A huge moment for Deb: She chooses not to pull back the curtain to discover the identity of Victim 13 and her partner, allowing Lumen and Dexter to go free. Why did you decide to go that way with the story?
Deb has had a really interesting growth over the past five years. If you remember her from year 1, her energy was all over the place and she was coltish and insecure—this delightful unfocused character who slowly over the years has learned to focus all of that energy and she has become a formidable detective. But part of becoming a detective and pursuing the dark side is an awareness that anyone who takes a walk on the wild side never comes back all the way.
So you see Deb starting to make that turn. One of the things that Jennifer [Carpenter] and I talked about was the levels that Deb would have to go through in that one scene to get to that moment.
Part the curtain for a minute, take a look. Will we have to wait until the end game for Deb to finally find out the truth about Dexter? We really want to figure out how long we want the show to run, so that we [can have] an end game. I will not let this show end with a whimper—it has to end with a bang…. And he completely believes in the transformation from Eugene Greer to Jordan Chase—as he lay dying, that is still his greatest accomplishment….
I thought he gave an amazing ballsy performance. It was before he got into the car—he realized that Jordan would know he was coming for him and would have a surprise prepared for him, so Dexter prepared himself for the worst possible scenario.
I think we pulled off Lumen. Society holds women up to a different standard of behavior, so having a woman who wanted to avenge what was done to her and is single-minded about it was a very hard thing to pull off. And yet Julia played it so real that you care about her, and you end up rooting for her and for this odd romance. But that could be something very interesting for next year. She was absolutely fearless in dealing with Dexter. But we had so much going on that we could never really explore that character and that was a regret.
No, we always want to bring in characters with as much dimension as possible. She is a wonderful actress. The season became so complicated with so many characters because we were breaking form a bit that we never got to explore hers to the fullest…. Kyle Butler—and Jonah [Brando Eaton]—is still a hanging chad. This is a door that can be reopened. Lumen almost escapes but she hesitates to enter a car with young men and Dexter captures her.
Dexter takes Lumen by force to Boyd's marsh and shows her the dead barrel girls. He insists that he saved her from the same fate. To prove that she can trust him, Dexter gives Lumen a knife. She is not delighted to see him, especially when he presents her with a plane ticket to Minneapolis. Lumen, however, is filled with the desire to hunt down her attackers, which Dexter advises against. Dexter looks into Boyd's past, hoping to find a link to his associates.
Dexter discovers blood and a thumbprint. To his surprise, when he runs them, they belong to Lumen. He finds a wall covered with sticky notes and obsessive research, much like Frank Lundy 's Trinity research. Dexter also notices that she has been sleeping in the closet as a way to keep her safe. Dexter confronts Lumen at the Boardwalk Cafe and again insists that she give up her manhunt. The two once again part ways, as both look for Robert Brunner.
After confirming that Brunner is rapist, Dexter finds him living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway with other released sex offenders. Dexter strikes up a conversation and injects him with M He ends up releasing an unconscious Brunner near the bridge. The men in the area assume that she's just a skinny guy. As she searches for Brunner, her fear and anxiety return.
She finally spots Brunner, her target. However, Dexter intervenes and, after a brief struggle, he convinces her that Brunner is not one of her attackers. Lumen is horrified at her mistake and agrees to leave Miami. Later, at the airport , Dexter and Lumen bid each other farewell and he finally tells her his last name. After Dexter leaves, Lumen is required to undergo a body search.
A female agent pats down her body, as man after man passes by, and it causes Lumen to suffer an anxiety attack. In the final scenes, Lumen enters a taxi outside the airport, revealing that she never boarded the plane out of Miami.
Donning a black wig, spaghetti strap dress, and high heels, Lumen heads off to a bar called Hurricane 26 in search of her attackers.
She catches a whiff of old sweat and chlorine on a man and recognizes the odor. Thoroughly annoyed, Dexter throws Lance, unconscious and wrapped in plastic, into the back of his car. When Dexter arrives at the warehouse, he and Lumen begin to argue. Dexter is angry that the man escaped, leaving a pool of blood. Dexter orders Lumen to describe the entire scenario and he locates four bullet holes in the area, proving that the man was shot once.
Dexter follows a blood trail until he finds the guy hiding under a floor grate. He pulls the man out and removes the ID from his wallet. His name is Dan Mendell, a dentist for children, and seemingly harmless. Meanwhile, Dexter receives a text that police are on the way to the warehouse because someone heard gunshots and called it in. Dexter thinks Lumen shot the wrong guy until he overhears Dan on Lumen's phone telling an associate that she survived.
