I’ve been watching Dexter with my husband.
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Dexter is a clinical psychopath. I think
this might be a loose interpretation since Dexter exhibits signs in his
thoughts and actions that he not completely unemotional. In Dexter’s own words,
he was “born in blood” when his mother was murdered in front of him when he was
3 years old. Dexter, like his foster father, identifies this moment as the day
his darkness was born. Afterwards, Dexter was found in a pool of blood by a
young policeman that would eventually be his foster father. At first Dexter was
like any other boy but as time went on there were signs of Dexter’s new nature.
Such signs might have been missed had his foster father not been a seasoned
policeman. At first, his foster father thought his urges might be curbed if
Dexter took the lives of animals. When it was evident that animals would not
slake his urges, his father trained him to be stealthy, efficient and
eventually to take the lives of evildoers that were missed by the law, while
being undetectable. In his daytime role, Dexter is a blood spatter and forensic
evidence expert for the Miami Metro police. It is this day time role that
allows him to hunt in the evenings, fulfilling his true nature.