- There were times where Rita seemed confused by some of Dexter's actions (such as attempting to give her oral sex while she was crying at a sad film), but she still thinks that he's a truly decent person. My theory is that she believes some of his quirks are because he's autistic, and doesn't realise that stuff like that isn't appropriate. Note that I'm NOT calling Dexter autistic myself.
- We know Vogel has a soft spot for psychopaths, viewing them as "alpha males", "perfect", "a gift to society". She also has a history of using unorthodox methods to treat them. The brain surgeon has been removing the part of people's brains that processes empathy, as if he himself were trying to create psychopaths, and he's a former patient of Vogel's. And it seems increasingly likely that Dexter isn't nor ever was truly a psychopath. Put those pieces together and my theory is this: Vogel was experimenting to see if, through her therapy, she could create psychopaths, and Dexter was her Michelangelo's David, her gift to the world. Her goal was to take an emotionally disturbed child and teach him how to be a true psychopath. That's why she persuaded Harry to persuade Dexter he was going to become a killer eventually, no matter what. Harry ultimately grew wise to her game and decided to put an end to it, and to find what help he still could for Dexter. Vogel didn't want to see years of work go to waste, so she murdered Harry in cold blood. Now she's returned because the years have been eroding her work, and Dexter's humanity is beginning to show. His emotions are becoming ever more evident, as is his capacity to develop real empathic attachments to other people. She's trying to finish the job, to remove what little humanity Dexter maintained despite her best efforts.
- Even if that's not actually true it would have been a waay better narrative than Season 8 has offered thus far. Perhaps there is still time to do it.
- After Dr. Vogel's curious reference to Doakes' reported short temper and outbursts as inconsistent with a psychopath, we are then treated to several instances of Dexter losing control in ways completely unlike him though possibly understandable as his world is seemingly in disarray without Debra, including almost strangling an innocent man who cut him off on the highway in front of his son, angrily screaming at Harrison for accidentally breaking a pot on his desk, and stabbing a man to death who Deb was shacking up with as part of a private investigation. He is appearing more and more impulsive and less rigid to the demands of his Code. Is this a setup to turning him into a full on Villain Protagonist? Or was Vogel's passing reference foreshadowing to reveal that Dexter hasn't really been a true psycho/sociopath without any emotions all along? Or something else entirely?
- He won't be executed or kill himself or go out in some dramatic twist of fate. A move that big would come off as overwrought. "Dexter" has been notorious for playing softball with its characters. I doubt they'd change that now.
- Yep.
- With his outbursts, cruel reasoning and creepy speeches, by season seven, the show finally got around to admitting the fact that Dexter is out of his goddamn mind. It looks like psychology will be a theme next season and Dexter's sense of empathy is being called into question bigtime by Deb and the new psychologist character (or She-Lundy.) In season seven, the writers tried to throw fans for a loop by having Dexter make some seriously questionable decisions. Maybe they'll take the plunge and bring him to bad guy territory. This IS a guy who murders for fun and has arguments with the voices in his head in public.
- Putting aside for a moment the fact that this is all fantasy (we know that from season 2, Dexter would NEVER deliver a speech in defense of his own actions), any prosecutor worth his salt would simply point out that Dexter could have called in anonymous tips, and saved just as many lives.
- Not nearly as awesome though. And as for the last part—yes, because we all know how fast acting the police are to confirmed, verified problems, much less dubious "anonymous" tips indicting supposed upstanding pillars of the community who can easily hide their crimes from the police like they did to begin with—hence the need for Dexter to investigate them "outside the boundaries of the law". And we do know that the system is prone to endless corruption and Screw the Rules, I Have Money!; another addition to the popular appeal of eye-for-an-eye DIY Justice.
- To add to this WMG, the ending scene of Season 1 is actually the last scene of the *series*, taking place at the end of the final season.
- If this WMG was once far-fetched, what with a serious drama using jury nullification to let its protagonist get away with murder, it's not anymore!
- Dexter is not completely without a conscience; but since the Code gives him a justification for what he does, he doesn't see it as a violation of his personal morality. But even if he never develops empathy for the people he's been trained to see as victims, he has appeared to struggle more with his Dark Passenger than he used to. Suicide may ultimately be the only way to escape it, as Dexter reflected when he saved Trinity from killing himself.
- Except that the topic of Dexter committing suicide has already come up before in the show, by Doakes for example, and Dexter readily dismissed it as "pathetic".
- Yes and no. He fakes his death.
Dexter will be mortally wounded while attempting to subdue a victim. He manages to kill him in the fight, but he is slowly bleeding to death. Dexter manages to drags himself to his kill room, but the blood loss will make him hallucinate that all of his friends, enemies, and loved ones are coming to judge him for his crimes.
