Luckily, the show will continue to exist apart from this letdown. I felt like it ran the risk of feeling repetitious and familiar. [11] This is proven true in a later episode revealing that Hill is Trinity's daughter. Later, Dexter comes home to Debra, who is surrounded by Dexter's victim's blood slides, a pack of knives, and other tools that Dexter uses to kill. After Dexter is freed thanks to his brother Brian's machinations, she refuses to let him see the children and communicates with him only to get him to sign the paperwork to finalize the adoption. Quinn decides that his relationship with Debra is more important than his (supposedly) unfounded suspicions about Dexter, and stops his investigation. I understand you wrote two endings to throw people off. BUCK: I believe that’s most likely. Last year we tried to avoid that and actually I think we didn’t do as well as we could have. We won’t see the current cast again. I knew he would be in a self-imposed prison that would be as far from Miami as possible. I take full responsibility. In episode 10, when Dexter comes in and finds Dr. Vogel dead, what he’s feeling is on his face — normally we’d put voiceover, but we very consciously did not. Have to ask: How did Dex get from his boat to the shore in the middle of a hurricane? What did you think of Dexter's series finale? [7], At the beginning of the season, Dexter tells Debra that Harry slept with one of his confidential informants. She finally makes peace with the idea — on the same day that she catches Dexter in the act of murdering "Doomsday Killer" Travis Marshall (Colin Hanks). C.S. She and Quinn are assigned to the "Barrel Girls" case, in which 13 women were raped, tortured and murdered by a group of men, and left in barrels in a swamp. The next day, LaGuerta calls her into her office under the pretext of apologizing — and confronts her with circumstantial evidence that she was near the church at the time it was destroyed. At what point in the series did you know Deb was not going to survive? When someone is suffering -- and in a weird way that's almost what I think Dexter was doing for eight years -- you just want to grab them by the shoulders and say, "Wake up! What Scott discussed with me was the first four episodes. We haven’t talked about next season. Australian journalist Jack Marx describing her portrayal of "cool and clumsy" Debra as "so perfect that many viewers appear to have mistaken the character's flaws for the actor's.". But is he still killing? However, moments later, she suffers a massive stroke that leaves her in a persistent vegetative state. As for as Quinn, we’re trying to spend time with characters that have been with us for a long time and we’re never going to see again. When Debra was a teenager, her mother died of cancer. At this point the audience knows what he’s thinking. Full-on spoilers after the jump. Let me explain why. It was very important to have very little of it at the end and to let the emotion of the moment speak for itself. A psychiatrist comes in to help on a serial killer case – and turns out to be the original co-creator of Dexter’s ‘code of ethics’, alongside Dexter’s father. He had my complete trust and it wasn't important for me at that point to know how he filled in or connected all the dots to get her to that hospital bed to die. After Matthews promotes her, she starts to grow self-confident, relying less on Dexter's abilities and more on her own. House rules! © Copyright 2020 Meredith Corporation. The writers seemed to have a higher opinion of Hannah as a suitable mother for Harrison than the fans. But for Debra, Dexter is a far more complicated figure. Some fans were disappointed by this season. During one Reddit AMA in 2013, he said that Dexter had left him “a bit confused”, that “it didn’t make sense”, that it “broke the code with the audience” and that, when told by one user that Dexter had gone from his favourite to his least favourite show, replied: “I share your frustration.” Getting the original showrunner to knock it back into shape is the best possible thing that Dexter could have done. It has been eight years and I’m still angry. BUCK: We wanted to give some indication of where these characters were going. She also appears in the television series, based on Lindsay's books, portrayed by Jennifer Carpenter. The Showtime hit series came to an end on Sunday, Sept. 22, bringing Dexter's (Michael C. Hall) eight-season killing spree to a sure-to-be polarizing finish. We don’t know if there’s going to be what we call “a Big Bad,” like Jimmy Smits and John Lithgow, or if it’s going to be more individual, stand-alone stories. She is convinced Hannah poisoned her, and Dexter is suspicious enough to order a toxicology screen on a bottle of water in Debra's car. Debra was devastated when Harry died of an apparently accidental overdose of heart medication - unaware that he in fact committed suicide, unable to live with having trained Dexter to get away with murder. She loved being with us. There's a part of me that feels like I filled Deb in, too. [28], Debra and Dexter are both non-lethally poisoned by Hannah, who has escaped from