

Don’t forget to tune into Dexter on Showtime at 9PM for next week’s appropriately named “A Horse of a Different Color,” and drop by UGO to read our in-depth episode guides.