Dexter (season 6)

 

he sixth season of Dexter premiered on October 2, 2011 on the television cable network Showtime, and consisted of 12 episodes.^[5] On November 18, 2011, it was announced that Dexter had been renewed for two more seasons 

Plot

María LaGuerta (Lauren Vélez) is promoted to Captain after blackmailing Deputy Chief Matthews (Geoff Pierson), whose name was on a prostitute's ledger. Vince Masuka (C.S. Lee) is teaching a group of forensic science students, and after his first choice faints at a crime scene, he asks an attractive female student, Ryan Chambers (Brea Grant), to become his intern, only to have to fire her when she steals old evidence from the department: a painted prosthetic hand from the Ice Truck Killer crime scenes, which shows up on an internet auction site. Masuka quickly hires another intern, video game designer and computer programmer Louis Greene, and begs him to fix the problem. Greene claims he made the page the auction was on vanish but was unable to get the hand back.

LaGuerta and Angel Batista (David Zayas) have divorced, but try to remain friends; this is further complicated by Matthews's decision to promote Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter) to LaGuerta's vacant lieutenant position instead of Batista, who thinks this is a result of the feud between Matthews and LaGuerta. In retaliation, LaGuerta continuously thwarts Debra's attempts to make a good first impression as the new lieutenant by giving her the wrong advice; however, Debra makes an independent decision to hire Mike Anderson (Billy Brown) as her replacement, against LaGuerta's recommendation.

Batista's sister Jamie (Aimee Garcia) has become Harrison's babysitter, and Dexter and Debra visit a Catholic pre-school in hopes of signing Harrison up. Quinn (Desmond Harrington) proposes to Debra, but she refuses and they break up. Shortly after, Quinn learns of Deb's promotion and surmises that was her reason for ending their relationship. Quinn begins a long pattern of barhopping, drunkenness, and one-night stands; his unprofessional behavior angers and ultimately endangers Batista, his new partner.

This season features two main antagonists who become known as the Doomsday Killers (or DDK), Professor James Gellar (Edward James Olmos) and his student Travis Marshall (Colin Hanks), who seek to bring about the end of the world through killings based on the Book of Revelation. They leave signs of the Apocalypse including the Alpha and Omega or the Four Horsemen as acryptographic tableau at crime scenes. The season also introduces Brother Sam (Mos Def), a former drug addict and murderer who repented and became a minister. He operates a body shop where he employs other ex-convicts, whom he also "shepherds" to lead crime-free lives.

Initially believing Sam to be behind the first Doomsday Killer murder, Dexter decides to kill Sam but is quickly proven wrong and finds himself befriending him. Dexter finds new light and guidance from Brother Sam in being a better father to Harrison and in keeping his Dark Passenger at bay. However, Brother Sam is murdered by one of his trusted ex-convicts; Dexter learns who did this and, going against Brother Sam's wish to forgive his killer, kills the murderer himself.

Dexter learns that the Trinity Killer's wife and daughter have been found dead in Nebraska, which Jonah Mitchell reports was the work of his father, Arthur Mitchell. Dexter, the only person who knows the Trinity Killer is dead, suspects that Jonah is following in his father's footsteps and goes to Nebraska to kill Jonah, encouraged by a subconscious vision of his brother, Brian Moser, the Ice Truck Killer. However, after confronting Jonah, Dexter learns that his sister committed suicide and Jonah killed his mother in a fit of rage, and now wants to die. Dexter decides to forgive Jonah and leaves him alive to deal with his demons.

Dexter's investigation of the Doomsday Killers leads him to Travis Marshall. Travis says that all he has done was at the request of Professor Gellar, so Dexter asks Travis to help him kill the professor, thinking he can save Travis as Brother Sam tried to save him. However, Dexter eventually discovers that Professor Gellar had been killed by Travis three years ago and now exists only in the latter's mind. Travis marks Dexter as "the Beast" and tries to kill him in one of his tableaux, the Lake of Fire, but Dexter escapes and is saved by a passing migrant boat. Finally, Travis kidnaps Dexter's son to use as a sacrifice in his final tableau, thinking that "the Beast" is dead. Dexter rescues Harrison and knocks Travis unconscious. He takes Travis back to the church where Travis carried out his earlier murders, which Dexter has set up as a kill room. As Dexter prepares to kill his victim, Debra enters the church and sees Dexter plunge a knife into Travis's chest.

