
At the end of the first novel, Dexter admits that he could not hurt Debra or allow Brian to harm her because he is "fond of her".ĭexter likes children, the flip side of this affection is that Dexter is particularly wrathful when his victims prey on children. There are chinks in Dexter's emotional armour he acknowledges loyalty to family, particularly his now-deceased, adoptive father, stating "If I were capable of love, how I would have loved Harry", since Harry's death, Dexter's only family has been his sister, Debra Morgan, Harry's biological daughter. He initially considered his relationship with Rita to be part of his disguise however, by the end of the Season 4, Dexter had fully evolved into a family man and wished to rid himself of his self-titled "Dark Passenger". Harry, frustrated with the number of people who avoided justice, decided to train Dexter as a killer who would target and dispatch other murderers.ĭexter considers himself emotionally divorced from the rest of humanity in his narration, he often refers to "humans" as if he is not one of them, Dexter makes frequent references to an internal feeling of emptiness, leading to several attempts in his youth to "feel alive", Dexter claims to have no feelings or conscience and that all of his emotional responses are part of a well-rehearsed act to conceal his true nature, in the Season 1 of the television series, he had no interest in romance or sex this changed when he became involved with Lila in the Season 2. He soon realized that Dexter had an insatiable urge to kill that would begin to intensify. Soon afterwards, Dexter was adopted by Harry Morgan, who hoped to help repress his memory of the death of his mother. The incident left them psychologically scarred. As young boys, he and his older brother Brian witnessed the murder of their mother, Laura Moser and were left for two days in a shipping container filled with blood.
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Dexter is a forensics expert and blood spatter analyst employed by the Miami Metro Police Department, but has a double life as a vigilante serial killer.

2.4 Additional characters, introduced in season 2.2.3 Additional characters, introduced in season 1.
