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dexter is a psychopath
but it's not quite as cut and dry as
that welcome to watchmojo.com organ grew
from being a bloodthirsty killer to a
compassionate husband and bigger brother
but what happened along the way how did
Dexter managed to harness his Dark
Passenger for the greater good I'm
Dexter and I'm not sure what I am I just
know there's something dark in me I hide
it I certainly don't talk about it
but it's there always
this Dark Passenger as a toddler
Dexter witnessed his mother being
murdered with a chainsaw sparking his
obsession with murder
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adopted by police officer Harry Morgan
and gaining a sister in Deborah Harry
came to realize that Dexter had
psychopathic tendencies Dexter was a
loose cannon who needed guidance which
came in the form of Harry's code a set
of rules that helped Dexter evaluate who
deserved to die
allowing him to fulfill his bloodlust
that's it he's definitely the one no
it's just a matter of time before he
becomes a drop of blood and my glass
slide collection but I have to wait I
have to be careful and follow the code
of Harry skip ahead to Dexter working
for Miami Metro Police Department a job
that allowed him to track his victims
and maintain a cover in season one
Dexter is killing bad guys by night and
faking good guy camaraderie in the
workplace by day many times in life I
feel like I'm missing some essential
piece of the human puzzle this is one of
them and he even has a girlfriend Rita
who with her two kids Astor and Cody
helped him complete his guy next door
facade and no one is the wiser
well except maybe Doakes but we'll come
back to him later a season one unravels
Dexter has to deal with the sexual
advances of Rita can't believe I found
the one good man left on the planet an
emotional wave he's not equipped to deal
with and the prospect that he might have
a biological brother who's just as
murderous as he is but his strong
relationship with his adopted sister Deb
cannot be overlooked here he may not
feel emotion but as Dexter puts it if I
could have feelings at all I'd have them
for Deb she's the only person in the
world who loves me I think that's nice I
don't have feelings about anything but
if I could have feelings at all I'd have
them for Deb and it's ultimately this
bond that comes between Dexter and
having a relationship with his birth
brother Brian a person that is arguably
just like him Dexter trades a life of
unscrutinized murder for the life of his
adopted sister proof that there is
clearly an emotional heart beating
inside him at least when it comes to Deb
so at least 20 years older than me what
do you care I don't in see
- Dexter gets off to a rocky start with
Rita and meets Lila a rabble who quickly
becomes fixated with him Lila puts
Dexter's feelings for Rita to the test
of which he fails by sleeping with her
at this point Dexter is enjoying living
life on the edge believing that maybe
Lila could be a kindred spirit who could
accept him for who he really is
but things go south very quickly with
Lila becoming jealous of other people in
Dexter's life you you are more dangerous
than my addiction will ever pay
retaliating
Lila puts everyone around him at risk
including the snooping sergeant Doakes
whom she kills to protect Dexter
Dexter's moral compass is put under the
microscope here he could live a life of
carefree anarchy with Lila but he
doesn't want to do that when something
beyond reason happens it turned skeptics
into believers
believers in a higher power
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but what kind of power did this is that
because he genuinely loves Rita or
because he just doesn't want to be
caught even though Dexter was being
spied on by Doakes a guy who suspected
he was a murderer all along
Dexter feels guilty when Doakes is
killed proving that in his eyes even
when murder is convenient it's not
necessarily right
apparently miracles are subjective I
can't exactly feel the weirdest pain but
I can appreciate it
Doakes wasn't so bad in the end but the
truly tragic thing would be to let his
sacrifice go to waste
Dexter knows Lila is too dangerous to be
kept alive so for his and pretty much
everyone's safety he tracks her down and
kills her season 3 puts Dexter's morals
to the test yet again his new
relationship with Miguel Prado seems
like a match made in vigilante heaven he
too wants to clean up the streets even
if it means using uncouth methods
outside of the law thank you thank you
for this for letting me in showing me
the way
Dexter initially thrives off this but
when Miguel starts skirting Harry's code
in order to get revenge
Dexter realizes that Miguel could not
only ruin his cover but that his actions
are just plain wrong
Wow I didn't get it before Miguel but
you can't be reasoned with
to control this whole back and forth
game for leverage is pointless that's
right I'll do what I want when I want to
whoever I want
and Dexter tops off his run of
epiphanies by marrying Rita following
the birth of his and Rita's new baby at
the start of season 4
Dexter finds himself somewhat shackled
by the domestic family life struggling
to find time to satisfy and enjoy his
urge to kill but after a new serial
killer Arthur Mitchell comes onto the
scene
Dexter begins to admire the killer's
ability to balance his extracurricular
activities and his home life Dexter
befriends him before realizing that
Arthur's home life isn't as happy as it
appears on the surface and that Arthur
is a different kind of monster
altogether yeahsure stay watch the show
I'm thankful for you to your room Vera
she's not Vera and she's not your
goddamn prisoner she's not eight anymore
this helps Dexter understand that his
front of love and compassion for Rita
and the kids isn't really a front at all
certainly not like Arthur's destructive
front with his family Dexter takes him
out but not before Arthur gets to Rita
and kills her
season five sees Dexter distraught after
Rita's death even if he doesn't know how
to show it
Hey where are you know when I really
need you
when it's my wife in the body bag
everybody's looking and it's the
neighbor crying not me but he finds
solace in lumen a victim of abuse who
has her own revenge fueled Dark
Passenger dexter takes her under his
wing bonding emotionally over their lust
to kill but she soon loses that thirst
and the two grow apart leaving Dexter
heartbroken season 5 ends with Dexter
going out of his way to clear Quinn's
name a cop Deb has been romantically
involved with in order to clear his own
name and keep his sister happy what
about that blood on Quinn shoe is it
ladies haven't run it yet you think it
is Dexter slips into the mentor role
again in season 6 as he discovers that a
killer Travis Marshall is being
manipulated into doing evil deeds
instead of killing him he tries to help
him but ultimately learns that Travis is
more dangerous than he imagined
there at the Sun you idiots better you
be blinded than face the horrors that
await you in the meantime following a
therapy session
Debra realizes that she may be in love
with Dexter which is put to the ultimate
test in the season finale when she walks
in on Dexter killing Travis okay with
Deb aware that Dexter is a killer
there's a lot of toing and froing in
season seven she can't rat him out
because she loves him and Dexter cares
about Deb too much to kill her and save
himself I have to call this in
you had a moment of temporary insanity
we can fix this dextra falls for a woman
named Hannah McKay also a murderer
who tries to hurt Deb while Deb is doing
everything she can to hide Dexter's true
identity both make sacrifices dexter
gives up hannah to protect Deb and Deb
kills her longtime mentor LaGuerta to
protect Dexter season 8 is the
culmination of all of Dexter's newly
learned emotions he finds that he's
willing to curb his life of killing in
Miami for a normal issue life with
Harrison and the aforementioned Hannah
McKay there's nothing like a crisis to
help define who you are
he even risks the life of his new mother
figure dr. Evelyn Vogel by keeping
killer Oliver Saxon alive believing him
to be rehabilitated that ends badly with
Saxon killing Vogel and shooting Deb
causing her to become brain dead
Dexter then risks everything by taking
Deb off of life support faking his own
death and fleeing to Oregon to live with
his guilt brother
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questionable things throughout seasons 1
to 8 but what starts as a selfish need
to satisfy his urge to kill turns into a
want for a normal domestic life his
carefulness to protect himself almost
becomes non-existent as he strives to
protect those around him
and that is the evolution of Dexter do
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