Talk:Episode 303: The Lion Sleeps Tonight/@comment-178.70.63.250-20150223180103/@comment-6307083-20160420195113

I think of that murder almost like a crime of passion. Dexter was willing to overstep his code and take risks in order to protect his family. A lot of people would be willing to kill someone to protect their kids, it's just that most wouldn't proactively go out and kill the person before anything actually happened. However, if someone was about to rape your kid or shoot your kid, you'd be willing to kill them in order to stop it, wouldn't you?

So, I think of this as an entirely different thing than Dexter's regular kills.