Gosh, they had such a deliciously wicked character (Stan Liddy) and then they kill him off in such an unsatisfying way! I hated him way more than I hate Jordan Chase, so I’m kind of left disappointed.
It seems to me that the resolution for this season is being rushed, and I’ve never felt that in any other season. For instance, the dentist’s wife just happens to be in his office when Deb arrives, and she conveniently gives them the clue to how they are all linked. (How can they not have figured out by now that Jordan Chase was a pseudonym?) Oh, and Liddy conveniently has all the evidence against Dexter neatly contained in the van so that he can easily dispose of it.
I don’t know what to think about Harrison being shipped off to Orlando with the nanny. That’s so implausible, yet perhaps it’s setting up Season 6 – the season where Dexter realizes that he’s been a crappy father because the Nanny took off with his son while he was being distracted by yet another killer…so he makes the choice to mainstream himself back into the real world.
I’m assuming that Dexter will cast a new set of shoeprints so that Lumen can be exonerated?
Didn’t buy that Lumen would go to Emily’s house (Is that her name?) without something more lethal than a knife. Even if she believed Emily, she knew that Jordan Chase had contacted Emily, AND wanted Lumen, too. What better place to get both of them, and Dexter, too? If I was in Lumen’s shoes, I’d have armed myself with an Uzi.
Well, Chase finally got his hands dirty. He’s definitely losing it big time. Dex is actually showing what appears to be genuine affection towards Lumen. It’s nice to see his surprise at discovering that he has these feelings and true distress that Lumen has been kidnapped.
So do any of you think Quinn will also be a casualty of Season 5? Maybe Deb will kill him to protect Dex. Can’t say I’ll be sorry to see him go, but poor Deb. She just can’t catch a break.
It surprises me that Chase didn’t bring something more lethal than…well, nothing! If Dexter had shown up with Lumen, it would’ve been quite a scuffle when Chase revealed himself but odds are Dex would come out on top, with his martial arts background. Its possible Chase has a gun or something, but one would imagine he would’ve had it out already had Lumen not actually come alone.
I agree that Liddy’s death was very unsatisfying. And why bust out the knife when you’ve already shown that you have a taser? Also, does this mean Dexter has abandoned The Code altogether? Liddy might’ve been slime, but he wasn’t a murderer. Dex likely could’ve disarmed and subdued Liddy w/o killing him.
And put me down in the “Deb finds out” cliffhanger camp.
Yeah, that’s lazy. Jordan Chase is a million selling author, he’d have a wiki and it would be on there.
I’d hoped it would explain why Emily was so willing to do Chase’s bidding but since she’s dead I guess it’s not. Stockholm Syndrome only goes so far as an explanation.
I hope Lumen survives as I hate every season ending with that season’s special guest star getting killed. I doubt they could get Julia Stiles to stay around however.
I just a normal girl without a Code and even I wouldn’t hesitate to sink a knife into somebody who tasered me, tossed me in a van, tied me up, and planned to try and send me and my lover to the electric chair.
Yea, I don’t think killing someone in immediate self defense is against the code.
Also, does Miami Police Dept bugging equipment really say “Miami Police Dept” on it? I’d think I’d make my secret hidden camera a lot less obvious then that.
I’d think you’d have to do more than sign your name to check it out also. You’d probably have to show the warrant and give the real address and all that, otherwise cops would be using them to spy on their wives or loaning them to friends and all that and it’s expensive equipment.
Also on another technical legal note, you can’t go judicial shopping like they did trying to hold Jordan Chase as a material witness. If a judge found out about that, he’d completely lose his shit at you.
Killing Robocop was not Codealicious. The Code doesn’t give him license to kill in order to cover his own ass, which is all that was. He was not in mortal danger, he was in LEGAL danger. Different.
Not that I mind of course, because I LOVE Dexter. But I’ll be a little disappointed in the writers if they don’t address that.
The guy pulled a huge knife on him and was trying to plunge it into his chest! What was Dexter supposed to do? “I can’t kill you, cause you never killed anyone, but feel free to stab me all you like!”
Earlier Dexter was walking up to the truck with his drugging people needle out, presumably to capture Quinn and given Dexter’s usual MO, slice him up. Granted, I don’t think he ever said he was going to kill him, he may have had some other plan.
Yeah I know that. I think he was planning to kill Quinn or at the very least do something that involved having to drug him, and as he got his needle ready my first thought was how he hasn’t even mentioned the code at all. But Dexter’s killing of *Liddy *was in self defense, which is why I was surprised that **Stoid **said he wasn’t in mortal danger when clearly that was *exactly *what he was in.
Dexter also had the ominous line to Lumen when asked what he was going to do about Quinn, he replied “I’ll do what needs to be done.” While not 100% proof-positive, it was a very strong inference that he was planning on killing Quinn rather than taking him prisoner. Pretty sure the only safe place Dexter had to hide-but-not-kill overly inquisitive detectives was blown to bits a few seasons back.
And while true that Dexter killed Liddy in self-defense, the same can be said of the 1st dead Prado in S3, which Dexter agonized over as a non-Code kill.
I’m still confused why Liddy pulled a knife in the first place. He had a taser, which would ostensibly work on any part of Dexter’s body that he made contact with. In an awkward, closed quarters scuffle, this seems the much more advantageous weapon to use. Then again, he did just get kicked in the face.
I know he didn’t personally kill Doakes way back when, but I’m pretty sure that he’d finally come to the conclusion that he couldn’t let him go. And that left…? So he’s had to face this situation before.
The guy pulled a huge knife on him and was trying to plunge it into his chest! What was Dexter supposed to do? “I can’t kill you, cause you never killed anyone, but feel free to stab me all you like!”