After last week’s excellent opening episode, Dexter continued apace last night, ploughing this new ‘the hunter becomes the hunted’ theme. If you didn’t know, Dexter had become impotent when holding his beloved instruments of doom. Because of the emotional offing off his brother at the end of the first series, as well as constant harassment from the beady eye of Doakes, Dexter’s hands were shaking when he tried to kill a weird hoodoo man and, more crucially, the ironically-named gangster Little Chico. Dexter’s world was nearing collapse thanks to the discovery of all his body bags off the Miami coast. And this week, we saw Dexter battling really hard to maintain and sustain his odd lifestyle. Could he keep his cool?

Already the press had dubbed the at-large person behind the body bags at the bottom of the ocean as the Bay Harbour Butcher. The Miami homicide department was sweating because not long after the capture of the Ice Truck Killer, it was pretty obvious that a new serial killer was on the loose. The FBI arrived with its bells and whistles, and Agent Lundy was drafted in to handle the investigation. He was looking to assemble a task force to head up the investigation, which caused a mad scramble within the team. Doakes, who fancied his chances of inclusion, was disappointed when Lundy told him he wouldn’t be part of it. Cue lots of swearing.

But there was another murder for the team to ponder - the brutal mauling by machete of the woman who fingered Little Chico in last week’s episode. Dexter, sweating a little because of the body bags’ discovery, was fired up by the murder - if he had killed Little Chico this lady would still be alive. He knew what he had to do. He had to go after Little Chico and finish the job, before he got to him (the man mountain had got a good look at Dexter before he had escaped). In the end, Dexter got his mojo back and managed to off Little Chico, but not before a few hairy moments (he had hired some industrial-strength stun guns to sedate the big man). He also managed to find a new place to stash his bodies - dump them into the Gulf Stream and let nature carry them out into the Atlantic. Dexter the killer was back, his hand and mind newly steadied.

But there were other nice little side stories developing. New Lieutenant Pascal was still having problems with her fiancé and bringing these problems into work, and Laguerta, the woman who was demoted, is giving her loads of support. I winder if she’s doing this political reasons.

Debra, meanwhile, was still suffering the after affects of almost being the Ice Truck Killer’s victim, and an aggressive pursuit of a young boy while on patrol in Little Chico’s neighbourhood showed just how affected she still was.

Speaking about the Ice Truck Killer, Dexter, along with Debra but for different reasons, was still haunted by the presence of his dead brother. At the end of the episode, Dexter had figured out how he could finally say goodbye to his brother, and in a near-ceremonial moment, he dropped the severed doll’s head he first received from the Ice Truck Killer into the ocean.

But Dexter’s trouble didn’t end there. Rita, who made sure her late and abusive husband Paul received a proper burial, confronted Dexter about Paul’s accusation that he had knocked him about and fed him drugs.

Dexter decided to come clean, but, to his astonishment, Rita (lovely Rita) asked him how he got hold of the drugs. Dexter told her he got them from the confiscated cupboard at work. She then, getting the wrong end of the stick, asked him whether he was an addict. A knowing smile flashed across his face. Yes, he was an addict, but we all know that it’s not the kind of addiction Rita thought it was. Dexter said yes, he is an addict, and Rita, surprisingly, cradled him and told him she would stand by him and oversee his rehabilitation.

So not only is Dexter wrestling with the threat to his killing sequence (with Doakes and now Lundy hot on his trail), but he’s off to rehab. Mad!