It soon becomes clear that Chase was also one of Lumen's attackers. Dexter manages to save the children and escape unhurt. The main event for the Miami Police Department is related to the appearance of cooked, partially eaten bodies and the disappearance of a teenaged girl, Samantha. By now, Dexter has embraced his role as stepfather to both children, but is annoyed when thoughts of themwondering if Cody had brushed his teeth before bed and if Astor had set out her Easter dress for picture day at her schooldistract him from hunting an intended victim. Dexter suspects that Joe's apparent heart attack was actually murder. In Episode 9 (Season 1), "Father Knows Best". As he dies, Sirko reassures Dexter that he can still find happiness. He continues on with his life until he starts receiving threatening emails from the person who claims to have seen him over a pile of dead body parts. The actual capture of his victims differs between the books and the show. [38], Dexter sets his sights on a new victim: Zach Hamilton (Sam Underwood), a teenager from a wealthy family who murdered his father's mistress and is now preparing to kill his father. Animals do not like Dexter, which can cause noise problems when he stalks a victim who has pets. These ranged from his emotional depth to his skills as a killer, as he started to ignore killing non-killers and innocents if it meant he remained free; he was willing to kill Maria LaGuerta and Angela Bishop (the last being his ex-girlfriend); and the police sergeant Logan was Dexter's final victim, as well as the final violation of the Code of Harry. Joseph Driscoll may not be his real name as Dexter found no records of his existence before age 30. As intended, Kurt rushes back to his house, where Dexter incapacitates him and prepares a kill site in Kurt's own bunker. Other times, Dexter incapacitates his target by using either his hands or a garrote to cut off blood flow to the brain. To make matters worse, Debra, traumatized by her ordeal with the Ice Truck Killer, moves in with Dexter, which hinders his secret life. He kidnaps and kills Estrada to lure LaGuerta in, and then knocks her unconscious, planning to shoot her to make it look like Estrada killed her. In the television series he is portrayed by James Remar. During the night, Dexter breaks into the morgue and steals Joe's ashes. [10] He uses the alias Patrick Bateman (the serial killer protagonist of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho) to procure these tranquilizers. When she overcomes her demons and becomes more amorous, however, Dexter considers ending the relationship, fearing that she will see him as he really is if they become a real couple. This showed how far Dexter had truly fallen, as when he had killed Jonathan Farrow in the past, a man he had been convinced was a killer but was in fact innocent (of murder, but not of abuse), he had been wracked with guilt and had been ashamed of himself. He is also horrified when he finds out that one of his potential victims is an abusive husband and father; Dexter vehemently insists he is nothing like that and would never hurt his family. In the television series, Dexter is portrayed by Michael C. Hall. When Dexter tries to kill Hector Estrada (Nestor Serrano), the man who ordered Dexter's mother's murder, LaGuerta arrives at the scene, forcing him to let Estrada go so he can escape. On a few occasions, Dexter has even resorted to killing with his bare hands, having drowned a victim as well as having snapped necks. Later on, Brian begins to hunt down Debra himself, but Dexter apprehends Brian and then ties him down to an operating table in Brian's apartment. The season ends with Dexter wondering what it would be like if everyone knew his secrets and imagining being celebrated outside the police station by an adoring crowd.[5]. Vogel says the "Brain Surgeon" is one of her former patients, and asks Dexter to kill him before he goes after her. Dexter, in the TV series, eventually discontinues his practice of taking blood slide trophies during the seventh season, primarily because of the potential of him being caught due to a renewed secret investigation into the Bay Harbour Butcher, and because his sister Debra had discovered his true self and he wanted to be better for her. Deborah and Dexter quickly realize that the string of bodies all bear a striking resemblance to Jackie. It shows how one can be trapped in prison and the tattoo is mostly worn on the elbow. Dexter goes to the house to investigate, accompanied by Rita & Debra (with Rudy in tow). The Detroit Free Press gave