Or Miguel's wife, considering she was best friends with Rita, independent of Dexter and Miguel's relationship.

The ending was great. Maybe Rita will show up like daddy and be another face of his conscience. Have no idea where the last season will be heading.

Their's talk of it jumping ahead a bit into the future, I for one am against that however.

Well I can excuse Miguel's wife from distancing herself from anyone connected to the police department since it'll just bring up bad memories.

The other thing that came to mind about "Kyle" being at Trinity's house before the cops came in... I guess noone noticed that Dexter drove away in the same car that was already parked on the street when they arrived to raid the house?

I still enjoy the show, but I don't think it's ok to let everything slide. Sometimes I wonder how they let these obvious plot holes and inaccuracies remain when there's usually an easy way to avoid them.

By the way, in a previous thread it was mentioned that one of the writers or directors mentioned that we can find out who the shooter of Deb/Lundy was by paying close attention to that scene. Did we ever find out what that hint was?

I would assume that Dexter at least parked a block over or something so that if Trinity was there he wouldn't be tipped off by the car.

That's definitely possible, although I don't know what Dexter would've done if he found Trinity at the house. Kill him and his entire family?

Another thing (since I have nothing else going on)... Deb finds out that Dexter's mother was murdered (where she thought his parents died in a car accident), but Rita knew about her murder. Wasn't Dexter worried all this time that Rita would bring up the truth to Deb at some point? Or did he swear her to secrecy? I can't remember back 2 seasons ago.

Did Trinity's wife really kill herself?

???

When Trinity was on the table Dexter told him that she killed herself because of him. I already deleted it off the Tivo so I was wondering if we got confirmation of that or if Dexter said that just to get a rise out of him. And I didnt remember seeing it if they showed it.

I think he said his daughter (the reporter) killed herself.

Wife...Daughter...What's the difference?

Great ending BTW!
I kept thinking how underwhelming the climax between Dexter and Arthur was, until the Dexter found Rita.

"What's in the tuuuuub?" (in a Brad Pitt voice)

If I remember correctly he didn't run off. He was there when they led the family out of the house into a police car and was imagining his own wife and kids in their place. I was wondering at that moment why they didn't say anything to "Kyle". He was just standing right there. It's not like they couldn't see him.

Here's a question for next season:

If Dexter reports Rita's murder to the police, doesn't anyone think one of the first questions the police will ask is

"Where were YOU today?"

I doubt a truthful answer would help Dexter. "I was out locating, murdering, and dismembering the Trinity Killer. When I returned home after dumping the body (parts), I found my wife dead in the bathtub."

Won't the whole 'Kyle' identity point directly to Dexter. I can imagine the family not saying anything.

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The baby was a witness to Rita's murder. The cops can interrogate him to get the facts.

One thing to remember is this isn't the police's case anymore.

Since the Feds took over the case and they believe Trinity to still be at large, I'm sure they moved Arthur's family into witness protection or something.

Since the police have nothing more to do with the case, even if the family tells the feds about this Kyle person, I doubt he'll be of any significance to them when they are looking for Arthur.

That's not all. IIRC the previous bath tub cases were young single women, while mothers of young children were forced to jump (or pushed) from a tall building. Rita wasn't pointing to anything either, so there probably wasn't a DNA spot left behind. As a result, this might be considered a copycat crime and since Dexter can't account for his time between leaving Trinity's house and finding Rita's body, he should be treated as a suspect.

It's too bad that Rita's husband got killed off, otherwise they could send Dexter to jail and have the two bunk together.

He probably will be, but as someone in this thread pointed out, they'll probably throw in some dialogue like "as evident by the amount of blood loss, blah blah blah, this crime was committed at suchandsuch time, and Dexter was at Trinity's house for the search then!" Or some other bullshit like that.

It can be deflected. As far as law enforcement is concerned, Kyle Butler was murdered in his home. The fact that the family had any knowledge of him would implicate Arthur in that killing as well.

Dexter was at the front/side of the house when the family was escorted out - and there was nothing shown that indicated the family saw "Kyle" (I just rewatched the scene). So as far as they're concerned, "Kyle" ran off just before the house was raided. I don't know why Dexter would be at the front of the house risking the family pointing him out as Kyle.

One thing's for certain, Dexter was sloppy and careless all season long.

But if they're shown pictures of this Kyle Butler, they will say that he's not the same man.

Even though we saw him die, I have a feeling that the island will bring him back in some way.

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