Dexter becomes involved in a complicated battle to take down the Trinity Killer in Dexter Season 4. 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. Dexter confesses to Rita, who dumps him. He "falls off the wagon", however, when he impulsively murders Matt Caldwell (Steve M. Roberts), an arrogant stockbroker who once killed five people and got away with it thanks to his family's wealth and political clout. [46] Over Debra's objections, Dexter once again becomes a father to the boy, who quickly becomes a popular student and star of his school's wrestling team, and befriends Angela's adopted daughter, Audrey (Johnny Sequoyah). 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. He spies on her talking to Kurt, who lies that his son is hiding out at the family cabin, in order to lure her out there and kill her. Dexter speculated that Joe spent in prison, mixed with some bad people and had to hide from them. His connection to Rita's children, Astor, and Cody, sometimes supersedes his relationship with Rita herself. Dexter's biological father was Joe Driscoll and his mother was Laura Moser, and he was later adopted by Officer Harry Morgan and his wife Doris. Brian tells Dexter that as children, they witnessed their mother's brutal murder at the hands of drug dealers, and were locked in a crate for two days, surrounded by dead bodies. The series' final scene reveals that he has assumed a new identity in Oregon as a lumberjack and begun a new life, alone. Rita forces him to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings, where he meets Lila Tournay (Jaime Murray), who becomes his sponsor. 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 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. The murder seems to fit the pattern, but Dexter notices several errors. 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 . (The donor, who turns out to be Joe, kept the card through the years.). 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." Lila kidnaps Astor and Cody, and when Dexter finds them at her house, she sets it on fire and leaves the three of them locked inside. 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. Joe and Dexter share a physical resemblance; also, both are skillful bowlers. [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. [34] Soon afterward, El Sapo is found dead, and Dexter is called in to investigate. The paternity test proves that Joe Driscoll is Dexter's biological father. Rudy accessed Driscoll's house while disguised as a cable repairman. That night, Dexter and Jackie have sex, and start a brief but intense affair. He begs Debra to come with him, but she refuses. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Dexter denies that Joe is his father, until he recognizes the spider-web tattoo on his right elbow. 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. 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. However due to the paternity test in the first season, we know that there is no way Harry can be Dexter's biological . The season opens with a shocked, guilt-ridden Dexter clutching Harrison as the police respond to his call, in which Dexter says "It was me". 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]. 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". Opines that dexter was never conceived and customized to be like this yet was raised by his father to do such acts. In the novel, Brian escapes Miami, but returns in Dexter Is Delicious. The actual capture of his victims differs between the books and the show. In season five, after Rita is murdered, Dexter realizes that he genuinely loved her, and is devastated by losing her. Dexter then kills Prado[18] and marries Rita, with Debra as his "best man". In season four, before killing a police officer who has murdered her own husband and daughter, Dexter is overwhelmed with the realization that he does not want to lose his new family. Brian reappears in Dexter's life, situating himself with Dexter's family. [26], After weeks under Debra's surveillance, a stressed out Dexter kidnaps Louis Greene (Josh Cooke), a former coworker with a grudge against him, with the intent of killing 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]. When victims awaken, they are naked and secured to a table with plastic wrap, and for stronger victims, duct tape. [Dexter] Harry thought Dexter was his biological son I initially thought that Harry Morgan may be Dexter's biological father as well as adopted but then I was reminded of an episode in Season One where Dexter's father was identified with DNA confirmation. At first Harry resists, but his wife Doris insists he contact the donor and Dexter receives a transfusion. A struggling Dexter attempts to move on by hiring a nanny to look after Harrison while he goes out to find his next kill. Joseph Driscoll may not be his real name as Dexter found no records of his existence before age 30. 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. In the meantime, Dexter begins investigating "the Doomsday Killer", a serial killer who models his crimes after the Book of Revelation. [7], In season three, Dexter finds his life manageable until he discovers that Rita is pregnant. [9] The injection is a tradition established with his first victim, the hospital nurse. 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. 