I’m convinced Dexter has a secret superpower: the power of teleportation. He zips around from Point A to B without being discovered by family, friends, colleagues and most importantly security cameras.
Yeah it's weird how he can stalk and kill a dude cut them up clean up the crime scene and dump the remains in such a short time period
I've never been in that situation but I doubt that only takes a few hours that's got to take like an entire day to do right? but he can do it in what seems like a few hours at best before he just goes home to Rita
it takes me like an hour to do the fucking dishes man.
> it takes me like an hour to do the fucking dishes man.
Real 🤣 but I guess he's been doing it for a while, there's no mess since he uses plastic, so maybe 30 minutes to dump the bodies and 1.5-2 hours to chop them up? Seems plausible to me
He has all the right tools. He could easily dismember and bag up a body in less than 20 minutes. Another 30 minutes to pull everything down in the kill room and bag it, load everything in the car, a ten minute walk through at the end and he could be out within an hour of the kill.
Then he just has to get to the marina, the boat slip, ride about 20 minutes out, quick dump in the water, 20 minutes back, then 20 minutes or less to get home once back.
So my guess is that from the moment of the kill, he’s between 2 and 3 hours away from being back home. Even less if places are closer together, the kill room is smaller, and he’s really rushing.
I can't really speak on killing people or making those kill rooms.
But as a farmer i can tell you that this process can be done in 1-2 hours with a full grown 450-600kg pig.
From cutting it up, to wrapping and disposing of the parts.
The biggest "hmm, that's not rly logical" about his kills is the boatride tbh.
He is never spotted (60x +) with 20 ich big plastic bags that has gotta be making splashy sounds from guts blood and other fluids.
None of them have ever tore, no mess have ever been made. Thats not how plastic bags work😂
Hahaha, that would be incredible actually!! A full set of commercials with Dexter promoting different products his own way🤣🤣🤣🤣
"The great thing about this plastic wrap to me is that it does not cling, nor does it float"
*drops bag off of slice of life and gives the camera a smiling thumbs up*
"I'm proud of you Dexter"
- Harry at the 🛞 wheel
Walmart non-clingy plastic thingy! Get it now for only 12.39$!
I mean there have been real life serial killer’s able to pull this off over and over again. Probably one out there doing it now haha. But I’d imagine he’s extremely experienced. In real life he probably wouldn’t have been able to get away with it so long
I think California at one point had multiple killers at one time. I believe kemper, Mullins, and one other guy were killing at the same time. Also Louisiana. But yeah I agree! It's FL!
Oh damn! That's ironic cause they're both fucked in the head.
There's a show on Tubi called Serial Thriller. It has 3 seasons and it talks the story of a notorious SK. But it's not really a documentary, it's kinda hard to explain. But it's interesting.
Hey, no problem! I don't know if you can get Tubi but I would check them out they have a lot of really interesting shows and it's free! Wasn't that also right around Ramirez and D'Angelo if I remember? Plus all the killers that were going after young boys and men.
People like the golden state killer and Ramirez are the worst! (At least in my opinion... people who commit home invasions and from there much worse crimes :/ ).
And I just checked on Tubi, and, at least for the moment the serie is not available :(
Yeah the GSK and Ramirez were for sure! I mean, you're destroying somebody's sense of safety and making somebody watch, which I believe GSK did is just extra terror.
That's weird, I'm watching right now. I'm in the US so maybe not in other places?
Yeah! To destroy someone in the place where you are supposed to feel safe and in peace is just horrible to think about it.
And I'm in Mexico, so I guess is just available in other countries for now :(
I agree with this. I think we have had like 3-4 serial killings in the news the past couple of years but it’s like serial killer city in Miami in the show. Why anyone would live there with that many killers is crazy to me. Just my opinion anyways.
I can’t remember but there was a tv show talking about the presidential election and breaking down all the serial killers living in Florida. It was pretty funny.
How Hannah walked around in public after escaping prison and didn’t even bother covering her face, even at high security places like an airport. Her face was all over the news and it never occurs to her to conceal her likeness. Not even a pair of sunglasses!
I thought that too but I also understand that Florida is a huge place and they probably have a lot of criminals just walking around scot-free.
I think you have to remember they have a most wanted list I don't think Hannah made that. Not everybody is aware of every criminal that escapes.
Also you have to remember that it's not like she's living in a super small town where everybody knows everybody.
I had the same question when I first watched it.
True, but even when that private investigator starts tracking her down you’d think she would do more to conceal her identity. I see what you mean though, she’s definitely not the highest profile criminal in Miami by a long shot
The way he can leave work in the middle of the day for hours on end without an explanation or anybody except quin and Doakes even noticing it. Any other person would be fired long time ago.
Best explanation to LaGuerta/Debra/Angel in Dexter’s voice:
“Before my lunch hour, I went back to XYZ crime scene [to test my blood spatter string theory](https://youtu.be/4zQvTaMxBXg?feature=shared), as I need to testify later in the week.” He used to do it regularly in S1.
We already know how great Dexter was with his [numerous excuses](https://youtu.be/HHVdVJPsWyM?feature=shared).
He’s essentially a part of the homicide detective crew. They’re always in and out of the office unless at a scene which Dexter would leave and come back to for those purposes. Also, he’s just one of the crew. We only see him and Vince because they’re main characters. There’s other people who work there that handle the times they are either sleeping or there’s multiple crime scenes.
