At this very moment in the soul of the boy something broke and he will never be the same. Back in Miami, Dexter, Hannah, and Zach have dinner with Vogel. Miles violently confronts Hannah about her meeting with Dexter, and she kills him herself. Saxon: I guess I'll live to see another day. Choose poorly like Mom and you will lose.
Cute little son, your sister. After being denied the sergeant's position, Quinn decides to start investigating Zach. Dexter voiceover : I lived in shadows for so long until the dark became my world, but over time, the people in my life flipped on a light. On April 18, 2013, Showtime officially announced that the eighth season would be the show's last. Debra has a violent confrontation with the hitman, and eventually murders him; Dexter finds her blood at the crime scene, but hides it from the police. Deputy Marshall Cooper shows up at Elway's office and asks for his help to catch Hannah McKay because he believes Debra is hiding her out at her house.
Later, while eating at her house, Debra and Dexter realize they have been drugged; before passing out, Dexter sees Hannah McKay approaching him. At the airport, Dexter, Hannah and Harrison manage to elude Elway, but they are forced to leave the airport due to the fake bomb scare that Dexter has rigged. She's also upset because without Vogel helping them, she and Dexter wouldn't have found their way back together. Its victims are notorious villains who have repeatedly committed crimes against humanity. At his apartment, Dexter finds Zach's corpse, left by the Brain Surgeon. Dexter plans to quit his job, and tells Debra he's moving to with Hannah and Harrison.
Dexter then gets a call from Sylvia, who says she has a new buyer that wants to meet the seller and he'll pay cash. He takes her body out to sea and drops it into the water. Debra helps her boss, Elway, to catch his sister's boyfriend in the act of adultery. Unbeknownst to Dexter, Saxon has reunited with Vogel, who accepts him into her home. Angel and Quinn question Dexter about Saxon's killing and, although they suspect what really happened, conclude that Dexter acted in.
Dexter: I think I can live with that. Elway and the Marshalls are ransacking Debra's house looking for evidence of Hannah when they find a website with flights to Argentina. Is one of them Daniel Saxon? He has so much anxiety about it that he can't wait two days to kill Daniel---he needs him dead now. Hannah brings Harrison into the room and she hands Dexter their new travel itinerary of escape which starts in two days. She didn't believe he could really turn away from his impulse to kill or have any real feeling towards people, especially Hannah. Dexter tells her that she's going to bring him in and to say she found him by looking up his old properties and then she'll be a big hero.
Quinn's preoccupation with Debra causes friction between himself and Jamie, and Batista begins to lose faith in Quinn's ability to pass the sergeant's exam. When Dexter arrives, Saxon murders Vogel and escapes. Debra: That doesn't sound like the old Dexter. Dexter: I just want him taken care of. Don't you want him for yourself? Dexter begins his usual voiceover at the end of an episode and we see him with Harrison leaving his condo, heading for the airport. In the meantime, Rita has troubles of her own, when Syl reveals that Miguel has been seeing one of his old flames.
Debra finds a new clue that brings her even closer to catching the Skinner. I'd say she's changed mightily herself. Debra says it was her and and nobody else, the receptionist must have been wrong about the hair. The season follows Dexter Morgan, who is forced to deal with his past when he comes across Dr. Vogel brings Saxon to her house as a trap, but he quickly realizes he is being set up.
Debra returns to Miami Metro and rekindles her relationship with Quinn, who has broken up with Jamie. Now you have a girlfriend, it's Hannah, right? Deputy Marshall shows up at Debra's desk at the station and wants to know who the blonde lady was that used her name to take Harrison to the emergency room? Feelings, nothing more than feelings! Quinn and Jamie have begun a relationship, which Quinn wants to keep a secret from Batista. I imagine some fans will be pissed that for another week Dexter didn't kill somebody. You already had one wife murdered. I don't need to kill you. Evelyn finds some serious interest in Dexter.
Yates abducts Vogel, and Dexter and Debra reconcile as they work together to find her. Dexter knows that Daniel is right about his life but comes to a different conclusion than what Saxon believed would happen. Why doesn't Dexter see that it's going to be Saxon? He witnessed the brutal murder of the most important woman who loved him more than life. Dexter asks for a half an hour and heads over to meet with her and the new buyer. That must be an interesting story. Dexter starts to rush over to Hannah's when Debra curses him out for a hug. I thought Elway would be with him too.