I was kind of giggling in embarrassment during most of Dexter and Deb's scenes in this one, especially the "why are you looking at me like that?" line, which I'm fairly certain was not the intent of the show (unless it was, in which case, +1 for trolling). If I'd read this scenario in a Dexter/Debra fic, I would have been mumbling about OOCness and bad writers.

God, yes, the "I love you too" line could have been touching and monumental as opposed to unintentionally hilarious and the catalyst to make Debra go off and compare crazy theories with the shrink. Actually, I'm choosing to think that all of Deb's emotional trauma has caught up with her at once and she's having a complete mental breakdown, exacerbated by having that whackjob of a shrink. Because the only other explanation is "har har, look how CRAZY love makes chicks, AMIRITE?".