Episode 201: It's Alive!

It's Alive! is the Season Two premiere, and the thirteenth overall episode of the Showtime series DEXTER.

Thirty-eight days have passed since the previous season's finale. James Doakes is making it difficult for Dexter to resume his killing, and his first opportunity is ruined by something unexpected. Debra returns to work and finds herself under scrutiny from the public. Treasure hunters make a gruesome discovery on the ocean floor.

Summary
Five weeks after murdering his brother Brian, The Ice Truck Killer, Dexter is being followed by a suspicious Doakes. Trying to act "relentlessly normal," Dexter is finally alone when Doakes gives up and takes a night off. He pursues a blind voodoo priest, Jimmy Sensio, but finds himself uneasy and ultimately unable to kill the man, and lets him go.

At a homicide scene, the victim's mother pleads with Dexter to kill her son's murderer, gang lord Little Chino. The woman's young daughter, Marissa, and reminds himself of having witnessed his mother's brutal death.

He leads Doakes to believe that he is bowling for the night but instead brings Chino to Jimmy's kill room. Chino wakes up in the middle of Dexter's procedure and manages to break out of the plastic wrap and escape.

Debra, who is staying at Dexter's apartment, is exercising incessantly and is barely able to sleep as she struggles with the memories of Brian, her ex-fiancé, trying to kill her. She returns to work at the police station, but Sgt. Maria LaGuerta expresses concern about her emotional stability. Debra, though, is determined to resume a normal lifestyle.

When Rita takes Debra out to a bar, a man recognizes Debra as the fiancée of the Ice Truck Killer. He touches her on the shoulder and she instinctively punches him in the nose, certain that he was trying to grab her.

Rita takes her children Astor and Cody to see Paul in prison. He insists that he was framed by Dexter. He claims that Dexter dragged him out of Rita's house before drugging him and tipping off the police — and that if she can find his missing shoe it will prove his innocence. Rita tells Paul that there is no shoe, despite having found it over a month ago. She later admits that she found the shoe, but refuses to believe that Dexter is involved. That night, she receives a call from Paul's prison and learns that he was killed in an inmate altercation.

Flashbacks throughout the episode show the attempts of a teenage Dexter to feel his heart pound. At the end of the episode, Debra turns on the television in Dexter's apartment and shows him the news -- a team of scuba divers has discovered thirty garbage bags a few miles offshore of Miami. Each one contain parts of Dexter's dismembered victims. As he watches the newscast, Dexter's heart races.

Related Pages

 * 29th Street Kings
 * Alley Cats (bowling team)
 * Bay Harbor Butcher 18
 * Bowl Till You Bleed (bowling team)
 * Dark Passenger
 * Dexter's Apartment
 * The Fortune
 * Rita Bennett's House
 * Rocky Breakwater
 * Slice of Life
 * Starlight Lanes
 * Underwater Graveyard
 * Young Babysitter