| EPISODE 8: "Shrink Wrap"
Episode summary: The suicide of a wealthy and powerful businesswoman leads Dexter to suspect that her psychologist may have killed her. But Dexter gets a surprise of his own when he pays a visit to the suspect, Dr. Emmett Meridian, a visit which forces Dexter to open up dark secrets from his past. Elsewhere, as Rita becomes warmer to her ex-husband Paul, who claims to be a changed man, she also wants to move forward into intimacy with Dexter, who is afraid of physically consummating their relationship. Meanwhile, Lt. Laguerta's visits to Neil Perry makes her become more ever more skeptical to his claims of being the Ice Truck Killer. Also, Debra's romance with prosthetic specialist Rudy begins to heat up.
Original air date: 11/19/2006
Written by: Lauren Gussis
Directed by: Tony Goldwyn
|  Description of crime: Apparent suicide
Victim(s): Vanessa Gayle
Assigned officer(s): Sgt. Doakes, Angel Batista
Crime scene: Woman shot in bathtub: bloody walls, bloody water, gun
Suspect(s): Suicide
Clue(s): Shot angle
 Blood spatter evidence suggests...suicide, although there seems to be no apparent reason for this high-profile woman to kill herself
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 Description of crime: Continued Ice Truck Killer Questioning
Assigned officer(s): Currently Lt. LaGuerta
Conclusion: When LaGuerta confronts Neil with a frozen, severed head and informs him that she knows the Miami PD firewall was breached, Neil Perry tearfully confesses that he is not the ITK. Dexter's intuition was right: the ITK will kill again.
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Victim Name: Dr. Emmett Meridian (played by Tony Goldwyn)
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