I’m trying to figure out what Jordan Chase hoped to gain from the phone call he made to Deb, and whether it was worth the potential jeopardy it put him in.
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Jordan knows Dexter and Lumen are onto him, and are going to try to kill him. He parks outside banker/rapist’s house, and sees Dexter and Lumen break in. So Jordan calls Deb and tells her that banker/rapist was in league with his security guard, who the police know was one of the perps.
Three likely outcomes of this call:
The police get there before Dexter and Lumen kill banker/rapist. They arrest them, but still have questions about banker/rapist being in league with the security guard. As they question him about that, he folds and gives them Jordan. Bad for Jordan.
The police get there after Dexter and Lumen kill banker/rapist are cleaning up. They arrest them. Lumen tells them about Jordan. Maybe they believe her, maybe they don’t. Banker/rapist is no longer alive to give up Jordan, which is good for Jordan, but there are still some loose ends that may be troubling for Jordan.
The police get there after Dexter and Lumen have killed banker/rapist and after they have cleaned up and disposed of the body. This gets rid of banker/rapist for Jordan, but this is essentially what would have happened had Jordan NOT made the call, so it seems pointless.
I don’t know – I may be missing something, but it would seem to me that the potential for outcome 1 would outweight whatever Jordan hoped to achieve from outcome 2.
From what I can gather, Jordan’s DNA will never be implicated because he never actually has contact with any of the victims. I think he wanted Deb to catch Lumen and Dexter in the act. In his mind, he will be free and clear of all ties.
Dexter and Lumen moved Tilden to a vacant house and killed him there, so Deb and Quinn found nothing, except Deb now suspects #13 (Lumen, the one who got away) is killing their guys.
Minnie has it right. There’s no physical evidence that ties Jordan to the victims, so he would be exonerated even if Lumen or others testified against him. Notice how Jordan has attempted to appear to be cooperating with the police every time he’s spoken with them. He can keep throwing his buddies under the bus and still walk away clean.
Another great episode, by the way. Liddy has “DEAD MAN” written across his forehead, but there are a number of ways it could be played out. Assuming Dexter figures out what Liddy’s doing eventually, Dexter can’t actually kill him without breaking his code. Who’s going to do it, then? Lumen? Quinn?
Possibly. But if Tilden were alive, and willingly cooperated with the police, surely he could give them SOMETHING on Jordan? Dates of the abductions could be cross-referenced with his schedule, the fact that they were all friends at summer camp, the fact that Jordan lied to the police about how well he knew Tilden? Not air-tight, but there would be enough there to make life very difficult for Jordan (or at least his lawyers).
All moot, of course – it just seems a little sloppy.
I think the sole reason for that phone call was so we’d think Deb and Quinn would catch Dexter in the act – the few seconds of tension when Deb and Quinn were approaching the house. Unnecessary, but the writers seem to think they need to put scenes like this in every season.
Not only did Jordan try to send the police to Alex’s hosue as he thought the kill would be happening, he gave Alex to Dexter and Lumen, via Emily. I think he knew it was his last chance to get them off his back.
Liddy’s definitely done for, but I say it’s Quinn that kills him. I don’t think Lumen will have anything to do with it. Maybe Liddy comes to Quinn with what he has, Quinn figures out that Dex is the vigilante that Deb’s been going on about, and when Liddy tries to make some noise about it, Quinn kills him. But probably more for his (Quinn’s) own sake than for Dexter’s.
Also, Julia Stiles has been fantastic this season.
In the midst of a serious, disturbing episode, the mockery of standard rom-com moments was a welcome break. The perfect gift of some fingerprint-hiding gloves? The “female character changes into a dress, and all of a sudden the male character sees her in a new light” thing, but with a kill outfit? Awesome.
I don’t think we know Jordan’s plan yet - he told the first victim to tell Lumen the whole story after all, without that they wouldn’t have known about the banker at all.
He’s got a secret game plan that hasn’t been revealed I reckon.
Seems risky, as if Lumen was arrested she could reveal Jordan as the mastermind of the Rape-ring. Granted she never actually saw him, but she doesn’t have to tell the cops that. With her testimony plus the circumstantial stuff, I imagine there’s enough to convict him.
Just going over to Dexter’s house and killing Dexter and Lumen before they knew he was on to them still seems like it would’ve been a much better plan.
I’m loving this season. I really think it’s the best season yet.
Predictions for season finale: just as Gwen Stacy had to die, Lumen has to die. The universe forbids anybody from finding their soul mate and permitting them to grow old together. I’m guessing that Lumen will be killed trying to protect Dexter in a confrontation between him and Stan Liddy, who will in turn be killed by Dexter. Still haven’t figured out the psychonanny angle, but ten bucks says she kidnaps Harrison and takes him to Ireland. Dex should have checked her ink before he hired her.
Why would Jordan assume Deb would immediately race over to Tilden’s house in the middle of the night? Yes, he said “desperate” and and mentioned a plane ticket, but the supposed phone call could have been hours earlier.
Also, why such an easily discovered lie? If they caught Lumen and Dexter with or without Tilden’s body, surely they would eventually want to talk to the person who actually received the call. So they would interview the secretary and look at phone logs. And they would find out Jordan lied.
And if they looked a little harder, they could probably find out that Jordan’s call to Deb was made from near Tilden’s house – at least they could find that it routed through the nearest cell tower to Tilden’s house.
I do agree with Sri Theo, though. Jordan’s full plan is not yet revealed. Either that or the writers are working on the scripts during breaks from hookers and blow.
I predict Deb will track down Lumen and finger he as the vigilantte, and Lumen will take the fall for both her and Dexter and go to jail. Quinn will find out the truth via Liddy, but will kill or otherwise silence Liddy rather then let Deb discover her brother is a serial-killer
I don’t think there’s enough time left in the season to develop a psycho-nanny plot.
You might be right. Maybe we’re all suspicious of her because she’s just too perfect—the Stepford Nanny. Still—I just can’t shake the feeling that she’s going be revealed to be something other than what she appears to be, or that something terrible is going to happen to her. Fate always ensures that people like her (if she is genuine) invariably get ripped apart by a pack of rabid wolves on a weekend ski trip.
I was thinking for a bit there that they were setting it up so that Deb finally finds out the truth about Dexter (as she does in the novels.) With the whole scene about her thinking who would want the men dead and saying that she herself would like to kill them, I wonder if this season will end with Deb seeing Dexter kill either Jordan or Liddy.
And how creepy was that scene between Jordan & Emily? They gang rape her and she falls in love with him and they keep in touch?
This is turning out to be a really good season, due to the performances of Michael C Hall and Julia Stiles.
I think that she’ll survive, but won’t be back for subsequent seasons. My prediction is she will kill Liddy to protect Dexter and will either A) disappear as a fugitive (possibly with help from Deb after she discovers who she is) or B) fully take the fall for Dex and go to jail, although I think outcome A is far more likely.
And if Deb is going to find out what Dexter does, this will be the season for it to happen - especially since it would be very difficult to sell the idea that Dex “just happened” to take in victim 13 as a tenant after her unaided escape.