Talk:Episode 812: Remember the Monsters?/@comment-50.72.98.146-20131001010131/@comment-16058197-20131001052330

The death of Debra was not directly caused by his Dark Passenger (in the long run of course it is) but by his decision to let Saxon live. He might have felt like he screws everything up and take everyone down with him and he didn't want that to happen to Hannah and Harrison (I was surprised he named them in that order, like he prefers Hannah over his own son). Whether the one thing that caused Dexter's suffering is gone, I think the look in his eyes in the epilogue demonstrated the contrary. He will never get rid of his dark passenger, he might kept it in bay because of Hannah, but if anything happens to her or Harrison, it will just kick in again.