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. He says he lived in a series of foster homes after Hannah died of pancreatic cancer. 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. Dexter lures her deputy, Logan (Alano Miller), closer to his cell and then puts him in a headlock, demanding Logan release him. 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. Moments later, Angela arrives at the scene and allows Harrison to escape. He plants evidence in Hood's apartment, thoroughly discrediting him, while Doakes is now under review for excessive force and intimidating a witness. For two days, Dexter and Brian were left in a crate, surrounded by dismembered body parts and sitting in a pool of blood. He sends Rita ahead and entraps Mitchell, who is trying to skip town. 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 . He was nominated four times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama (in 2007, 2007, 2009, and 2011) and won in 2010. Joe Driscoll is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER. Vogel tells Dexter that she had a son, Daniel, who as a teenager murdered his younger brother Richard before apparently dying in a fire. Seeing in Zach a kindred spirit, Dexter promises to teach him how to kill without getting caught. He tells Harrison that they have the same "Dark Passenger", and for the first time truly bonds with his son. 13, and Dexter, 12. . [39] When Dexter's neighbor Cassie Jollenston (Bethany Joy Lenz) is murdered, he at first believes Zach is responsible and decides to kill him. The novels reveal that he once owned a dog that barked and growled at him until he was forced to get rid of it and a turtle that hid from him in its shell until it died of starvation. Suddenly, Dexter gets a panicked phone call from Rita: Astor has disappeared. 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. When Robert tries to take Astor as a hostage, she stabs him to death. Debra is intent on arresting Hannah for the murder of Sal Price, a crime writer for whom Debra had feelings, and Dexter has trouble reconciling his feelings for his girlfriend with his responsibility to his adoptive sister. Lila discovers the cabin in the Everglades where Dexter is holding Doakes and blows it up (with Doakes inside), to protect Dexter. 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. Dexter quickly finds out that Dr. Vogel knew his father, and that she was the one who actually created Harry's code. Dexter eventually finds a vial of blood that Chase wears around his neck. After wrestling with internal conflicts from his attachment to his biological brother and need to protect his adoptive sister, Dexter ultimately decides that his loyalty lies with Debra. The next morning, Dexter goes to the morgue to meet with Dr. Pittman who rolls out Joe's body. I'm what's wrong. Deb believes Joe Driscoll must have been unsavory which is why Harry did not want Dexter to know anything about him and she wants nothing to do with him and hopes Dexter would agree with her. Yates (Aaron McCusker). Dexter hunts Crowley down to a small island off the coast of Key West. 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. Dexter goes to see Debra one last time, tearfully turns off her life support, and buries her at sea. Dexter secretly takes blood samples of himself and Joe and sends them to Vince Masuka to perform a DNA test. Dexter suspects that Saxon is the "Brain Surgeon" and warns Vogel, who tells him to stay out of it; Dexter is unaware that she is sheltering her son. Dexter and Rita drive to Dade City to sort out Joe's house and sell it. Eventually, the Ice Truck Killer (who turns out to be Rudy) kidnaps Debra after proposing to her, then drugs her and takes her to Dexter's childhood home. 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. In the television series he is portrayed by James Remar. No clue how you missed this. 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]. Robert catches him sneaking in and knocks him unconscious. [65] Prosecutors alleged that Twitchell had begun a double life inspired by Dexter. Rita finally accepts, with her children's blessing. They storm Raul's yacht and take the kids back. In the finale episode, "Sins of the Father", Angela arrests Dexter for Matt's murder. 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. [49], Harrison is injured in a knife fight with another student, Ethan Williams (Christian Dell'Edera), whom he badly wounds. 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. Learning this new information, Dexter rejects Brian and reaffirms the "Code of Harry", leaving Jonah alive to forgive himself. Doakes and Dexter are soon forced to work together to stop "Dr. Danco", a psychopathic surgeon who removes his victims' limbs and sensory organs, leaving them in a state of living death. Distracted, Angela leaves the station to go to Kurt's cabin. This causes awkwardness between them after she catches Harrison in bed with Audrey. 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. When Was He Born? He has no interest in romance or sex; he considers his relationship with his girlfriend (and eventual wife) Rita Bennett to be part of his "disguise". When Kurt claims that he "saved" his victims from lives of pain and suffering, Dexter kills him as Harrison watches, and resolves to teach him "the Code of Harry". Dexter goes to the house to investigate, accompanied by Rita & Debra (with Rudy in tow). Who killed Dexter's biological father? 