Trauma enters the brainstem, the most primitive part of the brain, triggering automatic fight-or-flight responses that can cause individuals to relive traumatic experiences and react viscerally to triggers, even when physically safe; this explains why trauma survivors may feel trapped in survival mode and why their bodies remember traumatic events through physical reactions.
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Dexter S5 Ep 7 | First Time Watching | Therapist REACTSAdded:
OH, [ __ ] HOLY [ __ ] INSPIRING GUNS IN THERE.
OH, SHOOT.
Dexter season 5 episode 7 is here.
Circle us. Oh, circle us. What is that going to be? I keep trying to figure out the titles of the shows.
But, here we go. Dexter's like how many more? Let's line them up. I can do that. I've got room in my schedule.
Not worried about my other two kids.
Harrison's taken care of with the nanny.
How does he do this?
Mental health-wise, I know people get on me for like this is who Dexter is and whatever.
My point is there's always a way to change, almost always. There's some people that seem unchangeable, but it's time to take a call and answer the call to doing life differently. But, now he feels so connected with Lumen. I think this could be This may be his new relationship.
It's been over a month since I freed Lumen from Boyd's, but she's still reliving it every day. I brought food.
So much trauma.
She is such a good actress. You're very controlling. I need to be.
Mhm, she scoots over. Sometimes I didn't even know if he was there until I'd hear this watch by my ear. And then he'd lean in and whisper, "Tick, tick, tick."
That's the sound of your life running out.
Anyone else? Suit and tie. Oh, has names for them. The suit guy I'd know.
He always took the blindfold off. I guess he thought I'd be dead soon.
>> He was wrong. It's important to understand trauma and I know this is a show, it's a series, there are these intense situations, but this is a real good look at trauma. She's giving people the best look at trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, actually.
Just a, you know, um, complex trauma going on that you can find.
And her reactions, her mannerisms, her reliving, her retelling, because when you retell, you relive.
And when you relive, the body remembers.
And so, the body viscerally reacts to it. And you can see in her body her reaction to the situation of sitting in the chair, tick tick tick, of taking the blindfold off, watching him unfold his fold up his suit.
She's reliving those moments, and that's what trauma does. Enters the brainstem, which is the very first thing that that's formed in our brain, and then our brain builds and grows all the way to the cortex, which is a complex thinking brain, which we have as adults. Don't get that till late teenage years, maybe early adulthood, fully done.
But as we grow, our brain starts to think a little bit better.
But when trauma hits, like something we've been through that's scary, a car wreck, or a loss of someone, or abuse, or any kind of heavy trauma, and we're back in a scenario that reminds us of that, goes straight to the brainstem, and sometimes it's hard to get out of the brainstem. That's fight or flight. That's the thing, the Neanderthal brain that makes us stuck.
Uh, fight, flight, freeze.
And we feel like we are in the middle of a battlefield. So, some people are going to fight through it, some people are going to run from it, some people are just going to catatonic and freeze.
But that's the part of the brain that doesn't think super well, it just reacts.
If it's not a heavy trauma, we work all the way through the brain Oh, this isn't that, you know, it's not a big deal to worry about this.
That's I'm not in danger, I'm fine.
But when you've had trauma like this, she is back in it, you have to be very careful because she can very easily think she's being traumatized again.
She's safe enough with him now though to say, "You're very controlling." She obviously communicated there that she's more comfortable with him, which is a great sign, and Dexter is safe, like he is okay.
But she can't trust anyone. Great picture of trauma and the reaction to it here.
Mhm.
Suit and tie.
There he is.
Wonder if they have somebody else in the truck.
Oh, that's the drop point. They're going to add somebody to it.
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Lumen, what I do, I do alone. I don't need a partner. Here he is again. Same as Miguel, you know, like the partner piece. I got to do this alone. You can help me get to him, but I need to do this alone. And I don't think she's going to take no for an answer because I think the trauma she's been through, she wants to see this through to the end. I don't know that it's great for her when it comes to trauma like this.
I know this is fantasy. Let's please be realistic about that. As a therapist, please don't take what I'm saying as this is what I'm advising clients in my office. And it is a fictional show. It is pretend. It's fantasy land. So I'm treating it as fantasy land.
But when I look at it, I see him saying, "Number one, I need to do what I do alone cuz it gets too messy if I don't.
>> [snorts] >> Number two, you don't want to be a part of this. You do not need to be in this mess. This is not good for you."
Um and so I think he's protecting her in a way.
