"I must admit I'm a bit concerned, with the marriage -- I'm a bit worried that Deb may get more face time than the character *might* have had if they weren't a couple. Just sayin' ...."

"I think it should open with Dexter havin a nightmare about Rita losin the baby...he wakes up scared out of his mind for the first time and tells Rita in the mornin maybe u should get a check up and see how lil Dex is doin...Dexter goes to work and finds an E-mail on his laptop....The e-mail subject reads "Its Doakes Motha Fucker"...nah haha maybe like it says from Doakes and the subject line is Why did u kill me?...Dexter freaks out and clicks on it hopin its some weird coincidence or prank...It shows a picture of Doakes face and some mysterious message saying where to meet him...while thats goin on the doctor finds out theres complications with the baby; she goin into early labor and might loose the baby...Dexter shows up at the location lookin around for anybody familiar and sees Dr. Danco walk up to him(guy from Dearly Devoted Dexter)...He says he knows Doakes didnt Kill himself caz he knew Doakes back in his special ops days...he knew who the real Butcher was and will extort Dexter unless he helps him track down somebody...After the lil chat with the Danco he looks for priors on him to see who this guy is and why choose me to find ur guy...Danco's rap sheet checks out clean his code doesnt fit the profile...Dr. Danco also tells Dexter if he helps him he will save his baby...Dexter looks surprised and gets angry on this man knowin this....Danco says "Rita came to me today with early labor complications"...then Dex counters with "theres plenty of good doctors out there, I dont need u to deliver my son"...then Danco takes out a picute of Doakes head shot and says "Hmmm wonder where the gulf stream would take ur recent victims Dexter, hope no one finds them and match them back to the real Butcher"...

end of first episode of the season"