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An American television drama series centering on Miami Metro Police blood spatter analyst Dexter Morgan who leads a secret life as a serial killer and kills people who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system.

Dexter is an American television drama series that centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department (based on the real life Miami-Dade Police Department) who moonlights as a serial killer.

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What is the symbolism of using American Psycho protagonist's name in Dexter?

When Dexter goes to acquire his drugs for the tranquilizers he uses the name Patrick Bateman. Anyone aware of this name will know this person to be the protagonist in American Psycho. Seeing that Dexter follows Harry's Code, and Dexter does not…
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Why does Dexter use the same outfit for killing?

Dexter dresses in this outfit every time he commits a killing. Why does he use the same clothes? Is it some kind of signature?
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How does Dexter handle the logistics of his murders?

When Dexter murders someone he always prepares the room with: lots of plastic foil pictures of victims small details for atmosphere etc But we only see him dispose the bodies. The amount of plastic foil and the blood that must have been spilled…
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What are the various rules in Harry's code of conduct?

I have watched through Dexter and there are multiple references to Harry's code of conduct, but they're never listed specifically in any of the episodes as far as I remember. I know that the first rule is Don't get caught, the second rule is Never…
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In which episode did Debra find out about Dexter's brother?

In the show Dexter, season 6 episode 4, when Dexter Morgen walks into the crime scene with the two corpse horsemen, Dexter says "this spectacle makes me think of..." and Debra finishes the sentence "your brother... Rudy, the Ice Truck…
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How did the Trinity Killer manage to leave no traces?

In season 4 of Dexter the Trinity Killer used to kill in the bathtub. A bathtub full of blood and he sat in it with victim till the end. How did he to manage leaving no trace from such a mess?
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What software and web sites are portrayed in Dexter?

I noticed while watching Dexter series that absolutely nothing that happens on a computer screen looks even remotely familiar. Operating systems are not Windows, OSX or Linux, nor are they re-skins of those, blogs look similar to LiveJournal but…
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What does ending of "Dexter" imply?

Dexter is a drama series, no doubt about it, however, what was the reason for letting the main character live in the end? If thinking from moral perspective, Dexter is a killer that "gets away", so what lesson then do we really learn?
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Why was Dexter Morgan so rarely clean shaven?

Seems Dexter is shown with a five o'clock shadow (the beginning of a beard that shows up late in the afternoon on the face of a man who has not shaved since morning) most of the time. I imagined there was symbolism in the decision to have him that…
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Why does Doakes want to get the blood slides analyzed in the Dominican Republic?

In S02E08, Doakes breaks into Dexter's apartment and finds Dexter's blood slide trophies. In S02E09, Doakes goes to Haiti to ask his old fixer Leones to get the blood slides analyzed in a hospital in the Dominican Republic. Why does Doakes do…
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