prison. Things are looking up for her. The rumor for a while was the spin-off would star Deb. [18] Dexter slips away from Debra long enough to dispose of Ray Speltzer (Matt Gerald), a serial killer she had tried and failed to send to prison. and David should do something. That protection now applies to Harrison. This season led up to this and I feel the last few episodes feel like parts of a whole. She starts dating, and eventually falls in love with, Rudy Cooper (Christian Camargo); unbeknownst to her, he is actually the Ice Truck Killer, and is only dating her in order to get close to Dexter. worst series finale of any television series in history, the storylines became silly and repetitive, wouldn’t be as staggeringly dumb as Dexter. She then starts a relationship with her Confidential Informant Anton Briggs. Deb initially survived last week’s shooting, but her injuries were too severe, and the doctors told Dexter that she was brain-dead. There, he asks Vogel to help her. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Dex's corrosive influence on Deb caused her to cross that awful life. It's still deliciously hanging untied; there's too much intrigue and too much of the appetite for it to completely be unresolved by this finale. It couldn’t happen without Michael C. Hall wanting to come back. "I destroy everyone I love. The last couple seasons have been about breaking down those walls by having his son and his relationship with Hannah and having Deb discover who he is. We have one moment in that interrogation room with Quinn and Batista. In season 7, she has feelings for true crime writer Sal Price, but he is murdered as well. [15] Debra earns the respect of the office, but struggles with the idea of some people not feeling 'open' to her anymore because of her new job. In a word: Timber! However, FBI agent Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine) reassures her otherwise and they, mid-season, develop a romantic relationship, which ends when he is called away from Miami. Debra is convinced that Hannah has gotten away with killing Price and asks Dexter to kill her, but Dexter refuses. BUCK: I don’t know. These have been some of the best years of my life. She investigates the files on Harry's informants and interviews them, hoping to find the one Harry slept with. It’s certainly a compelling question. Available for everyone, funded by readers. I would hope if it ever happen to me I’d have a big brother who would take that pain onto himself. She wants the job, but she knows that she cannot do it while harboring a fugitive and turning a blind eye to Dexter's crimes. Should you have done that sooner? In the books, the character's name is spelled "Deborah", and she is described as "voluptuous" in contrast to her slim appearance on the TV show. COLLETON: I think some episodes worked better than others. They just tossed it off in a wonderful way. Deb suffered a stroke and was put on life support, and Dexter decided to pull the plug ("I can't leave you like this. So what is the spin-off concept that Nevins has been hinting about? I thought we'd played that story. And there’s Harrison. He binds her to a table in the same manner that Dexter kills his victims, while Dexter and Brian discuss her fate. No. At dinner, he shows Debra footage of her saving a man's life and tells her that she is still a good person. She gives them an hour head start because she sympathizes with Lumen, but she never finds out that Dexter was involved. The one thing we felt Dexter wanted more than anything was human connections. PHILLIPS: The story evolved and it kind of became inevitable. I had a really hard time justifying driving the car into the lake. Killing himself is too easy. She was greatly disappointed. But once we do that… want to talk about game-changers? BUCK: In some ways. It's not about how many people he put on the table. PHOTOS: Look back on Dexter's OMG moments. She sees them at the crime scene through a wall of plastic sheeting, and tells them that she needs to call in the crime scene. Between seasons five and eight, the storylines became silly and repetitive, the cast were sleepwalking through their scenes and, perhaps most damningly of all, Dexter’s colleagues had to become dangerously incompetent to keep letting him off the hook. How much time and money was put into this hour compared to a typical week? COLLETON: To me, it feels very much like a Dexter episode. It was as quick as a finger snap to make that happen. Was that deliberate to ditch those devices? I am one of the very few who, presumably out of a deep-set self-hatred, made it all the way to Dexter’s final episode. I asked her to leave and imagined her floating out of me and up into the rafters of the soundstage and far away. The series quickly became less a TV show and more a weird human zoo where we could all go and look at the biggest load of absolute nincompoops in living memory. Debra eventually threatens to have Lila deported upon finding out that she murdered her ex-boyfriend. 