In the fourth episode here, we are starting to get a lot more of the Harry Morgan story. Which is great, because he was never a main character in the main series. Sure, he was a regular, but he was a voice in Dexter’s head, not an actual character.

Original Sin uses flashbacks and is really digging into the story behind Laura Moser becoming a CI for Harry. And we are seeing how much Harry crossed the line with that. I’m guessing that season one will take us through that scenario and end with the scene of her getting killed. It feels like a decent cliffhanger. Taking us into season two with flashbacks about the family life of toddler Dexter. All speculation of course.

I have been surprised at the amount of time given to the flashbacks. At times relegating the rest of Miami Metro to cameo type appearances. Because following teenage Deb, newly hired Dex, and Harry as they navigate the traumatic times of Doris Morgan having died a year ago (technically a year is in episode 5) is a lot.

A big thing in this episode though is Dexter letting Harry know that the urges inside aren’t dwindling. The need came back incredibly quick after taking out Handsome Tony. In this episode, we saw the abducted kid background story accelerate. Not resolved, but the kid was killed. I can only assume that we are going to have another prominent kid taken . Perhaps this villain will be the sort of seasonal bad guy we had with the main series.

Harry isn’t happy about the idea of Dexter angling for another kill so soon. But he relents when Dexter convinces him the target is getting ready to kill someone. I was surprised that Harry agreed though, as the target is a professional killer. On the fun side though, when Dexter is getting the kill site readied (with victim in hand, so to speak), the victim wakes up and fights back. Leading to a fun and memorable “oops” moment cliffhanger.

There was a terrible moment here though. The episode name came from the victim collecting guitars. But in the struggle at the very end, Dexter grabs a guitar from the wall. He seems to be holding it as though to bash the victims face in, but when the victim cries out “Not the Clapton”, Dexter looks at it and seems to rethink things. Instead bashing it into the ground, creating a hand to hand situation instead. Dumb Dexter gave up what looked like a knockout blow in order to get physical with the guy. Even inexperienced Dexter doesn’t seem likely to do this.

Thanks to Eric Clapton, I am knocking this pretty hard. Going down two stars based on that one moment. It’s in the way that you use it, and Dexter didn’t make good use of it. So 8 stars here.