Unlike most serial killers, Dexter has rarely intended to kill an innocent person and would never harm a child. With Dexter's finely honed ability to kill without being caught, he joined the Homicide department to, not only discover new challenges, but to further keep ahead of the game and find new kills.
See also: Dexter's modus operandi. During Season Two , scuba divers in search of treasure discover multiple black trash bags along a trench. An expedition team retrieved the bags which contained dismembered bodies.
Based on the location and how the bodies were cut up, the unknown killer was dubbed The Bay Harbor Butcher. See also: Underwater Graveyard. Eventually, Sgt. James Doakes was framed for the murders in Dexter's place, after Lila West killed Doakes in an explosion at the Cabin in the Everglades. The crimes were attributed to Doakes due to evidence previously planted by Dexter. The belief that Doakes was the Butcher was bolstered by his violent behavior, his stalking of Dexter, and because Doakes' own father was an actual butcher.
Also, Doakes had previously killed at least two people while on duty , and had worked in Special Ops. It is unknown if Dexter Morgan ceased to kill after the series finale. When his sister, Debra Morgan , was shot by Oliver Saxon , she suffered a stroke after surgery. Dexter shut off Debra's life support and buried her at sea.
Debra was the final shown victim of Dexter Morgan. He called Hannah and Harrison to say goodbye, and then drove his boat toward a hurricane. His boat was found obliterated a few miles offshore the next day by rescue boats and he was presumed dead. The final scene showed Dexter alive, living in self-imposed isolation in the Pacific Northwest, as his fitting punishment for "consuming" everyone he loved.
See also: Dexter's Rented Room. Dexter Morgan killed at least people in the course of the series. He may have killed many more unaccounted for people.
See also: Dexter's Kill List. It can also be assumed that Dexter has killed people between the time skip between Season Three and Season Four. Dexter did not start his blood slide collection until he killed Alex Timmons , which means that Alex could have been either Dexter's 3rd victim or a much later victim. See also: Blood Slide Boxes. All of the following victims lost their lives prior to Mike Donovan 's death.
Some are shown within various seasons, but all take place before the first episode. Season Four's finale carries on directly into the events of Season Five 's opening episode. There is no time skip and Dexter did not kill anyone between the episodes.
Possible plot hole: Dexter and Lumen went to Quinn's unit and found photos in his beside drawer of them dumping garbage bags at sea one night. The photos had been taken by the Stan Liddy who suspected Dexter was up to something.
Lumen wanted to take them but Dexter said to leave them, because Quinn knew they were there. Dexter may have removed the photos later, or Quinn may have destroyed them in order to protect Debra.
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This is a guy who is on the other end of an 8-year commitment to abstinence from killing so reopening that door and re-engaging with that behavior is gonna feel very different from back in the day. Would you say that you as an actor you were also rusty and sharing a similar experience with Dexter? Returning to something so familiar yet so far behind you, too?
Now, can the audience be able to bridge the repugnancy of the own personality 5 and the killing character Dexter Morgan to feel a sort of sympathy in the end? If so, which devices used in the series to present the character Dexter Morgan contribute to this assumption? The analysis is drawn upon the theoretical background of social constructionism linked to the field of frame theories. With this knowledge the next step is to identify contemporary media frames of criminals and serial killers respectively.
In the end, the findings obtained by the preceding analysis are questioned in context of the general effect and power of frame building concerning the perception of serial killers in the media. Due to restricted time and space the here presented study is focussed on the first season of Dexter , first aired on 1st October and presented by the pay-tv channel Showtime Networks Inc.
The first season consists of twelve episodes which are broadcasted in a weekly cycle during the primetime period. Since no reception analyses will be conducted, statements about the viewer and audience according their perception of Dexter refer to my experiences with and perception of Dexter as well as to my subjective assumptions in their general meaning for the audience or the single viewer.
As mentioned in the introduction the purpose of this thesis is to find out indicators of the series Dexter for triggering sympathy for the serial killer Dexter Morgan and how these are able to influence a graphic rendition Darstellungsart and in the end the perception of a character. To answer this question it is helpful to have a look at theories that help us to understand how we gain our knowledge in general or of a certain subject here: crime and all above how our knowledge is influenced or guided by certain parties.
In the case of crime the theory of social constructionism is a good starting point, as it has found its consideration in the field of criminology before. Relating the theory of social constructionism to frame theory this chapter points critically out how criminals are commonly presented in the mass media on both non-fictional and fictional levels. In conclusion this chapter is intended to support the overall analysis to demonstrate the difference of what we already know about criminals i.
Social constructionism sets knowledge in context to what we understand as real or as our reality. In the case of crime such differentiability enables us to separate the knowledge of what the media present us as real crime in, e.
To explain the concept of social constructionism it is reasonable to start with the construction process of reality. Thus, following the concept of social constructionism, reality is a socially created product of personal experience and of knowledge that is gained through social interactions Surette Speaking generally, social constructionism is focussed on human relationships and their ways of affecting perceived realities among people.
These relationships are primarily active and cooperative and as a result produce shared meanings, which can be indicated as commonly accepted ideas, interpretations, and knowledge in sense of a cultural consensus ibid: This is due to the sources from which individuals acquire their social knowledge.
According to SURETTE, four sources can be identified ibid: 32 : personal experience, significant others like peers, family and friends , other social groups, and at last all kinds of institutions and organisations. As already stated, reality is based on knowledge and experience; therefore, SURETTE further indicates three kinds of reality: the experienced, the symbolic, and the socially constructed reality ibid.
Experienced reality means the directly experienced world and is therewith fairly limited because of the individual living environments an individual is acting and experiencing in. For instance, crime as a social construct becomes much more real for someone if this one has made the experience of personal victimisation.
This experience enables the subject to develop knowledge of how fatal a particular crime can be or not. In this category of reality experiences and therewith knowledge are not made by oneself but are derived from the knowledge of other people, institutions, and the media ibid. This mediated knowledge is shared symbolically and collectively by the belief that events, facts, and things are true and do exist, proved by pictures, literature, statistics, and reports ibid.
The media take on a dominant role when it comes to symbolic reality. The most of us gain their knowledge of crime from the media due to the lack of personal experience. In other words, we can learn from media representations what crime and law consist of ibid: 33 , but on the other side media also delimit our knowledge of crime, since they determine what we get to know. These negotiations can also be described as a competition of social constructions, i. The media play a quite important part in the competing process of social constructions, since they function as a sort of filter in consideration of their own values ibid: News values like threshold, proximity, violence, simplification including symbolisation , and spectacle or graphic imagery Jewkes influence how an event is presented and how it becomes known to the public.
The reason to get a social construction dominant over others is complex. Supporters of a specific social construction as authorities of the society, i. Since we last saw him, he has made his way across the country to the frozen environs of Iron Lake in upstate New York, where he divides his time between being a trusted member of the small-town community and going all bandy-eyed with lust whenever he gets within 20ft of a knife.
Ostensibly, Dexter is a changed man, who has refrained from killing anyone for almost a decade. Quite the opposite: he works in a gun shop and has a police officer for a girlfriend, which are the two dumbest choices that a retired serial killer could ever make. Dexter feeds his goats, goes ice-fishing and attends line-dancing nights at the local bar.
No: you watch it because you want to be grubbily implicit in the worst impulses of terrible men. The joy of Dexter in its glory days was always finding the sweet spot between Dexter Morgan, the great guy who loves his family, and Dexter Morgan, the sicko who gets a pseudo-erotic kick out of taping people down and stabbing them to death.
His mark takes drugs, has sex with strangers, hurts animals.
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