During the course of the season, Dexter justifies killing two people who do not fit his code: Nathan Marten (Jason Kaufman), a pedophile who is stalking Astor;[20] and his old friend Camilla Figg (Margo Martindale), who is dying of cancer and asks him to end her suffering.[21]. Dexter is joined by Rita, Debra and Rudy for a weekend away when he learns that his biological father, whom he was told died thirty years ago, has just recently passed away and left him everything he owned, including his house. When he goes to dispatch Crowley, he finds he is once again being tailed by Doakes. Dexter confronts Zach, who swears that he did not target Cassie, but another murderer, giving Dexter hope that Zach can be "trained" after all. The San Francisco Chronicle said of the actor that "the allure of the series always has been and always will be Hall, who manages to make a killer (who kills only people who deserve it, mostly) likable, believable, engaging and funny". 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. Dexter leads her toward investigating Kurt as a serial killer in hopes that exposing his crimes will destroy his influence over Harrison. [25], In the season-seven opener, Dexter tells a bewildered Debra that he killed Marshall on impulse after Marshall ambushed him. By the start of season one, Dexter is a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department; in his "secret life", he is a serial killer who preys on people who are themselves murderers. (Dexter told Dr. Pittman that Joe spent some time in prison because of his tattoo.). [49], Harrison is injured in a knife fight with another student, Ethan Williams (Christian Dell'Edera), whom he badly wounds. Rudy picks him up and convinces him not to throw them away. She is Dexter Morgan and Brian Moser 's biological mother. When Jonah and his mother discovered Jonah's sister, their mother blamed the children for their father's shortcomings. Throughout the novel, Dexter is involved in the investigation of the "Tamiami Butcher", a serial killer who dismembers his victims and puts the body parts in refrigerated trucks. During the drive, she intentionally crashes the car into the bay, intent on killing them both. Rewatched the show a couple times and I didnt catch anything said about Dexter's biological father. Fearing the worst, Dexter goes in search of Robert, who had shown a suspicious interest in Astor. Dexter kills Fowler, only to find Fowler's latest kidnapping and rape victim, a young blonde woman named Lumen Pierce (Julia Stiles), who is still alive. s1e9 "Father Knows Best" The scene in Dexter's biological fathers house when Deb gets the phone call about the DNA test results on his deceased biodad. Dexter blames himself, and realizes he will always destroy those he loves; he sees at last he can never have a happy life. He is the biological father of Dexter Morgan. Dexter cuts Lumen free and knocks Chase out. Lila convinces him to explore his past, and while under extreme duress after confronting and killing his mother's murderer, his relationship with Lila becomes sexual. Stealing away to his boat, Dexter slips alongside the man and kills him. After weeks of testimony and evidence presented in court, Twitchell was found guilty of the planned and deliberate murder of 38-year-old Johnny Altinger on April 12, 2011. In the novel, Dexter learns of the Dark Passenger's true nature when it briefly "leaves" him, frightening him into researching possible reasons for its existence. This causes awkwardness between them after she catches Harrison in bed with Audrey. In the television series, Dexter is portrayed by Michael C. Hall. [27], Dexter escapes Debra's watch long enough to dispose of Ray Speltzer (Matt Gerald), a brutal serial killer who had evaded prison on a technicality, and Debra comes to understand why Dexter kills. An enraged Dexter drowns Nick in the surf, reawakening in him the presence of his dead brother, Brian, who begins to guide him in much the same way that Harry's presence once had. Just as Dexter finds a chance to kill again, over 30 bodies (Dexter's victims) are found in a Miami harbor, provoking a massive search for the so-called "Bay Harbor Butcher". Debra believes him at first, and helps him destroy the old church, with Marshall's body inside. Brian convinces Dexter to go after Arthur Mitchell's son Jonah (Brando Eaton), who appears to have also become a killer. [40], Hannah reappears in Dexter's life when she non-lethally poisons him and Debra to get his attention. Dexter tracks Marshall down, but balks at killing him, believing that Marshall has a conscience and is simply being led down the wrong path. Moments later, however, she suffers a major stroke that leaves her in a persistent vegetative state. Irma Holt, Joe's neighbor across the street, thought he was too young and healthy to die and how he was a nice man who would clean her gutters. I was pretty sure it was Harry. They renew their relationship, and plan to run away together to Argentina. 