The last one will be Rita.
Think about it. It would be the perfect way to bring back not only Rita, but also Doakes, Brian, Trinity, Miguel, and maybe Lila.
- Alternatively, she will leave him for Lundy. You know, his corpse. Squick-y.
- As for Season 5, Jossed. It may still happen later though.
Unfortunately for him, this all went afoul when Miguel Prado saw him for the monster he was and took the opportunity to put him behind bars, even if he didn't commit that particular crime. However, he'll be back. Dexter will have to meet him someday, and there will be blood.
See the WMG page for details.
- Here you go.
- Would Dee Dee have been Deb's nickname as a kid?
No idea what, exactly. Season 4 painted him in a darker light than before, but there's always been something kinda off about him. He's always known more than he shares. He knew Harry killed himself (well, that's what's been established so far at any rate). He apparently knew who Laura Moser was and knew about the ice truck killer connection to Deb and Dexter at least as early as the end of season 1. And he's gone from being antagonistic towards La Guerta for legitimate reasons (her political maneuverings) to just being sinister and petty (seriously? Trying to screw her over for having a relationship? Because she's 'arrogant'? Wow. It doesn't help that La Guerta has been developed to the extent that she's lost a lot of the bitch she had from season 1, but even if this had come up in season 1 this feels like real overkill). So....just how far does the captain matthews rabbit hole go? Consider that question and it'll lead you to some interesting places. If he knows about Brian Moser...does he know about Dexter? Is it more than just plot convience that lets Dexter escape an FBI manhunt and kill a DA one year later without being caught? Was there an ulterior motive for the captain's insistence that Neil Perry was guilty of the ice truck murders despite La Guerta's protests (was he really taken off guard when it blew up in his face? He recovered rather spectacularly well from that blunder. Almost like he was prepared to roll with it....). Was Harry really helpless to deal with Dexter's urges any other way aside from his code, or did someone else have a hand in shaping the serial killer's serial killer? For that matter, when Harry was having second thoughts about what Dexter had become, did he really turn to suicide, or did someone decide to 'help' him along that road when he voiced his protests and desire to get Dexter real help? And then too....isn't it interesting that the drug dealers knew to look in the park that day to find Harry and Laura, or that they knew enough to say Laura was informing and sleeping with Harry? Did someone give out information to the drug runners that led to Laura Moser getting the chain saw and Dexter getting a dark passenger? Just saying, Season 5 could bring up some interesting explorations of a man who has gotten progressively more suspicious as the seasons pass.
- Captain Matthews is the G-Man
It will be the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers. Then Dexter will tell her that the slides are mementos from especially hard cases of his. Rita will choose to believe him since, well, she is kind of stupid that way.
- ...or maybe not.
- Ever consider that she committed suicide BECAUSE she found the blood slides?
- Since when has Rita committed suicide? The Season 4 finale suggests that she was killed by Arthur Mitchell.
- It's been a mildly popular theory. Dunno why.
- Because she doesn’t fit Trinity’s pattern in any way: she’s a mother of three, not two, and killed not like the mothers are but like the single women. Also, letting the baby watch would hurt his innocence, something Trinity can’t stand.
- ^ But then again, if she did commit suicide, why WOULD Harrison be in the bathroom with her? Would he have wandered in to find her or something?
- Since when has Rita committed suicide? The Season 4 finale suggests that she was killed by Arthur Mitchell.
- Addendum: Their standards are very different. Light kills to create what he would consider the perfect world, and he thinks of himself as the incarnation of justice. Dexter's only reason is to sublimate his urge, and he is far from being proud of it. Dexter EXPLICITLY limits his targets to those who have committed murder. Light's target are not only murderers, but also petty criminals and eventually everyone he considers a "burden to society". Light is pride and presumption incarnate; Dexter probably isn't.
- Also, Dexter generally rules out killing people who served their sentences. Light kills dozens of people already behind bars.
- Not really. While their attitudes are incredibly different, Dexter doesn’t seem to be ashamed by his Dark Passenger, but rather burdened by it, as he constantly had to make sure his killings are kept a secret, and he basically just wants to be accepted. Light doesn’t kill that petty criminals (he kills rapists and robbers, not shoplifters; it’s his successor who kills lazy people who is more extreme), and Dexter has killed some people in self-defence and one child molester. Also, Dexter kills people who’ve served for too short a period of time and are well-aware of that; Light might be following the same reasoning, judging by the Japanese judicial system to give appallingly low sentences for rape and murder in comparison to Western countries.