She is going to want, I think, the resolution. She's going to want to close this chapter in her book. And she thinks she could do that by getting to them. I don't know if that's true.
You want these men brought to justice.
>> Yeah.
And I can't go to the cops because of you, so you're going to have to be a little flexible here.
Good boundaries.
They have to smell, right?
Even though they're sealed? No?
He takes them out in the truck, gets them to get the barrels out of there, but what do they just walk off in the wilderness?
How did they have a vehicle there?
Got rid of them.
Destroying the evidence somehow, and that's got to be post the call from the guy, the dentist guy.
It's got to be post that call like, "Hey." And he he realized, "Okay, somebody's on to us. We got to get rid of it." The other part of your life.
There is no other part to Lumen's life.
>> Mhm. That's true. Thank you. I feel like I'm dropping off my prom date. This is my house, and my wife is dead, and I have no idea where Lumen fits into [music] my world, and this is all so weird.
She might not understand that.
>> my prom. Oh, really? That's what he did.
That's not how he does things.
He didn't even say He didn't even say anything after she said, "Thank you."
It's kind of Well, you better hope those don't fall out.
And you know what's crazy? What's in there? You get stopped, you're going down.
You just in time.
Did that just happen for real?
Like he didn't notice a car coming?
The bodies are going to go out.
It's all going to be uncovered. Suit and tie's gone.
Unless he survived that crash.
Hey, good night, buddy. Such a sweet boy.
>> circle us with your light so that no darkness >> shall overcome our world. That's what it is. Sleep well, little one.
Circulus with your light. Is that yours?
St. Bridget.
St. Bridget.
I've not heard of St. Bridget. He doesn't need St. Bridget. He has Father Dexter.
Not going to let anything happen to his boy.
We get a new place together.
And that's movie fast. Text me the address.
What's up?
Dead people. You're going to get the same call. We're all getting called in.
Is he back on?
Basically, nobody knows we're seeing each other. I just want to keep it that way. Wow, baby. You're so sweet. How does that sound? Can we at least drive in together? And then we'll go to Disney World and we'll ride all the roller coasters and we'll hold hands.
[laughter] Wow, rejection.
We got her, and her, and her, and her. It's all exposed. Someone tried to move them. Where's the driver? That's what we're trying to figure out. He took off. Oh, man. Seriously?
How could he get out of that truck with that impact? Woo. We don't know what we've got. Yeah, what Is this gunk?
Uh Because it was only applied topically, the internal organs of the cadavers continued to putrefy and leak out of the area it came in contact with the formalin. That's what's on your shoe, congealed organs.
Yeah, we've got the guy that hit him. He was drunk off his freaking ass. He said he saw some guy jump out and start running. That means he's still mine to find. Isn't it pretty easy to find out though? If guys drive It's his truck.
Fingerprints going to be all over this truck, so they're going to should easily be able to find out with all the prints that are on that truck from opening doors and driving steering wheel.
It seems like they'd get him pretty quick. Crazy [ __ ] What do you got?
One man's suit jacket, size 40.
Aho, folded up very nicely. I also got fingerprints galore. Excellent.
>> Except for the steering wheel. Somebody give it a quick wipe.
Oh.
There she is. It's Lumen. Hmm. What are you doing here? I saw the news. I knew what it was. I had to come.
>> No, you didn't have to come.
>> Dexter, I was supposed to be one of those girls. Hmm. They could be watching.
>> What is this?
>> Means they're on the run. We need to go.
It's hard for her to trust him. Quinn's going to be watching him though. You give me Thank you. Boy, if he ever finds out Quinn is doing this, woo. [ __ ] they freaking [ __ ] me with it. You're never going to guess who this truck is registered to. Jordan Chase.
Jordan Chase is a very smart guy.
I was wondering about that. Take it now, dude. Jordan Chase.
Who does the take it now? That jacket is nice, but not that nice. Jordan wears nothing but the best. That's part of his thing. If you think you deserve something, then take it.
Okay.
And another one.
It's not often I'm in competition with my own people, but getting the He wants to find out and he doesn't want them to find out. It's like, who's going to find out first so I can get to him so you don't get to him cuz if you get to him, we're all going to be cooked. Not cooked really, but you know, he wants to get this guy.
That's his mission. One was 26, one was 29. Nothing on the other three. I'm going through the missing person databases. Put their photographs out there. DNA? Yeah, it's being run now.
This girl with Dexter is late 20s, blonde, cute.
He's going to put two and two together.