season two of the series a 70/100 and said: "Hall invests strange, demented Dexter with real heart and humanity". As such, he never discovers Rudy's involvement. Who killed Dexter's biological father? He settles on Boyd Fowler (Shawn Hatosy), a convicted rapist whose connection to a string of missing women makes him the perfect target. Dexter's trophy signature is to slice the victim's right cheek with a surgical scalpel to collect a small blood sample, which he preserves on a microscope slide. [a] Harry adopted Dexter, while Brian was left to the child welfare system. [7], In season three, Dexter finds his life manageable until he discovers that Rita is pregnant. [67][68] A nonfiction book on the case, The Devil's Cinema, detailed how Twitchell had written Facebook status updates under his Dexter Morgan account, including, "Dexter is patiently waiting for his next victim uh, play date buddy", but his followers did not know how true these posts really were. Dexter lures her deputy, Logan (Alano Miller), closer to his cell and then puts him in a headlock, demanding Logan release him. [3] In the second season, Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant James Doakes, discovers that Dexter forsook a career in medicine to pursue blood spatter analysis, despite being at the top of his class in medical school. One day, Dexter receives official notification that a man named Joseph Driscoll is his biological father, and that, since Dexter is the only next of kin, he must come settle the estate and claim the body. [66] Detective Mark Anstey of the Edmonton Police Service was quoted as saying, "We have a lot of information to suggest he definitely idolizes Dexter", and Twitchell had posted a Facebook status stating that he believed he had "way too much in common with Dexter Morgan". Harry Morgan is a main character in the Showtime series DEXTER. He realizes he cannot help Debra and asks Vogel to treat her. Harry is Dexter Morgan's adoptive father, now deceased. LaGuerta regains consciousness and urges Debra to kill Dexter. [70] In an affidavit filed in Ohio County court, police said Andrew stated that he "watches a show called Dexter on Showtime, about a serial killer, and he stated, 'I feel just like him.'". Dexter goes to Castner's boat to protect him, but finds that Hannah has already killed him. Dexter's novel appearances include Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005), Dexter in the Dark (2007), Dexter by Design (2009), Dexter Is Delicious (2010), Double Dexter (2011), Dexter's Final Cut (2013), and Dexter Is Dead (2015), the final novel in the series, conceptually inspired by the real-life Brazilian vigilante serial/spree killer Pedro Rodrigues Filho. At outset of season four, Rita has given birth to a baby boy, Harrison. Dexter adheres to Harry's code, however, causing a schism between his personalities. Dexter also had an older brother, named Brian. Dexter goes to see Debra one last time, tearfully turns off her life support, and buries her at sea. The Dark Passenger is one of Moloch's many offspring; Moloch had many children (formed through human sacrifice), and learned to share its knowledge with them. View complete answer on dexter.fandom.com. After getting into a violent altercation with Mitchell, Dexter insists that they are nothing alike and thinks he may be able to silence his Dark Passenger permanently.[23]. Upon discovering that Debra was brain dead after a stroke, caused by a victim that Dexter left for her to arrest shooting her, Dexter was visibly devastated. Prado offers Dexter Freebo's bloody shirt as proof that he will not reveal Dexter's secret. When a series of murders leads Miami Metro's Detective Anderson through a loop, Dexter is assigned to guard Jackie. While driving home after killing his first victim in months, Dexter falls asleep at the wheel and has an accident, and the resultant short-term memory loss causes him to forget where his victim's body is. Before that, they are no records of his life before age 30 nor any childhood photos. [5] On the show, Laura was a police informant for Harry Morgan and his secret mistress. Paste ranked Dexter Morgan number 6 on their list of the 20 Best Characters of 2011[1] In addition, Hall was awarded with a Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama in 2007, and was nominated five times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. According to Dr. Pittman, Joe was in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War, although there is no proof of this. Dexter and Rita drive to Dade City to sort out Joe's house and