130 Fun Facts About Dexter

What is Dexter Morgan's professional occupation at Miami Metro Homicide?

Blood Spatter Analyst: the forensics job puts Dexter at murder scenes and inside police case files, which is how he finds the killers he hunts at night.

Dexter's biological mother was murdered because she had secretly been doing what?

Informing for the police: she passed Harry tips on a drug gang while the two were having an affair, and after her murder he adopted her younger son, Dexter.

What is the real name of Dexter's biological older brother, who resurfaces as a killer in season one?

Brian Moser, alias Rudy Cooper, was Dexter's older brother; both boys witnessed their mother Laura Moser's murder, but only Dexter was adopted, and Brian spent years in institutions.

What does Rita tell Dexter early in season three that leads him to propose?

She is pregnant: his first, businesslike proposal falls flat, so he wins her over with a declaration of love he borrows from a murder suspect.

Who was the primary antagonist in the first season of Dexter?

The Ice Truck Killer drained his victims' blood and cut them up in a refrigerated truck, a clean, bloodless method that fascinated Dexter instead of repelling him.

Which serial killer is the main antagonist of Dexter's fourth season, known for repeating a strict cycle of murders?

The Trinity Killer was named for murders that seemed to come in threes, until Dexter found a hidden fourth victim opening every cycle that the FBI had missed.

In season eight, to which country does Dexter plan to flee with Hannah and his son?

Argentina: Dexter books flights to Buenos Aires for Hannah, his son and himself, but Hurricane Laura and a last confrontation with Saxon intervene, and he never boards.

What does Harry teach Dexter is the number one rule of his Code?

Don't get caught came first because, as Harry told him, every other rule existed to serve it; never killing an innocent was only rule two.

On which holiday does Dexter nearly kill Arthur Mitchell in his own kitchen?

Thanksgiving dinner at the Mitchells' ends with Arthur half-strangling his own son, and Dexter dragging him off with a belt and very nearly killing him on the spot.

What is the name of the boat Dexter uses to dump his victims' remains at sea?

Slice of Life carries the weighted bags out to sea; when divers stumble on his underwater dumping ground in season two, the hunt for their killer starts in Dexter's own department.

Under the alias Rudy Cooper, the villain of Dexter's first season works in which field?

Prosthetics: he met Debra while fitting an artificial hand and leg for a victim he had maimed himself, then dated her to get close to Dexter.

Which Dexter season's finale became Showtime's most-watched original episode when it aired in 2009?

Four: 'The Getaway', the finale that ends with Rita's murder, became Showtime's most-watched original episode, beating a record its own previous episode had set a week earlier.

Dexter's opening title sequence begins with him swatting which insect?

A mosquito, a fellow blood-drinker, is the first thing viewers see Dexter kill each week; he swats it and gives the hint of a satisfied smile.

What does the press call Dexter's unknown alter ego after divers find his victims in season two?

The Bay Harbor Butcher was named for the waters where divers found bags of body parts, and Dexter ends up working the forensics on the hunt for himself.

Which season 2 character became Dexter's Narcotics Anonymous sponsor and then his lover?

Lila Tournay was a pseudonym: a background check ordered by Debra showed the English artist was really Lila West, living in the United States on an expired visa.

What does Dexter regularly bring in to Miami Metro to keep up his friendly, harmless image?

Doughnuts are part of the mask: Dexter hands them round the station so that colleagues file him under 'the doughnut guy' and never look any closer.

Which actor won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing Arthur Mitchell, Dexter's season four nemesis?

John Lithgow, long known as the goofy alien patriarch of the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, won both awards for one season as the outwardly gentle family man.

What name does Dexter give the urge to kill that he feels living inside him?

The Dark Passenger is how Dexter pictures his compulsion, as something riding inside him; in the third novel it turns out to be a literal being with a mind of its own.

Which crude-humoured lab tech, played by C. S. Lee, is Dexter's main comic relief at Miami Metro?

Vince Masuka was promoted to the title credits in season two and later discovers he has an adult daughter he never knew about.

Where in his apartment does Dexter hide his box of blood slides?

An air conditioner vent kept the box safe until a suspicious colleague broke in and took it in season two, which is how the slides ended up as evidence against the wrong man.

Which Miami Metro sergeant distrusted Dexter from the start and eventually found his box of blood slides?

James Doakes was right about Dexter all along, but died in a cabin explosion before he could prove it and was blamed for Dexter's murders himself.

