Dexter Season 4 Finale!

POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Saturday, January 2, 2010 19:29
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BIGRICHARD

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:30 PM

Exactly.

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It could either be someone who knows about Dexter's childhood trauma.

But also, I'm sure that Rita wouldn't have been taking a bath if she was just popping home to get whatever, so she would've had Harrison with her, so perhaps him sitting in the blood was just because that's where he ended up, rather than him being specifically placed there, in the blood.

PHOENIXROSE

Friday, December 18, 2009 4:39 PM

Wow, I wonder where they'll go from here.

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I thought, watching it, that maybe they were getting ready to wrap up the series. Maybe Dexter was going to conquer his demons to some extent, stop killing people to be a family man.
Maybe that's still going to happen. The voiced-over thoughts at the end seemed to indicate that now he's sure he can't ever quit, but how is he going to continue now? He has pretty much sole responsibility for three children. He's all they have, aside from their abusive father who's in jail for life, and his parents. What about Rita's parents? They're never mentioned, as far as I remember. So he's going to have to deal with these children now, who have lost their mother and will be dealing with sticky emotions that could very well overwhelm him. What will he do?

I don't know how it's even a question whether it was Trinity. Of course it was Trinity. It would have followed his pattern more to throw her off the warehouse, since she was the 'mother' figure, but his next stage was a bathtub kill, and he wanted to punish Dexter. (Plus a dive off the warehouse wouldn't have allowed Dexter to come home and find her dead, nor allowed the parallel to be drawn between him and his son) When he says "It's already over" I think he was referring to several things in Dexter's life. He was already a killer, he had a need to kill, he couldn't leave it behind for this family, and his family was already broken because Rita was already dead.

On a more general topic, am I the only one who wonders where Dexter gets all his disposable income? For a while, he was maintaining two households in Miami, and he's taken quick trips to faraway places, and money never, ever seems to be an issue for him. He doesn't actually work all that overtime that covers for his habit, so does he just get paid really super well or what?

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FREELANCERTEX

Friday, December 18, 2009 5:34 PM

The bf and I just started watching (netflix on xbox=win), so I'm waaaaay behind the fourth season, but so far we love it. Dexter's internal commentary is just choice XD

CALHOUN

Friday, December 18, 2009 9:33 PM

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PhoenixRose wrote:
Friday, December 18, 2009 06:39

On a more general topic, am I the only one who wonders where Dexter gets all his disposable income?

Hmm, never really thought about that.

I guess Harrys estate would have gone to Dex and Deb.

OPPYH

Thursday, December 31, 2009 5:56 PM

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
On a more general topic, am I the only one who wonders where Dexter gets all his disposable income? For a while, he was maintaining two households in Miami, and he's taken quick trips to faraway places, and money never, ever seems to be an issue for him. He doesn't actually work all that overtime that covers for his habit, so does he just get paid really super well or what?

The starting annual wage for a blood spatter analyst is $60,000. Dexter has been at it a while so lets say he's making $65,000 a year. Add to that overtime(let's tack another 10 grand on top of that $65,000), and the fact that he doesn't really have a life(outside of his job, and killing people) and he is doing pretty well for himself.
Scientists get paid insanely well for the amount of actual work they do.
His trip to London was probably his only luxury trip expense since the start of the show I believe.
Everything else is just gas money, and work related. I'd say Dexter could pay for everything easily. When he got married to Rita then you get the annual salaries of both, and then they really would be doing pretty well.
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SEASON 4 FINALE

Regarding the final episode
I was shocked and disturbed. It really does feel this was the last season of Dexter. Where could they possible go with season 5?
Anyway, I enjoyed the series a great deal, and even if they continue with it, I think I'm done watching.

It would be just too weird without

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VETERAN

Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:46 PM

I took it as "too be continued." Not only for Dexter but for his son.

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Whomever left Harrison in the bathroom with Rita must have known of Dexter's past. Not sure how much Trinity knew. I'm not sure if he ever found where Dex lived.

But if he found out where Dexter lived I think he would have had just enough time to pull it off. After he showed up at the old apartment and realized Dexter didn't live there, he decided to leave town. The only time for him to kill Rita was between the time he shook down his family for cash and time he picked up the Mustang. My guess is when Dex, realizing Trinity would dump his van and take the Mustang, went to the shop and took the oil cap, Trinity was in the tub with Rita.

It's likely that Trinity put Harrison in the room to traumatize him, just like he'd been traumatized, as a way of getting back at Dexter for trying to kill him the night before.

RIVERDANCER

Saturday, January 2, 2010 7:29 PM

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Originally posted by OPPYH:
When he got married to Rita then you get the annual salaries of both, and then they really would be doing pretty well.

Rita didn't seem to work much. She lost her crappy hotel job before they got married, then kinda got into real estate, her work in which was never mentioned again after the baby was born. She was either on maternity leave, had cut way back on her work, or had quit altogether. Scientists making a lot of money makes sense, though. It's entirely feasible that Dexter had a large bank account to draw on, though I have to think an impromptu trip to London, then the house and the move and all must have put at least a dent in it.

I really wonder where they will go from here. If the next season starts and all the messy details have been squared away with some kind of cheat, I won't keep watching.

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