sell it. Once they have arrived, he either strangles them into unconsciousness or uses the noose to drag them to the kill site proper. When he goes to dispatch Crowley, he finds he is once again being tailed by Doakes. Moments later, however, she suffers a major stroke that leaves her in a persistent vegetative state. Dexter deduces that LaGuerta had orchestrated Estrada's release from prison to set Dexter up. When Kurt is released, he tries to intimidate Dexter by hinting that he knows he killed Matt, and Dexter realizes that he will have to kill Kurt to protect Harrison and himself. After a few failed marriage proposals, Dexter proposes again by mimicking a declaration of love from one of his victims. In Dexter in the Dark, the third novel of the series, third-person narrative reveals through an entity referred to as "IT" that the Dark Passenger is an independent agent inhabiting Dexter, rather than a deviant psychological construction. Since childhood, Dexter has felt homicidal urges directed by an inner voice he calls "the Dark Passenger"; when that voice cannot be ignored, he "lets the Dark Passenger do the driving". The FBI, however, soon clear Dexter, as he was with the police at Mitchell's house at the time Rita was murdered. The book leaves it open to interpretation whether he survives. While working a crime scene where police have found another body matching the pattern of Jackie's obsessed fan, Dexter notices a man fitting the description in a kayak out in the bay watching the scene. The first novel implies that Harry chose not to adopt Brian because he was older and more likely to be traumatized; in the TV program, both Brian and Tom Matthews, Harry's best friend and former superior, state this to be true. Lumen finds it hard trust Dexter, but comes to realize he means her no harm. Her biological parents have remained unknown until Legacy (when she discovered that Councillor Oralie is her biological mother). Dexter discovers that Daniel set the fire himself to fake his own death, and that he is now living under the identity of Oliver Saxon (Darri Ingolfsson)Cassie's boyfriend at the time of her murder. Shortly afterward, Brother Sam is shot and mortally wounded in his garage. In the television series he is portrayed by James Remar. Dexter travels to the house with Rita. Opines that dexter was never conceived and customized to be like this yet was raised by his father to do such acts. [5][6] When Dexter was two years old, he witnessed his mother's brutal murder at the hands of three drug dealers. In the second-season finale, "The British Invasion", Dexter finally admits that he needs the people in his life. In "The British Invasion", Doakes finally catches Dexter in the act of disposing of a dismembered body in the Florida Everglades. That night, he runs into Kurt, who drunkenly claims to have gotten a FaceTime message from his son. [3], Meanwhile, after killing Oscar Prado in self-defense while attempting to murder a homicidal drug dealer named Freebo, Dexter forms an unlikely friendship with Oscar's brother, Miguel (Jimmy Smits), a popular assistant district attorney. He begs Debra to come with him, but she refuses. He tracked Joe down and accessed his house while disguised as a cable TV repairman. At the age of 60, Joe met his demise when Brian Moser schemed to reconnect with his long-lost brother, Dexter. Debra walks into the churchseeking to find Dexter after a recent meeting with a therapist helped her realize that she is in love with her adoptive brotheronly to see Dexter kill Marshall. Later, Dexter realizes the Dark Passenger is related to Moloch, a Middle Eastern deity worshiped in Biblical times. Dexter and Lumen, trapped, remain silent. Dexter escapes, however, and is rescued by a fishing boat carrying illegal immigrants bound for Florida. She makes a deal with him: she will not stop Dexter as long as he does not tell her about it or interfere with Miami-Metro investigations. [59] Commenting that Hall was "adept at portraying repressives", Ginia Bellafonte of The New York Times said this vigilante operates on the "stylized libertarianism that sees institutional failure wherever it looks". In the case of his first victim in Dexter: New Blood, in which Dexter has not killed in almost 10 years, he still dismembers the body, but initially only buries the remains in plastic bags under a fire pit by his cabin. Joe had a spider web tattoo. He saves one of Yates' victims and confronts the killer, who escapes. Not knowing what else to say, Dexter replies that he is. They return to Dexter's cabin to find that Kurt had burned it down the night before. In addition, he was nominated five times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012). Harrison sees blood on Dexter's face, however, and figures out that he killed Logan, Harrison's wrestling coach who had been a friend and mentor to him. Dexter considers himself emotionally divorced from the rest of humanity; in his narration, he refers to "humans" as if he is not one himself. The following day, Debra asks Dexter to take a drive with her so they can talk. