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He and his brother witnessed their mother murdered with a chainsaw in a cargo container as children. They were found days later in a pool of blood that was 2 inches deep. He was taken in by Harry Morgan, who saw him for what he was, a sociopath. Harry taught him a code of ethics that helped him to satiate his bloodlust successfully and also help rid his little section of the world of other murderers who escaped the justice system. His brother was taken in by the state and was never trained the way Dexter was.

This fruit is called "blood orange" and is found in Florida.

As of Season 4, Episode 7, there have been a total of 66 deaths attributed to Dexter, as made apparent to the audience. Note that some of these murders are committed outside of his life as a serial killer (i.e., self defense, assisted suicide, etc) and that it does not treat Showtime's "webisodes" as canonical:

victim - method of kill - reason

An * indicates that the murder is referenced in the episode but not seen

Season One

Episode 1 Kills: 2

Mike Donovan - Power saw - Killed (at least) 3 boys.

Jamie Jaworski - Meat cleaver - Taped himself killing a woman to sell it as a snuff film.

Episode 2 Kills: 1

Matt Chambers - Knife to the heart - Repeated fatality drunk driver.

Episode 3 Kills: 1

Nurse Mary (flashback) - Knife to the heart - "Angel of Death" who murdered ill hospital patients she thought needed to die. Tried to overdose Dexter's father when he came under her care; Dexter's first murder.

Episode 5 Kills: 2

Jorge Castillo - Knife - Human trafficker who drowned immigrants whose families were unable to pay the ransom he demanded after bringing their relatives to America.

Valerie Castillo - Knife to carotid artery - Jorge's wife and accomplice.

Episode 6 Kills: 3

Alex Timmons (flashback) - Unknown - Sniper

Gene Marshall (flashback) - Unknown - Arsonist

Cindy Landon (flashback) - Unknown - "Black widow" who killed her husband(s).

Episode 8 Kills: 1

Dr. Emmett Meridian - Power saw - Psychiatrist who manipulated his patients into committing suicide.

Episode 12 Kills: 1

Brian Moser (The Ice Truck Killer) - Slit throat - Serial killer (Dexter's brother).

Season Two

Episode 2 Kills: 1

Little Chino - Knife to the heart - Gang hitman.

Episode 3 Kills: 1

Roger Hicks - Knife to the heart - Killed two women.

Episode 4 Kills: 4

Robert Thacher* - Unknown - Murderer.

Marcus White* - Unknown - Killed parents.

Oscar Sota* - Unknown - Murderer.

Joseph Sapeda* - Unknown - Murderer.

Episode 6 Kills: 1

Ken Olsen - Beheaded with a cleaver - Tried to copy-cat Dexter's murders.

Episode 8 Kills: 30

Santos Jiminez - Hacked to death with a chainsaw - Killed Dexter's mother.

Anthony Rodrigo* - Power Saw - Dope Dealer and Murderer

Smith* - Unknown - Murder.

Rosco* - Unknown - Murder.

Doakes finds Dexter's slide case with 46 slides in it. At this point on the series, 20 slides have been accounted for; Dexter did not collect a blood-slide from his brother, and at the time Doakes finds the slide case, Dexter has not had a chance to put Jiminez' slide into the case. Out of the 20 slides accounted for, 10 of these murders were committed from the start of the series. This makes Jiminez Dexter's 48th murder and 47th blood slide.

Episode 10 Kills: 1

Jose Garza - Hand saw - Murderer.

Juan Rinez (flashback) - Unknown - Killed prostitutes. Since this is a flashback, this murder has already been accounted for in the slide collection from Episode 8.

Episode 11 Kills: 2

Esteban Famosa - Snapped his neck - To protect himself and Doakes.

Teo Famosa - Shot - To protect himself and Doakes.

Episode 12 Kills: 1

Lila West - Knife to the heart - Killed Sgt. Doakes; kidnapped Rita's children; Burned Ex-Boyfriend Alive.

Season Three

Episode 1 Kills: 4

Unnamed Carnival Attendant (flashback) - Meat Cleaver - Murderer

Oscar Prado - Knife to the heart - Self Defense.