The season's subplots include Angel's sister dating Louis Greene, who wants to impress the police force, especially Dexter, and is revealed to have acquired the prosthetic hand from the Ice Truck Killer case, which he mails to Dexter after marking it up with a certain pattern. Debra refuses to yield to pressure to close the case of the overdose death of a prostitute, eventually discovering that Deputy Chief Matthews was present when the woman died. Matthews is forced to retire after LaGuerta leaks the information. Finally, Debra attends department-ordered therapy sessions after being involved in a shoot-out, and during her sessions, begins to realize that she may have romantic feelings for Dexter.

[edit]Cast

[edit]Main

• Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan
• Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan
• Desmond Harrington as Joey Quinn
• C. S. Lee as Vince Masuka
• Lauren Vélez as María LaGuerta (11 episodes)
• David Zayas as Angel Batista
• James Remar as Harry Morgan (9 episodes)

[edit]Recurring

• Colin Hanks as Travis Marshall (12 episodes)
• Aimee Garcia as Jamie Batista (12 episodes)
• Edward James Olmos as Professor Gellar (10 episodes)
• Billy Brown as Det. Mike Anderson (10 episodes)
• Josh Cooke as Louis Greene (8 episodes)
• Rya Kihlstedt as Dr. Michelle Ross (7 episodes)
• Mos Def as Brother Sam (5 episodes) (credited as Mos in episodes 2 & 3, as yasiin bey in episodes 4-6)
• Geoff Pierson as Tom Matthews (formerly "Captain Matthews") (5 episodes)
• Brea Grant as Ryan Chambers (4 episodes)
• Molly Parker as Lisa Marshall (4 episodes)
• Christian Camargo as Brian Moser (2 episodes)
• Mariana Klaveno as Clarissa Porter (2 episodes)
• Jordana Spiro as Beth Dorsey (2 episodes)