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! A memory surfaces from his past. He is in a relationship with Angela Bishop (Julia Jones), the town's chief of police, and has abstained from killing for almost a decade. [19] After being tipped off by Prado, a serial killer called "the Skinner" (Jesse Borrego), who is searching for Freebo, kidnaps Dexter on Dexter's wedding day. Dean Moser (father) Emily Moser (mother) Address 182 W. Centre Street, Miami (at death) 1235 Mangrove Drive, Miami, FL 34138 (previously) Professional Status Profession Drug Dealer Police Informant Laura Lynn Moser is a character in the Showtime series DEXTER . Traditionally a "family includes a married father and mother and kids -- either biological or adopted" (Hater: 2014) When comparing this definition to the texts an show more content In the case of Dexter, this is his step father who created a code to help control Dexter's dark side and focus on using it for good. Sensing a strangeness in him, Dexter keeps Robert at arm's length. On other occasions, he uses hammers, drills, and other power tools. [45], After Saxon is arrested, Dexter kills him in his cell, and apparently convinces Quinn and Batista that he acted in self-defense (it is implied that they knew what really happened). Variety said that "Michael C. Hall's portrayal of the title character remains a towering achievement, one that eclipses the show's other shortcomings and rough patches". He was fucking his . Contents 1 History 2 Season One 3 Trivia Michael C. Hall has received many accolades for his portrayal of Dexter Morgan. The paternity test proves that Joe Driscoll is Dexter's biological father. As Dexter plans to disconnect and restart, he finds himself confronted by Rankin (Brad Carter), a brash, foul-mouthed hillbilly. The season ends with Dexter surrounded by friends and family at Harrison's first birthday party. Brian slipped Joe a sedative and injected him with diabetic insulin, which caused Joe to have a seizure and die of cardiac arrest. Debra has replaced Harry in Dexter's mind as his "Dark Passenger", albeit one who advises him on ways not to kill. Christine Hill is a character appearing in Season Four of the Showtime series DEXTER She was a reporter who met Joey Quinn while covering the Lisa Bell murder. Dexter's brother Brian bails him out of prison and gets him the best lawyer in town, but the lawyer happens to be in the pocket of a very powerful Mexican drug cartel led by a man named Raul, who is after Brian. As the countdown to the new year begins, Dexter wonders if this is the "beginning of the end". When they return to Miami, Dexter crosses paths with a suspicious homicide detective and a serial killer who preys on tourists: though the killer had initially only stolen corpses to mutilate and pose for art, he switches to actually killing people when his lover becomes one of Dexter's victims, with Dexter's murder of the lover being caught on a video camera that the two had hidden and used to record the mutilated corpses. Distracted, Angela leaves the station to go to Kurt's cabin. He questions the show's director, who confirms that Robert is a pedophile. Joe Driscoll is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER. Just as Danco is about to turn his attentions to Dexter, however, Deborah bursts in and kills him, saving Dexter's life. Lila discovers the cabin in the Everglades where Dexter is holding Doakes and blows it up (with Doakes inside), to protect Dexter. Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant Doakes, suspects Dexter of being involved in LaGuerta's murder, and starts following him around. Dexter breaks Logan's neck, steals his keys and flees the station after having contacted Harrison using Logan's phone. (The donor, who turns out to be Joe, kept the card through the years.). Fearing for his family's safety, Dexter engineers Sirko's arrest, but Sirko is soon released on bail and resumes his vendetta. After being forced to accept Gellar's death, Marshall begins to target Dexter, managing to capture him and enact the lake of fire.