While falling for a trap Dexter sets, the side-effects of the gas's components disorients Dexter which allows Travis to defeat him, completing his "Lake of Fire" tableau in the ocean. In the season finale, Travis, believing Dexter to be dead, prepares for his final ascension into Heaven by completing the last of his tableaus during a solar eclipse.
Julie Benz (seasons 1–4; guest season 5) Rita Bennett was Dexter's girlfriend and later wife. Rita is portrayed as a mother, who is slowly recovering from being physically abused by her ex-husband, Paul, and having difficulties maintaining a sexual relationship.
Despite Dexter's efforts, Debra and a former informant locate Laura's house, which ultimately links Dexter to Laura, and to Brian. Brian Moser (alias Rudy Cooper, moniker The Ice Truck Killer) is Dexter's biological older brother and the main antagonist of the first season.
Nathan Marten (Jason Kaufman) is a pedophile who approaches Astor while Dexter, Rita, and the kids were shopping at a grocery store. Later, while at the beach, Dexter sees Marten taking pictures of Astor.
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Malcolm-Jamal WarnerMalcolm-Jamal Warner: Rita's Lawyer.
Mark L. YoungJeremy Downs is a recurring antagonist in Season One of Dexter. He is portrayed by Mark L. Young, who also played Owen Porter in Criminal Minds.
George King akaGeorge King aka The Skinner is a character in Season Three of the Showtime series DEXTER. King was a Serial Killer that became the prime target for Miami Metro Homicide. He only interacted with Dexter Morgan near the end of the season.
That night, Cody and Astor leave Miami for Orlando to live with their grandparents, as per Astor's wishes, even though Cody wants to stay with Dexter. Later, Astor returns to Miami, in order to help her friend Olivia get away from her mother's abusive boyfriend, Barry Kurt.
Mark Ross PellegrinoMark Ross Pellegrino (born April 9, 1965) is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work as Lucifer in Supernatural, Paul Bennett in Dexter, Jacob in Lost, Bishop in Being Human, and Deputy Bill Standall in 13 Reasons Why.
Mark L. YoungMark L. Young (born 1 January 1991) is an American actor. He played Jeremy Downs, a budding serial killer, on Showtime's DEXTER.
Young (born Markell V. Efimoff (Russian: Маркелл В. Ефимофф) January 1, 1991) is an American actor.
Jeremy Downs is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER. He was a young man responsible for the death of another boy when he was fifteen and after his release, Dexter Morgan investigates if he still possesses the instinct of a killer.
Everyone who thought the Skinner was Anton, Quinn, Syl, Miguel, Rita, Cody, or any of the other existing characters. No, it's George King, creepy tree-trimmer extraordinaire.
The Skinner The department eventually connects George King to the murders and Dexter figures out that he skins people as torture because he wants them to tell him how to find Freebo, who owes him money. The Skinner kidnaps Dexter and ties him to a table. Dexter gets free and kills The Skinner just as the police arrive.
Miguel Luis Prado is a character in Season Three of the Showtime series DEXTER. He was the Assistant District Attorney (ADA) in Miami, and is the Main Antagonist of the season, along with George King aka The Skinner in a related storyline.
Michael C. Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Janice (Styons), a guidance counselor, and William Carlyle Hall, who worked for IBM. Michael is a graduate of NYU's Master of Fine Arts program in acting. He is known for the titular character "Dexter" in Dexter (2006) and as mortician "David ...
Julie Benz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on May 1, 1972. Julie's father is a Pittsburgh surgeon and her mother is a figure skater. The family settled in nearby Murrysville, when Julie was two, and she started ice skating at age three. She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in ...
Jennifer was born in Kentucky. Her mother is Catherine Mitchell and her father is Robert Carpenter. She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. During her last two years of high school, she studied drama at the Walden Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. She then trained at the ...
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, New York among eight siblings, including her twin sister Lorraine, Lauren Velez dreamed of becoming an actress ever since she played a groundhog in a school play in second grade. Immediately following high school, she received a scholarship from the Alvin Ailey ...
David Zayas was born on August 15, 1962 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He is an actor and producer, known for Skyline (2010), The Expendables (2010) and Dexter (2006). He has been married to Liza Colón-Zayas since November 21, 1998. They have one child.
James is a rugged, intense character player with leading man good looks. Having first gained recognition in 1979 as Ajax, in his second film, The Warriors (1979). That same year he garnered acclaim on Broadway with Richard Gere in the concentration camp drama "Bent". In a career spanning nearly four...
Dexter Morgan. Played by Michael C. Hall. He'll charm fellow officers with doughnuts, spend a Sunday doting on his young son, Harrison, or chop up a victim and toss the parts off the side off his boat. Hiding beneath the mundane exterior of Dexter, a seemingly shy...
Played by Aimee Garcia. Angel Batista's sister Jamie has been working for Dexter as his son Harrison's nanny ever since Dexter's wife Rita was killed. Kind-hearted, loyal, and devoted to Harrison, she is invaluable to Dexter.
Miami Metro's roguishly charming Detective Quinn has always made questionable romantic choices. He was heartbroken when his boss Debra turned down his proposal, then found love in the form of an illegal Ukrainian stripper...
Sgt. Angel Batista. Played by David Zayas. A fellow homicide detective, Angel Batista works closely with Dexter and the team on their various forensics cases. The big-hearted Batista took it in stride when Debra was promoted to Lieutenant instead of him, and toyed...