- Dexter most certainly isn't, when anyone tries to give him some kind of Not So Different speech or anything of the sort he simply agrees. He even tells Miguel "You're all just unchecked versions of myself. The only difference is I know I'm a monster." (Paraphrased)
- While Light and Dexter share many similarities, Dexter is almost an anti-Light:
- Light thinks he's a God, Dexter thinks he's a monster.
- The Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Light becomes a monster because he was such a Wide-Eyed Idealist to begin with. Dexter is more cynical and finds youthful idealism dangerous.
- Dexter believes the world would probably be better off without him (not that he's in any hurry to make the world "better off"). Light thinks he's doing the world a favour and feels entitled to rule it.
- Dexter is a killer in the traditional sense-he gets intimate with his targets and carves them up. Light is a Non-Action Guy (and considering all that happens in the series, it wouldn't be surprising if he even had a phobia of guns and violence like Dex has an ironic phobia of blood.) Light commits mass murderer using distant magical means—he kills from the comfort of his room by writing names in a notebook. There is no sense of immediacy, no blood, no struggle. His targets are dehumanized and the act of taking so many lives would likely have all the psychological impact of a kid playing video games—look, I killed over 10,000 evil Mooks—aren't I grand?
- Dexter sees killing as playtime, Light claims it's a great burden / sacrifice on his part (though, like Dexter he seems to get an almost sexual enjoyment out of killing.)
- Light likes to plan out his next move 20 steps ahead and while Dexter carefully plans out his kills he tends to do things more on the fly.
- Dexter is very witty in his Inner Monologues, Light doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
- Thinking of it, Light's understanding of morals is somewhat similar to Miguel Prado's.
- That would be an interesting family reunion: they'd be all affable in their charming personas (and they could trade fashion tips on those awesome shirts: Hawaiian vs. the male model catalogue) and then try to kill each other when they figure out their true colors. Light would probably run rings around Dexter as the Chess Master but on the whole he is a Non-Action Big Bad and Dexter would more than likely win in any physical confrontation.
One preview has someone say something along the lines of "Dexter is an alien! Oh wait, I just gave it away". This is not a joke. It's a hint of what's going to be shown at the end of season four.
- Jossed for Season 4, but the general theory could still be true.
- This is rather unlikely. In the books, the Dark Passenger is a separate (apparently supernatural) entity. In the series, this wasn't used because they didn't want the series to run as Mystery or Science Fiction. So I doubt they'll take up something like this.
All thanks to this:
- Miguel: I am the last person you wanna fuck with because I WILL FUCK YOU BACK IN WAYS YOU NEVER EVEN IMAGINED.
- Yeah, it's been done. R-rated, natch.
- He faked his own death and moved to Florida.
- He still loves theatre and pulled quite a performance.
- Think about it; Dexter is a deadly killer, loves blood, and was taught his skills from his adoptive father. Number 16 was part of the assassin lineage, painted his secret messages to Desmond in blood, and most assassins, like Ezio, were taught by their fathers or a father figure.
- One problem: if Harry was an Assassin, why would he choose to be out in the open? Most Assassins were in communes (Desmond prior to leaving) or working undercover in Abstergo (Lucy). Unless... Miami Metro is secretly a Templar front.
- This was already hinted at in the end of season 4, before he was even born.
- Harrison was found crying in a pool of his own mother's blood. Symbolic, anyone?
- Dexter doesn't want any more blood on his hands than he already does by himself, so rather than teach Harrison the Code of Harry, he'll teach Harrison to control and eventually stop the urges, as well as integrate into normal society. Unless they take cues from the books (where Astor and Cody are budding sociopaths which causes Dexter to teach them the code), this seems likely.
- If Dexter knew how to control or stop the urges, he would do it for himself too.
- He couldn't do it for himself because it's been a part of him for over 30 years. Grooming Harrison from that early an age makes it more likely that he could fix him.
- If Dexter knew how to control or stop the urges, he would do it for himself too.
- Deb finds out about this in the first book, but the show is doing things differently. Doesn't mean it's not inevitable.
- Although her reaction might be different to the books. If TV Deb found out her brother's a serial killer, that'd be the straw that breaks the camel's back and would well and truly fuck her up for the rest of her life. Seriously, even suicide is not unlikely. She's relied on him whenever she's gone through some major shit, and this'd be like breaking a house's major support beam or whatever.
- Confirmed.
- If I remember correctly, Julie Benz was confirmed to be leaving. A wasted opportunity, since they could always have her as a ghost a la Harry, reminding Dexter of his good natured self while Head Harry could keep Dexter on the code. Head Arthur could be a manifestation of the Dark Passenger wishing to be released. Is this too Id, Ego and Superego for the show?
