Darkly Dreaming Dexter Trivia Quiz

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'.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

Answer: a nurse at the hospice

Harry was in the hospice, dying of cancer. He managed to convey to Dexter that he did not want the shot the nurse arrived to give him and for a brief instant, Dexter recognized a kindred spirit in her. Harry then let Dexter know that the nurse was deliberately giving too much pain medication and killing her patients that way. Harry urged Dexter to "stop the nurse" because "she deserved it", and Dexter did.

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.

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.