I was hoping we'd have a chance to speak again.
We don't have anything to talk about.
Oh I beg to differ, I think we have a lot to discuss. After all, you are a client.
Former. Your program didn't work for me.
Regardless, when I see someone on a self-destructive path I can't just stay silent. Often people get involved with someone who is toxic to them, unstable and dangerous, bad things happen.
Open. [Chase opens his mouth, and Dexter takes a DNA sample]
You're just now putting your life back together after a terrible tragedy. I implore you, don't invite another one. For yourself or for what's left of your family.
[After an intense silence] You know, I'm glad that you didn't touch any of them.
Because this DNA test will clear you. Leaving you all to me, and to her. Your time is up.
What else did Jordan say?
[Examining his knives] That you were toxic. And dangerous, that I was on a self-destructive path.
That sounds like a threat.
[As Lumen comes into the room] He was trying to make me doubt [turns to look at her] you.
[She is dressed in all black "serial-killer garb"] What do you think?
[He stares at her, clearly finding her beautiful] You look...
You can tell me the truth.
[Lumen enters the kill room, where Dexter is waiting and Alex Tilden is restrained]
I look different don't I? Without my hands tied behind my back. But you recognize me, I can tell. [Dexter removes Tilden's gag]
TTilden
I never wanted to do any of it.
TTilden
It-it wasn't me. It-it was Jordan. It's all Jordan. You know, he has this way...
Of getting inside your head, getting you in touch your primal nature.
TTilden
He made me do things I never would have done.
[Angry] No, [putting a finger on his head] you made me do things I never would have done. Ever. EVER!
TTilden
What do you people want? I can give you Jordan Chase.
TTilden
Well, what do you want? Everybody wants something. I mean, that-that-that's what brought us to this fucking unfortunate situation. Am I right? I'm a banker. I can get money, lots of it. We can work this out, just tell me what's this gonna cost? Just give me a number!
[Leans in close to whisper] Thirteen. [She smiles at him]
TTilden
No, I- (Dexter regags him)
[Walks over to a table and picks a knife, voiceover] There's a first time for everything. A first step, a first word, a first kiss, a first kill. Somehow you know when the time is right. [He gives Lumen the knife, and then says aloud] Aim for the heart.
[Lumen stares at the pictures of the other victims for a while, before she closes her eyes in grief. She walks up to the table that Tilden is restrained on, and climbs on top of it. She then stabs him in the heart. She pants in horror for a few seconds, and then manages to control herself]
Watching these DVDs, watching it actually happen, is worse than any fucking crime scene. What these women went through, I don't know, maybe it's a fucking blessing that they're dead. No one could go through something like this and have a life again.
People may be stronger than you think.
Believe me, on this one, you're wrong. There's no coming back from something like this.
Disc 13, it was damaged. I was actually grateful I didn't have to watch another one of these.
Have you been here all night?
Yeah. And I think it was worth it cos I think I'm starting to figure it out. I went through Cole Harmon's contacts. And do you remember that weird plastic-wrap murder a few weeks back - those two guys at the warehouse?
Yeah, one of them was a dentist.
A kids' dentist. Dan Mendell. Well, it turns out he and Cole are buddies. They fucking poke each other on Facebook. And you see that ring on the DVD? It matches photos taken at the warehouse crime scene. So, I think he's one of these guys. So, Dan the dentist is dead. He was shot to death. Looks like somebody attacked Cole Harmon in his house. And Boyd Fowler's disappeared. This is a group of guys that like to get together and they like to do this for fun. So, what else do they have in common? They're all missing. But they're not on the run, I can tell you that. Not one of them bought a plane ticket, or emptied their bank account or used a fucking credit card. Someone is taking these guys out.
Well, at first I thought they were turning on each other. Then I thought, "That doesn't make sense. Why would they do that after all this time?" So, I started asking myself, "Who would want to take these guys out?" And you know the first person that came to mind? Me.
Someone who knows what these cocksuckers have been up to and wants to give them what they deserve.
So, what are you saying? There's a vigilante out there?
Yeah, I think that's what I'm saying. Yes.
There are 13 DVDs and only 12 victims. So I'm thinking that one of the barrel girls escaped and now she's after the men that abducted her. And she is hunting them and she is killing them.
How is that even possible? The barrel girls are all slight of build. Alex Tilden was what, 175 pounds?
I don't know. A man - someone she trusts. Someone who cares about her - a father, brother, husband, boyfriend.
So now it's vigilantes in love.
Yeah, like Romeo and Juliet - except they didn't kill anyone. No, more like Bonnie and...Clyde.
[Voiceover: Great. They ended up dead in a bullet-riddled car.]
[voiceover] Lumen said I gave her her life back... A reversal of my usual role. Well the fact is, she gave me mine back too. And I'm left not with what she took from me but with what she brought. Eyes that saw me, finally, for who I really am. And this certainty. That nothing, nothing is set in stone. Not even darkness. While she was here, she made me think, for the briefest moment, that I might even have a chance to be human.
Where is she? Your tenant...who was staying at the house.
I'm sorry. Did you do it? What you wanted to do? You said she needed your help. Did you help her?
And did it work? Did it make you feel better? About what happened to Mom?
[Voiceover: You can't do one thing to make up for another. That's what Jordan Chase says. But he's wrong, because we do that all the time. That is the way the world works. We try to make things right. Even me.]
