LaGuerta goes to Deb and tells her to wait until Dexter tests the blood on Quinn’s shoe. “In the meantime, have some faith,” she says. “Don’t assume the worst.” She puts her hand on Deb’s shoulder and walks away. Considering how they’ve been at odds with each other so often, this was a nice moment. An officer then comes in and says they got a hit on the stake and notify from a street vendor.
Chase throws Dexter down the stairs and asks him if he thought he could make up for Rita’s death by helping Lumen, and Dexter says no. “You can’t save one thing to make up for another,” says Chase, while running his fingers over all of Dexter’s knives. Just as he notices that one is missing, Dexter stabs him in the foot, nailing him to the ground. He then grabs him by the neck and chokes him out before untying Lumen.
Deb speaks with the street vendor, but they have trouble understanding each other, as he only speaks Spanish. The man is able to tell her which was Jordan went and that there’s a camp in that direction.
When Chase wakes up, he’s tied down on the table. Dexter tells Lumen that she should be the one to do it. “That’s not just for me, that’s for everyone that you hurt. Even Emily,” she tells him as he stabs him. Lumen suggests leaving the body there, but Dexter says they don’t want a murder investigation. He says they’ll leave his car outside to move the body, wait a month and then tip off the police about the camp.
As this discussion is taking place, Deb arrives and walks down into the basement. She comes upon Chase’s dead body and hears them behind a thin plastic hanging sheet. She tells them not to move and to drop what they’re holding. She tells them that they know who they are. She says she’s going to call it in and in an hour, the camp will be swarming with police. “If I were you, I’d be gone by then,” she tells them before backing away.
Deb visits Quinn, who is now in a holding cell in the station. She tells him she’s not judging him though she doesn’t know what he did or didn’t do. “I’ll be here no matter what happens,” she says.
Dexter and Lumen dump the bags containing Chase into the harbor. “Did you ever think we’d get here?” she asks. “It’s like what your sister said. It’s a miracle.” “Home?” asks Dexter. She nods.
The next day at work, Dexter has to test the blood on Quinn’s shoe. “You think you know someone, and then it turns out you don’t,” says Deb, wondering about the blood. Her and Dexter both know she’s been burned badly before.
Dexter returns home to make breakfast, but stops because Lumen looks troubled. “I didn’t sleep at all last night,” she says. “I have to leave. Today.” Dexter is floored. “This morning, I could tell it was gone. I don’t feel it anymore. The need.” Dexter knows what she means. ‘Her dark passenger, it’s vanished,’ he thinks. He tells her not to go, and she says she doesn’t want to. He throws the plate he was holding and sinks down to the ground. “You’re right about everything,” he tells her. “We’re not the same. Don’t be sorry your darkness is gone. I’ll carry it for you always. I’ll keep it with mine.”
Harrison’s birthday party is that afternoon, and everyone is there. Batista gives LaGuerta a necklace, and says that he saw her trying so hard with Deb, it makes him want to do the same. It’s nice to see these two work to put their troubles behind them after a rocky season. Deb and Quinn arrive, and Deb gets a hand for solving the barrel girls case. Quinn’s presence obviously means that Dexter fudged the evidence to exonerate him in the Liddy case. He thanks Dexter for that. “I don’t like Quinn at all,” Dexter tells his sister. “But I want you to be happy.”
‘They make it look so easy, connecting with another human being. It’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world,’ Dexter thinks while looking around at the party guests. Astor asks him where his tenant is, but Dexter says she left. “Did you help her?” she asks. Dexter says he thinks he did. “Did it work? Did it make you feel better about what happened to Mom?” Dexter isn’t sure what to say and doesn’t respond.
‘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 what she brought. Eyes that saw me, finally, for who I really am and the certainly 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. But wishes, of course, are for children,’ thinks Dexter as he blows out the candle on Harrison’s birthday cake.
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