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". He claims to have no feelings or conscience, and that all of his emotional responses are part of a well-rehearsed act to conceal his true nature. Dexter is eventually framed for a murder, at least circumstantially, by his still anonymous Shadow. 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. 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. After a moment's hesitation, Harrison shoots Dexter in the chest with the hunting rifle Dexter gave him for Christmas. Joe Driscoll is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER. While he means that he killed her by letting Mitchell know his identity, the police interpret this as an admission of direct guilt. Dexter kills Yates to keep him from harming Debra, and he and Debra reconcile. 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). His exact relationship with Laura Moser (Dexter's biological mother) is not made clear, nor is it confirmed whether or not he is also Brian Moser 's father. [29] Dexter falls in love with Hannah, who helps him realize that his "Dark Passenger" does not control his life. Dexter becomes personally acquainted with Chase and stumbles onto a photo that proves that all of Lumen's attackers (who are also guilty of torturing, raping, and murdering 12 other women) have known each other since childhood. [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. [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". Dexter lures her deputy, Logan (Alano Miller), closer to his cell and then puts him in a headlock, demanding Logan release him. [71] Even further, after killing his brother, he put a plastic bag over his brother's head, mimicking a practice that Dexter ritualistically commits to dispose of his victims.[72]. Dexter consistently showed his affection for Debra throughout the series, even when their relationship became strained due to her discovery of his true self. Debra has replaced Harry in Dexter's mind as his "Dark Passenger", albeit one who advises him on ways not to kill. He had also planned to do the same to the man who ordered his mothers murder, Hector Estrada, but was prevented from doing so since Estrada was being used as bait against Dexter: he eventually kills Estrada simply by stabbing him in the heart. When Dexter confronts her, Debra tells him that she wishes she had killed him instead of LaGuerta. Charlotte Church's biological father has died of coronavirus aged 56 without being able to reconnect with his estranged daughter, it was revealed on Wednesday. Chase brings Dexter to the building in which he is holding Lumen. In the first episode of season one, he says: "I don't have feelings about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I'd have them for Deb." This is fate, After returning home, Dexter calls Rita's phone to find out if she and Harrison made it alright. In the novel series, Dexter's "Dark Passenger" is a literal demon born of Moloch, who latched himself onto his soul when Dexter was a child, while in the television series, they are an aspect of Dexter's own psyche, portrayed by James Remar in Dexter (as Harry Morgan) and by Jennifer Carpenter in Dexter: New Blood (as Debra Morgan). Dexter refuses to believe it at first, but he is suspicious enough to order a toxicology screen on Debra's water bottle. Before that, they are no records of his life before age 30 nor any childhood photos. Tough, foul-mouthed, and rompish, she craved her father's attention and envied Dexter for . When Dexter searches the house, however, he finds that Rita is dead, murdered by Robert. Joshua Alston with Newsweek mentioned the character, along with Tony Soprano and Jack Bauer, as an example of the growing popularity of antiheroes. At Rita's urging, Dexter and she enter couples therapy. The next day, Lumen tells Dexter that she no longer feels the need to kill, and they cannot be together because Dexter's homicidal urges will never leave him. Contents 1 Description 2 Personality 2.1 Young "Biney" 2.2 Mental Patient 2.3 The Ice Truck Killer 2.4 In the Mask, as Rudy 2.5 Without the Mask However, the body is cremated before Dexter can obtain proof. 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. He settles on Boyd Fowler (Shawn Hatosy), a convicted rapist whose connection to a string of missing women makes him the perfect target. 