Jason Manuel Olazabal

In the season three premiere, Dexter's life seems to be smoothly back on track, until he targets a dope dealer who also happens to be in the sights of Assistant D.A. Miguel Prado. Internal Affairs pressures Debra to rat on her new partner.

Dexter encounters a fellow predator - but this one is a pedophile; a murder is pinned on Freebo but Dexter knows the truth. Meanwhile, Dexter struggles with the fact of his growing friendship with Miguel.

After a botched marriage proposal, Dexter has to figure out how to convince Rita that he is looking for more than a convenient merger of finances and fatherhood. But Deb's case of a woman's murdered fiancee offers hope for Dexter in strange ways. Meanwhile, Miguel's brother, Ramon, is going off the rails in the hunt for their little brother Oscar's murderer. Unfortunately, Oscar's murderer was killed by Dexter Morgan, and that's something he desperately wants to keep secret.

Dexter hears the story of a husband who has gotten away with murdering two wives for financial gain and tracks the man to Bimini, but Rita has a medical emergency while Dexter has disappeared.

Dexter tests Miguel to determine if his friend has discovered his secret, while Rita loses her job and wonders if she's meant to ever have a successful career.