SPOILER ALERT
A fairly disappointing Season 6 of Dexter ended with a huge cliffhanger when his sister catches him in the act of one more brutal slaying. But it is not the resolution of their relationship that was the brilliant conclusion of the second episode of Season 7.
I had begun to think that the programme had run it's course, and there were times I was going to call it a day. But then something happens that makes fabulous television. There was a thread this week of another serial killer (Randall), who has found redeption, having Miami Metro, including Dexter and Debs, searching for a body opposite an ice cream parlour "Sunshine and Frosty Swirl" from which the episode takes it's title. It is his philosophical conversations with Dexter that leave our "hero" wondering what he should do next, given that Debs now knows everything.
The superb final scene lets us understand that Randall has no idea about a body, that he only wants some time in the sun before he tells Dexter "there is one more person I have to kill" and he means himself. As he does, it leaves Dexter contemplating his own future. Forget all the other rubbish in the episode about Ukranian gangsters and Dexter's babysitter's boyfriend. Is this the beginning of the end for Dexter.
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