[edit]Episodes

See also: List of Dexter episodes

Dexter season 6 episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
61	1	"Those Kinds of Things"	John Dahl	Scott Buck	October 2, 2011	2.19[6]
Dexter attends his 20-year high school reunion, only to find a potential victim. Dexter contemplates the power of religion when Harrison has the chance to attend a Catholic pre-school. LaGuerta, now divorced from Batista, is promoted to captain. Batista is temporarily named lieutenant and hopes to get the job permanently. Debra becomes an unexpected hero when a gunman enters a restaurant where she and Quinn are dining, interrupting Quinn's attempt to propose to her. A murder featuring strange religious symbolism gets the attention of Miami Metro Homicide; the killers, as yet unknown, are two men who seem to be a master and a student.
62	2	"Once Upon a Time..."	SJ Clarkson	Tim Schlattmann	October 9, 2011	1.71[7]
Quinn proposes to Debra, but she turns him down. Dexter meets Brother Sam, an ex-con turned-minister who helps other ex-convicts start a new life. Dexter suspects Brother Sam is still a criminal, but eventually realizes he was wrong. Meanwhile, Debra is officially promoted to lieutenant at Miami Metro Homicide. One of the religious murderers shown in episode one attacks a male runner in the woods.
63	3	"Smokey and the Bandit"	Stefan Schwartz	Manny Coto	October 16, 2011	1.50[8]
Dexter becomes intrigued with the murder of a prostitute when details of the crime remind him of an unsolved serial killer case from the 1980s. Debra faces the challenges of her new job position as LaGuerta tries to thwart her by giving her poor advice. The religious murderers try to force the kidnapped runner from the previous episode to repent for his sins.
64	4	"A Horse of a Different Color"	John Dahl	Lauren Gussis	October 23, 2011	1.89[9]
The religious murderers stage a spectacular crime scene recalling the Book of Revelation, using pieces of the runner’s corpse sewn to pieces from mannequins to form the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The police department officially starts to chase the “Doomsday Killer”. Meanwhile, Harrison needs emergency surgery, which forces Dexter to reconsider his views about faith with the help of Brother Sam.
65	5	"The Angel of Death"	SJ Clarkson	Scott Reynolds	October 30, 2011	1.80[10]
Miami Homicide starts investigating Professor James Gellar. Dexter examines the angel wings from DDK's most recent killing and finds that a unique glue was used to attach a piece of the wing. This leads him to Travis Marshall, who works with rare books at a museum. Masuka hires a new assistant, Louis Green, who helps him with the missing evidence from the Ice Truck Killer case. Deb gets into an argument with Jamie at Dexter's apartment and realizes she needs her own place. Brother Sam tells Dexter that someone fired gunshots at his auto shop. Gellar tries to get Travis to start making his own kills. After Travis fails to capture a "Whore of Babylon" on his own, he and Gellar kidnap a woman together. Dexter decides to kill Travis, but then realizes Travis is just Gellar's tool, and that he might not have succumbed to the "darkness" yet. Dexter decides that Gellar is the one he must kill, and that Travis can lead him to Gellar. Quinn and Batista go to Tallahassee to investigate Gellar's former assistant, now Professor Porter. After Quinn sleeps with Porter, Batista finds a journal of Gellar's full of detailed illustrations similar to the Doomsday crime scenes. An unknown man shoots Brother Sam in his shop.
66	6	"Just Let Go"	John Dahl	Jace Richdale	November 6, 2011	1.98[11]
Brother Sam is found at his shop alive and is taken to the hospital. Dexter initially suspects a member of the gang formerly run by Nick, one of Brother Sam's ex-con employees. The police attempt to interrogate a member of Nick's old gang, but end up killing him in a shoot-out. They discover a DVD from the auto shop's security system in his house, and assume he was the one who killed Brother Sam. Dexter, however, realizes the shooter was Nick, and confirms his suspicion by matching a bullet Nick fired at Brother Sam's apartment to the ones found in Brother Sam. Miami Metro calls Professor Gellar's former assistant in for further questioning, and learn of his obsession with an old cult who sought to bring about the apocalypse by performing ritualistic sacrifices as depicted in Gellar's notes. Travis begins to feel conflicted between his actions and begins to question the morality of the situation, eventually releasing the woman they had held as "Whore of Babylon". Some time later, Brother Sam briefly regains consciousness and calls for Dexter. He tells him to forgive Nick and move on. Brother Sam dies a short time later. Later, Dexter goes to confront Nick, taking him to a isolated beach with the intention of killing him; however, he decides not to, and begs Nick to instead turn himself in. When Nick realizes however that they do not have any evidence on him, he rejoices. Dexter, angered by his arrogance, kills Nick by holding him underwater. Brian, applauding, appears behind Dexter.
67	7	"Nebraska"	Romeo Tirone	Wendy West	November 13, 2011	1.99[12]
