It seems it’s obvious where the series Dexter is heading, at least- the TV version spun off from the books by Showtime. With the ending of Season 4 opening up possibly the end of Dexter, and rumours that Season 5 will be the last (and it should dam well be). Dexter’s demise is imminent.
The books will forever continue as long as the writer wants to write them, and have nothing to do with the TV series or anything else Showtime works on with the IP. The only thing keeping them together is the fact the TV show is loosely based on the original book.
Morals are the only thing which will destroy Dexter, for the simple fact if he doesn’t meet his maker by the end of the series, apparently society will break down. The fact of the matter is letting Dexter win, leads false impressions that doing what he does is right or some bullshit like that. So when the series is enlightened as a TV series, and in the public eye, the end result has to be that Dexter loses.
Something like a book however, could continue to be written for decades to come, and the simple fact here is, if the author decides that Dexter should die, things could be contradicted or “flash backs” or other creative licences which would just be bloody insane on the small screen.
On the second fact is that somehow Showtime is probably thinking of moving over from the small screen to the big screen, with rumours that there is a Dexter movie on the table. It’s quite possible that Showtime will either use the movie to kill Dexter off (or do it in the TV show and then have the movie as a separate direction).
Flowing around in my head, I thought of one of the possible outcomes of how Dexter would be dealt with when it happens.
Let’s picture this, Deb confronts Dexter early on in the season and Dexter pretty much reveals all. Sounds stupid that it would happen that way (which it probably won’t), but Deb is the kind of person who would take the whole dam season to struggle with why she should or shouldn’t turn in him in.
She obviously would take the little brats and look after them, or least help on certain days or something, now this is a no brainier on that happing, I doubt we will see Dexter just kill the kids, or leave them or something, but anything is possible.
Now either some other big bad serial killer or something else back lashing from the previous season will be out to get Dexter, but let’s use the possibility of Deb killing him.
She could set up the perfect alibi too, with the fact that later that night she would storm the house for a raid and have it so Dexter is killed when she gets in because, you know she is family and wants to talk to Dexter prior or something, iddno.
So that’s where she will kill Dexter, and have it in some badass ritual way like he would of done it, with all the victims and shit he’s killed around him- something really stupid like that would be awesome.
Then again, I’m probably just crazy as shit, the series won’t end like this- and if it did, dang.