Read on with caution. Going into exile away from everything that he knows and has become attached. If the central idea from the pilot on was Heres a guy who thinks of himself as a monster and yet yearns to be human. So, in the finale, the final price comes through. Deb, who was his touchstone and soulmate, died and this was the only fitting punishment. He banishes himself, if you will, into exile. When he looks into the camera in the end. Its just emptiness Whats Cancelled Whats on the BubbleTVLINE And thats the cost of being a human being. Do you know how much easier it is to be a sociopath, and not to think and not to have anxiety and not to have hesitation or to love Im hoping that in addition to it making sense for Dexters specific journey, it is an analysis or a look at how hard it is to be a human being. TVLINE. Anything that was a part of his life that gave it meaning is gone. Hes banished himself as far away from Miami and anyone hes loved. TVLINE. Theres always been so much that youve been able to read into Dexter twice before in the series, he looked into the camera, but always with a voiceover. And here hes just got nothing. Nothingness. The rest is silent. Empty. TVLINE. And Deb, who is the closest to him of anyone,. In a completely fully aware. Thats the irony of that. There is a certain bravery because shes living as a vegetable I hope that if that ever happens to me I have a brother who loves me enough to take me off life support. But Dexters now aware enough as a human being that the guilt and the punishment of that will last a lifetime. TVLINE Did you always envision hed end up where he ended up the way he ended up there We felt that it would be really cheating not to have an ending that was specific to what we wanted to say. Im sure there will be a great bit of discussion and controversy about it, but for those of us who have been involved with the show from the very beginning, it feels and it felt right. RELATED For example, the manhunt that would inevitably happen for Harrison and Hannah, or the fallout from Dexter taking Deb from the hospital, etc. All of those beats were fully discussed. There was so much to do in a one hour episode I know people will wonder whats going to happen to Quinn and Harrison and Hannah and everyone, but this has always been Dexters story. All of those things will be left to chew over, but we very specifically didnt feel that those needed to be wrapped up. TVLINE. But those looks are that Quinn completely knew that Dexter went in there with the intention to and did indeed kill Saxon. And Quinn absolutely approves. Finally, at this moment where their relationship is over, they have this relationship of mutual respect. TVLINE. She knows that the hurricane was bearing down. At that moment, she believes that the reason she hasnt heard from Dexter is because he was lost in the storm. TVLINE. Shes already thinking about when she comes down to visit them in Argentina because there are mountains there. Boy genius Dexter wants to stay up and watch the 8 oclock movie with his family, but his mother says hes not old enough. Using one of his inventions makes himself. Arthur Mitchell was a Character in DEXTER that was introduced in Season Four. He was a serial. TVLINE Nooo, because we wanted it to be about Harrisons birth in the hospital and about the responsibilities of being a big brother and a father which inform his decision to. When he was driven just by the Code and the Dark Passenger, he could have just taken out the life support, but as a fully aware human being, hes aware of the consequences and what the cost will be. But he loves his sister enough to know that he cannot leave her behind. TVLINE. Was there ever actual discussion about centering the project on either of those charactersIt was amusing more than anything. We would hear something about a U. S. Marshall spin off or a Deb spin off and we would laugh amongst ourselves, wondering where these ideas were coming from. We just wanted to complete the series eight years is a long time. TVLINE. Its a beautifully written piece of voiceover that sums up the entire series. To me thats a very powerful moment where I understand that he understands what all of this has cost, and what hes giving up. Laguerta, ambitious for a promotion and the media spotlight, decides to have the department pursue a security guard whom they believe is the Ice Truck Killer. Meanwhile, Rita receives an unpleasant visit from her imprisoned ex husbands drug dealer who confiscates her car, leading Dexter to drive her to and from her hotel receptionist job, while at the same time, Dexter zeros in on his next victim, a recently paroled teenage murderer who harbors some dark secrets of his own. Dexter also flashes back to committing his first killing a nurse who he suspected was poisoning his terminally sick stepfather. Elsewhere, Sgt. Doakes continues to hound the drug kingpin Carlos Guerrero, but gets in over his head when a group of dirty cops decide to take matters involving Guerrero into. Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 21 Recap more.