Originally posted by JB88
another scenario that popped through my head was one which explores a helsinki syndrome type relationship. he keeps him in a cage. he reveals himself to him. he tells him EVERYTHING.
doaks begins to sympathize...he tells dexter about his life in special forces.
they bond.
That was my first guess too. Dexter most definitely wouldn't murder Doakes.
The only problem is the FBI. They won't go anywhere until the case is solved, so how would the case solve itself without a butcher? They wouldn't leave it at Doakes being innocent after all, not without finding a butcher.
One thing is a big indicator of Doakes and Dexter becoming friends: How would Dexter explain to the feds that he ran from the bodyguards to catch the butcher alone? That just doesn't cut it. Instead Dexter ran from the bodyguards to help Doakes, who otherwise would been arrested as the butcher had the feds knew about his where abouts.
Of course Dexter and Doakes could frame this guy from the Dexter's past, now in resting in pieces. That just doesn't sound like a convincing resolution to the season though. Finding the butcher in pieces would raise some serious doubts and after all this trouble having the butcher dissapear, presumed escaped, would be too easy.
I'd find it rather odd if Doakes would be fried as the butcher. It wouldn't fit into the scheme of the series - Bad guys gets what's due and good guys live.