All I'm saying is this this place is going fast. Just not here. You too. No.
Hmm.
[ __ ] I think she knows about us.
No, she doesn't know. Maybe, but If we're going to take them outside, shouldn't we be outside? In order not to stand out like sore thumbs, we will continue with the post we've already established. Thank you, detectives Morgan and Flint. That'll be all. And the old higher-ups? You're supposed to be a master manipulator of the press, but you haven't even been able to do that. Every day I pick up the paper, read another story about how we're not doing our job.
>> right? God, you ever had one of these?
We're going to have an interesting conversation about your future.
On hell, having to bite his tongue.
Jordan Chase.
Hi.
Holy [ __ ] that's him.
>> Nice to meet you.
He's like, can I get an autograph?
Why don't you let me get a picture of you, too? Oh, yeah, excellent.
Okay.
Cuz they could use this picture to see if that's really him. One more.
Got it.
He got one of just him. Detective Morgan, nice to meet you.
Oh, nice watch. My dad gave it to me when I was a teenager. It's um Is that the same guy, though?
Yeah, this is tough.
Looks very similar, but it's hard to tell cuz it was so dark in that opening scene. If that's the watch that Lumen hurt, I'll make sure it accompanies you to the bottom of the Atlantic.
Mr. Chase. You must be the person in charge around here. But she listed two guys, watch guy and suit guy, suit and tie guy. Hey, we found the keys in the ignition. There are other ways to steal a car. Most thieves don't have the actual key. That doesn't look like the guy in the I want to make it very clear that the Miami Police Department has my full cooperation. My organization is completely open to you. This is a horrible, horrible tragedy. Please.
Well, he does look very similar to that guy and sound like him. Well, first we're to need fingerprints and hair samples from all your employees.
>> Even though he was speaking Spanish that day.
Sociopaths can't feel psychic pain, but they can feel physical pain.
Ow. What do you think about Cole?
Wasn't me. Someone stole my vehicle.
Oldest excuse in the book. Mhm.
It's hard to imagine [music] someone like him or his people being involved in something like this.
Doesn't seem too far-fetched to me. Of course, hair matches the hair on the jacket and headrest. Fingerprints?
They're all Cole's, even on the ignition key.
>> he's just become the focus of our investigation.
Seems too easy, though. So, for now we got our eyes on Cole.
Was Cole the tick tick tick guy?
And they're in it together? Lumen?
Dexter?
You need to announce yourself. I don't know who's coming in. It's a good idea.
I need things.
You said not to leave the house.
How [clears throat] does she have money?
Like, where is it coming from? I know she probably had family money, but It's just a flashlight. Give away of bending the rules.
So, do you, Dexter, from time to time.
Do you know this man?
Oh my god.
That's him. That's the guy who folded his jacket.
>> Mhm. How did you find him? He found us.
His name's Cole Harmon. He's Jordan I just I'm trying to figure that out.
Yeah, okay. Okay.
I see it.
I can see it now. I can see that now.
I can see it.
Oh my god. Suit and tie guy. That's him.
You think he would have had some bruises and stuff from that accident, though.
Pretty pretty bad hit.
>> His name's Cole Harmon. He's Jordan Chase's head of security. Interesting that Jordan would have such old or not not like nicer trucks with his company.
I mean, that guy's clearly a freak, but I don't know him. Tick tick tick then.
Jordan Jordan Chase.
Masuka, he's clearly a freak. Oh my gosh.
That's got to be tick tick tick. It's got to be. Watch. Did you get a picture of the watch? What about the other guys?
In order to save his own skin, he'll probably turn them in. It's only a matter of time before they're all in the hands of the police.
We got to get to them. How much coffee are you drinking? A lot. I have to stay awake. What if they come for me at night? She's stressed, on edge, the way I feel when I've gone too long without putting someone on my table.
I just don't know that helping you kill someone is actually helping you. This is all I think about. Truth is, I actually want to help her.
For some very complicated reasons. If we want Cole for ourselves, I have to derail the police investigation, [music] which means giving them another suspect.
Well, he's done that before. The man who actually killed all those girls, Boyd Fowler.
Planting evidence.
Where is Harry at this point?
Cuz since Lumen's right here, you don't see Harry at all.
And his place is still functional. First thing we have to do is remove any evidence that you were in the house.
If the police find your fingerprints, anything that ties you to this place, they're going to want to know what your relationship to Boyd Fowler is, how you got here, how you got out.
Oh, wow.
