"The Getaway" is the fourth season end of the American television drama series Dexter , and the 48th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Showtime on December 13, 2009. In the episode, Dexter tried hard to stop Arthur, who now knows Dexter's true identity. Meanwhile, Debra learns the truth about Dexter's mother, the homicide division closes on the Trinity Killer, and Rita reaffirms her support for Dexter, even as she confesses the hidden demon.
This teleplay was written by Wendy West and Melissa Rosenberg, based on stories by Rosenberg and Scott Reynolds. Directed by Steve Shill, "The Getaway" marks the conclusion of the Killer Trick plotline, as well as the last regular appearance of guest star John Lithgow, which depicts Arthur Mitchell and Julie Benz, regular cast members since the start of the series. To protect the winding end of Rita's death, the manufacturer Dexter enforces strict security measures, which include false alternative division of ends and forces staff members to sign non-disclosure agreements.
"The Getaway" gets critical acclaim, with some commentators calling the twist a surprising, unpredictable end and tending to change the overall direction of the series. According to Nielsen ratings, this episode was watched by 2.6 million households, making it the most watched episode of the original series in Showtime history.
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Plot
After learning the truth about Dexter's identity, Arthur warns Dexter to leave him alone. When he left, Dexter followed Arthur in his car, accidentally crashing into another car on his way. Dexter follows Arthur to the bank, where he sees him carrying a large envelope back to the van. Dexter attacked and dropped Arthur, and realized the envelope was full of cash. Dexter planned to kidnap and kill Arthur, but he saw the driver of the car he was beating had been talking to the police officer. Dexter hid the envelope and faced the irate driver. He attacked the driver and was detained by the police. By the time he was released, Arthur disappeared, but Dexter rediscovered the envelope.
Meanwhile, Debra continues to search Harry's mysterious lover. An old informant Harry takes Debra to what she recognizes as Brian Moser's home. The informant reveals her name Laura Moser, and when researching, Debra learns that she is the birth mother of Dexter and Brian. The police discovered Trinity's true identity. At Arthur's house, Debra faces Dexter, who pretends to be shocked and afraid Debra will soon realize her secret life. Instead, Debra says she believes the Ice Truck Killer uses it to get her, and she confirms how much she loves her adoptive brother.
Inspired in part by Debra, and partly by his desire to be a better family man than Arthur, Dexter considers giving up murder. After convincing Rita to leave town, Dexter traces and catches Arthur. Dexter insists he's not like Arthur, but Arthur insists that they're both alike. Just before he was killed with a framing hammer, Arthur told Dexter that "this is over." Disposing of Arthur's body afterwards, Dexter realizes that his love for his family begins to exceed his need to kill, and he begins to hope for a future without killing. But after returning home, he finds a message from Rita that he came home from the airport because he forgot his identity. Dexter returns his call, only to find out that his cell phone and bag are at home. Dexter hears Harrison crying in the bathroom and finds Rita dead in the tub, after being killed by Arthur. Harrison sat in a pool of Rita's blood on the bathroom floor, in the same way that Dexter had been left in his mother's pool of blood during his youth.
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Production
"The Getaway", the fourth season finale Dexter , directed by Steve Shill. This teleplay was written by Wendy West and Melissa Rosenberg, based on stories by Rosenberg and Scott Reynolds. It was the last episode led by executive performance runner and producer Clyde Phillips before his departure from the show to spend more time with his family. The filming on "The Getaway" ended on October 13, 2009, and the episode originally aired on Showtime on December 13th. "The Getaway" marks the conclusion of a long-term plotline of Trinity Killer, featuring John Lithgow as the fourth major killer and antagonist series of the season. This episode also included the death of Rita Morgan, who has been a regular character since the beginning of the series. Although his death was off-screen and the killer was not specifically identified, it is strongly recommended that he be killed by Arthur Mitchell, which Lithgow himself confirmed as true in an interview broadcast in Showtime as soon as the episode was aired. Clyde Phillips said the consequences "The Getaway" will have an unspecified future series, as brainstorming for the fifth season is not set to begin until February 2010.
Rita's death was alluded to by producer Dexter, who told the outlet media "The Getaway" including a fluid shift, leading to widespread speculation about a possible death of a character, or the possibility of learning Debra Morgan The truth about the hominidal nature of a sibling man. Extra precautions taken to prevent the final secret from being exposed. Network staff members are forced to sign non-disclosure agreements, and decoy scripts are drafted and disseminated to protect the twist ending. At one end of a false alternative, Dexter learns the news of a child murderer who escaped from prison, and the episode will end with Dexter trying to decide whether to join Rita while on vacation or catching an escaped murderer. No one but important players and staff were allowed on set during episode shoots, and the scripts and DVDs of the episodes were watermarked before they were removed from the set.
Phillips claims Dexter staff does not know how this weekend will end until the end of the season, but Phillips says Rita's death began to feel inevitable as the story evolves. However, Julie Benz said he had been told John Lithgow knew about it from the start of the season. Phillips said the staff felt obliged to do more than kill the Trinity Killer in the final episode, mainly because he felt the third season's antagonistic death (played by Jimmy Smits) was not handled "as best we could." The authors discussed the idea of ​​having Debra find out about Dexter's secret life, but it was decided they could not anticipate how drastically the series would be changed by that revelation. Benz heard rumors from David Zayas that his character would be killed in the episode, but he was not officially notified until the end of September, when the producers had a meeting with him the day before the final-season script was distributed to the players. He said, "It was a difficult meeting, in a strange way, it was like a scene from Defending Your Life ." Benz is not happy with the news but he handles it professionally. Benz describes the death scene as "very poetic".