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". 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. [7] In season three, when he is threatened by a target, Dexter fights to live because he wants to see his unborn child. 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. [55][56], In conjunction with the TV show, Showtime produced an animated web series, called Dexter: Early Cuts. Dexter kills Raul and sets a bomb so no evidence is left, then jumps off the boat into the water and sinks into the ocean. [13] The show reveals to the viewer that Rudy murdered Driscoll with an injection of insulin designed to mimic a heart attack.[13]. In his spare time, he is a vigilante serial killer who targets other murderers who have evaded the justice system. 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 Dexter goes to rescue Debra, he finally recognizes Rudy as his long-lost brother, Brian Moser. After the death of Marshall's sister, Dexter follows him to the old church and discovers Gellar's body in a freezer, concluding that Marshall had been acting alone the whole time, with Gellar as a dissociative identity. The Hollywood Reporter noted that "Hall is brilliant at conveying the subtle complexity of Dexter". To Dexter's horror, the results prove that Hannah had spiked Debra's water with an overdose of Xanax. (A flashback reveals that Kurt did indeed kill her, however.) Dexter kidnaps Zach, who admits that he enjoys killing and will do it again. She appears to accept it, but in subsequent books feels torn between her duties as a police officer and her loyalty to Dexter, whom she loves as her real brother. "This is fate." Just 109, but yes, you're right. In the novels, Laura was involved in the drug trade. This episode "Father Knows Best," has Dexter learning that his biological father recently passed away after being told he was dead for over thirty years. Yeah, they go to his house and stuff. Who is Dexter's biological father? Contents 1 History 2 Season One 3 Trivia Dexter breaks Logan's neck, steals his keys and flees the station after having contacted Harrison using Logan's phone. Angry and hurt, Dexter decides to kill Prado.[17]. Dexter reflects on all the innocent people in his life who have died because of him, and finally sees that he can never be the good man and father that he wants to be. It's the Dade City house that Dexter unexpectedly inherits from the biological father he never knew. Harry only tells Dexter that his biological parents both died in a car accident, and Harry brought him home from the crime scene. 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The book leaves it open to interpretation whether he survives. Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant James Doakes (Erik King), harbors lingering suspicions about Dexter's possible connection with the Ice Truck Killer, and he begins to tail Dexter everywhere. While staying at his house, Dexter learned that Joe was an expert bowler and had recovered from drug abuse. There, Harry gives Dexter his "permission" to kill his first human victim, a nurse who is murdering her patients with overdoses of morphine. 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. Dexter deduces that LaGuerta had orchestrated Estrada's release from prison to set Dexter up. In season two, Dexter is so haunted by killing his own brother that he cannot resume killing. Doakes' pursuit forces Dexter to spend more time with Rita and her children. [45], Approximately 10 years after the original series' finale, Dexter has moved to the fictional small town of Iron Lake, New York, posing as Jim Lindsay, a local shopkeeper. [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. After being forced to accept Gellar's death, Marshall begins to target Dexter, managing to capture him and enact the lake of fire. His biological older brother was Brian Moser, with his adoptive sister being Debra Morgan. With Crowley dead, Dexter can finally focus on clearing his name in the murder investigation. In "The British Invasion", Doakes finally catches Dexter in the act of disposing of a dismembered body in the Florida Everglades. 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. After finding man-made walls and piles of rocks, Angela makes a gruesome discovery - the body of her best friend Iris, who has been missing for decades, was murdered and hidden by someone in the caves. Michael C. Hall has received many accolades for his portrayal of Dexter Morgan. Harry was Dexter Morgan 's adoptive father who taught him the Code of Harry, which enabled him to live freely as a serial killer. Before that, they are no records of his life before age 30 nor any childhood photos. [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.'". LaGuerta regains consciousness and urges Debra to kill Dexter. Dexter is assigned to protect her in her hotel room. Dexter destroys the corpse and alters the crime scene to make it look like Matt left town after being injured. After debating whether or not to kill her (and thus eliminate a potential witness), Dexter gives in to his better nature and decides to protect her. When Dexter is 18, Harry is diagnosed with cancer and hospitalized. Lila becomes obsessed with Dexter, believing he is her soulmate. 