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And in today's video, we're going to be looking at the evolution of Dexter Through seven years in eight seasons, Dexter Morgan grew from being a bloodthirsty killer to a compassionate husband and bigger brother.

But what happened along the way, How did Dexter managed to harness his dark passenger for the greater good?

I'm Dexter than I'm not sure what I am.

I just know there's something dark in May.

I hide it.

I surely don't talk about it, but it's there, always dark passenger.

As a toddler, Dexter witnessed his mother being murdered with a chainsaw, sparking his obsession with murder adopted by police officer Harry Morgan and gaining a sister in Deborah.

Harry came to realize that Dexter Head psychopathic tendencies Dexter was a loose cannon who needed guidance, which came in the form of Harry's code, a set of rules that helped Dexter evaluate who deserved to die, allowing him to fulfill his bloodlust.

He's definitely the one now it's just a matter of time before he becomes a drop of blood in my glass slide collection.

But I have to wait.

I have to be careful and follow the code of Harry.

Skip ahead to Dexter, working for Miami Metro Police Department, a job that allowed him to track his victims and maintain a cover in Season one.

Dexter is killing bad guys by night and faking good guy camaraderie in the workplace By day, many times in life, I feel like I'm missing some essential piece of the human puzzle.

This is one of them, and he even has a girlfriend, Rita, who with her two kids, Asteroid Cody, help him complete his guy next door facade.

And no one is the wiser.

Well, except maybe Doakes.

But we'll come back to him later.

A season one unravels.

Dexter has to deal with the sexual advances of Rita.

I can't believe I found the one good, truly decent man left on the planet, an emotional wave he's not equipped to deal with and the prospect that he might have a biological brother who's just as murderous as he is.

But his strong relationship with his adopted sister, Deb, cannot be overlooked here.

He may not feel emotion, but his Dexter puts it.

If I could have feelings at all.

I'd have them for Deb.

She's the only person in the world who loves me.

I think that's nice.

I don't have feelings about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I'd have them for Deb.

And it's ultimately this bond that comes between Dexter and having a relationship with his birth brother, Brian, a person that is arguably just like him.

Dexter trades a life of unscrutinized murder for the life of his adopted sister, proof that there is clearly an emotional heart beating inside him, at least when it comes to Deb.

So he's 20 years older than me.

What do you care?

In Season two, Dexter gets off to a rocky start with Rita and meets Lila, a rebel who quickly becomes fixated with him.

Lila puts Dexter's feelings for Rita to the test of which he fails by sleeping with her.

At this point, Dexter isn't drawing living life on the edge, believing that maybe Lyla could be a kindred spirit who could accept him for who he really is.

But things go south very quickly, with Lila becoming jealous of other people in Dexter's life.

You you are more dangerous than my addiction will ever be retaliating.

Lila puts everyone around him at risk, including the snooping Sergeant Doakes, whom she kills to protect.

Dexter Dexter's moral compass is put under the microscope here.

He could live a life of carefree anarchy with Lila, but he doesn't want to do that.

When something beyond reason happens, it turns skeptics into believers, believers in a higher power.

What kind of power?

This is that because he genuinely loves Rita or because he just doesn't want to be caught.

Even though Dexter was being spied on by Doakes, a guy who suspected he was a murderer all along, Dexter feels guilty when Doakes is killed, proving that in his eyes, even when murder is convenient, it's not necessarily right.

Apparently, miracles are subjective.

I can't exactly feel LaGuerta's pain, but I can appreciate it.

Doakes wasn't so bad in the end, but the truly tragic thing would be to let his sacrifice go to waste.

Dexter knows Lila is too dangerous to be kept alive, so for his and pretty much everyone's safety, he tracks her down and kills her.

You taught me to accept what I am trust in the one thing I know with absolute Season three puts Dexter's morals to the test Yet again.

His new relationship with Miguel Prado's seems like a match made in vigilante heaven.

He, too, wants to clean up the streets, even if it means using uncuff methods outside of the law.

