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Dexter decides to spend his day stalking Boyd Fowler. He goes to Fowler’s house and lets himself in to look around. Everything seems to be in order until he finds a loaded gun, which is a no-no for a convicted felon. Just then, Fowler returns home for lunch. Dexter goes to hide and finds the backdoor is locked with a heavy duty lock. Upon walking in, Fowler presses play on a motivational speakers tape and he speaks along with it. Dexter sneaks around and finds that the door to the attic is locked, which he notes is very strange. Dexter notices that some hair is taped to the ground, identified only by a number – also very strange.
Deb and Quinn go to check out an open house at a place Dexter was looking at. The woman showing the house thinks they’re a couple, and Deb tries to tell her otherwise but Quinn cuts her off and happily plays along.
Having barely escaped getting caught in Fowler’s house, Dexter follows him out to the middle of nowhere when he leaves after his lunch break. He watches from a distance as Fowler kicks a barrel out of the back of his truck into the shallow marsh. Then Deb calls and asks if Dexter has the kids, which he doesn’t. As it turns out, the kids never went to class after their appointment with the grief counselor and there’s no answer on the phone at the apartment. Dexter immediately knows where they went: their old house. He heads over there to find them both staring at the tub where their mother bled to death. They’re worried that he’s mad, but he says that he isn’t. He understands that they needed to see this, and he tells them that if they really want it that bad he will try to find a way for them to move back there and make it work, but Astor doesn’t think it will work. She then accuses him of ruining everything and says things were better before he was around. Cody begins to cry and says that it isn’t Dexter’s fault. “I thought coming here would help, and that was stupid. It looks exactly the same as before. You can’t even tell what happened, but I know my mom died there and things will never be the same,” says Astor. She then says she wants to live with her grandparents and that she wants to go that night.
It’s the end of the work day, and Quinn asks Deb is she wants to grab a bite to eat. “No, why would I want to do that?” she asks. On his way out, he bumps into LaGuerta, who has the sketches of Kyle Butler and says that the family all gave different versions. He asks if he can hold onto the copies and she lets him. Batista is waiting for his wife in her office, and he confronts her about the money she’d kept a secret from him. She says it wasn’t a secret; it’s her retirement. She goes on to say that she’s worked her entire career to save up, and he spends money faster than he makes it. He says he’s fine, but he walks out of her office and announces that drinks are on him that night just to spite her.
Deb returns home to her apartment and has a beer with outside with Dexter, who tells her that the kids are inside packing to go to Orlando with their grandparents. Cody wants to stay, but Dexter told him that it was important for him and his sister to be together. He goes inside, and then Deb calls Quinn, who’s piecing together the Kyle Butler sketches, which clearly bear a striking resemblance to Dexter.
Masuka and Batista are at the bar taking shots, when Batista is approached by a man who asks him if he really married Maria LaGuerta. He confirms, and the man says “you got yourself a little sugarmomma.” Batista punches him out, gets on top of him and keeps punching until he’s pulled off of him.
Dexter, meanwhile, is saying goodbye to his children. “I don’t want to go, Dexter,” says Cody. “I don’t want you to go either,” he responds. He then turns to Astor and says “your mother loved you more than you could ever imagine and I…me too.” She gives him half of a hug and gets in the car to leave. Dexter watches the car leave and thinks ‘Cody and Astor showed me that I can still care about something. That makes letting them go all that much harder and it’s losing them that makes me realize there must be some small part of that innocent child still inside me.’ We then find him going back out to where he followed Fowler to earlier in the day. As he approaches one of the floating barrels, we see Fowler at home, putting a new piece of hair in his book that is filled with many others. Dexter opens one of the barrels, and finds a dead woman inside. We are then shown what happened to this woman. Fowler laid her inside the water-filled barrel at his house, hooked cables up to it and flipped a switch to electrocute her. Dexter looks around at all the other barrels in the area and realizes that he has another serial killer on his hands who needs to be stopped.
‘Normally having a target would make me feel good, give me direction, a sense of purpose’ he thinks. ‘But now, it means nothing and I don’t know what’s going to make me feel better.’
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