Dexter – At least for Lumen, it’s not over yet

Maybe it’s just me, but was anyone else a tad confused by the final scene in this episode of Dexter? In the scene, Lumen — the female captor who Dexter was finally able to calm — tells Dex that “it’s not over,” and that there are more out there (like Boyd Fowler). I feel that what she says could be interpreted in several different ways:

1) Boyd wasn’t working alone, and Dexter has some other scum to take care of. Unlikely, since Lumen says this “has happened before,” though I don’t believe she means while being held by Boyd.

2) Lumen makes her statement after Dexter suggests she goes home to the family that loves her. She hesitates. Is this because she’s talking about her own family being the ones who had done this to her before?

3) She just has horrible luck and this has been done to her before, by someone else. Most likely it’d be as a result of living on the streets and doing who-kn0ws-what to make money.

4) She sees she has a quasi-vigilante in her back pocket now, and she can maybe make use of him to take care of some other dirtbags she’d rather not see alive any longer.

5) It means nothing. She was just making a blanket statement, that there are more scumbags out there. Dexter won’t do anything about it, and Lumen will be gone in the next episode.

I’m leaning between #3 and #5. I could see, possibly, that Lumen was talking about her parents, but what does that matter when they are halfway across the country? It’s unlikely Dexter would take a trip just to feed his Dark Passenger, so I’d say it’s someone in Florida or it’s simply nothing at all, and we won’t see Lumen again.

Getting off that topic now, the scene with Quinn in the convenience store was pretty intense. for those of us worried Dexter’s secret will get out (or that Quinn is as good as dead in this season). It was clear that Jonah Mitchell didn’t lead on one bit that the photo of Dexter looked familiar, which sort of frustrated me but sure as hell frustrated Quinn. Sure, Quinn lets on to LaGuerta that Jonah had a gleam of recognition in his eye, but that’s total bullshit. It was a full-on poker face, which means that there’s a very good chance at least Jonah will not finger Dexter in the investigation at all, because “Kyle Butler” really did help them out, after all. Hopefully, for Quinn lovers, his little pursuit will hit a dead end soon.

Oh, one little nitpick. Why would Lumen have fingerprints on file if her record was squeaky clean, if not non-existent? When would she have been printed to have them on file? That sorta irritated me.

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Oct 18, 2010 @ 12:16 EST5EDT