EPISODE

12. Surprise, Motherfucker!

Dexter visits Hannah in jail to explain why he didn't protect her and she in turn explains why she did what she did. She seems to understand Dexter but has her own plans which don't include prison. Captain LaGuerta disregards the evidence she and Tom Matthews have discovered - and which Dexter planted - which points to Sgt. Doakes as the Bay Harbor Butcher and continues her investigation into Dexter. She arrests him but Dexter has set her up and she is forced to release him leading most at Miami Metro to believe she was trying to frame him. Dexter still wants to get ...

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Dexter visits Hannah in prison, where she admits to poisoning Debra. Hannah later manages to escape custody with a little help from Arlene. Meanwhile, LaGuerta finds Dexter at home and arrests him. The department is shocked as they take Dexter in cuffs to interrogate. LaGuerta lays out her evidence but is thwarted as Dexter planted it and made it look like LaGuerta framed him. Dexter finds Hector Estrada's ex-wife and tails her to find Hector. Matthews confronts LaGuerta and tells her to apologize to Dexter. LaGuerta confronts Debra with a surveillance video implicating her in Travis Marshall's death that was originally lost. Debra lies to LaGuerta. Dexter breaks into LaGuerta's house and finds a warrant that would tie Debra and himself to Travis Marshall's murder. Dexter decides that the only way out is to kill LaGuerta. He finds and kills Estrada, then lures LaGuerta to the scene to kill her. Worried, Debra leaves Batista's New Years' party, tracking LaGuerta's location and walks in on Dexter about to kill an unconscious LaGuerta next to Estrada's body. As Debra attempts to dissuade Dexter from killing LaGuerta, she comes to and urges Debra to shoot Dexter, but Debra shoots and kills LaGuerta instead.

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