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. Dexter, assuming that Quinn is watching him, waits for him to return to the surveillance van. Dexter relents at the last minute, however, and calls Debra so she can talk him out of it, reassuring her that there is good in him after all. Dexter finally catches Jonah with the intent of killing him, but relents when he sees that Jonah feels guilty about failing to protect his sister, who committed suicide by slitting an artery in a bathtub, similar to how Mitchell killed his victims. On the show, however, Dexter catches and (reluctantly) kills Brian, aware that Brian would never stop trying to kill Dexter's step-sister Debra or other innocent people.[5]. Dexter initially thinks it's some some sort of mistake because he believes that his bio dad died when he was a child. Emily appears frightened of Chase and threatens to call the police, but she is revealed to be setting a trap to allow Chase to capture them. She then leaves to return to the life she had before her kidnapping. [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. Debra's new boyfriend, Rudy Cooper (Christian Camargo), insists that they accompany Dexter and Rita to clean out the house. Lumen finds it hard trust Dexter, but comes to realize he means her no harm. When he learns what has happened to Debra, Dexter rushes to her side at the hospital, but she tells him to go on and live a good life. He disposes of another body in a vat of hydrochloric acid. 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. Dexter returns to the apartment to find Lumen gone. Dexter realizes that a friend of Sam's, Nick (Germaine De Leon), is responsible, and swears revenge. When victims awaken, they are naked and secured to a table with plastic wrap, and for stronger victims, duct tape. Deborah, meanwhile, disowns Dexter for cheating on Rita and putting Astor in danger, and decides to take custody of his children. In the television series he is portrayed by James Remar. [3] While hunting down Freebo at night, Prado stumbles upon Dexter, bloody from murdering Freebo; Dexter claims he killed Freebo in self-defense. 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. Deborah and Dexter quickly realize that the string of bodies all bear a striking resemblance to Jackie. In a fit of emotion, he accidentally wrecks the stolen car he is driving, allowing Chase to take him prisoner. Analyzes how dexter's deadly urges started coming to fruition when he was ten and it was debra who saw it in the first place. Eventually, Dexter and Brian find out their lawyer sold them out to the cartel, so they kill him and the cartel's members who were sent to kill them, save for one, whom they torture to find out where Raul is holding Cody and Astor. [51], When Angela finds the mummified corpse of her friend Iris, who disappeared 25 years earlier, she asks Dexter to analyze the remains, and tells him that she suspects Kurt of killing her. Aside from Harry, Brian Moser was the first character who revealed he knew Dexter Morgan was a serial killer. Dexter initially sees Brother Sam's religious conversion as a scam, but Brother Sam proves himself a truly changed man, and even helps Dexter through a crisis when Harrison undergoes an appendectomy. 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. He then fakes his own death by wrecking his boat. [9] In New Blood, Dexter switches to using Ketamine to sedate his victims, due to no longer being able to acquire M99. He was nominated five times for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012), and won in 2010. Fearing for his family's safety, Dexter engineers Sirko's arrest, but Sirko is soon released on bail and resumes his vendetta. Dexter hunts Crowley down to a small island off the coast of Key West. In the television series he is portrayed by James Remar. Moments later, he finds Jackie's dead body in her trailer. Dexter deduces that LaGuerta had orchestrated Estrada's release from prison to set Dexter up. Dexter then kills Prado[18] and marries Rita, with Debra as his "best man". Robert catches him sneaking in and knocks him unconscious. Dexter goes to Castner's boat to protect him, but finds that Hannah has already killed him. 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]. For his performance as Dexter, Hall has received critical acclaim. The paternity test proves that Joe Driscoll is Dexter's biological father. Dexter then enlists Debra's help in subduing Saxon and prepares to kill him. Rita begins to get abused again by her ex-husband. To throw him off, Dexter reluctantly refrains from killing for a month. In the television series he is portrayed by James Remar. [48] Harrison also causes Dexter to depart somewhat from his "code"; when Harrison nearly dies of a fentanyl overdose at a party, Dexter murders the drug dealer who sold him the pills by forcing him to ingest a lethal amount of the drug instead of his usual killing method, a stab wound to the chest. 