Executive Producer Sara Colleton said it was difficult to kill the old characters, but they felt "this is where Dexter should be taken". He also felt the motive for Arthur killing Rita who was purposely made open to various interpretations, including that Arthur might have killed him "in a strange way to trigger Dexter to deal with who he really is". When asked if Arthur told Rita about Dexter's secret life before killing him, Phillips said the answer had not been determined as the fifth season had not been planned, but he added, "I would think that he did not Tell him". Michael C. Hall calls the ending a "truly brave stroke" that will reset the stage of the series once Dexter Morgan's character begins to feel he can live with an emotional connection to his wife and family. Hall also said the ending, "More than anything I feel for the audience, I think this is the kind that will really bind people in bonds."
Lithgow calls Rita's death a "fantastic choice", which he says gives a completely different light to the final scene between Dexter and Arthur, who seems somewhat sympathetic before the audience knows what Arthur has done. Lithgow says he knows that Arthur will be killed early in the season. He said he really enjoyed working with Michael C. Hall on "The Getaway", and especially quoting the opening scene at the police station, where he said Hall "was great at working on the rhythm and finding the real meaning" where Dexter realizes Arthur has excess on it. Lithgow also said she enjoyed the last scene they shared, including the moment in which she realized her daughter had committed suicide: "It's so unusual for a disgraceful character to have such a moment, such a moment of pain."
Reception
Ratings
"The Getaway" broke several records for Showtime cable network. The last episode was seen by 2.6 million households, according to Nielsen rankings, making it the most watched episode of the original series in network history. This rating exceeds the record that has been broken only a week earlier by episode Dexter , Halo, Dexter Morgan , which is seen by 2.1 million households. The episode pair Dexter is the most watched showtimes since the October 23, 1999 broadcast of a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Orlin Norris. "The Getaway" was seen by 54 percent more viewers than the third season finale, "Do You Take Dexter Morgan?", Which aired on December 14, 2008. The high ranking for "The Getaway" gave a boost to the third season finale Californication , which airs immediately after the end of season Dexter . The Californication episode, Mia Culpa , was seen by 1.1 million households, the highest ever viewing for the series.
Critical reaction
This episode gained critical acclaim and has been cited by many critics as one of the best in this series, with some commentators calling the twist a surprising, unexpected end and tending to change the overall direction of the series. Television Entertainment's Entertainment Weekly writer Ken Tucker praised the episode shift, which he said "sends a series that spins in a new direction for next season". Tucker praised Dexter's writing staff, â € to maintain tension while creating a new world in Dexter's world: the terrible Trinity universe and its own trapped family.â € Bill Harris of Toronto Sun > says that the episode was good before the last scene, but that the change gave a different light to some scenes. Harris said about the turnaround, "It's good to know TV can still impact, is not it? But, my God, it's amazing."
IGN's reviewer Matt Fowler gave this episode an "Extraordinary rating" of 9.6/10, saying that: "I'm sure we all like Dexter's last moments with Arthur, getting off at the toy train shelter, but now looking back at The crime scene, knowing the last moments of the episode, was filled with so many more terrifying easter eggs.Something is certain when Arthur says, "It's over." We all think so because we've heard him say those words before. We also see Dexter taking a hit after the line, confused about its meaning.We can relate it to the fact that Arthur accepts his own death, but Dexter's shrunk eyebrows tell us that something more sinister is being played here.Of course, the real bitch is here that Dexter, who had officially dispatched Trinity, could not now go back and did so with the spirit of revenge. but Dexter certainly did not give Arthur a thank you if he knew what the monster had done, we could all point fingers at a certain mistake Dexter took during the season - the mistake that caused Rita's death - but when you took it as a whole it is a quite satisfying and ingenious story that really makes us all buy and believe, ultimately, that Dexter really wants to be free from the spirit of his murder. His stubbornness to kill Trinity himself ultimately hindered the entire judicial system, which would eventually capture Arthur based solely on Deb's persistence and expert detective work. "Also, IGN listed Arthur Mitchell as 2nd in the Top 10 Kills Dexter list that says" This is America's dreaded murder. And it was very nice. "In his review of the entire fourth season, Fowler, giving this season an" Extraordinary "rating of 9.5, said of the end that" It all comes only as a ton of creepy, guilty pleasures. I'll bet that when we all see the last scene of the end of the season that we, just because of the time we spend on characters for four years, feel a ton of emotions that we might never know were there. "
E! author Kristin Dos Santos calls the end "terrible", and says of Rita, "This death may come down as one of the most shocking deaths ever on television." Claire Zulkey says that the tortuous ending is intense, and the teleplay was woven to display some of the moments that have made him suspect different conclusions. He also praised what he hoped to be a "re-set" of the series with Rita's death. Marcia White of The Express-Times declared Dexter "one of the best cable dramas on TV," and called the last scene between Dexter and Arthur to be so touching. Mark Dawidziak of The Plain Dealer says the episode is surprising and exciting, and calls the "Dexter" series that makes you guess when the psychological ambiguity goes deeper and darker.
Awards
Director "The Getaway", Steve Shill, won the Emmy Primetime Award for Positioning for Drama Series for this episode. In addition, Matthew V. Colonna was nominated for Picture Camera Editing Extraordinary for Drama Series.
References
External links
- "The Getaway" at Showtime (official site)
- "The Getaway" in IMDb
- "The Getaway" on TV.com
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