So I just finished watching Dexter Season 4, what an ending! I will warn you now not to read on if you haven't yet seen season 4.
Great poster eh? I love this one, it's Dexter with his baby son Harrison, and I love how many hints it has as it what Dexter moonlights as. Anyway, the end of season 4 was pretty damn shocking. FX showed the last two episodes as a double bill on Friday night, 'Hello Dexter Morgan' and 'The Getaway'. First of the two was mostly about Trinity trying to find Dexter, only he knew him as another name, Kyle Butler. So he searches the phone book to find Kyle Butler. Searches a few places, doesn't find anything. But along the way we learn he has killed one of the Kyle Butlers he chanced upon. The one who dared to challenge why Trinity was trying to break into his house. Dexter is at the crime scene later on, hears the name of the victim and realises by using the false name, he led Trinity there and ultimately Dexter felt responsible for this killing of an innocent man. Later on Trinity follows Dexter back to the Miami Metro police station and finds out his real name by reading his name badge. Episode ends there, then onto the final!
Trinity now has Dexter's real name and sets about trying to find out where he lives. At the same time, Dexter realises the danger his family are in now that Trinity knows his real name, so he sends Astor and Cody with their grandparents to Disneyland, and arranges for Rita and Harrison to go to the Keys for their belated honeymoon, in which Dexter promises he will join them later on. Trinity finds Dexter's old apartment, which Debra is now living in. He figures this out by reading the names off nearby envelopes, and realises he has the wrong place. Dexter then tries to go after Trinity, he ends up driving very fast and clipping off somebody's wing mirror. He catches up with Trinity in a parking lot, drugs him but then when Dexter tries to leave, the guy with the clipped wing mirror has turned up with the police. Guy tries to take a photo, Dexter knocks his phone to the ground, and is immediately arrested. Rita later picks him up, and Dexter goes back to the parking lot to finish what he started, only Trinity has gone.
Dexter then goes to visit Trinity's family, to try and find his whereabouts. Jonah tells Dex that Trinity took stuff to sell then left. The police then turn up at the house and smash in the door, as they have now figured out who the real Trinity killer is. Dex goes and hides in the coffin Trinity made, emerges and acts like he just got in the garage first and points out clues to Debra and Batista. Deb tells Dex she knows Laura Moser was his mother and that the Ice Truck Killer was his brother. Dex acts like he doesn't know. Then, Dex figures out Trinity must be picking up his fixed Mustang. We see Trinity pick up the now black (was white) Mustang and ride out, happy as can be, accompanied by some cheery music. The car starts smoking some way through the journey, so Trinity stops and looks under the bonnet. The oil cap is missing. Dexter emerges from behind the car and hits Trinity on the head with the bonnet, whilst showing him the oil cap. Dex then finally gets Trinity as he wants him, wrapped in cling film on a table, ready to be killed.
Dex uses the room where Trinity took the kidnapped boy Scott as a kill room. As Dex cuts Trinity's cheek, Trinity asks if this is who Dexter is. Then they talk about how Dex loves his family, but Trinity never treated his with any respect. Locking up his daughter, abusing his son and scaring his wife pretty often! Trinity says it's God's will and he accepts it, as if talking about death. Dex lets the toy train go around one last time, and Trinity says "it's all over now, it's all over now." I took this to mean Trinity was accepting his own demise, and then Dex raises the hammer. Cuts to Dex going home to pick up his bag to meet Rita on their honeymoon. He checks his voicemail and Rita mentions she had to come back home as she forgot her ID. Dex then calls Rita, and hears her phone ring in the house. He finds her bag, then he hears Harrison cry. He follows the sound to the bathroom, where he finds Harrison sitting in a pool of blood with Rita lying dead in the bathtub, in the style of a Trinity bathtub kill (sever femoral artery, then strangle whilst she dies). This scene was truly shocking for me, and I found myself shedding a tear for lovely Rita. She didn't deserve to be killed, and of course it I realised Trinity must have found Dex's house and chanced upon Rita as she had returned home to pick up some ID. I will put up pictures, as they are pretty powerful.
Dex checks Rita's pulse, but she is already dead
I like the look on Dex's face here, captures what we all were feeling
Poor little Harrison, sitting in his mother's blood. Very similar to a young Dex sitting in his own mother's blood in a shipping container