- I don't think it was Trinity— Trinity didn't even know Dexter's address and the timing doesn't work out. Everybody seems to have forgotten that Rita had another marriage we know nothing about— remember her mom's "Third time's the charm" wedding card? Given her poor taste in men, perhaps he's a monster too and latched onto the fact that the Trinity killer was missing to finally wipe out his ex-wife; kill somebody you have a vendetta against with a local serial killer's MO, and you're golden. It could also be a character we haven't met yet. Less likely suspects: Quinn and Eliot.
- I highly doubt Rita would be so tactless as to bring the baby with her to commit suicide. Even if she wanted to die, why risk causing her son to experience something so traumatic?
- Because that would be rational. Suicide is never rational.
- Except that one of Rita's biggest character traits is how much she loves and cares for her children. Even if she were suicidal she'd have never done something like that to her child.
- Suicide is never rational? I can think of three circumstances in which a clear-headed decision may be taken in a state of mind which is bleak but not unbalanced. I do not say that any of these three reasons would usually justify taking one’s own life: only that they might. They are infirmity, self-sacrifice and shame. I could expound upon the arguments further but I don't think this is the place to do it.
- There was no knife or blade near the body when they find it, and if they had discovered it, it certainly would have been mentioned.
- It was pretty firmly established that Dexter pissed Trinity off something fierce, it's possible that he had time to do some research and find out where Dexter lives and did it because Dexter had "turned" his family against him. It fits.
- I don't think it was Trinity— Trinity didn't even know Dexter's address and the timing doesn't work out. Everybody seems to have forgotten that Rita had another marriage we know nothing about— remember her mom's "Third time's the charm" wedding card? Given her poor taste in men, perhaps he's a monster too and latched onto the fact that the Trinity killer was missing to finally wipe out his ex-wife; kill somebody you have a vendetta against with a local serial killer's MO, and you're golden. It could also be a character we haven't met yet. Less likely suspects: Quinn and Eliot.
- Either that or its even more convoluted, upon seeing the blood in the container, Harry used the Morloch connection to transfer his darkness to the kids. This then continued after his death in a kind of sadistic possession. Either way, the ghost of Harry possessing Dexter at the moment is evil, whether or not he is actually Harry.
- In the books, Dexter is friends with Masuka because he suspects he's incapable of emotions, too. This hasn't been mentioned in the show, but still...
- In the last episode of season 4, it is heavily implied that Trinity at least knew of Rita's death. How could he have known if he didn't do it himself?
- This theory doesn't hold water at all; Masuka was distraught rather than angry over the secret he was keeping, and showed visible relief when Dexter told him he already knew. If his motive was to 'protect' Dexter, how could he possibly achieve this by killing Rita, the woman he loves. If Elliot had been killed then there might be a small chance that Masuka could be involved.
- Which in turn suggests that Harry, in keeping with his character, put his passion for duty and need for justice far ahead of his adopted son, and turned him into a vigilante just to deal out justice to those who escaped the police. Dexter's "sociopathy" is a complete fabrication by Harry to give himself an excuse. Further, Harry killed himself because he could never forgive himself for what he did to his son to suit his own ends.
- As the show continues, we get more and more evidence that Dexter, while severely messed up, is not a sociopath, and that Harry treating him as one (that is, as incurable) served to mess him up even further. Whether Dexter will realize that he isn't a sociopath is another matter.
- While there is obvious evidence that Dexter is not a typical sociopath, what Harry did probably had some good and bad effects on Dexter's mental state. Harry reinforced the idea that Dexter needed to kill and that he was a monster, that there was nothing he could do about it, that he could only fake relationships and emotions (and so never taught him how to deal with real ones), but on the other hand he also loved Dexter unconditionally, understood him, and provided him with the means to control his urges. Harry didn't just give Dexter the Code, he was Dexter's first human connection, and Dexter has been looking for that connection ever since. Even if Dex isn't a sociopath, without his father's love and guidance he might have slipped further from humanity and become something even worse than the self-aware, conflicted Serial-Killer Killer we all know today.
- The evidence for this might unknowingly come from the writers themselves. The show does a confusing job classifying Dexter's psycho-afflictions. All exposition, character development, and character history hints at him being a sociopath (something he said in ep 1). However, at times he shows psychopathic tendencies or "impulses" (killing being treated as urges, him "seeing" dead people give him advice, his need to collect blood from victims). He teeters between both, he is literally a psychopathic sociopath (though arguably the overlap between these two classifications is great, so the show probably doesn't feel like outright classifying him). One could chalk this up to the (book) writer(s) thinking that all psychopathy is the same. But this might also be a case of (unintentional) fridge brilliance. Because he illustrates tendencies from both groups, his affliction must be in part constructed. He might just be acting out both tendencies because he believes he is that way. Dexter as a teen definitely displayed some anti-social tendencies, maybe even had a ASPD, but Harry's insistence on him becoming a killer, rather than providing him some alternative perhaps helped him become a natural and complete "sociopath."
