Well, well, well. An interesting end to an interesting season. I don’t want to say the finale was predictable, although I did kinda predict what would happen.
We all pretty much figured Lumen would have to leave. She’s had her closure and she can go back to something resembling a normal life.
Minor plot holes: the bullet from Deb’s gunshot might be found, and of course Dexter’s stolen car will be found, raising questions. Not sure if they’ll address that next season or not, but it seems likely.
Seems like they tied up all the loose ends.
Is this the final season, or are more seasons planned?
They were renewed for a 6th season. In my own baseless opinion, I would expect that there are either 1 or 2 seasons left in the tank. I can’t see it staying on longer than that.
I don’t think that would be a big deal. She can easily and believably say she thought someone was moving back there and shot at them. Turned out it was just a raccoon.
The stolen car could be a problem.
The thing that I can see being a bigger issue is that Dexter called in the property search an hour earlier. Of course, he never seems to get asked about that kind of stuff.
Also, how likely is it that they’d ask Dexter to analyze the blood on Quinn’s shoe? I would think they would have farmed that out, given Quinn’s relationship to Dexter’s sister.
And do you think that Deb suspects that Dexter was the second person behind that plastic sheet?
I don’t think so. Only if she ever suspected his “tenant” was number 13 and she never had any suspicions about Lumen other than about her relationship with Dexter.
What’s the protocol on any type of internal investigation like this? It seems like, at the very least, Deb would have asked LaGuerta to have Vince do the blood work. Deb know Dex doesn’t like Quinn and LaGuerta knows that Quinn has some issues with Dex (which Dex may or may not know about). I think she would have been okay with having Vince do it. Or, as you suggested, having an independent lab take care of it.
I don’t think she has the slightest clue.
I cried. I felt Dexter’s pain.
I agree that it was rather predictable, right down to Dexter exonerating Quinn. I also agree that they’d never give a suspect’s lover’s brother the job of handling the evidence against him. Nor would they allow his own department to do the investigation. They sent IA out when Quinn was suspected of being a dirty cop, but they don’t get involved when he’s suspected of murdering another cop?
I also predicted that Quinn would protect Dexter (by not revealing that Liddy indicated that he had the goods on him) and Dexter would protect Quinn (by destroying the blood evidence on his shoe).
I’m glad that both Quinn and Lumen survived because to kill them off would have felt like a rehash of former seasons. However, I hated how the writers had to spell out to the audience that Lumen had cost off her dark passenger. We got it all on our own, as if her name wasn’t a huge clue.
I thought it was odd for the cops to use the boat instead of driving, but later realized that it was because the writers couldn’t figure out a way for Deb to catch the vigilantes, and still remain unaware that it was Dexter, if he had driven his own car to the crime scene.
Still have no idea why Chase had developed such a hatred for women. Did they tease him at camp and call him a Pudger? I guess we’ll never know.
I felt the last 2 episodes were extremely rushed, especially Liddy’s demise and Lumen’s decision to leave. I really admire that they don’t try to drag 12 episodes worth of material into 22 episodes like other shows, but I think they had sufficient material to add at least 2 more episodes into this season so that the season felt more fully cooked.
I’m assuming that Dexter will give up his murderous ways for the summer to bond with his kids and we’ll see him next fall as the 2 older ones are leaving to go back to Orlando with their grandparents. I wonder whether Maria Doyle Kennedy will return as the overworked nanny and whether a romance will develop between the two of them. (BTW, Michael C Hall will be 40 this February and Maria Doyle Kennedy turned 46 in September. So they’re close in age than I originally thought.)
I love the lighting on Dexter. I especially liked the last scene in the sunlight, even though the final words were incongruous with the mood. Hall looked yummy in that purple shirt.
Minor snark: Even if the bullet hole wasn’t discovered, wouldn’t Deb be required to report discharging her service revolver?
You mean like she’d be required to apprehend two murderers?
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it …
Dex had his full kit + Murder tools with him when he stole the car - they only show him with the murder kit (knives) after the accident.
Dex goes by boat to the Liddy crimescene, says he has to run to the lab - without transportation.
What happened to Dex’s syringe that he intended to knock out Quinn with? Shouldnt that still be in the van?
What will happen with the photo’s that are in Quinn’s possession? Deb find them later?
For an unfeeling monster - Dex sure has some emotional outbursts.
