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]. Using his training as a blood spatter analyst, Dexter reconstructs the fight and determines that Harrison stabbed Ethan unprovoked, and then inflicted a superficial stab wound upon himself to make it look like Ethan attacked him. The novel ends with the Dark Passenger returning to Dexter on his wedding day. Debra believes him at first, and helps him destroy the old church, with Marshall's body inside. Seeing no way out, Dexter resigns himself to his fate and tells Debra to "do what you have to do". As Lumen and Dexter plan to capture Chase, Dexter realizes cameras are in his apartment. In the novel, Brian escapes Miami, but returns in Dexter Is Delicious. Dexter secretly takes blood samples of himself and Joe and sends them to Vince Masuka to perform a DNA test. Realizing that no way exists to take down Crowley with Doakes on his tail, he enlists the help of his brother, Brian, and finally thinks that his problems have been taken care of. When Was He Born? The book leaves it open to interpretation whether he survives. [69], Andrew Conley said the show inspired him to strangle his 10-year-old brother. He meets up with Harrison and tells his son to leave town with him. He is the biological father of Dexter Morgan. Doris Morgan, Dexter's adoptive mother, dies of cancer when he is 16. [5] [6] When Dexter was two years old, he witnessed his mother's brutal murder at the hands of three drug dealers. Harrison then starts crying and Dexter is devastated to find Rita lying dead in the bathtub, with Harrison on the floor in a pool of his mother's blood; she was Trinity's final victim.[24]. When Dexter confronts her, Debra tells him that she wishes she had killed him instead of LaGuerta. In Double Dexter, Dexter is seen by an anonymous Shadow while killing a victim in a secluded house. [9] In New Blood, Dexter switches to using Ketamine to sedate his victims, due to no longer being able to acquire M99. Hall reprised his role as Dexter in the miniseries Dexter: New Blood. In the first season, Dexter's relationship with Rita sets in motion his slow but steady introduction to human feelings, progressing further each season. Prado gradually discerns that Dexter is a serial killer, and they begin to murder together according to Dexter's "code". In season two, Dexter is so haunted by killing his own brother that he cannot resume killing. Brian reappears in Dexter's life, situating himself with Dexter's family. Later, Dexter realizes the Dark Passenger is related to Moloch, a Middle Eastern deity worshiped in Biblical times. Dexter's biological father was in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War, but later became a drug-addicted criminal. As he dies, Sirko reassures Dexter that he can still find happiness. He also has two half-siblings, Astor and Cody . 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. 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". While he would make a makeshift blood slide from his first victim after ten years in New Blood, he did not keep the blood slide, proclaiming that he was an 'evolving monster' and did not need trophies, not taking a blood slide from any of his ensuing victims either. Once they have arrived, he either strangles them into unconsciousness or uses the noose to drag them to the kill site proper. In one episode, the dump site and remains are inadvertently discovered by scuba divers, so he changes tactics, cutting the bodies into smaller pieces and dumping them further offshore, where they will be dispersed by the Gulf Stream. Dexter spends the next day completely numb, unable to even fake any sort of emotion or grief. [54], Together, they find Kurt's victims, including Park, perfectly preserved and displayed in a bunker underneath his house. Lumen finds it hard trust Dexter, but comes to realize he means her no harm. [42] Dexter makes preparations to move while hunting Saxon, the last "loose end". The paternity test proves that Joe Driscoll is Dexter's biological father. In the novels, he keeps them in a rosewood box on his bookcase. Lila retaliates by framing Dexter's colleague and friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) for rape, though he is eventually cleared. [7], In season three, Dexter finds his life manageable until he discovers that Rita is pregnant. Dexter's Biological Father? [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. Around this time, Harry discovers that Dexter has been killing neighborhood pets and realizes that the boy has an innate need to kill. She is Dexter Morgan and Brian Moser 's biological mother. 