Dexter, Season 7


Every week in Slate’s Dexter TV club, Katy Waldman will have an IM conversation with a different Dexter fan. This week, she rehashes episode 7.1 with Torie Bosch, editor of Future Tense at Slate.
As Season 7 opens, Dexter has just dispatched Travis Marshall, aka the Doomsday Killer—but there’s a catch. His adoptive sister Debra, newly appointed lieutenant of Miami Homicide, saw him commit the murder. Even worse, she witnessed the crime after suddenly realizing that she might harbor romantic feelings for her brother. In Episode 1, Dexter tries to convince Deb not to report him, even as he struggles to conceal his true nature as a serial killer.
Torie Bosch: I've got my rubber apron on. Let's do this thing.
Katy Waldman: One tension that I kept feeling during the episode was: How much was Dexter faking in his scenes with Debra? Was his shock and fear a performance, or was it a genuine reaction to getting caught?
Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall in Dexter.
Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan and Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan.
Photo by Randy Tepper/Showtime.
Bosch: I am consistently confused by how much Dexter is supposed to feel. Early on, we were told that he only fakes feelings. But through the last several seasons, we've seen him feel genuine emotions, apparently. The flashback to Deb being forced to give up Banjo the puppy—her father worried that Dexter would kill it—suggested to me that he was indeed feeling empathy—then and in the present.
Waldman: Yes! And the scenes in which he gazes soulfully at Harrison. He seems to feel real love for his son.
Bosch: Of course, with Debra, his empathy and consternation were quite self-serving: He wanted to convince her not to turn him in.
Waldman: Right. I was especially struck by the third (I think?) time Deb confronted Dex about Travis. She was grilling him about why he had a change of clothes and he was struggling to think of a reply. So he started saying very kind/remorseful things: "You sound stressed." “I didn’t mean for you to be involved.” I think we were supposed to see how much of his brotherly feeling was just stalling. It was a dark moment for the character.

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