Love American Style (Dexter)

"Love American Style"
Dexter episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 5
Directed by	Robert Lieberman
Written by	Melissa Rosenberg
Production code	105
Original air date	October 29, 2006
Guest appearance(s)
C. S. Lee as Vince Masuka Christian Camargo as Rudy Cooper Sam Witwer as Neil Perry Brad William Henke as Tony Tucci José Zúñiga as Jorge Castillo Angela Alvarado Rosa as Nina Batista Monique Curnen as Yelina Valerie Dillman as Valerie Castillo Scott MacDonald as Officer Gerard Lizette Carrion as Shanda Minerva Garcia as Mariel Devon Graye as Teenage Dexter Morgan Ashley Rose Orr as Mindy June Angela as Doctor Josh Daugherty as Morgue Attendant Carmen Olivares as Attractive Woman #1 Norma Fontana as Attractive Woman #2 Allysa Tacher as Screaming Jogger Terry Woodberry as Tech
Episode chronology
← Previous "Let's Give the Boy a Hand" Next → "Return to Sender"
List of Dexter episodes

"Love American Style" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Dexter, which first aired on October 29, 2006 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by Melissa Rosenberg and was directed by Robert Lieberman. In the episode, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) hunts down Jorge Castillo (José Zúñiga), a human trafficker and murderer. His sister, Ofr. Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter), attempts to extract information from a security guard whose limbs were amputated by the "Ice Truck Killer".

The episode was the first to be written by Rosenberg; it was her first for a cable show, and she finished writing the script five weeks early. Filming took place at numerous locations in and around Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California. The scenes filmed in Florida were shot in July 2006 and those in California were shot later. "Love American Style" received generally positive reviews from critics and was watched by 6.7 million people when it was broadcast by CBS eighteen months after its Showtime premiere.

Dexter is called to a crime scene at the abandoned hospital where, last night, the Ice Truck Killer left security guard Tony Tucci (Brad William Henke) strapped to a table for Dexter to kill. Instead, Dexter had reported the crime scene and Tucci had been hospitalized after the Killer had amputated his hand and leg. Debra and Sgt. James Doakes (Erik King) question Tucci when he wakes up in hospital, but Doakes is unimpressed with Debra's ways of extracting information from Tucci. He disapproves of her suggestion to blindfold Tucci to help him to remember his encounter with the Killer, but after she confronts him about his attitude toward her, he agrees to blindfold Tucci, who remembers that the Killer used throat lozenges. They return to the crime scene and find a lozenge wrapper, on which forensics expert Vince Masuka (C.S. Lee) finds a partial fingerprint.

...
Wikipedia