Who becomes Dexter's lover and fellow vigilante in Season 5?

Lumen Pierce, played by Julia Stiles, watched Dexter kill her captor Boyd Fowler, then asked him to help her hunt down the rest of the men who had held her.

From which part of a victim's body does Dexter take his blood trophy?

The cheek: one nick with a scalpel gives the drop he seals between two glass slides; the box of them later turned up in a colleague's car and pinned his murders on the wrong man.

Who is the main antagonist of Dexter's sixth season, known for his religiously motivated murders?

Travis Marshall ends the season on Dexter's table in an abandoned church, where Debra walks in at the moment of the kill and finally sees what her brother is.

Hannah McKay, Dexter's lover in season seven, runs what kind of business?

A plant nursery she inherited from the mentor who trained her; she later fell under suspicion of having poisoned that mentor with one of the plants.

Which veteran Miami Metro captain, played by Geoff Pierson, was an old friend of Dexter's adoptive father?

Tom Matthews had given Harry his word, the day before Harry died, that he would watch over Dexter and Debra, and he kept it for the rest of his career.

In Dexter's pilot, what does a rival killer leave in his freezer as an invitation to play?

A dismembered doll, cut up and bloodless like the killer's real victims, with its head stuck to the fridge door; Dexter reads it as a friendly hello and is delighted.

Which FBI agent, played by Keith Carradine, leads the season 2 manhunt that comes close to exposing Dexter?

Frank Lundy fell for Debra during the manhunt, then returned in season four, retired but still chasing the one killer who had always escaped him, and was shot dead at her side.

Which assistant district attorney befriends Dexter in season 3, then turns to murder himself?

Miguel Prado, played by Jimmy Smits, was the first friend Dexter ever let in on his secret; when he began killing on his own account, Dexter had to kill him.

What alias does Dexter use in season 4 to befriend Arthur Mitchell and his family?

Kyle Butler became the FBI's only lead once Arthur Mitchell vanished, and in season five a suspicious detective noticed how closely the sketches of 'Kyle' resembled Dexter.

Which lab intern, played by Josh Cooke, hacked Dexter's computer and cancelled his credit cards?

Louis Greene, a video-game designer interning in the lab, taunted Dexter with a grisly piece of old case evidence, until Ukrainian mob boss Isaak Sirko shot him aboard Dexter's boat.

Which good-natured Dexter detective, played by David Zayas, rises to sergeant and eventually lieutenant?

Angel Batista married his own boss, LaGuerta, divorced her, bought a restaurant and announced his retirement, yet ended the series running Homicide himself.

Which Dexter season 8 killer leaves trophies cut from his victims on a doorstep as a message?

The Brain Surgeon sawed open his victims' skulls and scooped out a piece of each brain; he turned out to be Oliver Saxon, hiding in plain sight as the boyfriend of Dexter's neighbour.

What is the title of Dexter's season seven finale, borrowed from a dead colleague's catchphrase?

Surprise, Motherfucker! was the greeting of the sergeant who first suspected Dexter; the finale that borrows it ends with Debra shooting her own captain to save her brother.

Which Dexter reporter, dating a Miami Metro detective in season 4, turns out to be Arthur Mitchell's daughter?

Christine Hill shot Debra and killed the retired FBI agent beside her to protect her father, then shot herself in front of Debra when he disowned her.

What animal tranquilizer, known as M99, does Dexter inject to knock out his victims?

Etorphine is a veterinary opioid made for darting elephants and rhinos; in New Blood Dexter switches to ketamine for a time, before the original drug returns in the later series.

What is the title of the original series finale episode of Dexter?

Remember the Monsters? ends with Dexter sailing into a hurricane and being declared dead, leaving his young son to grow up abroad without him.

In Dexter's fifth season, a gang's murdered victims are found hidden inside what?

Barrels of formaldehyde, dumped in a marsh, hid the women's bodies until a road accident spilled five of them from a truck onto a Miami street and put the police on the gang's trail.

Where were young Dexter and his brother found after their mother was murdered?

A shipping container at the Miami docks held the two boys for two days, sitting in their mother's blood, before Harry's police team reached them; Harry adopted the younger one.

What does Dexter discover about Professor Gellar in season six?

He had been dead for three years: his 'student' had killed him and carried on the killings alone, seeing the professor only as a hallucination.

Which ex-convict did Dexter knock out and frame for drug possession in season one?