You need to go up. Oh, I can't. I don't think she should do this. This is not a good thing. You okay? Dexter, this is not good. Mhm. This is not good at all.
Oh.
I just can't recommend this.
>> [screaming] >> You okay? They grounded.
>> leave.
No. Look at what's here. Notice the things in the room. Mhm.
The last day I chewed on that rope for hours. I was finally able to slip it off. That's when I went downstairs and I saw you. Do what I did.
Mhm. A wallet.
I found it under the seat.
>> Whose is it?
Boyd Fowler's. Who the [ __ ] is Boyd Fowler? So far, so good.
Check it out.
There are locks of hair in here numbered 1 through 12.
12.
>> Oh, what about her hair?
He forgot about that or he didn't know about it. Hopefully, Dexter took hers.
In here.
I wonder why he's there if there's no blood. Like The preliminary medical examiner's report said all the girls were electrocuted. We're going to need forensics in the attic. I think he kept the girls up there. It looks like Boyd Fowler has become our primary focus.
Wow.
Dexter's good at what he does. I'm just trying to figure out how he came to be driving your truck.
I'm sorry, but I know him, Boyd Fowler.
He was one of your stalkers. This guy is like He's like I wonder if he's sitting there thinking, first of all, is he the guy?
And if he is, he's got to be sitting there thinking, how did they hook into Boyd? But hey, the attention's going to Boyd. I can go with this. Is he like going with the story? He took a few seminars a while back and then started showing up at our office asking for Mr. Chase. Had to escort him off the premises a few times. He's clearly a bit off, but uh he never struck me as dangerous.
Like is the coal guy the guy that did that, drove the truck, got the containers?
And he obviously would know Boyd.
I think Jordan would know Boyd. I think Jordan would know everybody. He's just well protected.
And is he bringing a story that's trying to throw him off over to Boyd so that he skirts free? I suggest that you be especially cautious, Mr. Chase. You could be in danger. If you have any contact with him, please get in touch with us immediately. This guy is very bad news. They're very bad news on hell.
Not good.
Not good.
But they got to feel >> something right. You got to feel like they're getting away with something.
>> Boyd. Very smart. See, they're all in on it.
>> Huh.
>> [laughter] >> Huh.
I'd even do it, but it I'll take it.
Yeah, they got to be wondering what in the world This is where Cole Harmon lives.
He's a bad man.
He left that on his computer?
Hi.
There's my angel. Let me just set my things down. Oh, she's going to notice that statue is not there, man. Harrison clearly loves his Saint Bridget. He put it with his favorite toys. Ah. It's just a statue of a lady who died a long time ago. She doesn't protect anybody or anything.
Can I go to Sonia?
I'm just telling you, this is the woman who takes care of and protects your child. I mean, unless it's freaky weird, you got to kind of just go with this.
You know, different faiths, different beliefs. I mean, I wouldn't want anything weird.
Uh but statue's Jared, just leave the statue there for now.
Because she's the one caring for him.
And when she gets a message like that, your statue stupid. Like that doesn't make It's not going to I'd want him to like learn more about it. Tell me more about Saint Bridget.
Like what's the story here?
But he just totally shut her down.
That's not going to go over well.
Hey.
Mr. Robocop. I only got a few minutes, so uh what do you have for me? I don't work for free.
>> Well, I just gave you 500 bucks. And I told you about the girl, but if you want to find out who she >> Extortion. I know you got the cash.
Yeah, it's not that.
Haha, he's starting to like Deb.
And maybe he's saying, "I don't think I want to go there anymore because this is going really well, and that's going to screw everything up." I hope he says that. But I think Mr. Crazy here So good I saw in a comment he was from Robocop cuz I thought, "That's exactly where I remember him from now."
Um he seems crazy enough just to keep going even though he's not getting paid.
Or he seems crazy enough to try to rat out Quinn and the times he stole money. I'll give you another five.
That'll work.
Dude.
Better watch out, Quinn. He's going to throw it all away. The second you see the Fuentes brothers, you walk up to them and you engage in conversation outside of the club until we move in and take them. You really don't have to worry about anything. We're going to be right there. Makes me nervous. Okay.
She is freaking out. I don't know if she can do this.
I don't know. I heard there's a secret door from the club next door, but I I never seen it.
Okay, this is a change of plans. Now you got to wait, huh? Go sit with them. Oh, no way. No way. Let's make sure we find that secret door. Has everyone got that?
Got it.
>> Got it.