- In the novels, Dexter comes across more as a person with Multiple Personality Disorder. There's "Dexter," the main personality, and the "Dark Passenger," who is the other personality that takes over when killing's to be done. A real sociopath wouldn't give a fig for Deborah, Rita or Rita's kids. Book-Brian is probably a sociopath, but Dexter may well not be.
- Alternatively, the number of kills Dexter actually commits are wildly exagerrated by his psychosis, hence why he seems to think he commits about a murder every week or so, and is nearly crazy after a month at the beginning of season 2, but after a decade at it at the beginning of the wasn't even able to fill up a single box of blood slides.
- It's not exaggerated. In the "Early Cuts" animated episodes (which are canon) it's clearly stated that Dexter didn't start collecting slides until late in his life. Up to that point he didn't bother with trophies at all.
- Unlikely considering the events of the raid in "Beauty and the Beast", and also considering there have been two deaths with a machete.
- Jossed. She could (and probably is, this is Dexter were talking about) still know more than she's letting on.
- As of "Circle Us", confirmed.
Because she knows too much for the show to go with her. Everyone who learns who/what Dexter is doesn't last long, and it's because they always turn out to be antagonists. No, Dexter & Lumen cannot become partners in crime, as that was so thoroughly deconstructed with Miguel.
There are always two villains in the Showtime storylines, one a close personal villain for Dexter and the other a general villain for the police. (Lila & Doakes/BHB, Miguel & The Skinner). In season 4 they were both the same person, but still fall this way to reflect Arthur Mitchell's double life, one as the notorious Trinity Killer and the other as Dexter's new role model Arthur. And like Lila and Miguel before him, Arthur's personal life is only subverted in the final few episodes.
We have the serial killers for this season in the beheader(s), it is too late in the story to introduce a new major character, and so the personal villain will be Lumen.
- Maybe. Still a really likely theory, but this season seems to be messing with expectations, the beheaders now out of the picture. It's also hinting that Lumen may be a reconstruction, Dexter even saying that she may be able to know his secret unlike Miguel and Harry before her. She's also becoming a bit of a Love Interest...
- She doesn't seem to be turning out a villain, but the pattern doesn't look good—every time Dexter hopes that he's found a friend who can accept his dark side, he ends up having to kill them (Ice Truck Killer, Lila, Miguel, Trinity). One way or another, I don't see Lumen surviving the end of the season.
- Jossed. She survives and appears to lose her Dark Passenger, freeing her of her need to kill.
- If he is killed by Lumen, there will be a spinoff series called "Lumen" or "Illumination". If he is killed by Harrison, there will also be a spinoff, but in a Science-Fiction setting 20 Minutes into the Future.
- I've always thought so myself. Dexter is a great character for the series, but the fact that he is a vigilante serial killer, plus having killed at least two innocents in the show (one of them willingly) makes for him to have done hoops around the moral event horizon several times. I think he will finally loose his dark passenger, but either: be discovered and sentenced to death or life in prison, or die in a redeeming fashion.
- I always thought this too. It would have been a thousand times more interesting then her just leaving.
- She didn't, but that would have been cool.
- Jordan Chase / Eugene Greer is Eric Cartman. Both are fat as children, although Chase loses weight after the rape of Emily Birsch. Also, both are ruthless sociopaths and like to give speeches.
- Boyd Fowler is Kenny Mccormick. Mainly because he is the first of them who dies, but also because he has the lowest social status of all five. Also, both Fowler and Kenny are arguably the kinkiest/most sexually perverted member of their respective groups.
- Cole Harmon is Kyle Broflovski. First, there's the phonetic similarity of their first names. Also, it's implied that Cole Harmon is the guy who constantly cleans up Chase's messups, and both can't really stand each other, much like Kyle and Cartman.
- Alex Tilden is Leopold "Butters" Stotch. Remember how he whined that all was Chase's fault just before he was killed by Lumen?
- Dan Mendell is Stan Mash. Again, phonetic similarity of their first names.
- Nope. Other people interacted and see her, Deb, Quinn, Jordan Chase, Elliot (the neighbor), the Head of Security guy, etc.
- Dexter will be caught, but will work something out with the police where he helps catch murderers.
- Or, he'll be caught, but the last scene will be Debra visiting him in prison and saying that she needs his help to catch a new serial killer that is on the loose.
- Or, we think he is caught, until the last scene is a shot of a car driving at night, we see his eyes reflected in the rear view mirror and we hear his voice over say "Tonight's the night."
- He does off the deep end and/or kills another innocent (or gets nabbed for killing that photographer). He will be caught. By Deborah. And he allows/forces her to kill him to end it.