Paul Bennett, Rita's abusive ex-husband, kept insisting from prison that he had been set up; the shoe he lost that night finally made Rita suspect Dexter was hiding something.

Which actress played the role of Debra Morgan?

Jennifer Carpenter played Debra for all eight seasons; she and Michael C. Hall married on New Year's Eve 2008 and divorced in 2011, continuing to play siblings on screen.

What does Dexter usually use to pin his victims to the table before he kills them?

Plastic wrap holds them flat on the table, though it once failed him: a giant gang enforcer woke mid-ritual in season two, tore himself free and got away.

Who wrote the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, on which the first season was based?

Jeff Lindsay's 2004 novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter is followed closely only by season one; the show then diverges, while Lindsay wrote seven more Dexter novels, ending with Dexter Is Dead in 2015.

Which line of narration opens Dexter's very first episode?

Tonight's the night is how Dexter greets the evening he has chosen for a kill, adding that it is going to happen again and again because it has to.

Although Dexter is set in Miami, many of its exterior scenes were shot in which state?

California: filming began in Miami, but the pilot shoot ran into the hurricane season, so the production moved to Los Angeles and Long Beach for the rest of the run.

Which disgraced narcotics cop does a Miami Metro detective hire to dig up dirt on Dexter in season 5?

Stan Liddy, played by Peter Weller, traps Dexter in his surveillance van to force a confession and dies there on his own knife.

When Dexter begins, his sister Debra is working in which police unit while longing for Homicide?

Vice: Debra calls Dexter to a motel murder scene hoping his insight will win her a transfer to Homicide, and the promotion comes through in the next episode.

How was Dexter's mother murdered in front of him when he was a small child?

With a chainsaw: decades later Dexter tracks down the man who wielded it and kills him in exactly the same way.

What does Dexter put up in his kill rooms to confront killers with their crimes?

Photos of their victims line the walls as his case against them: Harry's Code lets Dexter kill only once he has conclusive proof of guilt.

Who plays the young Dexter in the prequel series Dexter: Original Sin?

Patrick Gibson plays the student Dexter on screen, while Michael C. Hall returns only as the character's inner voice, narrating his own younger self.

Which showrunner of Dexter's first four seasons came back to run New Blood and Resurrection?

Clyde Phillips ran the first four seasons, left to spend more time with his family, and later came back to run New Blood, the prequel Original Sin and Resurrection.

Which rank is Debra unexpectedly promoted to in season six of Dexter, ahead of a more senior colleague?

Lieutenant: the deputy chief handed Debra the post LaGuerta had just vacated, and the colleague passed over put it down to the feud between those two.

Which fictional killer's name does Dexter borrow as an alias when ordering his tranquilliser?

Patrick Bateman, the serial killer of American Psycho, gets a medical title on Dexter's fake account because the drug is strictly controlled and sold legally only for veterinary use.

Which actress had a recurring role as Camilla Figg, the records clerk and friend of Dexter's parents?

Margo Martindale played Camilla Figg, the records clerk who knew Harry; in season three, dying of cancer, she asks Dexter to end her suffering and he does so with a poisoned key lime pie.

Which broadcast network aired an edited first season of Dexter in 2008 during the writers' strike?

CBS ran an edited season one to fill the gaps the writers' strike had left in its schedule, cutting it down to a TV-14 rating.

What is the title of Dexter's season 1 finale?

Born Free ends with Dexter refusing his brother's offer of a life without Harry's code, cutting his throat instead and staging the death as a suicide.

Which addiction does Dexter falsely confess to Rita in season two to explain his secretive nights?

Heroin was the lie closest to hand, since Rita had just worked out that he drugged her ex-husband with it; she sends him to Narcotics Anonymous, where he meets his sponsor.

What is the serial killer Debra hunts in Dexter's third season called?

The Skinner, George King, flayed his victims while hunting the dealer Freebo; Debra worked the case hoping it would earn her a detective's shield.

Which detective, played by Desmond Harrington, joins Miami Metro Homicide in season three?

Joey Quinn arrives from Narcotics as Debra's new partner and grows suspicious enough of Dexter to have him tailed, until falling for Debra makes him call it off.

Which defence attorney, played by Anne Ramsay, is murdered by Dexter's prosecutor friend in season 3?

Ellen Wolf was the courtroom rival the prosecutor loathed; he killed her on his own, behind Dexter's back, which convinced Dexter that his new friend could not be controlled.

Arthur Mitchell, the church-going killer of Dexter's fourth season, earns his living as what?

