Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
Trinity killer uses a rescue dog to relate to a woman who loves seeing rescue dogs. Once he finishes meeting her, he abandons the dog by unleashing it and letting him run loose in the neighborhood. Dog is never shown again.
Rita’s children struggle with their father being released from prison but not being able to see him. I would avoid this episode if you struggle with abandonment
Rita’s husband is released from jail and continues to break parole and restraining order by appearing at their house and inserting himself into their lives. Rita should be calling police and his parole officer but just lets him continue to show up.
Two characters hit a deer while driving a van in the woods. The deer is shown and heard suffering, so one character uses his ax to end the suffering. We don’t see the ax connect with the deer, just blood on the ax after the deer is killed. Definitely skip, or mute the volume, if you don’t want to hear the cries of a hurt deer, though there is some importance to what the incident does to one of the character’s mindsets later in the episode and season.
Rita mentions the neighbor’s young, adorable, Beagle mix is barking all the time because he is neglected by being left outside all day and all night. Dexter mentions bringing him inside and feeding him, implying the neighbor neglects that too. The arrogant neighbor says the dog was abandoned by her ex, and seems to really hate the dog, too. Spoiler: the good boy finds a new loving, caring home, thanks to some sneaky dognapping from Rita.
Dead alligator carcass is shown, shot off-screen by a man protecting his dogs (not shown). Dexter arrives on scene to see the alligator is already sliced open and a human arm is pulled out. Lots of blood is shown.
Two characters hit a deer with their car and have to put it out of its suffering. As soon as they hit the deer I would suggest muting as sounds of suffering is heard. Timestamp approx 23:35 to 25:10
around 45:00 there are maggots shown on dead body parts in a trash bag. i believe it is shown twice within a minute so i would skip 2 to 3 minutes ahead to be safe.
The police finds video evidence that does not show anything explicit, but the audio is quite disturbing and there are also pictures of the victims on the wall which are shown multiple times in this episode.
The first person Dexter kills is implied to be a pedo, Dexter lays out the bodies of the man's victims and he says he "couldnt help himself" to the young boys
Guy gets in his car and someone’s waiting for him in the back seat and puts a string around his neck. guy makes chocking nosies and gets told to drive. About a minute into the episode
Flashback: Dexter is injured climbing a fence to retrieve Debra's ball. We only see the aftermath, but he has a large gash on his abdomen that will require surgery.
Not sure if this counts but Dexter strangulates Prado with a cord/string at the end of adios, amigo. It's obvious that this is about to happen when he pulls out the string.
A side character from the first few episodes who had two amputated limbs receives prosthetics, you see the prosthetics no amputation or body parts or blood
Season 2 Episode 4: the marine biologist throws up off screen after entering the morgue. Season 2 Episode 10: Harry walks in on younger Dexter killing someone and throws up. Only once, visual is shown. Season 3 Episode 4: Rita throws up when she’s sitting on the bathroom floor. Not graphic. Season 5 Episode 5: officer Manzon throws up after seeing dead bodies, visual and audio, but easy to see coming. Season 5 Episode 9: Astor throws up off camera, audio only. Season 7 Episode 2: Debra throws up after running from Dexter’s apartment, visual and audio. Season 8 Episode 12: A veterinarian throws up blood while walking into a hospital. Visual and audio.
Dexter’s “colleague” the other serial killer is always watching him. He always watches others. The entire show is people watching eachother from afar in a sense
Because it’s based in Miami the Latino cops are very exaggerated- Spanglish and fedoras and Hawaiian shirts. The African American male cop is silent and angry all the time and has anger issues. There’s stereotypes everywhere
41:30 in, Deb mocks two people she sees on video while reviewing security camera footage. No one but herself hears this.
She calls them "Mr. and Mrs. Tub-o-Lardi."
Debra and Lundy during season 2 and 4. Actors are 30 years apart in age. The characters are between 20 and 30 years apart, possibly mentioned during an episode in season 2.