She was the thing that could, if it's even possible, hurt him the most. He had to lose something and he had to hurt. I don't feel like law enforcement was going to be able to put him in a cell small enough or cuffs tight enough to enforce natural law. And I don't think you could kill any more of her boyfriends. The price you pay for being a fully alive, aware human being is the true nature of his crimes.Ĭarpenter: I had said at the PaleyFest that I had played her from A to Z, and I really didn't think there was a chance for a happy ending for her.
Here, Deb is the most meaningful person in his life and he's the most advanced he's been as a human being. Just like in Season 4, when Dexter played fast and loose with Trinity ( John Lithgow). In attempting to fake it, he became it.Ĭolleton: It was never about Deb's story. I don't think Harrison has any tendencies. It's just that Hannah is going to have to raise Harrison. Is that something you could explore in a potential spin-off?Ĭolleton: There have been a million spin-off ideas right now, but absolutely nothing is being contemplated. But I was always curious to know whether Harrison would've inherited Dexter's urges. She will now have to raise him in Argentina. It's purposefully, obviously ambiguous when he says that it's inevitable that he kills everyone he loves and he's got to save Hannah and Harrison - the two people he loves the most - from himself.ĭid you ever consider not including that final scene with Dexter as a lumberjack and leave it up to viewers to speculate whether he really did die or not?Ĭolleton: No, we didn't because that's too ambiguous. The specifics of how he got there, I don't think he had ahead of time, but it was the furthest away from the warmth, the sun and the light of Florida to a place that is bereft of all of that.
He's exiled himself from everything he cared about.ĭid Dexter always plan to fake his own death and go into hiding or did he plan to take his own life when he drove into that hurricane?Ĭolleton: We have seen over the years that Dexter has a lot of different passports and IDs. He is serving out a very solitary sentence. You say it's nothing, but I took it as maybe there was hope for him in the future.Ĭolleton: At this moment, it is silence. That look on Dexter's face is a little ambiguous. He tried to be human and now he's completely shut down and there is nothing. So Dexter no longer feeds his Dark Passenger in the future?Ĭolleton: He's no longer doing anything.
It's a far harder punishment to exile himself to this lonely, solitary existence where he has no network and no nothing, and, as he turns and looks into the camera, not even his voiceover. Killing himself physically is too easy a punishment. He has a bit of voiceover that, to me, so sums up the whole series, which is right before he goes to take Deb away, he's on the balcony and he says, "For so long, all I wanted was to be like other people, to feel what they felt, but now that I do, I just want it to stop." It is about the burden. This is the final price that he pays for wanting to be a human being. Sara Colleton: I suppose in a very simplistic way, but also I'd like to think there are layers to that, in that the paradox of Dexter has always been that he's a monster who yearns to be human. No one is going to set him in the water and tell him to rest in peace. My takeaway: Serial killers don't get a happy ending.
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