What choo talkin’ ‘bout, Willis? 
Both of those could actually happen. Dex makes his peace with Angela and Harrison, unaware, takes matters into his own hands.
Question: for those of us who gave up on DEXTER around Season Four or Five, when the show jumped several sharks and entered Ludicrousville, do we need to get caught up on events, or can we try out the new series and figure out what’s going on?
If you need to put info into spoilers, go ahead, but what’s the bare bones info I need if I stopped watching a couple of seasons back?
Basically if you know about Trinity and The Bay Harbor Butcher, you can pick the rest of it up. Oh, and Deb was killed in the last season so she is now the “voice in his head”. Pretty much it.
I’ve been watching the Dexter reboot for work, and while there are a few things I think I’m missing out on from the last couple of seasons (though I knew about the major character death), it’s not a big deal, and it feels pretty much like old-school Dexter before they decided to do a drawn-out Blake’s Seven on the cast.
Was I the only person hoping Dexter’s voiceover would say “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE serial killer in this town” before he plunged the knife into Kurt?
Just me?
Never mind. 
But he’s killed other serial killers as well. Trinity being a notable example. And Wiggles in the current episode.
I could also see it going either way. I think either path could sustain itself for a while.
An interesting question will be if (or when) she asks Angel for advice. While it may have been little more than a cameo, he was hardly just walking through the scene. It was what he said that sent her down that path of doubting everything Jim has said to her up to that point.
The funny thing is, while she could float some ideas past him to see if Dexter being the BHB would jive with the evidence they had collected, all she has to do is send Angel a picture of Jim, have him confirm it’s Dexter and arrest him with plenty of probably cause while they (quickly) start gathering evidence.
So…the question is, what will Angel’s role in this be going forward. Could be anything from ‘he never finds out’ to running the investigation (as much as he can, since the FBI will be involved).
And, for the purists, here’s a very, very minor spoiler that might have nothing to do with anything, regarding Angel…he’s listed on IMDB for the upcoming episode.
I’m missing your point (or maybe you’re missing mine…). How does what you wrote contradict “there can be only one serial killer in this town”? It actually reinforces a statement like that, had one been expressed. 
He’s always going to be The Kurgan to me.
I was thinking of it more along the lines of a “this town isn’t big enough for the both of us” type thing that our hero says before they finally dispatch their adversary. It would be a bit clunky to say that when they have multiple enemies to deal with.
In that respect, I think it was both of us. I misunderstood your quote and misunderstood me (since my reply didn’t really make sense).
Of course, it doesn’t help that I’ve never seen Highlander so the line didn’t ring any bells for me.
Sometimes you make it hard for me to love you… 
Well, that’s that.
Well, that could have been so much better but it was a huge improvement from the original series ending so I’ll take it! I really wanted to see that teased Angel/Dexter reunion and the media reactions to him being found out as the BHB.
Yeah, that was kind of a letdown. Angela calls Angel (Angela / Angel-- first I noticed that. Can’t be coinceidental, right?) and tells him she arrested Dexter for murder. Angel says “I’m getting a plane ticket and I’m on my way” Then…no Dexter / Angel confrontation.
Had it come to it, though, I really think that Dexter could have beaten the rap on any BHB charges. As a practical matter when another individual, in this case Doakes, has been publicly blamed for the crime, reasonable doubt is kind of baked into the cake.
Also, I think he could have beaten the rap for killing Matt Caldwell: “So, you found one of those titanium screws in my burned down cabin and the others in your mailbox with a note accusing me of murder? Seems likely to me that the person who put the note in your mailbox is the same person who put the screw in my cabin and, oh yeah, the same person who burned down my cabin.”
Dexter’s only real worry would be the murder of the drug supplier.
Well, once he murdered that cop, any pretense of innocence went out the window.
BTW, I’m hearing rumors in the media that the show had good ratings, so perhaps another season or a follow-on series?
Yeah, that was extremely weak evidence to arrest somebody for murder, especially after she was recently burned on the Sr. Caldwell arrest for murder.
I, too, was really surprised that that wasn’t pointed out. At the end, the sheriff found out that papa Caldwell was a prolific serial killer, his son’s surgical screws were mailed to the her with a letter saying that Jim/Dexter killed him (despite pops lying about his son even being dead), and then Jim/Dexter’s house was burned down- conveniently leaving one of the screws where it can be found in the rubble- I can’t see how Jim/Dexter wouldn’t have been able to easily walk from those charges.
Now, the old BHB days might’ve been harder to explain away… but I still would’ve loved to see the Dexter and Angel reunion.
I meant prior to that. And I don’t think that Dexter even meant to kill him, just to escape, but once the cop reached for his gun…
I didn’t notice that either. What I noticed, right from the first time we saw her, is that Angela looks quite a bit like Deb.
I agree that it really seemed like a waste to have Angel on the show and not have a confrontation between the two of them. I feel like they could have given Angela a different way to realize that Jim was the BHB and she could have simply called Miami Metro for the records and/or to talk to whoever currently has Maria’s position. It would have been perfectly fine if the person giving the talk at the con wasn’t Angel, but someone else that had studied the case. Even Mary (the podcaster) could have made the connection. It wouldn’t be that far fetched for her to recognize Jim as someone she saw in the background of a picture of Doakes or a newspaper photograph from a BHB crime scene.
Part of me wonders if there was a scheduling issue. They had Angel and Angela in the same room, so it seems plausible they could have brought Dexter to the same location and filmed the confrontation between them at the same time. But the fact that other than Angel and Angela’s brief face to face interaction, Angel was always on the other end of the phone, I’m thinking they just couldn’t make it work (but still wanted him on as a cameo).
I didn’t realize this was slated to be a one season mini-series, so I was working on the assumption that we ended on a cliff hanger and either Dexter wasn’t dead, leaving a Dexter/Angel showdown as the driving plot for the next season or Dexter was dead and Harrison, who was clearly struggling with what to do, goes full monster.