Dexter/The Dark Defender

The Dark Defender
Season 2, Episode 5
Airdate	October 28, 2007
Written by	Tim Schlattmann
Directed by	Keith Gordon
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Dexter — Season Two

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The Dark Defender is the fifth episode of the second season of Dexter, and the seventeenth episode overall.

Starring: Michael C. Hall (Dexter Morgan), Julie Benz (Rita Bennett), Jennifer Carpenter (Debra Morgan), Erik King (James Doakes), C.S. Lee (Vince Masuka), Lauren Velez (Maria LaGuerta), David Zayas (Angel Batista)

And: James Remar (Harry Morgan)

Guest Starring: JoBeth Williams (Gayle), Tony Amendola (Santos Jimenez)

With: Jaime Murray (Lila West)

And: Keith Carradine (Special Agent Frank Lundy)

Co-Starring: Christina Robinson (Astor), Preston Bailey (Cody), Katherine Kirkpatrick (Laura Moser), Maxwell Huckabee (Little Dexter), Travis Winfrey (Reynolds), Dave Baez (Gabriel), Eddie Kehler (Droning Man), Tasia Sherel (Female Clerk), Charlene Amoia (Young Woman), Jim Hanks (Annoyed Man), Vince Pavia (Lipsey), Brian Gattas (Walsh), Kim Delgado (Desk Sergeant)

Notes

Music

• "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones: The song that plays as Dexter is entering the bar where his mother's killer works is "Gimme Shelter," the lead song off Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones. The song was written during the Vietnam War where violence was everywhere. In an interview, Mick Jagger summarized by saying "that's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse; the whole record's like that." The song, incidentally makes an overt reference to murder and serves as foreshadowing in the scene.

Trivia

The Show

• M.I.A.: C.S. Lee does not appear in this episode.