- Dexter will have been caught committing a murder, end up being tried, sentenced, and taken to the electric chair. The executioner will flip the switch, and then...it will be revealed that the entire show is just a nightmare Harry had in the split second after asking Dexter (8 years old) if he killed the neighbor's dog (when Harry first realized that Dex was a serial killer). Only this time...Harry: Dexter, did you kill the dog?Dexter: What?! No! I'm not a psychopath!Harry: Thank god...for a moment I was worried.
- He dies and the torch is picked up by Astor with Dexter as her Harry/Dark Passenger figure.
- If he doesn't die, and little Harrison is killed off by the end of season six, we could expect a "The Nativity" style torture then murder. That and Dexter will be at an obvious breaking point where an important decision is made. It's either continuing to follow his dark passenger or put those he cares about the most first indefinitely.
- Dexter is caught, but sentenced to life in prison rather than death. After that, he basically turn into Hannibal Lecter, a scary-ass inmate the police turn to when hunting particularly difficult serial killers.
- Although it would be cool, I don't really think so. Unlike Cooper, Lundy shows no signs of any present or past interest in Tibetan Buddhism or New Age Mysticism.
- He does present a rather Buddhist mentality towards life, just not naming it as such. Stopping for Lunch precisely at 1pm to enjoy the sunny day. Keeping his mind open and clear to observe that which all others are missing. He might not be as quirky as he was in his youth but maybe he has mellowed out some . . .
- There was a moment in the fifth season finale where it appeared that Debra might have recognized Dexter from behind the curtain. She kind of pauses and makes this odd face when she looks at the blurred figure of her brother, as if maybe she suspected that it was him even though she couldn't see him clearly. Maybe she didn't want to see their faces for fear of having her suspicion confirmed.
- She'll come back nine months later to dump a baby on his doorstep, then vanish. In all seriousness, though, I doubt she will be back. And as for her Dark Passenger leaving, she never really had one. At least, it wasn't the same as Dexter's, which got into him when he was very small and only just developing mentally. Lumen was already an adult and thus would have an easier time being able to overcome her traumatic experience.
- I'm fairly certain that Dexter uses a different kill-shirt for every kill and tosses it along with a set of knives and all the plastic wrap he gets for each kill. That being said I think this a detail overlooked by the writers for the sake of simplicity because in reality when Miami Homicide found the Bay Harbor Butcher remains if they also found a bunch of the same type of shirt and knife sets it probably wouldn't be too hard to track down who had bought said items en masse.
- Or Colin Hanks will be the killer keeping his secret from his sister, and the same comparison will be made.
- How I Met Your Mother has flashbacks within flashbacks WITHIN flashbacks sometimes. A few times even adding an extra layer of flashback.
- Alternatively, he's a darker version of Harry, someone who used to be alive and real, and now sticks around and forces Travis to do things, instad of Harry who wants Dexter to have a good life.
- In the last episode, we saw Gellar's old website with an image of his face on it. So this is probably Jossed.
- That doesn't joss anything. He disappeared years ago, who is to say that it was really him who updated the site? And look at the scene in the cafe, where the waitress ignores him. Or how he got into thebedroom all of sudden? My bet is that he teached Travis how to be a religous nutcase, died suddenly and now Travis is imagining him. He "sleepwalked" the abduction of the waitress.
- Good point. After all, Harry was a real person too.
- That doesn't joss anything. He disappeared years ago, who is to say that it was really him who updated the site? And look at the scene in the cafe, where the waitress ignores him. Or how he got into thebedroom all of sudden? My bet is that he teached Travis how to be a religous nutcase, died suddenly and now Travis is imagining him. He "sleepwalked" the abduction of the waitress.
- As of episodes 6 & 7, he's definately been doing... er, stuff. So this is Jossed unless Travis is doing things he can't remember while in the "Gellar" persona.
- But we have never seen him do stuff while Travis is somewhere else, doing something else. Also note how in the very same episode, Brian physically throws a bodybag at Dexter, pitchforks the motel-owner and grabs Dexter by the head. I thought that the rules of the dark passenger where shown specifically to justify Gellar doing stuff when it's revealed later that he is not real.
- As of episode 8, Dexter has seen Gellar. So, unless Dexter has an ability to visually see other people's Dark Passengers, this is probably finally Jossed for good.
- Actually Dexter never saw him. Travis pointed to Gellar and when Dexter tried to look he was gone. Also this theory is so plausible in-universe that people expect it to be the twist.
- Therefore, since the show appears to be trying so hard to undermine the reality of Gellar, there will be an Untwist when he turns out to be real.