A high-school teacher and church deacon: that respectable family life is what first makes Dexter think he could learn from him instead of killing him.

Arthur Mitchell's murder cycles begin with which hidden act before the three known killings?

Burying a young boy alive in cement opens each cycle; the FBI never linked the missing boys to him, which is why the killings were thought to come in threes.

What was the name of Arthur Mitchell's sister, whose death drove his murders?

Vera bled to death after falling through a glass shower door when her young brother Arthur startled her; each cycle of his murders re-enacts his family's deaths.

What sort of organisation does Arthur Mitchell use to travel the country and cover his killings?

A Christian homebuilding charity: on one of its build trips, to Tampa, Dexter comes along meaning to kill him and ends up stopping him from jumping to his death.

Where is Rita found dead at the end of season 4?

In the bathtub: Dexter comes home to find Rita dead in the tub, her blood pooling on the floor around their infant son, echoing his own childhood trauma.

What does a shocked Dexter say to the police who arrive after Rita's death?

'It was me': whether a slip of guilt or only his answer to an officer asking who called it in, the words sound like a confession and draw suspicion onto Dexter.

Where do Astor and Cody go to live after Rita's death?

With their grandparents in Orlando: Astor blamed Dexter for failing to protect her mother and insisted on leaving, so she and Cody moved away from Miami.

What was the day job of Boyd Fowler, the killer Dexter stalks early in season 5?

Sanitation worker: Boyd Fowler collected roadkill for Miami-Dade's sanitation department, and Dexter rode along as a would-be recruit to get close enough to kill him.

In season five of Dexter, what nickname did the suspect who left a severed head in a Miami neighbourhood get?

Santa Muerte Killer: two brothers beheaded victims and left shrines to the folk saint Santa Muerte; Debra shot one dead in a nightclub standoff, while the other escaped.

Who plays Brother Sam, the ex-con turned preacher who counsels Dexter in season 6?

Mos Def played Brother Sam, a reformed killer whose body shop hires ex-convicts; shot by one of them, he asks Dexter before dying to forgive the gunman.

Who becomes Harrison's babysitter in season 6?

Jamie, Angel Batista's sister, is a graduate student who takes over as Harrison's nanny in season six, and by season eight she is dating one of her brother's detectives.

Why does Masuka fire his intern Ryan Chambers in season 6 of Dexter?

She stole evidence: Ryan took an exhibit from an old case and put it up for online auction, so Masuka fired her and took on a programmer as his next intern to make the listing vanish.

Dexter's season six killers modelled their murders on which book of the Bible?

Revelation: the killers believed that staging its visions as murder tableaux, from the Four Horsemen to the Whore of Babylon, would bring about the end of the world.

Who plays Professor Gellar in season 6?

Edward James Olmos played Professor James Gellar, the religious-studies academic who appears only as his disciple's hallucination for most of season six.

What natural event does the Doomsday Killer plan to sacrifice Harrison during?

A solar eclipse: the killer snatches Harrison to sacrifice him as the sky darkens, but Dexter rescues the boy and kills his captor in the old church just as Debra walks in.

Which crime writer, whom Debra had feelings for, did Hannah McKay murder?

Sal Price, a true-crime author investigating Hannah's past, died of aconite poisoning after she laced the pen he chewed; Debra, who had begun dating him, was intent on arresting her.

Who was Isaak Sirko avenging in his season 7 vendetta against Dexter?

His lover Viktor Baskov: Dexter killed Viktor at the airport for shooting Detective Mike Anderson, and Isaak Sirko, played by Ray Stevenson, came to Miami to avenge him.

In season seven, how does Debra try to stop Dexter killing?

Makes him move in: instead of arresting her brother, Debra prescribes her own 'rehab', keeping him at her house where she can watch him and demanding that he stop lying to her.

Who ordered the murder of Dexter's mother, and is set free by LaGuerta as bait in season 7?

Hector Estrada, the drug boss who ordered the killing, was paroled early under pressure from LaGuerta to lure Dexter into a trap; Dexter slipped away and later killed him anyway.

What is the nickname of Charlotte Rampling's neuropsychiatrist in season 8?

The Psychopath Whisperer: the expert on psychopaths turns out to have secretly helped write the Code that Dexter lives by.

What did Michael C. Hall first do on episode two of Dexter's eighth season?

Direct it: Hall's first turn behind the camera was 'Every Silver Lining...', the hour in which Dexter learns that his father's Code was really a psychiatrist's idea.

