There are times when you're watching Dexter when it's very easy to forget that the seemingly friendly forensic expert is, in reality, a cold-blooded vigilante killer who you'd normally run a mile from. That's definitely part of the show's charm, as it twists your perception of right and wrong, and, incredibly you begin to side with someone who's an out-and-out psycho.
Each episode has been gradually revealing tantalising clues about the Ice Truck Killer, the serial murderer whom Dexter (Michael C. Hall, right) admires. Tonight - in an unpleasant scene if you're not keen on rats - the detectives on the case uncover evidence that suggests that the Ice Truck nutter sucks throat lozenges while he slits up his victims alive. Bradosols, possibly? Surely not those healthy Olbas pastilles? No, the wintergreen oil would put the killer off his stroke. Whatever the lozenges are, it's quite a breakthrough as the 'tecs have finally got a partial fingerprint and there may be some DNA to follow.
Meanwhile Dexter has been doing a bit of investigating of his own. Rita (his girlfriend who he's having difficulty relating to, despite some unexpected oral stimulation the other week) tells him about a friend of hers whose fiancé has disappeared while emigrating from Cuba by way of a human trafficker. It's a rum do, make no mistake, when the fiancé turns up dead, and Dexter finds out that there's considerably more to the trafficker than meets the eye.
This series is getting better and better. Pass the lozenges. Paul Strange
(5 Star)
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