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. He says he lived in a series of foster homes after Hannah died of pancreatic cancer. In both the books and the show, Dexter selects his victims according to his adoptive father's code and kills them only after he has discovered enough evidence to prove their guilt. Harrison reveals that he remembers seeing Mitchell kill Rita, and that he has been consumed with a violent rage ever since. He then takes the bags out on his boat, the Slice of Life, and dumps them overboard into the ocean at a defined location; in the TV series, his dumping ground is a small oceanic trench just offshore. As Chase is about to kill them, Dexter frees himself with a knife he had stashed and immobilizes Chase by stabbing him through his foot and into the floor. [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]. He goes to Vogel's house to make sure she is safe only to see Saxon slit her throat. Who is Dexter's biological father? While Dexter disposes of Liddy's body, Lumen gets a call from Emily. The sight triggers a panic attack and calls up several memories of himself as a child sitting in blood. A few days later, however, Debra finds Dexter's knives and collection of blood slides, and asks him point blank if he is a serial killer. Dexter becomes involved in a complicated battle to take down the Trinity Killer in Dexter Season 4. 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. Dexter allows Lumen to kill Tilden by stabbing him in the heart. When Jonah and his mother discovered Jonah's sister, their mother blamed the children for their father's shortcomings. Dexter thinks he has fallen in love with Jackie, and considers leaving Rita. Rita soon figures out that Dexter has been lying to her and concludes that Dexter is a heroin addict; Dexter vaguely confesses to having "an addiction" in order to hide his real secret. Weeks later, he follows Lila to Paris, where he thanks her for showing him his "true self" before killing her. Dexter follows a hunch and heads to Rita and his new house. It has been a symbol of incarceration for decades and can show that the wearer has spent time behind bars. Dexter Morgan is a fictional character introduced as the antihero protagonist of the Dexter book series written by Jeff Lindsay, as well as the television series of the same name. (The donor, who turns out to be Joe, kept the card through the years.). 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. The incinerator became his go to method for disposing of his victims, though two of his victims were left in the locations that they had been killed, due to having no time to dispose of them. Dexter goes to her new job as a private investigator and learns that Debra is pursuing, and sleeping with, drug dealer Andrew Briggs (Rhys Coiro). Robert catches him sneaking in and knocks him unconscious. In Season 2, Episode 5 we learn that Dexter's adopted father Harry was engaged in an extramarital affair with Dexter's biological mother Laura Moser. His bosses dog was hostile to Dexter, and when he went to a vet's to get supplies, several animals reacted hostilely towards him, with Dexter mentally commenting to himself that he 'still had it'. Over ten years prior to the first season, Harry died from suicide, covered up as heart failure. [40], Hannah reappears in Dexter's life when she non-lethally poisons him and Debra to get his attention. After a few failed marriage proposals, Dexter proposes again by mimicking a declaration of love from one of his victims. After a moment's hesitation, Harrison shoots Dexter in the chest with the hunting rifle Dexter gave him for Christmas. Dexter learns that Joe Driscoll, his biological father who he assumed had been long dead, has only recently died and left all of his belongings to Dexter, including his house in Dade City. Joe is then laid to rest by Dexter (accompanied by Rudy) at the entrance of Joe's favorite bowling alley where he scatters the ashes. At outset of season four, Rita has given birth to a baby boy, Harrison. Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant Doakes, suspects Dexter of being involved in LaGuerta's murder, and starts following him around. At first Harry resists, but his wife Doris insists he contact the donor and Dexter receives a transfusion. Dexter goes to see Hannah, who says she had wanted him to kill Castner, but changed her mind after realizing she is still in love with Dexter. Learning this new information, Dexter rejects Brian and reaffirms the "Code of Harry", leaving Jonah alive to forgive himself. Click here to take a fun quiz about the original run of, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Consequently, Harry decides to channel the boy's homicidal urges in a "positive" direction by teaching him to be a careful, meticulous killer of people who "deserve it"murderers who have escaped justice. Dexter's biological father Joe Driscoll was the first victim to truly goad Dexter into digging into his origins, as the next logical step would be for Dexter to remember their biological mother, Laura Moser, whose death turned the boys into the killers they became. [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. "Bay Harbor Butcher" redirects here. Dexter and Lumen then become lovers, before continuing their hunt for Chase. Doakes' suspicions subside some when he realizes that Dexter is attending Narcotics Anonymous, but he begins to suspect this is a cover for an even worse secret. [53] At first, Dexter tells Harrison that he merely "confronts" murderers to make them stop killing, but Harrison eventually figures out that Dexter kills his victims. Robert has lured Astor with promises of stardom, and she appears ready to help him to kill Dexter.