Cody returned in season 7 , episode 8, along with his sister Astor. In the books, Astor and her brother Cody are two parts of a whole, with Cody performing killings and Astor acting as a sort of mentor who watches. Cody is able to sense Dexter's "Dark Passenger".
The original Dexter novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, upon which the TV series' first season is based, includes the characters of Dexter, Debra ( as Deborah), Rita, LaGuerta (first name Midgia), Batista, Doakes (first name Albert), Masuka (as Masuoka), Harry, Astor, Cody, Doris, Laura (although unnamed), Brian, Camilla Figg, Captain Matthews, Mike Donovan (as Father Donovan), Jamie Jaworski, and Nurse Mary (only referred to as "Last Nurse"), although some of them with different characteristics. Notably, Rita's ex-husband is referred to (although not by name), but the character himself does not appear. All other season one characters are created exclusively for the television series, and do not appear in the novels.
Dexter gathers his tools in a bag and goes to Lila's apartment under the guise that they will leave town together. Dexter's plan is foiled when Debra shows up and Lila walks in on them. Lila leaves the apartment, taking Dexter's bag with her. Upon examination of the bag, Lila learns of Dexter's plan to kill her.
When Dexter, Rita, Debra (Dexter's adoptive sister) and "Rudy" came to sort out Joe's house, Dexter took blood samples of himself and Joe and sent them to Vince Masuka to perform a DNA test, which came back as a match. Dexter suspected that Joe's apparent heart attack was actually murder.
He also appears in Season 2 as Harry took a teenage Dexter to an execution to teach him the importance of not getting caught. After the exhilarating experience, the teenage Dexter learns the importance of not getting caught. The Watcher is not a single person, but a group of cultists worshiping the ancient god Moloch.
Believing that being a parent is one of her main achievements, Rita decides to keep the baby, and leaves Dexter's role in the child's life entirely up to him. After much deliberation, Dexter decides (with Debra's help) that he will be there for the child and Rita accepts his marriage proposal.
Caffrey killed all of his victims with from a close range with knives. Caffrey had worked for Isaak in the past, but had no qualms about killing his former boss. When Caffrey was unable to contact Mickic, as he had been killed by Dexter, Caffrey begins to follow Dexter, who Caffrey believed would lead him to Isaak.
Her investigation leads her to meet Rudy Cooper, a prosthetics expert, and they start a relationship.
Dexter Morgan ( Michael C. Hall) is introduced as a serial killer who kills other killers who have escaped from, or haven't been found by the justice system. By day he is a blood spatter analyst who works for the Homicide Department of the Miami Metro Police.
This season aired from October 1, 2006 to December 17, 2006, and follows Dexter's investigation of "the Ice Truck Killer". Introduced in the first episode, " Dexter ", this serial killer targets prostitutes and leaves their bodies severed and bloodless. At the same time, Dexter's foster sister, Debra Morgan ( Jennifer Carpenter ), ...
As his father has taught him, he covers his tracks by taking the victim to a prepared room lined with plastic sheeting in order to easily dispose of the evidence at sea.
Dexter was locked up in the container in a pool of his mother's blood, to be rescued by Harry two days later.
He only keeps a blood sample of the victim on a glass slide, stored in a box hidden in his apartment. Neither his adoptive sister Debra Morgan nor those in the department know about his secret killings, although Sgt. James Doakes is suspicious of how interested Dexter is in reviewing crime scenes.
Subsequent seasons have featured original storylines. This season aired from October 1, 2006 to December 17, 2006, and follows Dexter's investigation of "the Ice Truck Killer".
Rita's Lawyer is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER .
When Rita returns home after helping Dexter Morgan clear out his recently deceased biological father 's house in Dade City, Paul Bennett shows up at her house. He tries to sexually assault her and Rita smacks him in the head with a baseball bat and flees with Astor and Cody .
Two Miami-Dade Sheriff Department Deputies show up at Z Hotel where Rita is working the front desk. They inform her that Paul has been released from the Baptist Memorial Hospital and is filing an assault charge against her. They take Rita, who is in a state of disbelief, to the police station, from where she calls Dexter Morgan.
Jeremy Downs' Lawyer is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER .
Jeremy is surprised when Dexter Morgan visits him in jail since he didn’t realize that Dexter works for the police. Dexter demands to know why he killed again. Jeremy reveals that he was trying to feel something, since he normally feels nothing. As Dexter is taking scrapings from under Jeremy’s fingernails, he tells Jeremy they are a lot alike.
As an honorable mention, there were various infants who played Harrison in Dexter season 4 that remain uncredited. Multiple babies were used to play Harrison, introduced to drive the relationship between Dexter and Rita forward as the couple and their two other children, Astor and Cody, had finally found some much needed peace in suburban Miami.
The first two actors to be officially cast in the part of Harrison Morgan were actually a set of twins named Evan George and Luke Andrew Kruntchev, who played the part in Dexter seasons 5-7.
Lucas Adams was cast to play Harrison in a short sequence in season 7 wherein a future Harrison was shown while Dexter envisions his life with Hannah in the future. Adams was not officially cast to play the part outside of the sequence in Dexter's imagination.
In Dexter season 8, a then four-year-old Harrison was played by the six-year-old Jadon Wells. Some viewers of the show were disappointed in the recast because it was such a stark and obvious difference between the two seasons, but casting Jadon Wells resulted in a much more expressive Harrison who did a wonderful job at playing the character.
Jack Alcott is the newest version of Harrison. When Alcott auditioned and was first cast, he was told he'd be playing a character named Randall, who was described as having a close relationship with Dexter and a significant character arc during the course of New Blood.