Dexter - "Remember The Monsters?"

by Lee Padrick, September 24, 2013

WARNING:  This review contains spoilers

Dexter has ended its run, and all I can say is .. I enjoyed it.

I watched this series finale and decided to enjoy the last hour of the world of Miami Metro.  

We dealing with the aftermath of the Saxon-Clayton-Deb confrontation, and Miami Metro is on the scene (its sad seeing some of my favorite characters over the past eight seasons for the last time).  Deb is taken to the hospital and Quinn is with her in a touching moment.  I like Quinn, his character caught a lot of grief over the years, but it was fun watching his tribulations on the force.  Deb is looking like she's going to be OK, she's cursing.

And Dex, Hannah, and Harrison are in the airport.  Elway stopped Blake Shelton's closet for today's clothes and is in hot pursuit.  But Dexter pulls a classic Bay Harbor Butcher con and gets Elway detained by airport security.  Sawyer would be proud.  


The airport is shut down and our Argentinian-bound familia are going to get away via the parking lot (I think I missed something here) when Matthews calls Dexter and tells him about Deb.  So Dex and Harrison head to the hospital while Hannah finds a hotel to check out alternative routes to Penquin-ville.  Elway gets loose from the TSA and calls the U.S. Marshals Office, where he finds out Clayton has been killed in action.     

Meanwhile, an injured Saxon is boosting cars, assaulting people, and forcing a vet to treat and sew up his bullet wound.  And he's on a mission to kill Deb in the hospital, where all the cops are.      

As Will McAvoy in The Newsroom said, "Sometimes its just one thing." 

The "one thing" is that the hospital is where ALL THE COPS ARE!  So even a homicidal mastermind like Oliver Saxon has a good probability of getting caught. Which is what happens when a rising star in the Criminal Minds universe makes that one wrong move.  That one thing.  Like showing up at the hospital where ALL THE COPS ARE!  Batista takes down the wannabe, with Quinn's help (and Dexter) and the ultimate antagonist is defeated.  Except Dexter figures out a way to get into the interrogation room and kill Saxon with a pen.  Its all on videotape, but Batista and Quinn let Dexter go.  Because he was Justified.  You can do that in Miami, I saw it on a show once.

Oh, and Debra dies.

After some flashbacks.  

Dexter gets Hannah and Harrison on a plane after a tearful goodbye.  Then takes his 29' center console with twin 250 hp Yamahas (with only 400 hours on them) to the hospital and ties up at the dock, takes Debra's body out of the hospital to the boat, and heads offshore into the path of Hurricane Laura.  Actually, Laura looks like a CGI twister and the seas are smooth.  He drops her body overboard before heading into the storm front, with a voiceover reminding us that Dexter destroys everything he gets close to.  

Hannah checks the Drudge Report on her IPad at an outdoor restaurant in South America and sees that a forensics tech for Miami Metro is missing and feared dead.  Because the Coast Guard found wreakage of the "Slice of Life" and no survivors.

I'm OK with this ending.

Because he's a serial killer.

But he's last seen driving a logging truck in the snowy hills of New Hampshire.  Or maybe that was another show.  Its been a long week.  But he somehow survived the CGI.

You can do that in Miami.

So long, Miami Metro.  



Random Thoughts:

- That didn't look like much of a hurricane. 

- If LaGuerta was honored with a bench, I have to think that Matthews can find some money in the budget (lapsed salaries) to dedicate a ... help me, here.

- A Debra Morgan endowment at the local university's School of Linguistics.  

- Masuka can administer a "Dexter Morgan" intern scholarship!

- Shout out to Hannah and the tranquilizer, nice touch.

- Like Lost, Dexter should have stopped after four seasons.


What did you think?

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