"I may be way off base here, but I really don't think so. Lets remembver what we are watching people. This is a cable show about a serial killer. Keith Carradine has never played a nice guy well and I seriously doubt that he is playing one here. Yes I suspect that we wil see more of him and I also suspect that he knows more about Dexter than he is letting on and I also suspect that he was involved with Harry and the whole sting operation that got Dexters mum killed. And I don't necessarily think that he was on the good guys side either! Double agent kinda deal. I also suspect that Deb knows more about Dexter than she even knows consciously. C'mon she grew up in the same house with Dex & Harry, she had to have heard something, seen something that she has blocked out or just let childish memory fade, but ever there in the recesses of the mind.....And why is Lundy such a Serial killer expert? Maybe for the some of the same reasons that Dexter is, except I think that Lundy may eventually be one of Dexters "best" criminals to kill to date. Yes I suspect that Lundy is a serial killer. he is harboring some major secrets."

"Well you did see Harry's reaction to seeing Dexter "at work". They'd have to explain that as a coincidence if they plan on making his death a homicide. Do we really want that?"

"Wow. You sure do have a lot to say!

I agree with some things you said. I too am also skeptical that Dexter, as a series, will have as good a writing as season one (season two wasn't as good for me as one was). However, I am going to live as if season three is going to be awesome, and I'm going to go into it with the highest of hopes.

I really don't see a problem with Dexter becoming "The Master". Its actually what I wanted. If Dexter turned himself in, the show would be over, and then I'd be unhappy. Showtime is giving people what they want: More Dexter! Dexter has made the mature decision to accept who he is and know that some things never change. There is a force inside that compels him to kill (in the novels, and once in the series called "The Dark Passenger"). He can't fight it, so he accepts it. He also is compelled to be with the ones who love him (Deb, Rita, the kids). He puts them in danger by being so close and also being a killer, but he's being more careful now. He's learned from his mistakes. And I imagine if he were ever to get into trouble again, he'd probably put his loved ones ahead of his need to kill. He's growing more human, and it's apparent.

As for Dexter being employed by the government, I would hate the show if they did that. It would be completely unrealistic, and make the show something it shouldn't be. Dexter is a serial killer, not a trained special ops agent like Doakes was. If Dexter was employed by the government to kill some high profile target, Dexter would be murdered in a second by some security guard with an automatic rifle."

"I think we will see a journalist who comes looking for the Bay Harbor Butcher's story to make a book/movie and finds out that Dexter caught the Butcher's interest and that before Debra did the Ice Truck Killer's. So this journalist decides to forget about Butcher and focus on the:

The Morgan's... Their mother lost due to cancer and their father due to Heart disease now the siblings have naught but each other to hold onto. Both enter the law enforcement profession to honor their father, one as a forensics expert the other a beat cop, two sides of the same coin of justice. All the while, they are assailed at every turn by Serial Killers wanting to bring them down and tear them apart.

Makes for a better pitch doesn't it?

Of course, this journalist has to dig into the past of the entire Morgan family. This endangers not only Dexter and his past but there are certain things that he would like to shield Debra from Harry's past like the affair or his suicide.

Tension with a different plotline and maybe we could find out more about Harry or Debra's mother. Like, did she know about the affair? Was she perhaps suspicious about Dexter's true parentage? It would make her a lot more interesting then the big nothing we have now."