Dexter has started a new slide box of victim's blood; there's already 4 slides in the box. One belongs to the carnival attendant seen in the flashback; another (the first) is presumably Jiminez's blood slide, as Dexter never disposed of it following Jiminez's death but never had a chance to put it in the original box before Doakes took it.

Episode 2 Kills: 1

Fred "Freebo" Bowman - Knife to the neck - Killed 2 sorority girls.

Episode 3 Kills: 1

Nathan Marten - Strangled - Convicted sex offender stalking Astor.

Episode 5 Kills: 1

Ethan Turner - Knife to the heart - Killed his wives.

Episode 6 Kills: 1

Clemson Galt - Knife to the heart - "Thrill killer" white supremacist who murdered his girlfriend for getting pregnant and the family of a man who tried to leave the Aryan Nation.

Episode 7 Kills: 1

Camilla Figg - Poisoned keylime pie - Terminally-ill friend of Dexter's who asked him to euthanize her.

Episode 11 Kills: 1

Miguel Prado - Garotted - Murdered Ellen Wolf, planned to kill Maria LaGuerta.

Episode 12 Kills: 1

George Washington King (The Skinner) - Broke his neck - Self-defense.

Season Four

Episode 1 Kills: 1

Benito Gomez - Knife to the heart - Beat two people to death with his bare hands

Episode 4 Kills: 1

Zoey Krueger - Knife to the heart - Murdered her husband and child to avoid the stress of divorce, custody hearings, and alimony

Episode 7 Kills: 1

John Farrow - Cleaver - Dexter believed him to be guilty of murdering a 19-year-old model and feeding her to an alligator, but didn't bother to be absolutely sure before killing him. Only after the kill did Dexter find out it was actually Farrow's assisstant who had killed the girl, making Farrow his first innocent victim [Oscar Prado being self-defense]

Episode 11 Kills : 1

Stan Beudry - Power Saw - Killed a prostitute with a crowbar. Also gave Dexter an oppurtunity to frame someone else for the Trinity killings, and for that he needed Beudry dead.

Episode 12 Kills: 1

Arthur Mitchell - Hammer - Dexter kills Arthur Mitchell in the same room where the boy was held in episode 10. Total: 67

In Season 1, Episode 9, Dexter learns that his biological father Joe Driscoll has passed away. He takes a blood sample from him and has Masuka run a paternity test comparing it to his own. The paternity test proves that Joe Driscoll is Dexter's 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. However due to the paternity test in the first season, we know that there is no way Harry can be Dexter's biological father unless Joe Driscoll was related to Dexter some other way or the paternity test was wrong which are both highly unlikely.

The violence isn't anything worse than you'd see on regular cable. They show very little and leave most of it to the imagination. They cut away from the scene before something gruesome is about to happen. There is a considerable amount of blood, though.

They edited the profanity, the nudity, and for the sake of fitting it into the time slot, a few conversations. They really didn't need to cut the violence, but they there are some scenes where they only flash on it, rather than have the camera linger.

Emotions associated with sex are harder for him to fake. Every time he sleeps with a woman, she sees something in him that freaks her out and she leaves him. Its safer for him to just avoid it.

In the first season he finds it "messy" and "human". He does not see himself as "human" as he is so different and fakes all feelings/emotions to fit in and not be seen for what he is. His life is "clean", his apartment is clean (he was uncomfortable with Deborah's messiness when she stayed at his place), his crime scene is set up for as little mess as possible and he disposes of all debris to leave the area clean so as not to be detected. Eventually Dexter gets over his hangups and his sexual life begins to resemble the average male's.

Dexter has great music. Unfortunately, as of yet, there's no published song list for a lot of the music, especially the popular Cuban music. The soundtrack for Season 1 contains all the original music written for the show. You can hear sample tracks at Amazon.com, if you're trying to find a specific original song.

Only season 1 followed the main plotline of the first book. In season 2, the shows writers went their own direction.

You're in luck! Someone has. Television Without Pity has excellent detailed summaries that far outdo anything we could type here. You can click this link to get there. http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/dexter/

It was a dream. Dexter was seeing himself as he imagined the public would see him if they knew the details of his 'job'.

It should be shown sometime in 2010. Season 2 was shown on ITV in late 2008/early 2009. Season 3 should follow that same sort of pattern a year later.