When Dan threatens Lumen and calls her a cunt, Dexter snaps his neck. Lumen washes down the crime scene with a hose as Dexter gets blood-free clothes for them. Dexter orders Lumen to go to his house and gives her the address and key. He then chases after Lance and catches him in the nick of time. Dexter strangles him and sets it up to appear that Lance and Dan killed each other during a kinky sex encounter.
After she grabs a towel, Lumen and Dexter sit by the tub and discuss their pasts. Dexter, having not helped Rita, decides to help Lumen. He brings her food and asks for details about her attackers. She tells him about " Watch Guy ," who kept her tied to a chair, blindfolded. Dexter is called to a crime scene on a public street. He finds a wrecked pickup truck, five dead women lying on the street, and five old barrels nearby. He recognizes them from the marsh and realizes that someone attempted to move the bodies, but had an accident.
The driver is nowhere in sight, having run away. Dexter hurries to the truck to look for evidence, but Vince Masuka has beaten him to it. They are fingerprints that later match to Cole Harmon and a folded jacket, which Dexter assumes belongs to the Suit-and-Tie Guy, who always folded his jacket before raping Lumen. Jordan and Cole show up at the station to clear their names, and Dexter manages to take a picture of them.
Dexter tells her that she can quit now since Florida has the death penalty. However, she insists on killing the men herself and he understands. However, he first must derail the police investigation into Cole.
Dexter and Lumen return to Boyd's house to remove all evidence of her presence. She fears entering the attic where she was tied up for two days.
She describes how she chewed on the rope for hours until she freed herself, only to see him kill Boyd. During a second sweep, Masuka finds it.
Instantly, Boyd becomes the new prime suspect in the " Barrel Girls Case. Again at the station, Cole and Jordan deny that Boyd is a friend, but a stalker who attended the seminars. Suddenly, Cole attacks him from behind. The house alarm goes off as Lumen appears out of nowhere and beats the crap out of Cole with a flashlight.
The two escape before Cole regains consciousness and recognizes them. Dexter brings Harrison to the house and Lumen takes him into her arms.
During a break in Jordan's seminar, Dexter gets a call from Lumen. She hasn't found a connection between the five men in the photo, but did learn that Cole is a former Marine, dishonorably discharged for beating up an officer.
Lumen says Cole is dangerous, and he's the one who left the marks on her back. The next day, they meet at a cafe; when he hugs her, she cringes. He says she looks beautiful and asks if she's met someone else, which she denies. The two talk for awhile about their past in Minneapolis, and then he asks her to go with him on a trip around the world.
When Lumen expresses reluctance, he says to think about it and tell him her decision the next night. However, when Lumen never shows up, he rips up her plane ticket and leaves Miami. Dexter books the hotel room next to Cole's and gives Lumen a list of supplies for to pick up: duct tape, polyethylene sheeting, and garbage bags. Lumen brings the supplies to the hotel, and she helps Dexter cover their room in plastic.
That night, Dexter and Lumen wait for Cole to return to his room, which is next to theirs. Dexter plans to ambush him and inject him with M However, when a girl starts screaming in Cole's room, Dexter assumes the worst.
He sneaks into Cole's room, only to find him engaging in sex with a blonde woman. Dexter is irritated that he must wait until the next day to kill Cole. The woman's screams cause Lumen to cover her ears, while reliving her nightmarish ordeal. Dexter tries to comfort her, and she finally sleeps for several hours.
The next day, before Dexter grabs Cole, Jordan calls him up on stage during a seminar to express how he felt when Rita was murdered. Lumen texts Dexter, runs back to their room, and locks the door. Suddenly, Cole busts through the connecting door. He holds Lumen down and begins to choke the life out of her. Just in time, Dexter intervenes and puts Cole in a sleeper hold, rendering him unconscious.
When Cole wakes up, he is wrapped in plastic and ready for the kill. He refuses to tell them the names of the remaining rapists.
Instead, Cole smirks and mumbles, "Huey, Dewey, and Louie. As Dexter holds his knife above Cole, Lumen nods. Then, as she watches, Dexter stabs Cole in his heart. Stiles says she read a lot of literature to effectively play the victim, whom Dexter ultimately transforms into a revenge killer. The Hollywood Reporter: How much did you know about Lumen or her story arc when you took the role? Julia Stiles: I actually knew very little. I met with producer John Goldwyn, and he gave me the broad strokes about what the arc of the character would be.
I did ask if I would end up killing anyone, and he said yes. At that point, I decided to do it. I was more interested in how she would become more active.
The revenge part of it is what intrigued me. THR: The fact that Lumen ultimately got to kill someone is what sealed the deal for you to take the part? Stiles: I was a big fan. Then I went back and watched from the beginning. Stiles: Absolutely! My one hesitation was that his shoes are big ones to fill.
I at least comforted myself with that idea. If I thought too much about how great he was and how much the fan base really responded to his work, I would have been paralyzed.
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