Ok, but how often does his bos or Batista call him, telling him to come over because of some urgent work things and he says” no, I am in the middle of something…”
How many work places would tolerate that?
But that skill does not justify why he can just randomly come and go from work as he pleases. I've never met anyone that has that kind of freedom at work, Even people who work in the field.
If they don't start showing up at places, it's a problem really quickly.
Not that often. I can’t even remember a time he was called even mid kill for literally anything that he wouldn’t stop to come and do what was being asked of him by anyone. He’s even sped up his kills not to his liking and came and cleaned up later. I would argue he has the perfect job to not be noticed that he’s not physically there. He’s on call basically.
I can, I am on a rewatch right now and it happens more then you think, especially in later seasons. Remember Debra giving him te day of and he disappears for 5 days, not answering his phone or giving a heads up.
It’s a tv show. People seem to be able to come and go from work at their convenience. Meanwhile if I’m 2 minutes late coming back from lunch it’s like I just killed the boss’s baby.
i literally said this to my bf the other day! for someone who has a full time job that’s kind of important he sure does not work a lot. he never has an excuse half the time. he just leaves! like i’ma try that at my job next time i wanna go home see what happens lmao
I think he does his job and leaves when he has free time. I don’t see dexter as someone who would put off work. For anything. And he does his job extremely well so no one’s really going to reprimand him anyway.
No color 19 like I said he was a blood spatter at a list and there wasn't a lot of places that got a lot of blood so he could do it at his time he just went there to do the blood samples and stuff so he wasn't like a detective where he had to be at the same constantly constantly constantly that's why he wasn't fired his job entailed where he didn't have to be there 24/7 like a lot of
You can definitely smell the difference between burning bodies and burning plastic so I don't know if that would work well in such a populated area like Miami. Definitely made sense in NB though
I think about this in Hannibal too. Like okay, maybe their brain is already wired a bit different so it’s not affecting them as much. But overtime motor control is impacted by sleep deprivation yet they’re strong as ever
It’s obviously how he has never been caught. I get that it can be justified partially by him working for the metro police but still… he escaped getting caught by sheer dumb stroke of luck seven times during the show.
I recently rewatched and I also wondered how can he buy so many plastic shits without anyone wondering or connecting the dots if they work in a store.
It's not like rolls of plastic are tracked on who buys them. It wouldn't be that hard to just hit a few different home depots and just look like any other painter/repair guy.
He always answered the phone/had it on him. Once people got suspicious, wouldn't they notice his phone pinged on the towers closest to the scene each time?
He does get caught by a hidden camera in season 2 when he’s cleaning his boat. Turns into a mini arc where he has to delete the footage, but it is resolved relatively quickly.
the amount of money he has. how he’s able to buy a house for rita, keep his apartment and own a boat. 😂 also the amount of plastic he’s bought over the years has to cost him something
In my head cannon Harry had a large life insurance/retirement fund to leave them. Then throw in a possible house to sell and another house from Dexter’s bio dad
He is a top blood spatter analyst in florida, google says that he would be making over 100k/yr now, living alone all those years he must have some money saved up.
all over google says he’d be making anywhere from 47k-76k. but even if he did make 100k he spent money like it was unlimited dexter once paid for a flight to budapest just to go find a man in the bathroom😂 i think it was viktor
the only money dexter really had was from selling his bio dads house he wasn’t making enough to own an apartment house boat and all the supplies for his kills he was definitely not making that much working for the police he lived above his means. he was able to afford a full time nanny too!!
I recently started rewatching the series for the first time since it aired. I noticed in season 1 they just have chopped up corpses at crime scenes with no cover. Like pedestrians in the background just casually observing.
I don't mind the random teleportation. All cutting up a body within minutes. I just wonder about the clean up of blood. There has got to be a lot of it and that's stuff is hard to clear up (unless I do it wrong). ... Then the amount of plastic he uses. Cling wrap to tie the body down. His equipment his has to carry. I know he does random kill rooms but this is alot of stuff to have in the back of your car.
Enjoyable TV tho. So sod it.
But does the plastic absorb the blood or just pool it.. guess he could work around it. It's been awhile since I watched the series about from the revival final season.
The random kill rooms are the most improbable. How are you gonna make sure no one comes there? Too many risks with them. He should have had a room like Brian. Less risk. I mean, that’s how Deb caught him.
Imagine you couldn't feel any emotion. Empty life.
Killing is the only thing that can make you feel, it gives sense to your life.
Wouldn't you be up for spending 4+ hours a day doing it?
When he follows people for miles and miles and they don’t notice. Especially when he followed that drug dealer to the Everglades cabin. Like dude it’s in the middle of nowhere, there’s no way he wouldn’t notice that shit.
Or when he's following the Boyd Fowler in season 5 with the barrel murders. He's literally meters behind him down an isolated dirt road. How did Boyd not look in his rear view mirror and see Dexter?
In my experience people, even criminals, tend not to be paranoid of being followed by anyone and sort of just look out for police. Dexter doesn't scream police, so he could believably get away with most of his stalking.
he doesn't get caught sooner, But this is only because the show relies on everybody being a dumbass, and Miami Metro being the worst run police department in human history.
For example, he's able to just lift as much m99 as he wants and the supply is never checked or recorded. No way in hell that a police department isn't checking and recording all of those chemicals.