Even if the department accepts Dexter’s clearing of the blood on Quinn’s shoe, wouldn’t Quinn’s behavior at the scene lead to a little more investigation? I mean, he pretty much admitted that he knew something about Libby’s murder to LaGuerta by his behavior. I just don’t see them dropping the whole thing so quickly.
They were hinting pretty heavily that Deb recognized Dexter behind the plastic sheeting. Talking to both Quinn and Dexter afterwards she says a bunch of ambiguous things that could be interpreted as talking either about herself, Quinn or her knowing about Dexter.
But then at the party, she says “aren’t you glad its over?”. Its not really clear what she could be talking about other then his being glad that his helping “#13” with her vigilante killings is over. He certainly wouldn’t be glad Quinn has been cleared since he hates Quinn, and as far as anyone except Deb knows, both Jordan and the vigilante killer are still on the loose, so that investigation isn’t over with either.
They had time to cut up the body and load it into (I assume) Jordan’s car. They could have stopped to clean up Dexter’s stolen car too.
Dexter said he was going to try to catch a ride back to the lab. To Deb that probably means with a uniform cop.
Dexter could have took it with him when he took the video gear.
Hopefully Quinn will destroy them as part of their unspoken deal now.
No kidding.
He only admitted to haveing recieved calls from him - nothing about the murder - Laguerta was treating him as a suspect, therefore he acted like a smart one - say nothing without a lawyer - he also knew the blood spot might/would put him at the crime scene, but that would be all it could do.
I like the way Dex played that whole clearing thing off -
This season had its episodes, especially the premier picking up right after Rita’s death, and all the Boyd stuff, but overall, I think it may have been the series’ low point. Still highly entertaining, but I hope Season Six will focus the beam more on Dexter’s Dark Passenger like they did over the previous seasons. He was too preoccupied with helping Lumen achieve her vengeance, rather than his insatiable blood-lust.
I think they have to have Deb uncover the truth about Dex next season. That’ll should add an interesting new boost to this story.
I thought it was very mediocre. I’m no genius, but I saw every plot “twist” coming before it got there.
No warrant? Oh, I got another one.
Blood on boot? Oh, Dexter clears him.
Sis has the vigilantes cornered. Oh, she lets them go.
Dex is busy telling Lumen about his plans. Oh, she’s leaving.
The kill of Jordan and the scene with Deb and Lumen/Dex separated by plastic were the only interesting and semi-unpredictable scenes in this lackluster finale.
We all knew (1) Libby would be discovered, (2) Quinn would be implicated, particularly by the blood spatter, (3) Jordan, Lumen, and Dex would all have to be in the same room at some point, (4) Jordan would have to die, most likely murdered, (5) Deb and Quinn would be resolved one way or the other, (6) Lumen would have to leave, and (7) Harrison’s birthday party would have to occur, and Rita’s kids (Aster in particular) left to reconcile with Dex.
Furthermore, given the formula for past seasons, it was pretty clear a lot of the resolutions would intertwine and rely on lucky coincidence to be resolved. That made things like Dex’s faking the blood report fairly predictable; of course Dexter would be instrumental in Quinn’s ultimate fate, it was only a question of which way he’d go. Exonerating Quinn is the neater solution story-wise because it’s closer to a reset than if, say, Quinn went to jail. Lumen leaving is another one–given the formula and the profile of the actress, Lumen either had to die or leave; letting her live is a first (considering what happened to Lila, Jimmy Smits, and Trinity), but her departure was handled extremely poorly–what was with having her ride the front of Dex’s boat “Titanic”-like, flashing him loving smiles? I half expected the writers were going to bump her off in an accident–which would have been preferable to her inexplicable change of heart the next morning. I wouldn’t be surprised if she showed up again next season; her character provides so much in the way of dramatic possibilities for Dexter that the writers would be fools to ignore it (or, worse, give Dexter another girlfriend–who could possible top Lumen?).
Given the above, there just wasn’t a lot of room for surprises. I was poetic justice to see the overly-confident Jordan get outsmarted, and I thought that was surprising and handled well. I’ll also say the writers played fairly and laid good groundwork (over several episodes) to make Deb’s ultimate actions believable. But there is an inherent problem with an approach that resembles a limiting series–if after year one she is, say X away from knowing his secret, then the next year it’s X/2, then X/4, and so on, the increments get smaller and smaller, meaning they’re less explosive as time goes on.
For next season, the only possible way things could progress is if some who already knows Dexter well finds out his secret–my guess is Aster.