When Dexter was an adolescent, Harry discovered that he was killing neighborhood pets. Morgan left Brian to the foster care system, seeing that he was irreparably traumatized, and decided to adopt Dexter, reasoning that he had a better chance of living a normal life. The siblings were left in the container for two days, and were eventually found by Detective Morgan.

In 1973, Dexter, his mother, brother and three drug users were taken into a shipping container by Estrada and his two henchman, and killed Laura in front of both Dexter and Brian. Later on, Laura acted as Detective Harry Morgan's informant in Hector Estrada's cartel, and provided intel to bring him down. Dexter lived with his family in Miami, Florida, and have a peaceful life with his brother, but their mother was a drug addict. Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he is able to emulate normal emotions and keep up his appearance as a socially-responsible human being.ĭexter Moser was born on Februto Joseph Driscoll and Laura Moser, and was born three years after his brother Brian. To satisfy his interest in blood and to facilitate his own crimes, Dexter works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department (based on the real life Miami-Dade Police Department). Orphaned at the age of three when his mother was murdered right in front of him, Dexter was adopted by a Miami policeman, Harry Morgan, who recognized his homicidal tendencies and taught him to channel his gruesome passion for human dissection in a 'constructive' way - by killing only heinous criminals (such as child molesters, mob assassins, and serial killers of the innocent) who have slipped through the justice system.

Hall, Devon Graye as a teenager, Dominic Janes and Nicholas Vigneau as young children, and Maxwell Huckabee as an infant. He is a serial killer who murders people who are themselves murderers, according to a 'code' taught to him by his adoptive father, a homicide detective. But I'm hungry for something different now.ĭexter Morgan is the anti-heroic protagonist who appeared in Jeff Lindsay's Dexter novel series, as well as the television series of the same name and it's revival, Dexter: New Blood. And it's going to happen, again and again. It leaves you an outsider, forever looking in, searching for company to keep. The willful taking of life represents the ultimate disconnect from humanity. Something he didn't know, couldn't possibly know. But there was something Harry didn't teach me. But we must maintain appearances to survive.

He taught me that none of us are who we appear to be on the outside. It's the beginning of a chain reaction that will catch you if you're not careful. Harry taught me that death isn't the end. Sometimes, I wonder what it would be like for everything inside me that's denied and unknown to be revealed.

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