How are you going to find the secret door? They find out she's got a wire, ooh, it's all over. You said there's a seminar in Naples. Don't you think he's there? Probably. So, what are you waiting for?
That. That, right there. I have no idea what's inside there. I'm going to have my hands full without watching over you.
Ooh. Quinn, you can be the lookout.
If you see anything, call me. Man, I don't want her to be in the driver's seat, just in case. We are starting to look a little obvious. I'm going to go get us a club soda. No kidding. Just standing there.
He notices her. Uh-oh, watch out. Go to him, make nice, try to get him to step outside the club.
>> Lieutenant, no. This is a problem. These guys are dangerous.
>> Stand down, Morgan. Oh my god, this is I'm nervous.
OH, SH THEY'RE FIRING GUNS IN THERE. OH, SHOOT.
DROP THE GUN NOW.
OH, you again. You should walk away.
Shoot him.
Drop the gun right now.
Oh!
Morgan.
Hero.
You okay?
No, I'm not okay. You shot somebody in the head.
I can't believe that just happened. Oh, wow. Cole is a teenager.
Security, security, they got alarms.
Holy [ __ ] I can't believe that just happened. What made you come inside? I thought I saw a shadow. Oh my gosh.
I wanted to see that picture.
Cole is a I know, I know. I just had a feeling. It was some sort of lizard brain thing.
She's starting to sound like me. Lizard brain. It's Cole.
And Boyd. And Dan the dentist. It's them.
>> Oh, and the dentist. All of them.
They've known each other since they were kids.
My god, Dexter, this is huge. We just have to figure out who they are.
Oh, wow. Attachment. She's safe with him.
She feels hope. So, what do we do next?
You said we.
Put on your seat belt.
>> it together.
I could have smiling. You haven't seen her smile the entire show.
It's the first time. This is a [ __ ] disaster.
>> Carlos Fuentes was shot and killed. Our informant, Yasmine Aragon, was shot and killed, as well as another innocent bystander. Oh, no. Additionally, three other bystanders were wounded. I want a full report by 8:00 a.m. Full report on that? Typing that up? I know it looks bad, and it is bad, but we are going to get through this. I promise you. This could be the end for her.
That was pretty bad. All cops make occasional mistakes in judgment.
>> Excuse me?
>> Ooh, you calling her out on that?
Mistakes were made, and most certainly would not mind. You shouldn't have sent her in. She wasn't ready for that.
And she had a weapon.
Still up. And I have to admit he feels quite good. He's always so happy in her arms. Mhm.
Surprised he doesn't have a crib or something. He's just kind of playpen there.
Mhm.
Saint Bridget, circle us with your light, so that no [music] darkness shall overcome our world.
Oh, boy.
Sweet Harrison.
Hi. Hi.
Oh, he's bringing his son to her?
>> Harrison, this is Lumen. Hi. Oh my goodness.
>> He's so sweet.
Oh my gosh, that's such a He's a great actor already.
Sometimes people who are meant to be find us, and as much as we try to push them away, they work their way into our lives regardless until we finally realize how much we need them.
>> Um just I think we got a new couple.
I mean, she's like the next version of Rita, only the advanced version in terms of what she's been through in life, and she is not a um You know the same thing with Lumen?
She's very smart, she's very quick, she's very [music] um street wise, but she's had so much trauma, she doesn't want it doesn't seem like the intense, [music] the passion, the sex, that that kind of stuff from him because she's been abused so much and traumatized. So, it's a perfect scenario for him to keep distance, but be connected. Like they're attached. They seem more attached than Rita and Dexter were.
They seem like in sync, like they kind of think alike, like they have the same drive kind of thing, and I feel like these two are quite the team and the way that Harrison came in and she just immediately loved on him.
This could be his new partner in more ways than one, y'all. And look, the shootout at the OK Corral there in the bar in Miami was a horrible mistake. La Guerta, I like you a lot, but that was a big mistake.
The cops [music] in there with guns should not be anywhere near somebody that that could get found out. She should not have sent her in if she knew she had a pistol up her skirt, by the way. How the heck did she even fit that in there strapping it to the thigh. And then the gunfire starts.
What is going on in this place?
That's lawsuits galore. It's crazy town.
[music] Like LaGuerta, she's going to go for this. She's got to go for this cuz she's the one that ordered her to go in with a pistol.
That's just bad news, bad scene.
Should have called it off in the beginning.
Could have left it with the one witness person in there, but I think they might have found her wire anyway. I don't know. It's just bad news.
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>> [music] [music]
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