Dexter
Do the Wrong Thing
TV Flash files “Do the Wrong Thing” as hour 78 of 96 in the TV Flash guide — Dexter (2006–2013) on Showtime, season 7, episode 6, aired 2012-11-04, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E06: listed hour 78 of 96 in the Dexter guide, hour 6 of 12 in season 7. It aired 2012-11-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Swim Deep” (S07E05). Next is “Chemistry” (S07E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Dexter decides he's going to eliminate Hanna McKay and gathers evidence that she has eliminated a number of people in her life. Something unexpected occurs however. LaGuerta begins to think that the Bay Harbor Butcher may have been responsible for the deaths of several criminals who vanished before they could be arrested. After discussing the situation with Nadia, Quinn decides to return the money left in his car. He's given little choice but to help the mobsters: either he eliminates the blood evidence they have linking Isaak Sirko to the Colombian shooting or Nadia ...
Viewer FAQ
Where does Do the Wrong Thing sit in the Dexter guide?
S07E06 is listed hour 78 of 96 — hour 6 of 12 in season 7, season 7 episode 6.
When did Dexter S07E06 air?
Do the Wrong Thing aired 2012-11-04 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…