Dexter finds himself changing since he killed his brother Rudy/Brian, AKA "The Ice Truck Killer." Sergeant Doakes tells Dexter "I know you're connected to the Ice Truck Killer," and has been tailing him day and night since the end of last season, leaving Dexter with no opportunity to kill anyone. He fights back by being relentlessly normal (and boring), including joining the precinct bowling team. When Doakes finally lets his guard down, Dexter is able to slip away to a small voodoo paraphernalia shop, where what is to be his first victim since Brian presides. The man is blind, which throws Dexter off a little as far as showing him his victims, but Dexter doesn't discriminate, so he settles for describing things to the voodoo priest. After a few sliding words that sound like a curse fail to impress him, Dexter raises his knife, plunges it down -- and misses. Dexter, discomfited, lets the shop owner go, saying "let this be a lesson to you."