The Ending

i agree one of the most retarded endings ever. Seing how the other victims were under trauma, she went off to be become a cop with no psychological damage or trauma from her past is just plain retarded. I felt like a stone felt off me after seing this twist, has to be one of the worst ones ever in a movie. The movie was decent till the ending but never had anything that distinguish it from other serial killer movies. I like Cusack movies theyre all normally pretty solid but this is def one of his worse ones, although he is still the only thing that kept this movie afloat imo

Jennifer Carpenter got more tolerable over the seasons in Dexter due to other good actors on the show, but she herself is just unbearable in mostof the things she appear in. The only thing she seem to be able to do as a actor is playing hysterical and panicky with bizarre choke motions.

Nathead I am with you I just saw this on Netflix and she acted very odd. Almost trying to discourage him a lot of times while he was working on the case. I thought she was talking about the transsexual was very weird for a cop working on a case about prostitutes missing. Or her talking about someone one just disappeared and no one came. To infer why make a big deal out of these prostitutes. Like why do you care about them.

Also the not having a child story line. Who cares, they made too big a thing out of it. She's 30 and doesn't have any kids, which his wife mentions. Now I did not connect the dots until I saw the kidnapper was using the girls to have babies. That is why she was so callous about the transsexual.


That is why she was so callous about the Transsexual, and very ambivalent about the case. That is how they got the DMV records. You knew it had to be someone on the police, so it had to be her, because the script didn't have enough bones to introduce us to other people working with them and make them a little part of the story, so we might suspect them. To me the biggest twist was him getting killed. Americans do not like to see that in movies. I just knew he had a vest on and was going to live

I was a bit surprised by the ending.

But I've been going over it in my head, and I've been building a different picture.

Notice how we never see Carl with the babies. And when we finally do meet them, it's a very sterile environment. It's like he's following these "family" rules, but he doesn't really much more together than his victims.

Carpenter was pretty manipulative. Now I've been thinking - what if she did most of the brainwashing on Carl? They met up years ago, she convinced him they needed a family, but she was infertile. She convinced him to find hookers and get some babies coming through.

Lo and behold, she doesn't seem to care when Carl gets shot, just grabs her babies and goes, and the very night that the (3rd? more more) baby is born.

Also to answer other peoples questions, she hadn't called the disturbance in yet (she pretended to call it in remember?) so she had plenty of time to get babies down to the car.


But Carl had duct tape in his 'kidnap' bag when he first picked up Carpenter, so perhaps that rules my theory out.