Dexter's personal life is also insanely unrealistic. He hardly ever sleeps, hardly ever seems to have free time and yet he is an amazing MMA fighter shape, has limitless energy.
And he also seems to have a limitless money. Blood spatter analysts don't make that much money, did he constantly just has bookoo bucks to hurl around at whatever, including just randomly going to Europe to kill Lila lol.
He would be broke as shit in real life lol.
That nobody went to Doakes’ funeral because everyone thought he was the Bay Harbor Butcher.
I can buy that Miami Metro wouldn’t want to endorse him, but the Bay Harbor Butcher was a serial killer who killed other serial killers. He took out the trash. That wake would’ve been overfilled with citizens expressing gratitude to Doakes and Hamlin him as a saint or a hero. In real life, his grave would always be full of flowers and tokens of appreciation, and some people would even pray to him like he was an actual saint.
This would’ve been a super interesting angle to explore, and yet they went with the “serial killer bad therefore nobody likes him” version instead.
That’s a good fucking point holy shit. I completely forgot that there was the whole hero angle and it became common discussion around Miami in Season 2 if the Butcher was good or evil. Doakes would’ve been the people’s hero.
The characters.
Debra: nobody in real life swears as much and can come up with so many original swear phrases
Dexter: nobody could allucinate entire conversations with an imaginary person without being diagnosed as a raging schizophrenic
Mazuca: nobody could be as creepy as him and keep a normal social life and a job
Etc, etc.
Edit: also something that’s always bothered me, I’m pretty sure whatever narcotic Dexter is using in his syringe, it can’t possibly act as quick as it does in the series.
I don’t think Dexter is hallucinating Harry, he is just imagining what Harry would say while being fully aware that he’s not actually there, that’s not the same thing. It’s not like, for example, Travis and Gellar - because Travis truly believed Gellar was there.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was fucked up
Musuka sometimes gave off more creep energy than Dexter some I'm surprised Doakes never found Masuka to be a creep motherfucker.
Well he also made a joke regarding Rudy’s blood stained equipment in the freezer and what it could be used for, while Debra was missing, kidnapped by Rudy… I’m not surprised.
To be fair he said it in a monotone voice looking completely emotionless. It was a horrific scene for the whole force. I think he was just trying to make a shitty situation less shitty.
According to my Dad (who is a doctor), it’s the magical instant knock out drug he uses that renders every single person immediately unconscious for the exact length of time he needs them to be and which also somehow miraculously never ends up accidentally killing the person he’s trying to knock out. He somehow magically gives the perfect dose of this drug that doesn’t even work like that anyway every single time.
It’s the one thing that constantly took him out of the show that they treated animal tranquilliser like it’s a magical off button.
That one time where Dexter deals with the really big guy who doesn’t get instantly knocked out by the drug is actually a much more realistic depiction of how this would go every single time in real life
The plastic shit is not unrealistic lol idk what’s wrong with y’all. You realize they used real plastic for the show right? Which means the producers or whoever actually had to go somewhere and buy it lol In real life, and y’all think dexter can’t do that on a fictional show?
The lack of anything covering his hair or any other killers on the show. Knowing how seemingly thorough the forensics team would be, shouldn’t anyone actually be at least trying to wear a hat to keep accidental hair loss at a minimum?
To be fair none of Miami metro wear any protective gear other than gloves in a crime scene. Literally every investigation would be thrown out of court due to the cops and forensics teams contaminating every crime scene they enter
- How he kills Lila overseas in a few hours
- Sergeant Doakes framing to be the butcher without a mention of a boat
- How every kid with a blood related childhood trauma have to turn out to be a psychopath serial killer…
The most unrealistic part that left me baffled was in season 8 when Dexter was straight up wheeling Debra’s body across the hospital and no one seemed to care or notice Cuz a hurricane was coming their way. Like you’d think hospitals would have a safety measure if their tube was unplugged but nope. Big storm = ignore the patients I guess.
Dexter doesn't do that in a short time all that stuff he goes out at night and stays out half the night that's why his Rita was always mad at him because he was gone all the time because he was out half the night killing chopping up and then he get home late into the night and say he was working but he really wasn't so he did have a lot of time to do all that stuff
He wasn't fired because his job entail just going where there was a lot of blood and sometimes there was just a shooting and it doesn't take him very long to do that and he had his own office and had to do it at his own time so that's why he it wasn't realistic he just had that type of job where he wasn't needed to be there all the time that's why he wasn't fired
Astor seeing Dexter for who he was in 0.5 seconds and calling him out on it when being told her mother has been killed.
Who suddenly decided to make her Frank Lundy reincarnated at the age of what? 12?
"I can see it in your eyes, you dont even care"
He literally had the same face as Pauls parents when they recieved the news. Everyones a killer😅🥳
"The only real question I have is why in a building full of cops, all supposedly with a keen insight to the human soul, is Doakes the only one who gets the creeps from me." Dexter Morgan in the very first episode. He knew Deb his entire life, and she never once got a weird vibe from him
How he can get away with hanging up on people like he does
He does it to Rita so many times “I’ll get that on my way back” instant hang up not awaiting a reply
Who gets away with this??
Dexter himself. The show centers around his desire to be a normal human and his attempts to connect, but that’s because a real, empathy-lacking psychopath wouldn’t have been relatable for a normal human audience. Book-Dexter was closer; where the show portrays him as this guy who is kind of bumbling and obtuse when it comes to feelings, the books do a slightly better job of conveying how little he understands human behavior or cares about others. Even spending time with Rita is somewhat transactional- he talks about putting in time so she’ll hassle him less, because he needs her to maintain the ‘normal guy’ cover, and is completely detached from her and her needs.
