Dexter: Season 8, Episode 4 “Scar Tissue” (B+)
It’s very interesting to watch Vogel dissect and analyze Deb, forcing Dexter to stay away from her and encouraging Deb to confront her fears and face her demons head-on. It would be far too easy if Vogel was actually likeable, and this makes it much more compelling to watch Dexter struggle with the idea of not having his sister in his life. Dexter was clearly hurt when he saw the notes that Vogel had been keeping on him, but it didn’t compare to how Yates stopped in his tracks when he heard Vogel’s voice on the phone. It’s never good when one of Dexter’s victims escapes his clutches, but I suspect that Yates is going to focus much more on getting revenge on Vogel than on Dexter. We met two very intriguing females in this hour, both played by actresses famous for one particular TV role. Bethany Joy Lenz of “One Tree Hill” was alluring and completely mysterious as Jamie’s friend and Dexter’s neighbor who he was surprised to find in his apartment, and Madison Burge of “Friday Night Lights” is going to shake Masuka’s life up in a major way. He could not have been horrified to discover that the hot girl asking about him might be his daughter, and it’s going to be fun to watch him try to mature for her. While Quinn continues to mess up with Jamie and fail to impress Batista and Matthews, Deb had a far more productive therapy session with her boss about being haunting by dead dads. Most startling of all, of course, was Deb telling Dexter that Harry only got it half right when he killed himself before she turned the wheel to make them drive off the road. Deb coming up with an unconscious Dexter in her arms at the end of the episode was unsettling, since our complicated hero has never been so close to death, and certainly not at the hands of the person he cares most about in the world.
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