Dexter
Are You...?
TV Flash files “Are You...?” as the first listed hour of season 7 — Dexter (2006–2013) on Showtime, season 7, episode 1, aired 2012-09-30, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E01: listed hour 73 of 96 in the Dexter guide, first listed hour of season 7. It aired 2012-09-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “This Is the Way the World Ends” (S06E12). Next is “Sunshine and Frosty Swirl” (S07E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Having been caught in the act of eliminating Travis Marshall by his sister Deb, Dexter has to scramble to come up with an explanation. Deb is understandably shaken by what she's just seen but accepts, somewhat reluctantly, Dexter's explanation that he's suffered momentary madness. As she thinks about it, Dexter's explanation makes no sense and decides to dig deeper. Captain LaGuerta meanwhile is puzzled by a piece of evidence she found at the scene of the Marshall killing. When a member of the homicide squad is killed, Dexter goes all out to stop the killer before he ...
Viewer FAQ
Where does Are You...? sit in the Dexter guide?
S07E01 is listed hour 73 of 96 — first listed hour of season 7, season 7 episode 1.
When did Dexter S07E01 air?
Are You...? aired 2012-09-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Which Dexter seasons are the cleanest watch?
Early seasons, when the forensic case-of-week and the vigilante dread still share the same temperature. Hall's dual-life performance is the franchise.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Miami blood-spatter analyst by day, vigilante with a code by night: Michael C. Hall made Showtime's serial-killer POV a global export. Early seasons balance case-of-week and dread; later endings and revivals reopened every argument. Premium-cable antihero comfort food with a body count.
October 1, 2006, Showtime puts a blood-spatter analyst on the night like a network once put a cop on Monday: appointment pulp with better lighting and worse manners. Dexter Morgan moonlights as a vigilante bound by a code that lets the living room become co-conspirator. James Manos Jr. developed Jeff Lindsay's novels; Michael C. Hall — still carrying the quiet of *Six Feet Under* — made dual life look like a mid-tempo dance of charm and ice. Jennifer Carpenter's Debra, Julie Benz's Rita, Erik King's Doakes, a…
Filed against
- Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan
Michael C. Hall’s David Fisher is grief as posture on Six Feet Under — the funeral-home son who treats repression as blocking inside Alan Ball’s HBO family. Death is the weekly frame, not the twist; Hall made therapy, work, and a life in…
- Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan
Jennifer Carpenter’s Debra Morgan put a cop’s mouth on Dexter — Miami blood-spatter by day, vigilante with a code by night, Showtime serial-killer POV as a global export. Early seasons of case-and-dread; later endings reopened every…
- Julie Benz as Rita Bennett
Julie Benz’s Rita Bennett gave Dexter a civilian weather system — Miami blood-spatter analyst by day, vigilante with a code by night, Michael C. Hall’s Showtime serial-killer POV as a global export. Early seasons balancing case-of-week…
- Erik King as James Doakes
Erik King made Sgt. James Doakes the only man who smelled the code on Dexter — Miami blood-spatter by day, Showtime's vigilante POV, and a sergeant who treated Michael C. Hall's smile like a crime scene. TV Flash files him as 2000s…
- Lauren Velez as Maria LaGuerta
Lauren Velez's Maria LaGuerta ran Dexter's Miami from the lieutenant's chair — blood-spatter by day, vigilante code by night, Michael C. Hall as Showtime's serial-killer export. Early dread, later arguments, premium-cable antihero comfort…
- David Zayas as Angel Batista
David Zayas’s Angel Batista gave Dexter a badge with a heart — Miami blood-spatter by day, vigilante code by night, Michael C. Hall’s Showtime export. Early seasons balancing case-of-week and dread; Batista as the squad-room warmth the…