I am still not sure what Nichole Hiltz and Lesley Ann Warren add to the show, other than allowing the producers to give Mary McCormack a break now and then. (See also the non-Dexter-related stories on Dexter, or any scene on House where Hugh Laurie does not appear, though those are still usually about House in some way.) But at least Brandi has stopped being actively annoying, and her scene with