What's Eating Dexter Morgan?
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Episode 3
| "What's Eating Dexter Morgan?" | |
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| Dexter episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Ernest Dickerson |
| Written by | Lauren Gussis |
| Original air date | July 14, 2013 |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"What's Eating Dexter Morgan?" is the third episode of the eighth season of the Showtime television series Dexter. The episode originally aired on July 14, 2013. It was directed by Ernest Dickerson and written by executive producer Lauren Gussis, who had both worked on the series for several years.
In the episode, the protagonist and titular serial killer Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) and Dr. Evelyn Vogel (special guest star Charlotte Rampling) continue to track the "Brain Surgeon" serial killer, which leads Dexter to a cannibal killer. Meanwhile, Dexter's sister Debra Morgan's (Jennifer Carpenter) mounting guilt over killing María LaGuerta to protect Dexter in the previous season begins to consume her.
The episode received mixed reviews, with reviewers critical of its "meandering" pace but praising Deb's character arc and Carpenter's performance.
With Sussman's body arranged to look like a suicide, Miami Metro closes the Brain Surgeon case, a serial killer who removes pieces of his victims' brains, and focuses on El Sapo (Nick Gomez), a hitman hired by the mob whom Debra killed in the previous episode. Dexter, however, knows that Sussman has been framed, and the real killer is still at large.
Deb is arrested for DUI and damaging city property (a parking meter). She calls Joey Quinn (Desmond Harrington), who has the charges dropped. Quinn expresses his worries about Debra, which she shrugs off.
Deb and Jacob Elway's (Sean Patrick Flanery) latest case involves a woman (Rebecca Staab) who suspects her husband of cheating. They catch him in the act, but she patently denies the photographic evidence.
As Dexter and Dr. Vogel continue to track down the Brain Surgeon, Vogel finds two pieces of a human occipital lobe, the part of the brain used for seeing, on her doorstep; Dexter theorizes they are being watched. From her list of patients, they suspect Ron Galuzzo (Andrew Elvis Miller), a fitness equipment salesman who once murdered his friend. Vogel suspects he might want revenge on her since she institutionalized him. Suspicious when he denies knowing Vogel, Dexter breaks into his house to discover human body parts and organs in his refrigerator.
When Dexter insists that he loves Debra, Vogel says that he only loves the things she does for him. She also notes how she and Harry (James Remar) disagreed over the most important rule of the Code; while Harry thought it should be to never kill an innocent person, Vogel maintained that it was most important to not get caught.
Meanwhile, Angel Batista (David Zayas) tries to motivate Quinn to pass the sergeant's exam, as Jamie (Aimee Garcia) gets jealous of the time Quinn spends with Deb.
Dexter takes Debra to dinner to assuage her guilt, pointing out a man dining in the restaurant with his family, identifying him as the man she saved during a restaurant shooting in the fifth season.[1] This only worsens her guilt, and she later drunkenly confesses, to an unconvinced Quinn, to LaGuerta's murder. Quinn calls Dexter, who arrives with Vogel, Dexter gives Debra an M99 injection, telling Quinn she fainted, brings her home and asks Vogel to help her.
The episode closes with the cannibalistic Galuzzo strapped to Dexter's table, as a disheartened Dexter narrates that he also "consumes everyone he loves."
