And it is over. Two months we have been touring Iron Lake through the eyes of a reappeared Dexter Morgan and the hour of the end has come. An end that seemed tragic, definitive … what we did not imagine is to what extent it would occur a final ending to what was started more than fifteen years ago by James Manos Jr., Clyde Phillips and company.
Of course, from here spoilers for the final episode of ‘Dexter: New Blood’.
At the end of the previous episode we saw how “the dog is dead, the rage is over” is not always like that. In fact, Kurt Caldwell (Clancy Brown) had one last bullet in the form of irrefutable evidence. around the murder of his son by “Jimbo” (Michael C. Hall). If to this is added that Angela (Julia Jones) has been confirming for half a season that her boyfriend is a serial killer, then you can imagine.
In fact, Dexter knows that his hours are counted at Iron Lake. Now that he’s reconciled with his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) and into their family killer team, his plans are to move to a big city (Los Angeles). where to go more unnoticed when releasing the dark passenger. However, father and son will have a handicap.
Without escape
Finding one of the titanium screws (the one Kurt gave Dexter episodes earlier) among the remains of the fire, a confident Angela decides to stop Dexter Morgan. And Dexter, beyond raising a reasonable doubt, doesn’t seem to be working for him to get out of almost certain incarceration no longer for the murder of Matt but for being the Butcher of the Bay … at least in the eyes of his (ex) girlfriend.
There is one thing that remains strange and that is that the script of the episode puts honey on our lips, promising a painful reunion that finally does not happen. I mean the one of Angel batista (David Zayas), whom we see rushing to Iron Lake to collaborate with Angela in her arrest of Dexter, convinced that he killed Dexter Maria laghertto. An encounter that does not occur due to the circumstances but whose possibility provokes a lot of curiosity.
With everything against it, Dexter needs to create a distraction and a certain hiding place from his opponent in the season seems to give him the perfect opportunity. Thus, as Angela finds the painful solution to the case that has plagued her all her life, Dexter murders Agent Logan (Alano Miller) and calls his son to go out of town with him. Goes wrong.
Thus, in a shocking twist, a Harrison who finds out what has happened so that Dexter has been able to escape (which implies that his father has broken the code of which he presumes) grabs the rifle and, aided by a father who accepts his final fate, shoots. Dexter is dead. Long live Dexter.
The end due
An inevitable execution and that, according to Phillips, was something that arose very early in the development process:
“We knew this had to happen and I think it had to happen for both the audience and the character. Seeing him trapped again and again and escaping again and again is a disservice to the audience. And I think there is a certain truth in this narrative, in the authenticity of the narrative. “
Harrison gets away with it, out of Angela’s pure mercy. Thus, as the boy leaves town, he witnesses how the FBI and all available police forces arrive at Iron Lake. We hear from Hall for the last time in what the letter Dexter wrote to Hannah is read. A closing that reaffirms that idea of legacy in which the series has navigated.
Taking a general look, I have been satisfied with this new ending to the Dexter Morgan story. With its flaws and its virtues ‘Dexter: New Blood’ It has given back to its public that desire to be aware (and nails), week by week, what will happen.
And the future, who knows. Since the series closes opening the possibility that we can seeer in years to come to Harrison wandering from place to place trying to overcome his traumas and control his own dark passenger. Phillips, of course, is open