Dexter's back for the third outing

Dexter Morgan, the forensic blood splatter expert who’s also an expert in ridding the world of “blood splatterers” is back—and, after his narrow escape on Season 2, it’s the beginning of a whole new life for him. The much-anticipated Season 3 premiere of Dexter will happen on September 28, on cable channel Showtime in the US and The Movie Network in Canada. However, as early as several weeks ago, the first episode was leaked online, and not just within file-sharing networks.

I’m not sure if many of you are aware of this—it took me a long time to realize this—but plenty of movies and television series are being streamed online, for free. My favorite site is one for documentaries, where I watched Super Size Me and 9/11: The Falling Man. But back to Dexter.

It was during some slow days at work last year that I found out that many TV series were being shown for free, and in not so bad quality, online. I did a quick Google search, and voila! I was led to a site that showed all previous episodes of Dexter, from 01x01. The weekend after that brought out the compulsive in me, as I must have watched both seasons in two days — on my laptop, with headphones. But was it worth the eyestrain? You bet.

 So it was with another quick Google search that I found a site that was up to date in showing all Dexter episodes, including Episode 01x03, Our Father. If you’ve been following Dexter on FoxCrime, you’d know that his body dump had been found and that he’d discovered some facts about his adoptive father, the most significant of which was that his adoptive father was having an affair with his biological mother.

Spoiler alert—because I don’t think Season 2 is over on FoxCrime and because I’m going to say a lot about 01x03 too.

In the Season 2 finale, Dexter gets a somehow miraculous new lease on life. It seems like everything would be rosy from then on — except, of course, that tiny little matter of his needing to kill somebody every now and then. And if things do seem rosy in the Season 3 premiere.

His relationship with girlfriend Rita and her kids is going great. Both Rita and Dexter, who had intimacy issues before, have clearly gotten over them. They have a great sex life which spills on over to their emotional connection — both of which seemed impossible for Dexter in Season 1. You can recall that the relationship, after all, was initially engineered by Dexter so that he’d appear to have a normal life.

Dexter also takes a cue from Rita’s youngest child, who has moved on with life without his abusive father, who was killed in prison after Dexter set him up for a felony parole violation. Dexter figures that he can do without considering his adoptive father Harry, the one who trained him to make victims out of “bad men” only if he were to give in to his desire to kill, and “Harry’s Code.”

However, Dexter makes the mistake of killing, partly out of self-defense, somebody he didn’t intend to kill as he stalked another serial killer in Miami. He realizes he needed “Harry’s Code” more than ever—there was no escaping that.

Things get a little bit messier for Dexter, too. His victim happens to be the brother of assistant district attorney Miguel Prado (a new character, played by Jimmy Smits) from the powerful and influential Prado family—and Dexter would have to work with him to find out the truth about his brother’s killer.

Then there’s this possible new twist in his personal life, which I’m going to leave you to find out for yourselves. I’ll give you a clue: it has something to do with the episode title.

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