- Actually Dexter never saw him. Travis pointed to Gellar and when Dexter tried to look he was gone. Also this theory is so plausible in-universe that people expect it to be the twist.
- As of episode 9, this is no longer a theory. Gellar is reveiled to be long dead and Travis appears to have killed all of the DDK victims himself.
- He did.
- He did not.
- This is (sort of) a question of semantics. The real Gellar indeed did not do it, since he's long dead. However, the guy we always called Gellar turned out to be Travis' Dark Passenger. So, in a way, he did.
- He did not.
- Unless Travis plans to commit suicide, this is Jossed as of episode 9.
- They do look a bit similar, and I have wondered if he is another brother — but the ages fit? How young do you think Louis is? I say he's within 10 years of how old Brian would be.
- If Brian was a teenage when Lewis was born it would be possible for Brian to be the father. Especially because if Dexter was able to attend medical school, as Doakes sates he did/could have when confronting Dexter with the results of a background search, Dexter would at a minimum have to be in is mid thirties placing Brian around 40ish.
- I think Louis will be more like Brian in the first season only less experienced. I also think the Deb and Dexter relationship and relationship conflicts will be projected on Louis and Jamie if Louis becomes an antagonist.
- Alternative: Harry somehow faked his suicide and is still around, and by killing him, Dexter also metaphorically deals with his own "inner" Harry.
- This isn't so far-fetched actually, Dexter was having withdrawal fantasies of killing a lady at a post office pickup line, and then stabbing Vince Masuka in the neck.
Everything is presented as normal, his blood slide and documentation stash will be disposed of, he'll take his son around the world. But Debra won't be the same and this'll affect Dexter. There won't be a serial killer -maybe-, instead, trying to understand his dark passenger. This will go bad at some point, and wind up publicly exposing an urge to murder.
- Dexter and Debra resent each other as months pass
- Members of the forensics (not even primary individuals) grow alienated by Dexter, to a poisonous degree
- His son begins to exhibit behavioral issues due to traumatic recollections of his mother
- Noting the staff behavior, various committee members in the Miami Police begin honing in on Dexter Morgan for psychological analysis
- Eventually Dexter begins counting all of which was happening around him this season, grows paranoid and again resentful towards former friends
- The dark passenger stalks him again and it's the same as it was in Season 6, except with much less control
- He loses control and kills someone who approaches him with preconceived hostility
- I doubt they'd begin a subplot in which Batista finally succeeds at something and has found true happiness if he wasn't about to be tragically cut down. It'll probably have something to do with he and Quinn fucking up with the Kashkas.
- Probably La Guerta. Her little investigation is going to clash with Dex's number 1 rule and frankly, the fans don't really like her a whole lot.
- Deb will be asked to take laGuerta's position, which will cause even more emotional conflict for her.
- I actually thought Isaac might kill laGuerta, but he's dead.
- Keeping to the Kashka storyline, Quinn's long-awaited demise is highly likely. They've been struggling to make him relevant until this season and maybe now that he has someone to fight for, they can knock him off while making his character arc more climactic.
- Jossed on Quinn's part, whose storyline was finally dropped like a hot potato. And there was much rejoicing.
- Debra will win.
- This seems like a know-duh, but someone had to post it before the season wraps up. Maybe Hannah latches onto La Guerta's investigation and kills her to save Dexter. Unfortunately, that means the code will catch up to her, whether Dexter likes it or not.
- That's not how the code works. Hannah really already fits the code. But Dexter still decides who among those that fit his code becomes his victim and who doesn't.
- And how is that going to work? Everybody already knows that the Bay Harbor Butcher must have been a Miami Metro Homicide co-worker at least at some point in the past.
- Oh, right.
- He was created in and by blood.
- He drains his victims' blood.
- He's obsessed with blood. His livelihood comes from blood, as a blood spatter analyst. He even seems supernaturally able to "read" it at crime scenes.
- His father is not his biological father, but is the one who "created" him and taught him how to kill and get away with it. He has a complicated relationship with him, sort of in an I Hate You, Vampire Dad vein. He doesn't hate Harry, but he struggles with him.
- Like many vampire protagonists, he only hunts and kills evil doers, so we can sympathize with him. Louis and Lestat both did that.
- Nobody knows he's a vampire, because he keeps his identity hidden.
- He only hunts and kills at night—the monster is only active at night.
- If you read original myths as opposed to comic books and movies, you find out that sunlight doesn't harm them at all, rather it just weakens them. It's not like Kryptonite but more like, they are Brought Downto Badass.
- There are many versions of vampirism with notions of what they can or cannot do. We have a trope for that: Our Vampires Are Different.
- Jossed. Dexter's a lumberjack.
