The police quickly catch up with Ray Speltzer and does a brilliant job interrogating him and getting a confession. She and others are shocked however when a judge ruled the arresting officers had violated his Miranda rights and releases him. When he shows up on the sidelines of his latest victim's funeral, Deb goes berserk and decides they have to get him at all costs. Dexter decides it's time for him to do what he does best. Meanwhile, the police are still raiding the strip club and owner Isaak Sirko decides it's time to give the police what they want and frames ...
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Speltzer is arrested by police and confesses to the murders, but his case is dismissed on a technicality and he is released. As Dexter pursues Speltzer, he is captured and trapped in Speltzer's labyrinth, but manages to escape. Meanwhile, Isaak convinces the club's bartender to be a scapegoat for Anderson's murder to get the police off his and the Koshka's backs. Hannah McKay visits Miami Metro to help with the investigation of Wayne Randall's murders. Dexter finally captures Speltzer and kills him inside a crematorium before cremating his body along with his box of blood slides.