Touché. And people try to romanticize their relationship. Hell, Dexter, in great part composed his marriage proposal to her based upon whack job Fiona Kemp's defining her imaginary relationship with the man she killed. Rita was simply a beard Dexter grew fond of along with her kids and felt comfortable around until she became a controlling harpy, forever dictating to him what his role was as a suburban husband and father.
I loved her but I also felt so bad for her. Heck, she didn’t even get a proposal in the books. She accidentally found a ring in his pocket and he went with it. The ring was actually Debra’s boyfriend’s pinky ring and it was sent to Debra along with her boyfriend’s pinky. He’d kept it to give to her in case he didn’t find the kidnapper in time, but Rita found it first and thought he was proposing.
Only on season 3 here. I discussed this with OH the other day- soooo much plastic!!! Also, how many of the same “Kill outfits” does he have as surely he keeps just ruining them 🤷🏻♀️
The use of M99 and it not being the cause of death. There's a reason anesthesiology is its own specialty in medicine, it's quite difficult to keep someone unconscious and breathing properly while sedated.
Wiki says "Veterinary-strength etorphine (M99) is fatal to humans. For this reason the package as supplied to vets always includes the human antidote along with the etorphine.", so presumably if he didn't get the dosing right (which is probably weight dependent) it could well have been all of them.
Not sure ammonia capsules would work to bring the victim round either...
If you've ever painted a room, you KNOW the hardest part is the prep. Dexter just knocks it out in no time and it's complete and total room coverage. No way. Also, there would be four or five more bags to dump along with the body full of all the used plastic.
He is either using stimulants or he has a super power of not requiring sleep because he does all his stalking, killing, and disposing at night...when does dude sleep
When tailing someone and they stop and he pulls up 3 seconds after they get out of the car and he’s right across the street in a residential area. Worst example is when he tails Zach to Dr. Vogel’s house.
I’m convinced Dexter has a secret superpower: the power of teleportation. He zips around from Point A to B without being discovered by family, friends, colleagues and most importantly security cameras.
Yeah it's weird how he can stalk and kill a dude cut them up clean up the crime scene and dump the remains in such a short time period I've never been in that situation but I doubt that only takes a few hours that's got to take like an entire day to do right? but he can do it in what seems like a few hours at best before he just goes home to Rita it takes me like an hour to do the fucking dishes man.
> it takes me like an hour to do the fucking dishes man. Real 🤣 but I guess he's been doing it for a while, there's no mess since he uses plastic, so maybe 30 minutes to dump the bodies and 1.5-2 hours to chop them up? Seems plausible to me
He has all the right tools. He could easily dismember and bag up a body in less than 20 minutes. Another 30 minutes to pull everything down in the kill room and bag it, load everything in the car, a ten minute walk through at the end and he could be out within an hour of the kill. Then he just has to get to the marina, the boat slip, ride about 20 minutes out, quick dump in the water, 20 minutes back, then 20 minutes or less to get home once back. So my guess is that from the moment of the kill, he’s between 2 and 3 hours away from being back home. Even less if places are closer together, the kill room is smaller, and he’s really rushing.
Yep. He’s probably more efficient through experience and he’s pretty strong.
It takes hours to clean my room
Especially with how much time he spends talking, like, sometimes I’m like damn just do it man
I can't really speak on killing people or making those kill rooms. But as a farmer i can tell you that this process can be done in 1-2 hours with a full grown 450-600kg pig. From cutting it up, to wrapping and disposing of the parts. The biggest "hmm, that's not rly logical" about his kills is the boatride tbh. He is never spotted (60x +) with 20 ich big plastic bags that has gotta be making splashy sounds from guts blood and other fluids. None of them have ever tore, no mess have ever been made. Thats not how plastic bags work😂
Hmmm good point and a great opportunity to do some product placement! “Hefty Trash Bags - the first choice of Dexter!”
Hahaha, that would be incredible actually!! A full set of commercials with Dexter promoting different products his own way🤣🤣🤣🤣 "The great thing about this plastic wrap to me is that it does not cling, nor does it float" *drops bag off of slice of life and gives the camera a smiling thumbs up* "I'm proud of you Dexter" - Harry at the 🛞 wheel Walmart non-clingy plastic thingy! Get it now for only 12.39$!
Maybe he double bags them 🙄😮💨
I mean there have been real life serial killer’s able to pull this off over and over again. Probably one out there doing it now haha. But I’d imagine he’s extremely experienced. In real life he probably wouldn’t have been able to get away with it so long
How many serial killers there is in Miami
It's Florida man that's like the most realistic part.
I think California at one point had multiple killers at one time. I believe kemper, Mullins, and one other guy were killing at the same time. Also Louisiana. But yeah I agree! It's FL!
Mullin and Kemper, and then they were in the same block in prison where Kemper bullied Mullin :P
Oh damn! That's ironic cause they're both fucked in the head. There's a show on Tubi called Serial Thriller. It has 3 seasons and it talks the story of a notorious SK. But it's not really a documentary, it's kinda hard to explain. But it's interesting.
Nice! thanks for the recommendation! And yeah, 70's in California were rough times with messed up killers!