30 essential albums from the last 30 years. All the tears! He could have gotten in the raft and made it safely to shore. PHILLIPS: She wasn’t happy. [6], She is originally part of the team investigating the murder of Miguel Prado's (Jimmy Smits) brother Oscar (Nick Hermz), but because of her lack of tact and people skills she is removed from the case by the newly promoted Angel Batista (David Zayas). How much longer can you stretch out that story before you pay it off? She tells Dexter the news (which he already knew), and then tells him that he is "the one consistently good thing" in her life. She works hard on the case, but her progress is hampered by her own insecurity and her antagonistic relationship with her commanding officer, Lieutenant Maria LaGuerta (Lauren Vélez). When he turns and looks into the camera at the end he’s stripped everything away. Otherwise we didn’t want to call more attention to it. Dexter executive producer Sara Colleton wasn't kidding when she said "a storm was coming!" Dexter finds out only years later that his father didn't die of a heart ... a partner who understands him deeply the way Lila did. I try not to read any of the blogs because then I become paralyzed. Everybody expected them to figure things out in the final season. Do you think that's fitting? Twitter: @Snoodit. She’s a professional. Julie Benz (Rita) said at Comic-Con one year that she would love him if Rita found out about Dexter. Charlotte Rampling’s irritating quasi-mother figure suffered the same fate. BUCK: Absolutely not. It's an amazing thing in your life when you can look at a situation and declare it complete, because that means you're life has forward momentum. [1] She was the foster sister to Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), whom Harry brought home after rescuing him from the scene of his mother’s murder. We didn’t quite know what we were going to do [in the finale]. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Because I knew it was the last time that she was going to get it. There was this setup when she and Quinn (Desmond Harrington) were finally able to set their sights on a love that existed, but I don't know what kind of peace she would have found there because Dexter always would have been in that place. But now, he’s back. [35] She then has a relationship with Rudy Cooper, who ends up kidnapping her and trying to kill her twice. The main idea was Dexter is forced to kill Debra. [30], Debra stops by her old precinct, and Batista offers to reinstate her as a detective. Even if Hall and Phillips lose their minds entirely and stuff these new 10 episodes with more senseless leaps of logic and more characters who change their personality completely from scene to scene and more long, dull monologues about the nature of death – even if these new episodes consist of nothing but 10 hours of Dexter staring into space with his little Oregon lumberjack armpit-hair beard still strapped to his face – then new Dexter scientifically cannot be as terrible as old Dexter. What was the last thing that you shot and what was it like leaving the set for the final time? © 2020 E! Once on the road, Debra seizes the steering wheel and plunges the car into the bay, intent on killing herself and her brother. Privacy | She spent three years in patrol and then another two years in vice before being promoted by Captain Tom Matthews (Geoff Pierson) (a friend of her father), becoming a Homicide officer at the start of the first season. Dexter’s dead dad, who would regularly appear from beyond the grave to offer annoying tone poems about morality, ascended to heaven in the penultimate episode. We knew that we had to do more than kill Trinity. But those final scenes were pretty much unchanged. [12] Debra then renews her search for Harry's mistress, and finds out about Laura Moser, and the fact that Dexter and the Ice Truck Killer are brothers. Entertainment Television, LLC A Division of NBCUniversal. NEXT: Why Miami Metro never learned Dexter’s secret. After she cornered Dexter as the Bay Harbor Butcher, Maria was almost an innocent victim of Dexter’s would-be killing of her. We also did it that way because in some ways it’s a little more shocking. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Watching the tape, Quinn has known all along that there was more there to Dexter. Debra warns Hannah that she will pay for what she has done. By Michael Ausiello Updated July 30, 2020 at 04:15 PM EDT BUCK: I don’t think so. I'm pleased to let go of all of it because I feel like it's complete. [4] In the season finale, "The British Invasion", she helps Dexter rescue Rita's two children from a fire that Lila had started.