Basically, Jordan captured Lumen, Dexter came after him, got caught briefly until he turned the tables and he and Lumen finally killed Jordan. Liddy's body was found in the van and Quinn was immediately put under suspicion because of Liddy's phone. Things with him worked out in the end as well as Dexter covered up the blood match on Quinn's shoe and Debra came back to him. Deb caught the vigilantes (sort of) at the scene and let them go. Lumen completed her mission and realized that her place was not with Dexter. No surprise there. The biggest pitfall you get with bigger name guest stars is you're painfully aware that they are guest stars, nothing more. Batista and LaGuerta decided to give it one more try. Astor and Cody are going to spend the summer with Dexter.If I have one complaint, it's that this finale went a little too smoothly. Especially the Jordan confrontation, in my opinion. All this time, all this build-up, and they finally get the son of a bitch. And that's it. I didn't need some big tragedy or major twist, but it felt too easy. I would have liked maybe one more surprise to how that showdown went down. I was secretly thrilled that Jordan took Lumen to the old camp. I figured that one out last week, way before Dexter. (Okay, I'm sure lots of other people figured it out too.) But the horror fan in me was excited that the big rescue would take place at an abandoned campsite. The car crash seemed a bit excessive and perhaps it was there to create that extra tension I wanted? Really, it just made a plot hole of a giant piece of evidence with Dexter's blood in it. Not to mention it just felt like a retread of the time Dexter crashed his car a few seasons ago. Another thing that appealed to the geek in me was the fruit stand guy noticing the shifty Jordan with an obvious body in his trunk. ("Dammit, why is there always a fruit stand?!")
Debra was really the fascinating part of this episode, in my opinion. First of all, I have no idea how she made it this long as a cop living in Miami not knowing Spanish. Second, I enjoyed the moral dilemma she faced when she caught Dexter and Lumen at the camp. I went from thinking she would let them go to realizing she wouldn't to realizing she actually would. I really loved that scene and the frustration written on her face. "Maybe it's true some people deserve to die. But I'm a cop and I don't make that fucking decision. So I'm gonna call this in. In an hour this place is gonna be swarming with police. If I were you I'd be gone by then." I thought after all the time she spent watching the rape videos she would be mostly okay with her decision. But she really is a cop 100% and couldn't help but be bothered by her actions. As she said, decisions of life and death aren't hers to make. But how could she bring herself to arrest two people who were taking out such monsters that the cops wanted stopped anyway? Perhaps if she looked at things as simply as "killing is always wrong. No matter what." But as she thought later, "you think someone's a good cop, and then they...do something. I don't know, all I'm saying is nothing is as simple as it seems." She's certainly growing as a character. She wants so desperately to see things as black-and-white, right and wrong, but life just does not work that way at all. At least she gets to know that Jordan got his. Knowing that Trinity is out there on the run (as far as she knows) is bad enough already, no need to add to the list of "the ones who got away."
Dexter and Lumen had their requisite wrap-up, which was touching but inevitable. I was so nervous on that boat that she would jump off or get shot randomly or something bad would happen because it was such a beautiful moment. I was terrified she would commit suicide, leaving a note saying that the peace she felt after killing her tormentors didn't last. But no, the writers weren't unbelievably cruel. She and Dexter just acknowledged that her Dark Passenger was satisfied, but Dexter's never would be. They weren't the same, after all. I am happy that Dexter will have his kids over the summer though. I'm glad to see Astor and Cody back in his life and happy after all the turmoil. It would be too mean to leave Dexter alone again after all of this. I liked the touch that Astor's question to Dexter - if helping Lumen made him feel better about what happened to Rita - was left unanswered. Rita wasn't acknowledged as much as I think she should have been this season, but Lumen was the response to her death. Lumen was Dexter's grieving process. (On a random note, is it possible for two blond parents to have two brunette children? That stuck out to me all of a sudden at the end.)
We didn't get a big Quinn-Dexter confrontation either. I'm glad, but it seems strange that Quinn would just drop it, even if he knows Dexter helped him. Maybe they'll pick it up again next season or something.
I'll close out this entry with this finale's summing-up-the-season speech:
"You can’t do one thing to make up for another. That’s what Jordan Chase says. But he’s wrong, because we do that all the time. That is the way the world works. We try to make things right. Even me. Lumen said I gave her her life back, a reversal of my usual role. Well the fact is she gave me mine back too. And I’m left not with what she took from me but with what she brought. Eyes that saw me, finally, for who I really am. And this certainty that nothing - nothing - is set in stone. Not even darkness. While she was here she made me think for the briefest moment that I might even have a chance to be human. But wishes, of course, are for children."
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