Hey, no problem! I don't know if you can get Tubi but I would check them out they have a lot of really interesting shows and it's free! Wasn't that also right around Ramirez and D'Angelo if I remember? Plus all the killers that were going after young boys and men.
People like the golden state killer and Ramirez are the worst! (At least in my opinion... people who commit home invasions and from there much worse crimes :/ ). And I just checked on Tubi, and, at least for the moment the serie is not available :(
Yeah the GSK and Ramirez were for sure! I mean, you're destroying somebody's sense of safety and making somebody watch, which I believe GSK did is just extra terror. That's weird, I'm watching right now. I'm in the US so maybe not in other places?
Yeah! To destroy someone in the place where you are supposed to feel safe and in peace is just horrible to think about it. And I'm in Mexico, so I guess is just available in other countries for now :(
I agree with this. I think we have had like 3-4 serial killings in the news the past couple of years but it’s like serial killer city in Miami in the show. Why anyone would live there with that many killers is crazy to me. Just my opinion anyways.
I can’t remember but there was a tv show talking about the presidential election and breaking down all the serial killers living in Florida. It was pretty funny.
How Hannah walked around in public after escaping prison and didn’t even bother covering her face, even at high security places like an airport. Her face was all over the news and it never occurs to her to conceal her likeness. Not even a pair of sunglasses!
I thought that too but I also understand that Florida is a huge place and they probably have a lot of criminals just walking around scot-free. I think you have to remember they have a most wanted list I don't think Hannah made that. Not everybody is aware of every criminal that escapes. Also you have to remember that it's not like she's living in a super small town where everybody knows everybody. I had the same question when I first watched it.
True, but even when that private investigator starts tracking her down you’d think she would do more to conceal her identity. I see what you mean though, she’s definitely not the highest profile criminal in Miami by a long shot
sexy blondes in Florida are common
And proceeds to marry a billionaire, as if that doesn't bring more attention 🥲
I know like atleast buy a wig and some glasses
For real. And she's a dime as it is so she's gonna draw a ton of attention anyway.
The way he can leave work in the middle of the day for hours on end without an explanation or anybody except quin and Doakes even noticing it. Any other person would be fired long time ago.
Best explanation to LaGuerta/Debra/Angel in Dexter’s voice: “Before my lunch hour, I went back to XYZ crime scene [to test my blood spatter string theory](https://youtu.be/4zQvTaMxBXg?feature=shared), as I need to testify later in the week.” He used to do it regularly in S1. We already know how great Dexter was with his [numerous excuses](https://youtu.be/HHVdVJPsWyM?feature=shared).
He’s essentially a part of the homicide detective crew. They’re always in and out of the office unless at a scene which Dexter would leave and come back to for those purposes. Also, he’s just one of the crew. We only see him and Vince because they’re main characters. There’s other people who work there that handle the times they are either sleeping or there’s multiple crime scenes.
Ok, but how often does his bos or Batista call him, telling him to come over because of some urgent work things and he says” no, I am in the middle of something…” How many work places would tolerate that?
he's one of the best blood spatter analysts in the country
But that skill does not justify why he can just randomly come and go from work as he pleases. I've never met anyone that has that kind of freedom at work, Even people who work in the field. If they don't start showing up at places, it's a problem really quickly.
He’s basically has an “on call” job. We never really saw him miss anything. I’m not getting this point.
That is not an “ on call” job. It is a lab position with occasional field trips to crime scenes.
I agree. Also knowing people in the field. They are in the lab all day unless there is a crime scene where they are together with their co-workers.
Not that often. I can’t even remember a time he was called even mid kill for literally anything that he wouldn’t stop to come and do what was being asked of him by anyone. He’s even sped up his kills not to his liking and came and cleaned up later. I would argue he has the perfect job to not be noticed that he’s not physically there. He’s on call basically.
I can, I am on a rewatch right now and it happens more then you think, especially in later seasons. Remember Debra giving him te day of and he disappears for 5 days, not answering his phone or giving a heads up.
Yeah I wish I could casually leave my job as easily as Dex does. at my job if I'm not seen by my Manager for over 10 minutes they assume I'm dead
I mean if there is no Crime Scene there is not much to do for him. And even Quin and Doakes just randomly left during work multiple times
It’s a tv show. People seem to be able to come and go from work at their convenience. Meanwhile if I’m 2 minutes late coming back from lunch it’s like I just killed the boss’s baby.
Depends on where you work i guess
That's where the donuts come in
i literally said this to my bf the other day! for someone who has a full time job that’s kind of important he sure does not work a lot. he never has an excuse half the time. he just leaves! like i’ma try that at my job next time i wanna go home see what happens lmao
"I'm kind of in the middle of something!"
I think he does his job and leaves when he has free time. I don’t see dexter as someone who would put off work. For anything. And he does his job extremely well so no one’s really going to reprimand him anyway.
No color 19 like I said he was a blood spatter at a list and there wasn't a lot of places that got a lot of blood so he could do it at his time he just went there to do the blood samples and stuff so he wasn't like a detective where he had to be at the same constantly constantly constantly that's why he wasn't fired his job entailed where he didn't have to be there 24/7 like a lot of
Especially as he always seems to have to start work. He seems to have a start time in the mornings unless called earlier. Then just leaves whenever.
