What if the least you deserve is a real human being, and, instead, what you get is... me.?

So wonders/asks Dexter in the opening scene of this show's September 26 premiere. As various spoilers, interviews and posters have revealed, the new season of this outstanding drama will focus on Dexter's guilt over Rita's death.

Below, you can watch the first 100 seconds of the fifth season premiere, as Dexter grapples with the fact that this is the 68th dead body over which he's presided - but the first who doesn't deserve her fate...

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