With the vision of his brother Brian beside him, Dexter disposes of Nick's body in the ocean. Debra faces scrutiny because her department's case clearance rate is so low. Dexter finds out that Rebecca Mitchell and her mother (the daughter and wife of the Trinity Killer) have been killed, which son Jonah blames on his father (who only Dexter knows is dead). He and Brian drive to Nebraska to possibly kill Jonah before he can follow in his father's footsteps. When confronted, Jonah reveals that his mother blamed her children for their father's actions. Rebecca committed suicide, and when Jonah found her, he became so angry that he beat his mother to death. Despite Brian's protests, Dexter lets Jonah live, telling him to forgive himself. This leads to a heated argument between Brian and Dexter, and Dexter runs him over with his car. Meanwhile, Masuka and his new intern find a lead related to Doomsday. Travis also tells Gellar that he is done working for God, to which Gellar angrily objects but ultimately agrees to. Dexter picks his father back up on his way back to Florida.
68	8	"Sin of Omission"	Ernest Dickerson	Arika Lisanne Mittman	November 20, 2011	2.05[13]
Dexter, using what he's learned from Brother Sam, comes a step closer to the Doomsday killers, specifically Travis. Deb and LaGuerta go head-to-head after a call girl ends up dead. Travis is kidnapped by Gellar for further rituals. After Deb interrogates Travis's sister as part of the DDK investigation, the sister is found dead, posed as the "Whore of Babylon".
69	9	"Get Gellar"	Seith Mann	Karen Campbell	November 27, 2011	1.89[14]
Dexter attempts to stay ahead of Miami Metro Homicide on his hunt for the Doomsday Killers, and finds help from an unexpected source. Debra visits her therapist once more and learns something new about herself. Dexter discovers the frozen corpse of Professor Gellar and realizes Travis was the sole killer all along, that the Professor Gellar that Travis interacted with is actually his dark passenger. Jamie and Louis take a step further in their relationship.
70	10	"Ricochet Rabbit"	Michael Lehmann	Jace Richdale & Lauren Gussis & Scott Reynolds	December 4, 2011	1.87[15]
Travis teams up with a couple whom he met via Gellar's blog to kill Holly Benson (the former Whore of Babylon whom he let go) and to unleash the next tableau, Wormwood, a poison which Travis re-imagines as poison gas. Dexter tries to get one step ahead of the Doomsday Killers and figure out where their next victim could possibly be before they attack again. Debra begins to realize she relies too much on her brother after reacting to a crime scene.
71	11	"Talk to the Hand"	Ernest Dickerson	Manny Coto & Tim Schlattmann	December 11, 2011	1.92[16]
Debra has a confrontation with Matthews about the case of a dead call girl. She decides not to implicate Matthews, but takes the blame for doing so anyway when she learns that LaGuerta has been using the situation to her advantage, resulting in Matthews's forced retirement. The widow of Doomsday Adam, whom Travis recruited, is charged with the task of unleashing Wormwood in the Miami Metro squadroom, and almost succeeds until Dexter sees her press a small switch and quickly traps her in an interrogation room. The gas kills her while everyone else evacuates safely. Dexter inhales a small amount of it and needs to be treated by paramedics, who warn him of after effects like bloody noses and dizziness. Debra's therapist prompts her to consider whether she may actually be in love with her adopted brother. Dexter stages a fake Doomsday Killer tableau in order to draw out Travis, but when he shows up, Dexter experiences a sudden wave of dizziness and is captured. When Dexter wakes up, he finds himself floating in a small boat, set to be the next victim in the "Lake of Fire", but manages to escape before it explodes. Louis mails the artificial arm from the Ice Truck Killer case to Dexter's home after marking it up with a form of code.
72	12	"This is the Way the World Ends"	John Dahl	Scott Buck & Wendy West	December 18, 2011	2.23[17]
Dexter spends the night floating in the waters off Miami as part of a native american spirit quest. Homicide is called to a double murder scene that turns out to be Travis's hideout. Inside, Dexter sees a depiction of the last tableau with his face painted in as the face of The Beast, and defaces the face with a hammer before anyone else can see it. Batista informs Quinn that he has put in for a transfer for Quinn due to his increasing irresponsibility, to which Quinn objects and storms out. Lewis asks Masuka if he can have a full-time position at Metro once his internship ends. When Masuka asks him, "What about your video game?" Lewis replies that it "just doesn't seem important any more" while looking past Masuka at Dexter. Deb tells Dexter he must return to the abandoned church to wrap up forensics. Travis sees that the police have found his hideout, so he retreats to Dexter's apartment. Travis hears Jamie in the home with Harrison. Realizing that Harrison is Dexter's son, Travis decides to use Harrison as his sacrificial lamb in his final act to bring about the end of the world. Debra dispatches officers to skyscrapers in downtown Miami on a hunch that this is where the final tableau will be executed. Dexter attends Harrison's Noah's Ark play, after which Harrison is abducted by Travis. Dexter knows which skyscraper Travis has chosen, and arrives moments before Travis can sacrifice Harrison. Travis releases Harrison when Dexter feigns injecting himself with his tranquilizers. Dexter surprises Travis and beats him unconscious. Homicide arrives after the officer on guard fails to respond via radio and they find him dead with no sign of Travis. Deb rushes into her therapist's office and amazedly recounts that Dexter actually said, "I love you" to her, and decides she wants to tell him she is in love with him. Travis awakens on Dexter's table at the abandoned church and proclaims that he was doing God's work. Deb goes to the church unannounced and sees Dexter kill Travis. Deb inhales sharply as she witnesses the act and Dexter hears her, looks up, sees his sister, and says "Oh God" gets 4 out of 5