Dexter Season 4 Episode 12: The Getaway

Season 4 of Dexter can be summed up in a single word: Wow.

What started out as the best season of a tremendous series ended as the best season ever with a concise ending to the Trinity story arc, as well as leaving things up in the air for Season 5. I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor.

The episode opens up with Dexter having been formally addressed by Arthur with all the warmth that Seinfeld had reserved for Newman.  In that moment, realizing that now that Arthur knows his real name, Dexter all but craps his pants worrying about what will happen to his family and the dual life he’s carved for himself (no pun intended). Arthur tells Dexter that he wants him to disappear from his life and cease with the extortion bit before striding from the precinct triumphantly.