Thank you, thank you for this for letting me in, showing me the way Dexter initially thrives off this.

But when Miguel starts skirting Harry's code in order to get revenge, Dexter realizes that Miguel could not only ruin his cover, but that his actions are just plain wrong.

Wow, I didn't get it before Miguel, but you can't be reasoned with guilted controlled.

This whole back and forth game for leverage is pointless.

That's right.

I'll do what I want when I want to Whoever I want.

And Dexter tops off his run of epiphanies by marrying Rita following the birth of his and Rita's new baby at the start of Season four, Dexter finds himself somewhat shackled by the domestic family life, struggling to find time to satisfy and enjoy his urge to kill Oh, beautiful for grain.

But after a new serial killer, Arthur Mitchell, comes onto the scene Dexter begins to admire the killer's ability to balance his extracurricular activities and his home life.

Dexter befriends him before realizing that Arthur's home life isn't as happy as it appears on the surface, and that Arthur is a different kind of monster altogether.

Yeah, sure Stay.

Watch the show.

I'm thankful.

Feed Hattie your room, Vera.

No, she's not Vera, and she's not your goddamn prisoner.

She's not eight anymore.

This'll helps Dexter understand that it's front of love and compassion for Rita and the kids isn't really a front at all, Certainly not like Arthur's destructive front with his family.

Dexter takes him out, but not before Arthur gets to Rita and kills her Season five.

C's Dexter distraught after Rita's death, even if he doesn't know how to show it.

Where are you now when I really need you?

When it's my wife in the body bag, everybody's looking and it's the neighbor crying, not me.

But he finds solace in loom in a victim of abuse who has her own revenge field.

Dark passenger Dexter takes her under his wing, bonding emotionally over their lust to kill, but she soon loses that thirst and the to grow apart, leaving Dexter heartbroken Season five ends with Dexter going out of his way to clear Quinn's name, a cop Deb has been romantically involved with in order to clear his own name and keep his sister happy.

What about that?

The blood on Quinn's shoe?

Is it Liddy's I Haven't Run It Yet.

You think it is.

Dexter slips into the mentor role again in Season six as he discovers that a killer, Travis Marshall, is being manipulated into doing evil deeds.

Instead of killing him, he tries to help him, but ultimately learns that Travis is more dangerous than he imagined.

Stare at the sun, you idiots, that air you be blinded than face the horrors that await you.

In the meantime, following a therapy session, Deborah realizes that she may be in love with Dexter, which is put to the ultimate test in the season finale when she walks in on Dexter, killing Travis with Deborah, where the Dexter is a killer.

There's a lot of toing and froing in Season seven.

She can't rat him out because she loves him, and Dexter cares about Deb too much to kill her and save himself.

I have to call this in.

You had a moment of temporary insanity we can fix is Dexter Falls for a woman named Hannah McKay, also a murderer who tries to hurt depth while Deb is doing everything she can to hide Dexter's true identity.

Both make sacrifices.

Dexter gives up Hannah to protect Deb, and Deb kills her longtime mentor, LaGuerta, to protect Dexter.

Season eight is the culmination of all of Dexter's newly learned emotions.

He finds that he's willing to curb his life of killing in Miami for a normal ish life.

With Harrison and the after mentioned Hannah McKay, there's nothing like a crisis to help define who you are.

He even risks the life of his new mother figure, Dr Evelyn Vogel, by keeping killer Oliver Saxon alive, believing him to be rehabilitated.

That ends badly, with Saxon killing Vogel and shooting Deb, causing her to become brain dead extra, then risks everything by taking Deb off of life support, faking his own death and fleeing to Oregon toe live with his guilt.

Big Brother.

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Dexter does some questionable things throughout seasons 1 to 8.

But what starts as a selfish need to satisfy his urge to kill turns into a want for a normal domestic life.

His carefulness to protect himself almost becomes non existent as he strives to protect those around him.

And that is the evolution of Dexter.

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