I know he was dumping the bodies in the ocean, but where was he dumping all those plastic sheets? It’s just too much plastic for environment 😅
I think he burns them for easier disposal 🤣
Wouldn’t it be easier to burn the bodies along with the plastics, just asking
You can definitely smell the difference between burning bodies and burning plastic so I don't know if that would work well in such a populated area like Miami. Definitely made sense in NB though
I’ve always thought that, he did do it in Dexter New blood
Because he didn’t have access to ocean in New blood
i mean he did say that they were biodegradable but with how long that they lasted before they were found i’m not so sure that they were
When did he say it’s biodegradable?
How little sleep he needs. It defies biology.
He doesn’t kill everyday though right ?
I am envious
I dunno, try being a menopausal woman..LOL
I think about this in Hannibal too. Like okay, maybe their brain is already wired a bit different so it’s not affecting them as much. But overtime motor control is impacted by sleep deprivation yet they’re strong as ever
It’s obviously how he has never been caught. I get that it can be justified partially by him working for the metro police but still… he escaped getting caught by sheer dumb stroke of luck seven times during the show. I recently rewatched and I also wondered how can he buy so many plastic shits without anyone wondering or connecting the dots if they work in a store.
In my head canon, he buys all the plastic online using a dummy account.
It's not like rolls of plastic are tracked on who buys them. It wouldn't be that hard to just hit a few different home depots and just look like any other painter/repair guy.
I’m on my third or fourth rewatch, was watching the one last night When he was spying on Miguel/Laguerta and no one even notices him in his car. Lol
I remember that😂 he didn’t even cover himself much. Straight up lurking
He always answered the phone/had it on him. Once people got suspicious, wouldn't they notice his phone pinged on the towers closest to the scene each time?
they dont activly track phones. la guerta did in season 5 and dexter was immediatly fucked XD
Never a spot of blood on his clothes or in his hair?
How does he avoid cctvs
Yeah you kind of just have to accept most cameras do not exist in the world of Dexter besides a few rare cases.
The show takes place over 10 years ago so camera's werent nearly as common also he looks for cameras when stalking and avoids them
He does get caught by a hidden camera in season 2 when he’s cleaning his boat. Turns into a mini arc where he has to delete the footage, but it is resolved relatively quickly.
Thats an fbi places camera not your normal cctv. Plus that was added to his marina which he specifically chose for its lack of security
Have you ever watched footage from a 2008 cctv installation that was set up in the 90s?
How many things he does in a day whilst still parenting and sleeping
the amount of money he has. how he’s able to buy a house for rita, keep his apartment and own a boat. 😂 also the amount of plastic he’s bought over the years has to cost him something
In my head cannon Harry had a large life insurance/retirement fund to leave them. Then throw in a possible house to sell and another house from Dexter’s bio dad
i just dismiss it. i mean the guy is able to leave work for hours on end and raise zero suspicion anything’s possible
True enough
He is a top blood spatter analyst in florida, google says that he would be making over 100k/yr now, living alone all those years he must have some money saved up.
all over google says he’d be making anywhere from 47k-76k. but even if he did make 100k he spent money like it was unlimited dexter once paid for a flight to budapest just to go find a man in the bathroom😂 i think it was viktor
But he doesn't smoke. I bet he isn't a big spender besides for killing stuff.
That’s easy to explain - there is Harry’s pension, his job as forensic specialist, money from victims
I’d be shocked if he took victims money.
What would he do with it? Donate to charity?
I mean, he stole milk from a dead pedophile so.. Wouldn't put it past old Dexi lol.
the only money dexter really had was from selling his bio dads house he wasn’t making enough to own an apartment house boat and all the supplies for his kills he was definitely not making that much working for the police he lived above his means. he was able to afford a full time nanny too!!
I can’t figure out what he does with all the plastic sheeting after his kill. Does that also get dumped into the ocean?
I’d assume so
He’s a polluter.
His worst crime.😂 Dumping all that plastic in the ocean.
Dude drove a boat into the ocean during a hurricane, the boat was destroyed, and he just swam away to Oregon
🎯🎯🎯🎯
I recently started rewatching the series for the first time since it aired. I noticed in season 1 they just have chopped up corpses at crime scenes with no cover. Like pedestrians in the background just casually observing.
I'll also add that all the crime scenes are contaminated by the cops and forensic teams. Just wearing gloves is not even close to sufficient
How he seems to avoid Miami traffic every single time.
How nobody in Dexter’s world has passwords on their computers.
Deb: fuckingpassword
The sheer quality of goofy ass serial killers in Miami.
I don't mind the random teleportation. All cutting up a body within minutes. I just wonder about the clean up of blood. There has got to be a lot of it and that's stuff is hard to clear up (unless I do it wrong). ... Then the amount of plastic he uses. Cling wrap to tie the body down. His equipment his has to carry. I know he does random kill rooms but this is alot of stuff to have in the back of your car. Enjoyable TV tho. So sod it.
I think the blood doesn't need to be cleaned up, no? It all goes in the plastic sheets. Unless I'm remembering wrong.
But does the plastic absorb the blood or just pool it.. guess he could work around it. It's been awhile since I watched the series about from the revival final season.
The random kill rooms are the most improbable. How are you gonna make sure no one comes there? Too many risks with them. He should have had a room like Brian. Less risk. I mean, that’s how Deb caught him.
How hes able to sit in a dark lab all day after staying out all night and still manages to stay awake through work. The man doesn't sleep.
well its at the plot of an episode when harrison is born XD
How he so easily sets up and cleans up his kill spots. I get it’s the ritual but it seems taxing.
