Well there are definitely references to the civil rights era and also pictures of being lynched, ergo it must be great? Because that's what real rap is indebted to always talking about, right?

Anybody else catch how he had a cut under his eye, just like Dex does to people with the scalpel? I think that was our clue that she killed him as some sort of Dexterian vigilante get-off.

After Travis Marshall I'm not sure the writers function like that.

For me it was when I was watching Vogel and Dex interact, then thought "is this like a surrogate mother theme they are going to develop?" and then had Vogel say something like "it's like I'm your mother Dex." They seriously think this audience is braindead.

I mean, that's rambling and I'm sorry but what I am trying to say is a) she is the villain, b) in both the present and the past storyline, c) the writers don't expect us to see this coming.

Vogel is a serial killer, albeit a nontraditional one. She kills vicariously, through others. Probably most often this is through troubled individuals like Sussman, who she manipulates through both psychological and more direct means (that's likely her hand pointing a gun at him). However, in at least one very…