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. Dexter also had an older brother, named Brian. Brian proposes that they begin to murder together, and leads Dexter to a bound and drugged Debra, suggests that she be their first kill. [60] Calling Dexter "the thinking woman's killer", Wendy Dennis of Maclean's remarked that the show enjoys a high female audience because they are attracted to damaged men who are still sweet, handsome, and dependable. Rita's previous, abusive marriage leaves her afraid to have sex, which suits the asexual Dexter perfectly. While Dexter is preoccupied with the Key West police, Crowley finally attacks Dexter by abducting Cody and Astor. Dexter tells Harrison he "did good" as he succumbs to his wounds, and sees Debra holding his hand as he dies. While staying at his house, Dexter learned that Joe was an expert bowler and had recovered from drug abuse. [62] Paste ranked Dexter Morgan number 6 on their list of the 20 Best Characters of 2011.[63]. To that end, Dexter repeatedly puts off murdering Mitchell, thwarts police efforts to apprehend him, and even saves Mitchell's life when he attempts suicide. [13] Dexter suspects his father's death was foul play, but the body is cremated before Dexter can obtain proof. Despite learning from his brother that a Doug Crowley had been taken care of, he finds the body of Detective Hood, the lead detective investigating him for murder, in his hotel suite, with the only explanation being that Brian killed the wrong Doug Crowley. In such cases, he anesthetizes them once he has informed them of his judgment. He needs surgery but he has a rare blood type. It is never specified whether or not Joe Driscoll is Brian's father. LaGuerta regains consciousness and urges Debra to kill Dexter. 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". Not knowing what else to say, Dexter replies that he is. [b], Dexter only remembers his mother's murder later in life, when he is called to an extremely bloody crime scene left by his brotherwho has also grown up to be a serial killer. Do they ever say who it is or anything like that? Detective Harrison "Harry" Morgan is a fictional character in the Showtime television series Dexter and the novels by Jeff Lindsay upon which it is based. [37] When Yates kidnaps Vogel, the two of them put aside their differences to track him down. [51] Dexter grows alarmed as Kurt becomes a mentor to Harrison, especially after he encourages the boy to break another student's arm during a wrestling match. At first, things seem perfectly routine; Dexter accompanies Jackie to the station each morning and returns with her to the hotel at night, but when the killer's identity is revealed to him, Dexter's "Dark Passenger" leads him out into the streets in pursuit. Deborah and Dexter are assigned as "technical advisors" to the stars of a police procedural TV series. Dexter spends the next day completely numb, unable to even fake any sort of emotion or grief. Dexter intentionally triggers an alarm to let Kurt know they found his hiding place. While she interrogates him at the station, Dexter says that Kurt killed Matt and is framing him, and tells her she can find proof that Kurt murdered numerous women in the bunker. While Dexter tries to find and dispose of this Shadow, he quickly finds out that this person is much more capable than he initially suspected. While his step-kids Astor and Cody went to live with their grandparents following Rita's gruesome death, Dexter still had his biological son Harrison, to whom he was a single father. Michael C. Hall has received many accolades for his portrayal of Dexter Morgan. [55][56], In conjunction with the TV show, Showtime produced an animated web series, called Dexter: Early Cuts. After a few failed marriage proposals, Dexter proposes again by mimicking a declaration of love from one of his victims. 