Dexter · Season 5
I didn't notice you last time - you new here?
Just started three days ago.
I don't remember so much security either.
Mr Chase says he's beefing things up.
[Voiceover: That's no surprise. Lumen and I have been knocking off his friends one by one.]
You gonna introduce us?
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.
Didn't know he had a sister. I'm gonna...go check on the girls.
Seriously? That's your tenant?
Yes.
Where's all her stuff?
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?
I'm not.
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?
I'm not on any rebound.
Come on. She's your tenant - really?
There's nothing going on.
Fine. I give up.
I want you to know something. If Lumen's your girlfriend, I want you to tell me.
OK. But she's not.
She's not just your tenant, though.
She's a friend...who's been through some really...really bad stuff. I'm helping her deal with it.
Does it make you feel better?
What do you mean?
About Mom. Being there for Lumen...does it make you feel better about what happened to Mom?
Dexter ...I Love You. You know that?
DNA report's from the coroner's office point to multiple perps.
Do we have any names?
No. What we do have are partial sequences from seriously degraded DNA. But the evidence confirms what we knew about Boyd Fowler; and also points with a high probability to Cole Harmon, Jordan Chase's head of security.
As you know Cole Harmon was our original suspect in the case...
[voiceover] Until I pointed them toward Boyd Fowler.
He is now our main target again.
[voiceover] A target you'll never hit. He's already been buried at sea.
[After the discovery of the DVD's showing the men raping and torturing the women, and looking at pictures of it.]
[voiceover] Despite having considered myself a monster for as long as I can remember, it still comes as a shock when I am confronted with the depth of evil that exists in this world.
[As Dexter enters the apartment] I've been trying to get a handle on this Emily Birch, and there is nothing. She graduates high school in 1992 and then it's just a big blank. Except for those DUIs you found. [Noticing his somber expression] What?
We found this, at a search at Cole's. [He takes out the DVD that has her torture on it] The men who hurt you, they made DVDs of everything they did.
[After a long pause, reading the number on the DVD] Thirteen. Is that me? [Dexter nods, she takes the DVD] [With a mixture of fear and shame] Did everyone watch it?
No. I managed to get it out of evidence in time.
[With even more fear and shame] Did you- did you watch it?
Only enough to make sure I had the right one. Are you sure you want to keep it?
Number Thirteen. That's what I was to them. [Drops the DVD on the desk with disgust] [She struggles to contain herself] It must have been hard for you to get that. [Dexter does not respond] I know that you risk your life, every day that you're with me. [Crying] You've been my only way through this.
Well I guess, we both met each other at the right time.
Watching these DVDs, watching it actually happen, is way 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.
[Long pause] People may be stronger than you think.
Believe me on this one, you're wrong. There's no coming back from something like this.
[Jordan Chase is submitting to a DNA test]
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.
Really? Why is that?
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...
I look stupid don't I?
No, no, no.
You can tell me the truth.
You look...perfect.
[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]
I never wanted to do any of it.
Really?
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.
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!
What do you people want? I can give you Jordan Chase.
We've got Jordan Chase.
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]
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]
Are you okay?
[Panting, but certain] Yes.
[voiceover] Harry tried to mold me in the image of the monster he thought I was. He told me to flee human connection. So that became a way of life for me. When I couldn't run, I put up barriers to protect myself. And to protect others from me. [Later, after they have made love, as they lie in each other's arms] But with Lumen, I'm someone different. In her eyes, I'm not a monster at all.
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.
Where's 13?
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.
Who?
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.
You?
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?
Minimum.
Maybe she had help.
Like who?
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.]
[to Lumen] Don't be sorry your darkness is gone. I'll carry it for you - always. I'll keep it with mine.
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