So
is Dexter a real human being or not? In recent episodes, there have
been suggestions that he's developing real emotions. But while he's
certainly fond of some people in his life, now we see that, for the
most part, he's still just playing the part of a normal person.
We start with Rita and Dexter deciding to tell her kids about
the new baby. He botches it, of course. Clueless about normal family
life, he can't even tell Astor why he and Rita aren't married. Then, based
entirely on the thought that it would make a better cover for him, he
clumsily proposes. "That was ridiculous," Rita replies. She says she
wants to know he loves her, but he doesn't even know what that would
feel like.
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