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. Left with no other choice, Dexter gives Debra proof that Hannah murdered Price and looks on, heartbroken, as Debra arrests her. [35], Dexter meets Dr. Evelyn Vogel (Charlotte Rampling), a neuropsychiatrist consulting with Miami Metro about a serial killer dubbed "the Brain Surgeon" who removes parts of his victims' brains. [54], Together, they find Kurt's victims, including Park, perfectly preserved and displayed in a bunker underneath his house. Harry is Dexter Morgan's adoptive father, now deceased. Dexter sees that his luck has finally run out, and waits for the police to arrive. The next day, Dexter learns that it was in fact Farrow's assistant that had been killing the models, and he is left shaken and guilt ridden with the fact that he had murdered an innocent man. A scuffle ensues, in which Dexter kills Briggs. Doakes' pursuit forces Dexter to spend more time with Rita and her children. Dexter suspects that Joe's apparent heart attack was actually murder. She provides Lumen and Dexter with the identity of the mysterious fourth attacker in the photo, Alex Tilden (Scott Grimes). Debra survives, however, and saves Dexter's life. Dexter is certain that LaGuerta will not give up, however, and resolves to kill her, even though doing so would be a violation of his "code". Dexter is happy to have a child of his own, but his responsibilities as a new father leave him too exhausted to kill. [51], Meanwhile, true crime podcaster Molly Park (Jamie Chung) arrives in town to do a story about Matt Caldwell, and Dexter discovers that she did a series on the Bay Harbor Butcher. [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.'". 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. In his private life, Dexter maintains superficial relationships with his sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), his girlfriend Rita (Julie Benz), and Rita's children, Astor (Christina Robinson) and Cody (Daniel Goldman in season one, Preston Bailey in subsequent seasons) to appear normal. [58], Michael C. Hall's portrayal of Dexter Morgan has received critical acclaim and has won many awards. 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. Dexter is reluctant at first to let Brian back into his life, but changes his mind when he sees him bond with Astor and Cody over their shared bloodlust. In Double Dexter, Dexter is seen by an anonymous Shadow while killing a victim in a secluded house. Doris Morgan, Dexter's adoptive mother, dies of cancer when he is 16. He discovers that some of the blood at the scene belongs to Debra. Just as Danco is about to turn his attentions to Dexter, however, Deborah bursts in and kills him, saving Dexter's life. [36], Dexter starts looking into another of Vogel's former patients, serial killer A.J. [52], Kurt pays one of his truckers, Elric Kane (Shuler Hensley), to kidnap Dexter so he can kill him and Harrison, but Dexter manages to evade and kill him. Dexter's first "big bad," dubbed "The Ice Truck Killer," is also one of his most frightening, let alone the most personal since he is really his biological older brother, Brian Moser . I therefore adapted my theory. In his spare time, he is a vigilante serial killer who targets other murderers who have evaded the justice system. Waking some time later, Dexter finds Astor and Robert together in the house. I remember the earlier episodes establishing that Harry was having affairs with multiple informants, one of whom was Dexter's mom, but was there Press J to jump to the feed. He tracks Chase to the camp where the rape club had started. He plants evidence in Hood's apartment, thoroughly discrediting him, while Doakes is now under review for excessive force and intimidating a witness. Distracted, Angela leaves the station to go to Kurt's cabin. 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. In the novel's closing paragraphs, Dexter learns that Rita is pregnant with his child. When Dexter is 18, Harry is diagnosed with cancer and hospitalized. [9] The injection is a tradition established with his first victim, the hospital nurse. He tells Harrison that they have the same "Dark Passenger", and for the first time truly bonds with his son. It's the Dade City house that Dexter unexpectedly inherits from the biological father he never knew. That night, Dexter and Jackie have sex, and start a brief but intense affair. The novel reintroduces Dexter's brother, Brian, who shows up unexpectedly at Dexter's doorstep and inserts himself into his brother's new family. Lila retaliates by framing Dexter's colleague and friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) for rape, though he is eventually cleared. The Hollywood Reporter noted that "Hall is brilliant at conveying the subtle complexity of Dexter". [5][6] When Dexter was two years old, he witnessed his mother's brutal murder at the hands of three drug dealers. As intended, Kurt rushes back to his house, where Dexter incapacitates him and prepares a kill site in Kurt's own bunker. Dexter and Deborah repair their relationship, and team up with Brian to save Astor and Cody.