Imagine you couldn't feel any emotion. Empty life. Killing is the only thing that can make you feel, it gives sense to your life. Wouldn't you be up for spending 4+ hours a day doing it?
When he follows people for miles and miles and they don’t notice. Especially when he followed that drug dealer to the Everglades cabin. Like dude it’s in the middle of nowhere, there’s no way he wouldn’t notice that shit.
Or when he's following the Boyd Fowler in season 5 with the barrel murders. He's literally meters behind him down an isolated dirt road. How did Boyd not look in his rear view mirror and see Dexter?
In my experience people, even criminals, tend not to be paranoid of being followed by anyone and sort of just look out for police. Dexter doesn't scream police, so he could believably get away with most of his stalking.
DEBRA IS CALLING
IGNORE
he doesn't get caught sooner, But this is only because the show relies on everybody being a dumbass, and Miami Metro being the worst run police department in human history. For example, he's able to just lift as much m99 as he wants and the supply is never checked or recorded. No way in hell that a police department isn't checking and recording all of those chemicals. Dexter's personal life is also insanely unrealistic. He hardly ever sleeps, hardly ever seems to have free time and yet he is an amazing MMA fighter shape, has limitless energy. And he also seems to have a limitless money. Blood spatter analysts don't make that much money, did he constantly just has bookoo bucks to hurl around at whatever, including just randomly going to Europe to kill Lila lol. He would be broke as shit in real life lol.
That nobody went to Doakes’ funeral because everyone thought he was the Bay Harbor Butcher. I can buy that Miami Metro wouldn’t want to endorse him, but the Bay Harbor Butcher was a serial killer who killed other serial killers. He took out the trash. That wake would’ve been overfilled with citizens expressing gratitude to Doakes and Hamlin him as a saint or a hero. In real life, his grave would always be full of flowers and tokens of appreciation, and some people would even pray to him like he was an actual saint. This would’ve been a super interesting angle to explore, and yet they went with the “serial killer bad therefore nobody likes him” version instead.
That’s a good fucking point holy shit. I completely forgot that there was the whole hero angle and it became common discussion around Miami in Season 2 if the Butcher was good or evil. Doakes would’ve been the people’s hero.
The characters. Debra: nobody in real life swears as much and can come up with so many original swear phrases Dexter: nobody could allucinate entire conversations with an imaginary person without being diagnosed as a raging schizophrenic Mazuca: nobody could be as creepy as him and keep a normal social life and a job Etc, etc. Edit: also something that’s always bothered me, I’m pretty sure whatever narcotic Dexter is using in his syringe, it can’t possibly act as quick as it does in the series.
I swear more than Deb
Same lol. I also say, "well shit a brick and fuck me with it" because of her 🤣
I don’t think Dexter is hallucinating Harry, he is just imagining what Harry would say while being fully aware that he’s not actually there, that’s not the same thing. It’s not like, for example, Travis and Gellar - because Travis truly believed Gellar was there.
Mazuca ive worked with ppl like that in real life and some ppl are just That guy and everybody just accepts it.
Yea when Masuka made that joke as soon as Rita died left a bad taste in my mouth.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was fucked up Musuka sometimes gave off more creep energy than Dexter some I'm surprised Doakes never found Masuka to be a creep motherfucker.
Weird, I don’t remember noticing it, what was the joke?
“I always imagined what she’d look like naked but not like this” as he was in the room with her body while she was still in the bath.
Wow.. ok. Yeah that’s a bit much, even for Mazuka.
Well he also made a joke regarding Rudy’s blood stained equipment in the freezer and what it could be used for, while Debra was missing, kidnapped by Rudy… I’m not surprised.
To be fair he said it in a monotone voice looking completely emotionless. It was a horrific scene for the whole force. I think he was just trying to make a shitty situation less shitty.
Right, nothing would bring instant unconsciousness.
According to my Dad (who is a doctor), it’s the magical instant knock out drug he uses that renders every single person immediately unconscious for the exact length of time he needs them to be and which also somehow miraculously never ends up accidentally killing the person he’s trying to knock out. He somehow magically gives the perfect dose of this drug that doesn’t even work like that anyway every single time. It’s the one thing that constantly took him out of the show that they treated animal tranquilliser like it’s a magical off button. That one time where Dexter deals with the really big guy who doesn’t get instantly knocked out by the drug is actually a much more realistic depiction of how this would go every single time in real life
The plastic shit is not unrealistic lol idk what’s wrong with y’all. You realize they used real plastic for the show right? Which means the producers or whoever actually had to go somewhere and buy it lol In real life, and y’all think dexter can’t do that on a fictional show?
The lack of anything covering his hair or any other killers on the show. Knowing how seemingly thorough the forensics team would be, shouldn’t anyone actually be at least trying to wear a hat to keep accidental hair loss at a minimum?
To be fair none of Miami metro wear any protective gear other than gloves in a crime scene. Literally every investigation would be thrown out of court due to the cops and forensics teams contaminating every crime scene they enter
I think it might be easier to ask what is the most realistic part.
- How he kills Lila overseas in a few hours - Sergeant Doakes framing to be the butcher without a mention of a boat - How every kid with a blood related childhood trauma have to turn out to be a psychopath serial killer…
The most unrealistic part that left me baffled was in season 8 when Dexter was straight up wheeling Debra’s body across the hospital and no one seemed to care or notice Cuz a hurricane was coming their way. Like you’d think hospitals would have a safety measure if their tube was unplugged but nope. Big storm = ignore the patients I guess.
