LumenIs that true...what you said about your wife?
Lumen
How did it happen?
Knife...painful and cruel.
Lumen
I'm sorry that I cut you. I thought you were a monster, like Boyd. I thought you were going to kill me...or worse. I was locked up. I don't know where, or for how long. All I know is that it was horrible. And I thought...it would never stop.
But it has stopped. He's dead. It's over. You can go home.
Lumen
I don't think so.
You can. I read your letter. I know you have a family who loves you. You should go home to them.
Lumen
It's not that simple.
Lumen
Boyd wasn't the only one who did this to me. There were others. It's not over.
Lumen
I know you. What you are, deep down. Aside from your police job and your "extracurricular activities". You're a father. I saw the pictures out there. Three children?
The two oldest are with their grandparents. Their dad's mom and dad.
Lumen
You have a son?
Harrison. He just started talking, today. He's tremendous.
Lumen
It's just the two of you?
And an Irish superhero nanny. I never thought my life would turn out like this.
Lumen
I had imagined a totally different life for myself too. I always did everything by the book, you know? Go, go, go. I never stopped to think. There was high school, and college, and graduate school. Owen. We were gonna get married at the house that I grew up in. On my wedding day I, I tried on the dress, and I looked at the window in the backyard where the aisle was, and I saw everything that that aisle was leading to. Babies, and matching dinnerware. Sunday barbecues. And I couldn't breathe. I had to get out of there, and find something ... more. Then, everything happened, and [pause] I actually thought "This is what I get. For trying to live my own life." Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
Lumen
But tonight, I felt this like, this... peace. And it's because he's dead. [Pause, and then painfully] And I know that it's not gonna last. And when it wears of, I'm gonna have to find the rest of them. [tearfully] Because that's the only way that I'll find that peace again. I don't even have a name for what I'm feeling.
[voiceover] I do. The Dark Passenger. I can't get revenge for Rita's death, but I can help Lumen avenge what was done to her. [Pause, and then aloud] How many more were there?
Lumen
The night that I was taken, I had gone to a bar. I thought that they spotted me there, so I went back to that same bar night after night, hoping that one of them would walk through the door. I wore a disguise.
Lumen
A wig, so they wouldn't recognize me.
I know what a disguise is for. So, you went to the bar, you waited for one of them to show up. Where? What bar?
Lumen
Hurricane 26.
Hurricane 26 is all the way over on Ocean Avenue. How'd you get all the way out here?
Lumen
That's what I've been trying to tell you.
Lumen
Tonight one of them showed up. He didn't know it was me, so I...I flirted with him. I asked him if he wanted to go someplace else. We got in the car, I pulled out my gun, and I forced him to drive. This place seemed deserted, so we stopped, and I marched him inside.
Lumen
No. I asked him for the names of the other men. He called me a cunt. Then I shot him.
Lumen
[Dexter has asked her to describe her attackers] Besides the ones we've already ... taken care of? There was watch-guy.
Lumen
I would be tied to a chair, blindfolded. Sometimes I wouldn't even know if he was there until I heard this watch by my ear. And then he'd lean in and whisper "Tick, tick, tick, that´s the sound of your life running out."
Lumen
Suit and tie. He'd take off his jacket and fold it, very carefully, and then lay it on a chair. Like he didn't want to mess it up. The suit guy I'd know, he always took the blindfold off. I guess he thought I'd be dead soon.
[voiceover] Jordan promises change. But he also accepts credit cards. [Answering his phone] Lumen?
Lumen
Can you talk? Or are you about to have a major life revelation?
No, that came around 9:00am, when I realized that I really wanted a doughnut.
[Lumen and Dexter have just set up the kill room. Dexter is now putting up pictures of the other victims]
Lumen
Cole's other victims. Why did you put their pictures up?
Cole needs to see what he's done.
Lumen
What do you get out of all this?
I like knowing that the men who did this to you won't do it to anyone else.
Lumen
This isn't about me.
Lumen
Look at all this. If you didn't know me you'd still be in this room. Boyd wasn't your first. You've been doing this a long time.
[Dexter and Lumen have Cole restrained in the kill room]
I'm going to take this gag out of your mouth; but if you make one sound I don't like I'm gonna cut your eyes out. Blink so I know you understand. [Cole blinks, so Dexter removes the gag]. We know about Boyd, and Dan the Dentist, and now you. Who were the others?
Lumen
The guy who held a watch up to my ear? "Tick, tick, tick, that's the sound of your life running out."
CCole
[smirks, but doesn't say anything]
[holds a knife to Cole's throat] What are their names?
CCole
[whispers something]
Lumen
What did he say?
CCole
[defiantly] Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
[Regags him, and then turns his head to the pictures of his victims] Look at the women, whose lives you destroyed. [Forces Cole's eyes open] Look. Death was the only kindness you showed them. [Dexter slices Cole's cheek and takes a sample of his blood, as Lumen watches with a mixture of fascination and horror. Picks up his knife] It's a shame that you can only die once. [He then looks at Lumen, who nods in approval. Dexter then stabs Cole in the heart. After a long pause] You said I've done this before, that's true. This is who I am. When I was a child my mother was murdered in front of me. It shattered me. I've done this ever since. Because, for the longest time it was the only way that I could feel ... unbroken. And then, Rita was killed, and none of this made sense any more. [Long pause] Until now. [He picks up the blood slide and holds it out to her]
[voiceover] Miguel couldn't, my father couldn't, can anyone live with the truth of what I am? [Lumen takes the blood slide] Is Lumen what will make me whole?
[LaGuerta is blaming Debra, instead of herself, for the shootout at the club]
Lumen
[answering it]' Dexter?
No, it's Jordan Chase. But I'm looking for Dexter, is he there?
Lumen
[terrified] He - He's not available right now.
Lumen
[still terrified] Uh-huh.
Tell him, I'm just checking in and I'd like him to schedule another appointment. As soon as possible.
Lumen
Okay, I will. Bye.
Hang on a second. Tell Dexter one more thing.
Lumen
[controlling herself] Okay.
Tell him time is of the essence. [With deliberate slowness] Tick, tick, tick, [Lumen appears to be close to tears] that's the sound of his life running out. Could you be sure to tell him that? Take care, Lumen. [He hangs up, leaving Lumen gasping in terror]
That's the one I was telling you about - his new girlfriend.
She's my tenant. Lumen, this is my sister Debra. Deb, Lumen.
I didn't know he had a tenant.
Lumen
Didn't know he had a sister. I'm gonna...go check on the girls.
Seriously? That's your tenant?
She hasn't really moved in yet.
But you know her well enough to trust her with your son.
It was an emergency. I thought the girls had been taken.
Why are you keeping her a secret?
Really? Cos at the station we asked you who you were spending your time with. You didn't think to mention the hot blonde that's living in your house?
Didn't seem...like it mattered. Obviously she didn't take the girls.
That's not the point. I'm not judging you. Believe me - I understand rebound as much as anybody. But don't you think it's a little soon?
Come on. She's your tenant - really?
There's nothing going on.
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