^ I think they should put the direction of the next season on "Whodunnit" factor (a la first season) than "how-dexter-gets-there" factor of all other seasons. The Trinity season was the only exception where it worked well, but so far the idea is losing out to repeat run of the same ol' same ol'. There is a new serial killer on the block, Dexter is hunting and finding his way to him/them, Dexter gets 'em, kills 'em. Bah. Everyone knows how that is going to turn out. We need some suspense & mystery of the first season, some pressure on Dex from first & second season. We wanna know "What would Dexter do?" than "How would Dexter do?".
As for Batista, I think he did a right thing... Quin had been spiraling down throughout this season after his break-up with Deb and frankly, Quin was the reason Batista got in the jam in the first place. He was not suppose to visit the Doomsday Adam alone, he was supposed to be with his partner. And this wasn't the first screw-up Quin did in this case, first it was the Porter (professor) chick then the whole drunken-lost-his-gun-in-stranger's-car stuff and fistfight over that. I think Batista took a right decision and I think it was more in Quin's own interest to get bit of a chance from Miami PD.
Something although I don't understand (or probably missed it)... how the hell Quin got cleared of the Liddy murder? I mean there were lot of factors that could get him cleared, but there was quite compelling (even though situational) evidence putting him in the spot. Not only that, there wasn't a single mention of Liddy incident at all in this season, it's like it never happened and Quin was back on job from probably short vacation than a suspension or custody. Anyone got any scoop on that?