He also knows someone acted to keep him out of the hands of the police by framing Boyd.
I just found this thread… My nagger is from last week…
When Cole kicks in the hotel door and attacks lumen…Dexter checks out of the hotel without having to pay damages or explain it…can’t possibly fix that door, it was all splintered.
Am I just being a dick?
Plus, If Chase has put this together, he has to know that since the cops aren’t on to him, as any law-abiding citizens would have done, he can play with them on the same field…“It’s on!”
No, this bothered me immensely too. Although, even on a second viewing, I had trouble figuring out whether it was the hallway door or the adjoining room door.
It was the adjoining door. If you look, you see the door getting kicked in, just past that you see lumen sitting on the floor and just past that you see the hallway door…with the fire escape route framed and mounted on the back of it.
Thanks! Still causes some issues, but at least it explains why no one noticed it before checkout.
From last week’s thread:
“Cole kicking down the adjoining door and there being no explanation of how Dexter handled it. Are we to believe that no one noticed him bringing in a new door and paint to patch it up? I mean, come on.”
Let’s add to that the fact that Dexter normally performs his “activities” in an isolated spot. Normally (they give no indication here) he uses power tools to dismember his victims. I imagine that he just used hand saws and cleavers for Cole, but it still seems that working in a hotel room goes way beyond the pale for someone who is supposed to be as careful as Dexter.
I doubt Julia Stiles will be returning. It would be too much like a defeat for Dexter if Lumen was killed by Jordan, so I’m assuming that somehow Liddy will be the one to kill her, and Dexter will kill Liddy (he already knows too much) and with his disappearance Quinn’s suspicions will be raised again – ironically, no one else’s will be…
I’m hoping that the creators have the entire story arc, including how it all ends, already mapped out. I hate when shows that are so fresh and imaginative in the beginning are renewed to the point where the creators lose control of their own show. “Lost,” I’m looking at you!
I’m hoping that next season is the last season of “Dexter” and that he will either ride off into the sunset as a reformed serial killer serial killer, or that he’ll be caught. But I implore the creators to stress tight, quality storytelling over longevity, because the show has really struggled this season.
Not having Dexter & Lumen use the dentist’s dying cell phone call to track down his friends, and the whole breaking down of the adjoining hotel door are just two of the enormous plot holes that are starting to ruin the series for me. It’s one thing to have to suspend my disbelief; it’s quite another to have to suspend my intelligence.
Why would he have to fix the adjoining door? I doubt anyone makes him stand at the desk while someone checks to see if his room is OK before he can check out. Given what he’s doing, wouldn’t he have used a fake ID to rent the room? Although, they should have mentioned this if he did.
There’s other hotel questions that go along with the adjoining door being splintered. Like, Cole would have checked in, had loud screamy sex with a woman that was heard from Dexter’s room and probably the room on the other side as well, and then disappeared. I imagine that those traveling with Jordan Chase were all booked together so it’s not like the room wouldn’t have been checked out of, but a few questions must have been raised.
Even if he used a fake name to check in, Dexter went up on stage and gave his real name to the crowd of hundreds before talking about his wife’s murder. So even if he was anonymous when he checked-in, he wasn’t by the time he left.
That, and the direction of the damage was clearly from Cole’s room. Someone kicked the door down from Cole’s side into Dexter’s side. Once staff found the damage, Dexter was not only checked out, but it clearly wasn’t even his fault. If asked, all he has to say is that the door was fine when he left.
Perhaps the loud screamy sex is the reason no one thought anything of the noise. If Cole was in the habit of loudly banging groupies, after the first time the hotel staff calls the police about the bloody murder noises, only to discover it’s just Cole gettin’ his freak on, any strange noise from his room would likely garner eye rolling rather than alarm. (Remember Dex planned to take him out silently while he was sleeping. The door kicking and fight with Lumen was all Cole’s idea. It wasn’t like they were planning on a noisy kill.)
I’m not sure he could have gotten away with using a fake ID to rent the room, though. Chase knew who he was and knew he was there. Not like hotel staff would just hand over their guest roster to anyone who asked, but if Chase reports Cole missing, the cops start looking into the hotel roster, and then find out that Dex was supposedly checked in (Chase saw him with “luggage”), but not on the roster… that would be hard to explain.
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Motivational speaker guy is going to notice that his man is gone, and discover the door, and work out that Dexter was in that room. Very suspicious.
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It seems that MS is keeping the disappearance on the down low. But if he chose to involve the police, the most obvious investigational path is search room > find door > discover who was in next room.
Even if nothing comes directly out of it, it casts a huge spotlight on Dexter, which is not a place he wants to be.
Well, sure, but it’s not like Dexter planned on Cole kicking the door down. Given that it happened anyway, is it better to clean up and get the hell out, or take the time to find, purchase, and smuggle in a new door (!) to avoid questions down the road?
Dex couldn’t unring the bell, he just did what he could with a shitty situation. I’m pretty sure he and Lumen realize by now that Chase is onto them. 
True, but it’s lazy writing that such a glaring thing wasn’t even briefly addressed.
Do the writers really need to spoon-feed us stuff like this:
I don’t really see it as being something that would make any sense to dwell on. The door situation is relatively trivial and ignoring it was the most logical thing to do. If questions came up later, playing dumb would do just fine. It’s already stretching credibility a bit that the removal of a dismembered corpse and its attendant mess was carried off without a hitch in the available time, without having Dexter take time to micromanage minor worries like property damage from an adjoining room.
Given that it really wouldn’t begin to make sense to spend any time on that when you’ve got a DB to dispose of, I think it would be a far worse sin to clutter up the narrative with “But what about the door?” Who cares?