You are not remembering correctly, at all. Dexter was going to frame Doakes, his girlfriend the artist, killed Doakes, fire was her thing. The scene where he cracked the dude over the head in the bathroom was a killer he was stalking and was going to kill later, but he got emotional and killed him too early. Dexter, in my memory, never broke his code and killed an innocent. It was that innocents suffered for his actions was the point the show actually tried to make towards the end. Honestly... I think the powers that be had an influence on the writing of Dexter. My conspiracy theory is that certain... agencies weren't pleased with how popular a vigilante serial killer was becoming. Aaaand I may remember a few murders in the news at the time of season 2 Dexter coming out that were... inspired by the show. I think that's why the show took a tonal shift later on and it was more about the consequences and showing killers can't get away with it forever than showing Dexter do his thing. Idk. The season 2 Lundy arc was peak Dexter, it really was all downhill from there.

And what the hell did the writers consume when writing the Detective Claudette Wallace quirks? I mean, the first second it was clear they somehow were trying to merge Saga Norén (Broen) with Paul Smecker (Boondog Saints). And Kadia Saraf does it okay job for it. But, I mean... this is some lazy/poor character writing where probably they said "whoooohooo, that's some orginial Detective character, nobody as ever seen before." And I mean... DISCO???

Why not give us a crazy a$$ MF big apple Doakes or shady Joey Quinn as a nod to the original series? Or something.

And by the way, why does Dexter uses his real name in NYC even though he knows, Batista is onto him and that people will research his past?

Btw. loved to see Masuka and Joey again!

In rural areas quite likely. If that whole country has/had oxycodone epidemic which is a serious narcotic, you can most likely also get ketamine with the same effort. Or just get oxycodone prescription and exchange for ketamine. Do whatever, except sign your name under it's purchase

to pick up a bunch of ketamine from a vet for an imaginary goat. asking for a friend.

that ketamine angle assumes that a guy who has killed 100+ people is dumb - he lives in a 9.8 million km² country and gets caught by cop who was not able to see bodies raining around her for years by purchasing ketamine in a local pharmacy? His tools include plastic wrapping, tape, knives and a drug - he really never thought about these components, right? And also he carefully disposes everything, except 2 completely useless incriminating titanium screws - makes perfect sense Btw fact checked, titanium melting point really is higher than a burning house.

Plus how come Henry had a sudden 180 in his logic, one moment he is a law abiding citizen, the next, nope, you should not go to jail for murder, attempted murder and an accessory to murder And that "I'm angry at YOU, daddy" - that's why I carry razor and execute premeditated assaults with a great bodily harm and break arms of people :facepalm:

On the other hand there were woke injections, so stupid people were involved in making of this show and maybe writers were forced into this as it is with many other shows. Like "make it so white cis man bad and die". Because why else we needed to hear that idiotic line twice.

Dexter didn’t technically kill Doakes; it was done by proxy due to a blaze set by Lila. Dexter did kidnap Doakes and locked him in the cabin, so he's just as guilty in my book. Would he have killed Doakes if Lila hadn’t blown the cabin up? Most likely because Doakes posed the biggest threat even to this day, and would have eventually been The Snap, and end, of Dexter Morgan. Dexter has killed all sorts throughout his career that didn't exactly fit Harry's code.