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. The killer begins leaving taunting clues for Dexter to draw him in personally. [25], In the season-seven opener, Dexter tells a bewildered Debra that he killed Marshall on impulse after Marshall ambushed him. Rita begins to get abused again by her ex-husband. Dexter manages to sneak aboard and overpower Crowley, with some assistance from Astor. Harry Morgan is a main character in the Showtime series DEXTER. The New York Daily News reported that it was "a central character and performance that takes your breath away". Lila retaliates by framing Dexter's colleague and friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) for rape, though he is eventually cleared. He tracks Chase to the camp where the rape club had started. Joe Driscoll Dexter's Confirmed Biological Father. 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. Dexter also had an older brother, named Brian. Distraught over Rita's death, Astor and Cody leave to go live with their grandparents. He makes frequent references to an internal feeling of emptiness, and says he kills to feel alive. This is fate, After returning home, Dexter calls Rita's phone to find out if she and Harrison made it alright. To make matters worse, Miami-Metro Captain Maria LaGuerta (Lauren Velez) reopens the Bay Harbor Butcher case, convinced that Doakes was innocent and that Dexter is hiding something. 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. Fearing the worst, Dexter goes in search of Robert, who had shown a suspicious interest in Astor. [69], Andrew Conley said the show inspired him to strangle his 10-year-old brother. Dexter realizes that circumstantial evidence implicates him as the murderer of Robert and Jackie, and that the only person who can exonerate him is Rita. [62] Paste ranked Dexter Morgan number 6 on their list of the 20 Best Characters of 2011.[63]. [31], LaGuerta has Dexter arrested for the Bay Harbor Butcher murders, but Dexter is released thanks to evidence he had tampered with to throw her off his trail. 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. Ultimately, he dismembers the bodies into several pieces, stows them and the plastic sheeting in garbage bags, and weighs the bags down with rocks and seals them with duct tape. As he dies, Sirko reassures Dexter that he can still find happiness. When it is discovered that Ethan was indeed planning to kill several of his classmates, Harrison is hailed as a hero, but Dexter doubts his story. Paul fails a drug test (thus breaking his probation) and returns to jail. In Dexter: New Blood (2021), Harrison returns as a teenager. 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. [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. Much to Dexter's surprise, however, Debra turns the gun on LaGuerta, and shoots her dead. The cartel tries to kill Dexter several times to get to Brian. (Dexter told Dr. Pittman that Joe spent some time in prison because of his tattoo.). Dexter Morgan was born on February 1, 1971. [49] Dexter tells her the truth about faking his deathwhile leaving out that he is a serial killerbut she breaks up with him regardless. At the last moment, however, Dexter realizes that his love for Hannah is stronger than his need to kill, and he spares Saxon's life. 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. She is typically seen in business dress becoming of a journalist and columnist. She is Dexter Morgan and Brian Moser 's biological mother. 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. 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. He completely drapes the site in clear plastic tarpaulin to catch all spilled blood, and often adorns it with evidence or photos of his victim's crimes. Early in the show, Dexter deviates from his code of only killing murderers to dispose of a pedophile who is stalking Astor. Joseph Driscoll may not be his real name as Dexter found no records of his existence before age 30. In the final episode of the series, it is revealed that Dexter made a plan with his girlfriend and fellow serial killer Hannah McKay to run away together to Argentina. 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". 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. He is the biological father of Dexter Morgan. He has dumped some victims into the ocean due to the victim's owning a boat and doing the same with their own victims, but uses anchors to weight the bags. Debra and her new boyfriend Rudy are taking it to the next level. In the television series he is portrayed by James Remar. She admits to killing El Sapo, and Dexter reluctantly covers up the crime. He finds a greater understanding through Brother Sam (Mos Def, credited as Mos and later as yasiin bey), an ex-con and murderer whom Dexter once considered killing, who has since become a born-again Christian who counsels other ex-cons. When Dexter reaches puberty, he realizes that he is uninterested in sex and needs instruction by his father on how to behave with women. [37] When Yates kidnaps Vogel, the two of them put aside their differences to track him down. [12], Meanwhile, a serial killer of prostitutes appears in Miami, and Dexter notices that the killer is leaving hidden clues at the scene that have personal significance to Dexter.