Also, Dexter will end up killing Vogel, either because she tries to have Dexter kill Debra when she discovers she killed Maria, or because he thinks she's bad for having people kill for her. Although it would be hypocritical of him to do that, Dexter isn't above hypocrisy. This next part may sound a bit far fetched, but Dexter and the Brain Surgeon may team up to kill Vogel, and then after her death, one will kill the other, and the series will end. Or perhaps the Surgeon will harm Debra when he finds out she killed Maria, which results in Dexter killing him and ending the series.
Or, Vogel is the Brain Surgeon.
- Jossed, unfortunately.
[[WMG: Vogel is a genderflipped parallel universe version of Hannibal Lecter.Both are from Germany (or at least Vogel has a German name, the German word "Vogel" means bird). Both are therapists with a special interest in the criminally insane, who use unorthodox methods. And apparently, both like to manipulate people.
- She also likes to cook.
Who wants Quinn to succeed? Who did Cassie definitely know? Who works next door, but was conveniently absent and thus not a witness? Who might even have been annoyed with Cassie for (apparently) not being interested in her wonderful but lonesome boss? Jamie. She's never seemed evil before, but psychopaths aren't supposed to; this is the kind of twist the writers would surely love.
On the other hand...
This is more of a stretch, but think about it. Deb has seen twice that she can get away with murder; Vogel's even helping her suppress her guilt. Right now she's going crazy over Dex and Hannah. It's heavily implied that she's still hung up on him. If she's going to lash out, why not at another love interest of his?
Deb is someone else Cassie knew, though they'd only met once. What's more, Deb knew Cassie really was attracted to Dexter, and she didn't seem thrilled about it. Finally, like Jamie, Deb wants to see Quinn succeed. If she was going to kill someone anyway, why not finger Zach for the crime to help Quinn out? (More details here.)
- Apparently Jossed: It's her son.
The ending didn't show Dexter's life after he faked his death. Instead, it showed us the reality - The entire series has been the fantasy of a lumberjack who doesn't have anyone he can connect to... He should write a book or something.
Been thinking about this more, and it makes even more sense if you think about the very last scene. This is one of the only times Dexter doesn't monologue, so it could be interpreted as the story no longer being 'narrated'.
This is the only way the last couple seasons make sense. He had such a good story going in his head until he could not figure out how it should end and it all fell apart.
Why else weren't they seen in the background after it ended?
- A gross English titty vampire.
- Jossed unless the apartment could have been moved from Miami to New York City.
- Rudy lives in apartment number 23.
1. Dexter Morgan's initials are DM. He is actually a D&D player who has no friends and has to act as the Dungeon Master in addition to playing the game himself.
2. Deb Morgan is the Dungeon Master, with Dexter being a player's serial killer character trying to survive and keep his identity a secret from other players or NPCs.
3. The whole show is Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory overseeing a game of Monsters and Mazes.
4. Same as #3, but with Dee Dee as the one in charge and Dexter as one of the players.
- Dexter is an analog of Bruce Wayne / Batman since his parents died and he is a vigilante who avenges people.
- Dexter's biological parents are analogs of Martha and Thomas Wayne.
- Officer Harry Morgan is an analog of James Gordon.
- Deb is an analog of Barbara Gordon / Batgirl.
- Angel Bautista is an analog of Alfred Pennyworth since he is Dexter's best friend.
- James Doakes is an analog of Henri Ducard since he is an aggressive cop.
- Brian Moser the Ice Truck Killer is an analog of Mr. Freeze.
- Miguel Prado is an analog of Harvey Dent / Two-Face because he was trying to run for district attorney and was a best friend of the main character.
- Wendell Owens is an analog of Jason Todd because he was killed as a teen.
- Cody is an analog of Tim Drake because he treats Dexter like a father.
- Little Chino is an analog of Bane because of their physiques.
- Nathan Marten is an analog of Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter because he is a pedophile.
- Hannah McKay is an analog of Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley / Poison Ivy because she uses flowers to kill people.
- Oliver Saxon / Daniel Vogel is an analog of The Joker because he represents what the protagonist could have been but is not. He also smiles a lot and killed Dexter's protégé.
- Zach Hamilton is Jason Todd because both were protégé's killed by the protagonist's nemesis.
- Dexter is an analog of Shawn Spencer because he learned from his father.
- Harry Morgan is an analog of Henry Spencer, Shawn's father.
- James Doakes is a version of Burton Guster who hates the main character.
- As the protagonist who lacks good social skills, Dexter is an analog of House.
- Lumen Pierce is an analog of Thirteen since she was the thirteenth victim of the Girl Barrel Gang.
- It's confirmed by the creators. Debra will be replacing Harry's role as the voice of reason in the limited series. James Remar confirmed he is not returning as Harry.