Jeff Lindsay Trivia

1. Dexter is a serial killer, but one with a code of ethics. He only kills people who are themselves killers and deserve to be killed. How does he refer to what he does?

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: as taking out the trash

Found at a crime scene when he was only three years old, Dexter had the good fortune of being adopted by a police officer, Harry Morgan. As Dexter got older, Harry recognized his sociopathic tendencies and knew that they could not be forcibly changed. As a police officer he also knew that the system often let bad guys escape, so he taught his son to satisfy his needs by dealing with those who slipped through the cracks, for whatever reason. Dexter refers to this a 'taking out the trash'.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: killing orphans

Father Donovan teaches music to the children of St. Anthony's Orphanage, as a way of earning their trust. However Dexter finds the place where Donovan disposes of the bodies and digs up the remains of the seven children there, to confront him with the evidence, before consigning him to an adjacent grave.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: a drop of blood

Dexter preserves a drop of blood between two laboratory slides. He tells us that he can take them out and examine them under the microscope whenever he wants, thereby reliving the experience. When he adds the priest's blood to the collection he informs us that there are 36 slides in total.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: blood spatter

When Dexter shows up at the first crime scene in the book, his co-worker, Vince Masuoka, asks him why he is there, since there is no blood in the corpse or anywhere near the scene. Dexter is stunned by the concept and wonders why he hadn't thought about that. Dexter's fascination with blood runs deep, even though he claims that it "sets his teeth on edge".

From Quiz Dexter's Final Cut

Answer: Murder victim

Dexter plays a forensics worker who gets shot and falls down dead. Hence, for most of the filming, which takes a surprisingly long time, he simply has to lie still and pretend to be dead. Jackie arranged this role for him as an elaborate subterfuge because Robert Chase had asked why Dexter had accompanied her to the production site on a Saturday. The real reason was that she had asked Dexter to discreetly act as her informal bodyguard, as she did not want the production company to find out she was being stalked, as they might fire her because of the increased insurance costs. There was an intense enmity between her and Robert, and she thought he would relish the opportunity to have her booted out. Hence, she made up an explanation on the spot that Dexter would be in an "under-five," that is, a role involving less than five lines.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: a female head

Dexter's sister, Deb, is a Vice Officer, desperate for a transfer to homicide, but the lieutenant there doesn't like her. She persuades Dexter to help her come up with some brilliant leads to help crack the case, and while discussing the fact that the latest victim's remains appear to have been refrigerated, Dexter comes to the conclusion that a refrigerated truck has been used. Unfortunately Deb is ridiculed when she presents this idea to the rest of the team. Convinced that he is right, Dexter ends up following a refrigerated truck that is being driven rather erratically. Just when he thinks he has lost the truck, it emerges from behind a gas station and the head of murdered prostitute is thrown at the car, hitting it hard enough to leave a dent. In the television serried, the killer becomes known as 'The Ice Truck Killer', but that moniker does not appear to stick in the book.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: at the hockey arena

The arena is the Office Depot Centre and is where the Florida Panthers NHL hockey team plays. The body parts were neatly stacked in the goalie's net and were discovered by the driver of the Zamboni. The body is missing its head, because it had been tossed at Dexter's car the previous night.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: a Barbie doll

As soon as Dexter returns from work, he knows that his space has been violated, but it takes him a while to find what was left. Attached, by magnet, to his fridge door he finds the severed head of a Barbie doll. The rest of the doll's body is inside the freezer, pulled apart and neatly stacked as the body parts of the real victim had been. There is a little mirror stuck in one of the doll's hands, just as the rearview mirror from the ice truck had been left with the body at the arena.

From Quiz Dexter's Final Cut

Answer: Angry

Dexter does not tell Deborah directly about the affair; she quickly figures it out for herself. Specifically, Dexter mentions Jackie's conversation with Deborah's less-than-esteemed colleague Detective Anderson, and Jackie's pointed remark about already having a nice warm blanket. Hearing this, Deborah realizes what is going on and furiously accuses Dexter of sleeping with Jackie, which he does not deny. Not mincing words, she makes her disapproval very clear, reminding him that he is married with kids. She concludes by stating that she doesn't think she ever wants to speak to him again. Indeed, she begins avoiding him from then on.

From Quiz Dexter's Final Cut

Answer: Astor stabs Robert in the back

Dexter was having a really good time with Jackie and looking forward to entering an exciting new lifestyle, when events take a series of disastrous turns. Rita informs him in a state of near panic that Astor has gone missing. After making enquiries, he learns that she has gone somewhere with Robert Chase. Returning to Jackie's dressing room, he makes the horrific discovery that she has been murdered. Although not a sentimental man by any means, this development is emotionally devastating for Dexter and he feels like his world is crashing around him in flames. Eventually, he deduces correctly that Robert killed Kathy because she had caught him kissing Astor in his dressing room, and threatened to make this public. While Dexter had been looking for Astor, Jackie had accessed Kathy's schedule online and discovered that she had had a meeting with Robert at the time she was killed. Unfortunately, Jackie chose to confront Robert directly rather than immediately telling the police - even wet blanket Detective Anderson might have helped - and so he killed her too. Dexter works out that Robert and Astor are hiding at Dexter's new family home that they had not yet moved into, and decides to confront him stealthily. This bold but reckless plan does not go as expected, because Robert knocks him unconscious as he attempts to sneak into the house. When he awakens, Astor explains to him that Robert is in love with her and has promised her that he can help her become a movie star. Dexter sensibly points out that he can hardly get her into movies while hiding from the cops. Robert enters the room, and Dexter taunts him about lying to Astor, as there is no way that he can escape the country as he plans, and he will only end in jail. Robert, who has clearly not thought things through, becomes alarmed and blurts out that he will use Astor as a bargaining chip with the police, offering to release her in return for safe passage out of the country. Then, he says he is sorry, but he will now have to kill Dexter. Before he can do this, Astor, who is furious at Robert's ready betrayal, takes a kitchen knife and stabs him in the back, killing him.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: He looks like Dexter.

Although the image is not terrifically clear, it looks enough like Dexter to make both Deborah and Dexter himself wonder whether or not it really has been him all along. Dexter has been having strange dreams that seemed to connect him with the killings and he begins to wonder if perhaps he has been killing the prostitutes in his sleep. It turns out that the killer is Dexter's biological brother, whom Dexter didn't even know existed.

From Quiz Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Answer: Detective Laguerta

The killer leaves another Barbie doll for Dexter, with a clue about where he can be found. Between the clue and resurfacing memories, Dexter is drawn to the place where he and his brother, Brian, had witnessed the death of his mother (and others) many years before. Brian has Deborah all ready to be killed and wants Dexter to be a part of her murder. Torn by need, memories and a desire to stay true to Harry's code, Dexter is unable to participate. Detective Laguerta, who had followed Dexter down, enters at that point and becomes Brian's victim. Deborah is saved, Brian manages to escape but the detective is killed. This is related rather obliquely, so that we don't realize that Deborah is still alive until she elbows Dexter at Laguerta's funeral. This ending is radically different from how the first season of the show ends.

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