When Dexter arrives at the scene of Teegan's murder, he is talking with Debra as they approach the body. Depending on the angle, the camera strap around Dexter's neck flips, sometimes showing "Nikon" and sometimes showing the side without "Nikon". In the same scene, newly promoted Sgt. Batista is wearing his gold shield showing that he is a Sgt. In a later scene, the Lt. is presenting him with the gold shield.
When Debra is talking to the C.I. Anton at the beach cafe, he is alternately holding and not holding a beer as the camera changes angles several times.
The SUV Dexter is driving when he pulls up to the pink house has a Florida license tag on the front. In Florida there is one tag and it goes on the rear.
Prosecutors are commonly called "District Attorneys" or "Assistant District Attorneys," but in Florida the elected official is the State Attorney, who is elected for the judicial circuit. Miami-Dade County is part of the eleventh judicial circuit. Any prosecutor who works as an employee for the State Attorney in Florida, like Jimmy Smits' character Miguel Prado was, would be called an "Assistant State Attorney" or "ASA."
One of the police cars at the drug house crime scene and the crime scene at the shipping yard has its visibar installed backwards.
Most police car lightbars follow the international conventions for aircraft and vessels at sea: the red light on the left-hand side.
DA Miguel Prado is introduced as an old friend of La Guerta in the Cuban community, politically ambitious and seeking media attention to promote himself through his "tough-on-crime" stance. Yet he was never even mentioned once during the high profile Ice Truck Killer and Bay Harbor Butcher investigations.
Goofs don't go backwards. Something that didn't happen last season does not become a Goof when new information is revealed in this season.
Goofs don't go backwards. Something that didn't happen last season does not become a Goof when new information is revealed in this season.
Debra mentions this is the first time she has changed her hairstyle since she was 8. However, throughout the flashbacks you can see Debra with many different hairstyles, including bangs.
Dexter states that when he went to kill Freebo, he killed a stranger instead and has never killed anyone he hadn't completely vetted before, but in Season 2 episode 11, he kills the 2 men that had captured Doakes near the cabin.