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We just ended an extremely big season finale of Dexter, that ended with lovely Rita killed by Trinity,so, now what happens on season five of Dexter?
Well, TV Guide has a great interview with Executive Producer Sara Colleton
TVGuide.com: Did you feel that you had to push the limits with this finale?
Sara Colleton: It’s something that comes so organically with the storytelling of where Dexter [Michael C. Hall] is in his life and what he’s learning and what he needs to learn. Of course, when it first comes up, you think, oh no, we can’t do that, because we’ve created these characters and we love them. It became self-evident as we progressed that this is where Dexter needed to be taken.Dexter’s John Lithgow talks about the shocking finale
TVGuide.com: Why exactly did Arthur (John Lithgow) kill Rita (Julie Benz)? Was it just revenge?
Colleton: It’s complicated. We left it that way so everyone, based on their own life and their own experiences, would interpret it so it made sense for them. One way to interpret it is that in some bizarre way, Dexter gave Trinity a finality in his situation, that he does this in a bizarre way to trigger Dexter to deal with who he really is. You can only fake it for so long.TVGuide.com: Do you see Trinity playing a role next season though? Questions will be raised by Rita’s murder and Arthur did show up at the police station.
Colleton: All of those things are legitimate. All those questions will obviously be a part of next season. Dexter can’t say that he knows Trinity killed Rita and that he just killed Trinity. There are a lot of possibilities and they will all be thrown out in the room to be discussed.TVGuide.com: Is there a chance that Julie Benz or John Lithgow might return next season to appear to Dexter in his conscious?
Colleton: Anything is possible on this show because it is a theatrical invention, so any of those devices are possible, but again, none of those have been discussed yet.TVGuide.com: What are the odds that Arthur pushed a woman to her death before killing Rita and being bludgeoned, thus completing the cycle?
Colleton: But did he break the cycle? If you really examine his death scene, Dexter is giving him an opportunity to break the cycle. Rita is the tie-breaker because he says, “It’s all over now.” Trinity’s thing is tied up with the way he hid the reality from himself. In his master plan, this is the gift he has left behind for Dexter. It can be interpreted, if you look closely at the script, in any number of ways.TVGuide.com: Dexter can’t get vengeance for Rita’s murder because he already killed Arthur. Is he going to become more bloodthirsty?
Colleton: That’s an instinct he may have, but he may not. Hopefully it will be in what we call the “Dexterous response,” which is based in human behavior, but uniquely put through the prism of Dexter’s special needs. The fact is that he has children now that he is the sole parent of, and how that affects what he does and the choices he makes.
TVGuide.com: Were Paul’s parents introduced as an easy out for Cody and Aster to leave Dexter’s care?
Colleton: We needed to have the children not be there for this finale. We’re trying to find the most interesting way to have to handle this situation because obviously they can always go with their grandmother or their paternal grandparents, or Dexter can take custody of them. It just opens up a variety of ways we can have Dexter deal with his grief.Dexter’s Lauren Velez explains forbidden love between LaGuerta and Batista
TVGuide.com: Are you nervous about writing or casting a villain that can live up to or surpass John Lithgow? Might you do without a villain this season?
Colleton: That’s something that’s on the table to discuss because of the awesomeness of what Dexter has to deal with on an emotional level. Obviously there’s going to be an investigation into who killed Rita and the number— and Dexter is going to be involved in that.TVGuide.com: Were you about to say that Dexter might be the No. 1 suspect in his wife’s murder?
Colleton: If you know anything about crimes, usually a spouse is involved. We may jump ahead six months and it could be all handled. What we wanted to do is give ourselves something that gave us the widest range of possibilities. It’s so intense on a show like this, so emotionally draining, and we have a scant couple of months before we get in a room again, so all of these things are up for discussion.
Are you happy with Dexter Season Finale? Would you like a big jump in time on Dexter Season Five?
hi,,yes ,i like it very much..please come on..
I’m not sure that Dexter is flashing forward to the future when
Rita’s death has been resolved. I don’t believe that the trinity killer had anything to do with Rita’s death. I believe her next
door neighbor whom Rita had a brief connection with may be her
killer. The show never answered the question of where Rita’s
neighbors wife disappeared to so abruptly,leaving behind her
children. And I believe the show made mention at some point-which was pointed out by Rita, that she witnessed many arguments between her neighbor and his wife, prior to his wife’s disappearance. Dexter had a altercation with his neighbor following Rita’s admittance to their brief encounter. I think there may be more to the story with the neighbor then meets the eye.
Season 4 left me wounded. It felt like I was the one losing Rita. Something so intense will seem wasteful if she returns. Her appearances in season 5 may very well be limited to a brief re-enactment of the her ultimate parting. The producer says she’s out, rumors based on her contractual arrangement suggest otherwise. Perhaps she is. For how long though remains to be seen (no pun intended).
The team still have Paul’s parents up their sleeve, and given Rita’s death and a possible investigation into Dexter’s involvement in the killing, we might see the two kids packing off to the old folks and Dex and Deb handling the new born. The grandparents (r.i.p. Paul), offer new opportunity for personal tension in Dex’s life as they have every reason to become distrustful of Dex and drive a wedge between him and the kids. The latter having made a fundamental contribution to his evolution to humaness. Cross that tension, with single fatherhood (Deb’s useless and patently nauseating – kinda wish she’s be knocked off the set), Harry’s persistence in his afterlife and a continued hunger for justice-blood, I’d say season 5 is off to a great start.
Oh…and that talk of taking a break before getting back to the drawing board is rubbish. Go below the radar for a few months and watch your script being compiled, tweet-by-tweet.