[5]. Normally what happens is you take a longer break and come in filled with ideas. When Dexter finds out what Debra has done, she asks him to cover up the crime, which he does. [19] She even compromises her own professional ethics by falsifying evidence to mislead LaGuerta, who is trying to reopen the Bay Harbor Butcher case. Before the season started, you said the core idea behind this finale has been in the works for years. There’s one point where she wanted exactly that. Will next season be about Dexter juggling serial killing and single fatherhood? Resigned, Dexter tells Debra to "do what you gotta do". Debra admits that she understands why Dexter takes the law into his own hands, and tells him that she will not stop him as long as he does not tell her about it or interfere with Miami Metro investigations. Was that a deliberate fake out? Masuka was a very small story, it took up a small amount of screen time. We wanted to believe Harrison would be happy and safe and well taken care of. It was good for four seasons, two of which were genuinely excellent, before quickly falling off a cliff. BUCK: The kernel idea were the last few scenes. Ultimately it was my decisions to do that, as well. She kills for self protection. Dexter recap: What's eating Dexter Morgan? [32], In her first case, Debra helps Dexter catch Oliver Saxon (Darri Ingolfson) a serial killer known as "the Brain Surgeon". So he’s thinking, “Do I join Rita on vacation or do I…” and then he looks towards the camera and he has this big decision. One of the files is shown to be Laura Moser (Sage Kirkpatrick). Later, at Batista's New Year's Eve party, she learns that LaGuerta has gone in pursuit of Dexter, who she fears is in the act of killing Hector Estrada (Nestor Serrano), the man who ordered his mother's murder. [22] Debra gets into a near-fatal car accident after a confrontation with Hannah. The first season, the level of reality was more suspended. It certainly affected us in some ways. Were there any other versions of the ending that you rejected? I know you're going to be a great father 'cause you've always been a great big brother." I really do think when Dex walks out of her room [viewers are going to] think everything is fine with Deb. The "Dexter" writers did a great job bringing both Deb's and Dexter's downward trajectories full circle over the course of the season. Warning: Stop reading if you have yet to watch tonight’s killer Dexter season finale. We guess we'll never know. At the end of the season, Rudy proposes to her and she accepts. Is it simply because he loves Hannah? Though she survived last episode's shooting, Deb ended up dying in Dexter's swan song, becoming Dexter's ultimate victim. Yates (Aaron McCusker); Dexter kills him to protect Debra. Oh, and this just in: Michael C. Hall speaks! Deborah saves Dexter's life by killing the drug lord just as he has her wounded brother at his mercy. It’s a little bit of a corner that we paint ourselves into. COLLETON: Right now there’s nothing planned. The voiceover: “For so long all I wanted was to feel like other people … now that I do just want it to stop.” It’s the horrible awareness of what it was to be a human being and how overwhelming that is for him. She has also been nominated four times as part of the ensemble cast for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. She was the adoptive sister of Dexter Morgan and worked for Miami Metro Homicide. That will come through something mightier than that, like the energy of the cosmos or something. Dexter fakes his own death. However, Saxon gets the drop on her and shoots her in the abdomen. But how it played out was much better. They find Vogel at the mercy of one of her former patients, serial killer A.J. ... Dexter didn't die, as the last scene focused on a lumberjack leaving work and heading to his secluded home, where he sat at … Yes, she was shot, but it was something that she signed up for long before she ever joined the force. Dexter star Jennifer Carpenter closed the book on Debra Morgan on Sunday when Showtime's serial killer drama ended its eight-season run with a series finale that was as shocking as it is sure to be debated. Debra Charlotte Morgan (spelled Deborah in the novels) is a fictional character created by Jeff Lindsay for his Dexter book series. Her relationship with Anton begins to suffer at this point, especially when Lundy returns to Miami to hunt the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow). We’ve seen him go forward on this journey every year. Now that he’s finally made that journey and he’s almost poised to have a real human life, he has to give all that up to save Harrison and Hannah. When Briggs tries to scare Dexter off, Dexter kills him, and pleads with Debra to leave with him. Hopefully the season didn’t suffer for it. Her work and personal troubles weighing down on her, she begins to attend therapy. She existed through my life experience. Because of her success on the Skinner case, Debra receives her detective shield at the end of the season. Debra Morgan – Dexter’s sister, played by Jennifer Carpenter, whom Hall married and then divorced while the series was ongoing – cannot return because she died in the finale. No. Debra is saddened, but gives him her blessing when she sees how happy he is with his new family. I don't know if that's possible because people don't come back from the dead. We basically did two seasons back to back. Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. We would have loved to had more time before we started shooting. If they knew how much we agonized internally about everything … if we then tried to factor in an assortment of opinions it would dilute the process.
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