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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
no, i'm talking about when Deb first catches Dexter (though she doesn't know it) in season 5 when Dexter and Lumen are behind a plastic screen. she sympathizes with someone she doesn't know who kills the merry band of rapists and murderers, and lets them go. but when she does catch her brother in the act, then she freaks out. doesn't add up
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Deb is volatile emotionally and it's not out of character for emotions to override her normally rigid morals. IIRC, she romanticised the idea of a man helping get vengeance for a female victim that escaped. It's also very different to know that there's a killer out there compared to readily accepting someone very close to you being a killer.
Despite freaking out, she's still mostly letting her emotions take precedence by not turning Dexter in. The fact she is somewhat protecting herself because she was an accessory to murder doesn't seem to be a very big factor in her motivations because she immediately brushed him off when Dexter offered to take all the blame and keep her out of it.