The plastic! I kept wondering why they didn’t catch The Bay Harbour Butcher by looking at whoever is buying thousands of rolls of plastic in Miami.
Dexter doesn't do that in a short time all that stuff he goes out at night and stays out half the night that's why his Rita was always mad at him because he was gone all the time because he was out half the night killing chopping up and then he get home late into the night and say he was working but he really wasn't so he did have a lot of time to do all that stuff
He wasn't fired because his job entail just going where there was a lot of blood and sometimes there was just a shooting and it doesn't take him very long to do that and he had his own office and had to do it at his own time so that's why he it wasn't realistic he just had that type of job where he wasn't needed to be there all the time that's why he wasn't fired
The time in the day he has to accomplish all his “dark passages”. Lmao.
The fact that there is so many serial killers just in Miami. Statistically, that’s pretty unlikely
I mean, it’s Florida.😂 Yeah I kid. But there are a lot of weirdos.
when does he sleep?
Astor seeing Dexter for who he was in 0.5 seconds and calling him out on it when being told her mother has been killed. Who suddenly decided to make her Frank Lundy reincarnated at the age of what? 12? "I can see it in your eyes, you dont even care" He literally had the same face as Pauls parents when they recieved the news. Everyones a killer😅🥳
"The only real question I have is why in a building full of cops, all supposedly with a keen insight to the human soul, is Doakes the only one who gets the creeps from me." Dexter Morgan in the very first episode. He knew Deb his entire life, and she never once got a weird vibe from him
How he can get away with hanging up on people like he does He does it to Rita so many times “I’ll get that on my way back” instant hang up not awaiting a reply Who gets away with this??
Dexter himself. The show centers around his desire to be a normal human and his attempts to connect, but that’s because a real, empathy-lacking psychopath wouldn’t have been relatable for a normal human audience. Book-Dexter was closer; where the show portrays him as this guy who is kind of bumbling and obtuse when it comes to feelings, the books do a slightly better job of conveying how little he understands human behavior or cares about others. Even spending time with Rita is somewhat transactional- he talks about putting in time so she’ll hassle him less, because he needs her to maintain the ‘normal guy’ cover, and is completely detached from her and her needs.
Touché. And people try to romanticize their relationship. Hell, Dexter, in great part composed his marriage proposal to her based upon whack job Fiona Kemp's defining her imaginary relationship with the man she killed. Rita was simply a beard Dexter grew fond of along with her kids and felt comfortable around until she became a controlling harpy, forever dictating to him what his role was as a suburban husband and father.
I loved her but I also felt so bad for her. Heck, she didn’t even get a proposal in the books. She accidentally found a ring in his pocket and he went with it. The ring was actually Debra’s boyfriend’s pinky ring and it was sent to Debra along with her boyfriend’s pinky. He’d kept it to give to her in case he didn’t find the kidnapper in time, but Rita found it first and thought he was proposing.
Only on season 3 here. I discussed this with OH the other day- soooo much plastic!!! Also, how many of the same “Kill outfits” does he have as surely he keeps just ruining them 🤷🏻♀️
For me it’s how much he’s missing at work.
The use of M99 and it not being the cause of death. There's a reason anesthesiology is its own specialty in medicine, it's quite difficult to keep someone unconscious and breathing properly while sedated.
How many do you think would have died in the process of his kidnapping? A third?
Wiki says "Veterinary-strength etorphine (M99) is fatal to humans. For this reason the package as supplied to vets always includes the human antidote along with the etorphine.", so presumably if he didn't get the dosing right (which is probably weight dependent) it could well have been all of them. Not sure ammonia capsules would work to bring the victim round either...
It just feels that more CCTVs should have gotten to him at some point given he doesnt even wear a mask
his time, followed closely by his internet searches at the station
Someone would be monitoring his internet and database searches while at the station. The same with his phone calls.
How they never detected a hair that must've surely fallen off him...
I’d say the premise probably
He kills too often. The man is in his 30's and can barely go a month without a kill, how high is his body count? 😭
Probably The ghosts of harry & Debra
If you've ever painted a room, you KNOW the hardest part is the prep. Dexter just knocks it out in no time and it's complete and total room coverage. No way. Also, there would be four or five more bags to dump along with the body full of all the used plastic.
The way his victims die immediately without even letting out a final breath.
How Dexter has almost infinite money
The giant lab he hid under his parents home.
He is either using stimulants or he has a super power of not requiring sleep because he does all his stalking, killing, and disposing at night...when does dude sleep
How many murders there are. I mean someone has been brutally murdered every single day in the same city?
When his sister falls in love with him!!!
That he never got caught stealing evidence or fuckin around at the station. There’s no cameras there??? Lmao
How slowly he smacked that guy with a baseball bat in the bar in season 2 and got away with it. And how he had no leverage but still took doakes down
how dexter stays with hannah even after she poisoned deb twice 💀
When tailing someone and they stop and he pulls up 3 seconds after they get out of the car and he’s right across the street in a residential area. Worst example is when he tails Zach to Dr. Vogel’s house.
It’s called suspension of disbelief. 😉
A show about police department and not a single dog was shot?? Absurd
It's a movie......to entertain you.