Dexter Season 4 Episode 4: Dex Takes a Holiday

Dexter manages to dodge a bullet, claiming stress for last week’s suburban indiscretion of beating the ever-loving filament out of the Neighborhood Watch football stadium lighting, citing “I wish you didn’t see me like that” to lovely (and annoying) Rita.  Lucky for Dexter, he gets a whole three days to recharge his batteries while Rita and the kids go off to some out-of-town wedding.  As his family pulls away in the car and after checking out the adorably handcrafted “I *Heart* Dad” mug the kids made for him as a present, Dexter promptly kicks into Risky Business mode and plots his latest project. 

While most guys would engage in a porn, pizza n’ bowling extravaganza with the wife and kids away, Dexter decides to tackle a suspicious situation involving one Officer Zoe Kruger of the Pembroke P.D.  The Pembroke blood guy also found himself suspicious after Officer Kruger’s daughter and husband were killed in a home invasion.  He pulled the file and gave it to Dexter, alluding his own suspicions.  Kruger was shot twice in the arm, wrestling the gun away from the assailant.  Conveniently enough, the assailant was a drug dealer she had been tracking and was later gunned own in a gang-related incident. Eager for a fresh kill and a challenge, Dexter’s off and running.