What is Debra doing for a living at the start of season 8?

Working as a private investigator: Debra has quit Miami Metro for Jacob Elway's firm and is using drugs while undercover with Andrew Briggs, a thief she is meant to bring in.

How does Debra try to kill both herself and Dexter in season eight?

Crashing their car into a lake: with Dexter driving, Debra jerks the steering wheel and sends them into the water, then swims back and pulls him out before he drowns.

Which rich young killer does Dexter try to train as a protégé in season 8?

Zach Hamilton, son of a wealthy friend of the police, killed his father's mistress to protect his mother; Dexter starts teaching him the Code until the season's main killer murders him.

Oliver Saxon, the killer of Dexter's final season, is revealed to be whose son?

Dr. Evelyn Vogel's: Saxon was born Daniel Vogel, killed his own brother and was sent to an institution by his mother, then faked his own death before resurfacing in Miami.

How does Hannah get Dexter's attention when she returns in season 8?

She non-lethally poisons him and Debra: the pair are drugged over dinner at Debra's and wake unharmed, and Dexter then tracks Hannah to her new life as a millionaire's wife.

In season eight of Dexter, what happens to Debra after Oliver Saxon shoots her?

She is left in a vegetative state: surgery goes well, but a blood clot causes a massive stroke, and Dexter switches off her life support and buries her at sea.

Where does Dexter kill Oliver Saxon in the series finale?

In his police cell: Dexter goads Saxon into stabbing him with a pen, then pulls it out and kills him with it, and the detectives who review the footage call it self-defence.

What job is Dexter doing in the final shot of the original series?

Lumberjack in Oregon: after sailing into the hurricane and being presumed dead, Dexter is shown working a logging crew in the Pacific Northwest, bearded and silent, in the final scene.

What alias does Dexter use in Iron Lake in New Blood?

Jim Lindsay: under that name Dexter sells hunting and fishing gear at Fred's Fish & Game and keeps to a strict routine that has stopped him killing for almost ten years.

What is Dexter's girlfriend Angela Bishop's job in New Blood?

Chief of police: Angela Bishop slowly works out who her boyfriend really is, and ends up arresting him for murder.

Who plays Kurt, the New Blood villain who owns the truck stop?

Clancy Brown played Kurt, the owner of Iron Lake's truck stop, who secretly hunts runaway women and keeps their preserved bodies in a hidden bunker.

Snowy Iron Lake in New Blood was really filmed mostly in which New England state?

Massachusetts: Shelburne Falls stood in for Iron Lake's main street, and outdoor filming was timed around the weather because the makers wanted plenty of snow on screen.

Whom does Dexter impulsively kill in New Blood, ending nearly a decade of abstinence?

Matt Caldwell, a wealthy young hunter: after he shoots the white buck Dexter has been protecting, Dexter kills him on impulse, his first murder in nearly ten years.

In New Blood, how did Hannah McKay die, according to Harrison?

Pancreatic cancer: Harrison tells Dexter that Hannah died of it when he was young, after which he bounced through foster homes before tracking his father to Iron Lake.

What weapon does Dexter find in Harrison's room that matches Rita's murder?

A bloody straight razor: Dexter finds it hidden in Harrison's room after a school stabbing, the kind of blade that killed Rita, and fears his son shares his urges.

Which true-crime podcaster comes to Iron Lake in New Blood?

Molly Park, played by Jamie Chung, is a true-crime podcaster drawn to Iron Lake by a disappearance, who teams up with Angela to dig into the town's missing women.

What is Harrison's sport at Iron Lake High in New Blood?

Wrestling: Harrison joins the Iron Lake High wrestling team, coached by Logan, and shocks Dexter by breaking an opponent's arm during a match.

Whose long-missing body does Angela find in New Blood, leading her to suspect Kurt?

Her friend Iris: she vanished when the two were teenagers, and when her remains turn up in a cave decades later, DNA evidence points Angela towards Kurt.

Which Original Sin star plays Harry Morgan?

Christian Slater plays Harry Morgan alive and in his prime, the detective who lets Dexter make his first kill: a nurse who was poisoning Harry in hospital.

Which Grey's Anatomy star plays homicide captain Aaron Spencer in Original Sin?

Patrick Dempsey, Grey's Anatomy's 'McDreamy', plays Captain Aaron Spencer, who leads the hunt for his own kidnapped son and is finally unmasked as the kidnapper himself.

Who plays María LaGuerta in Original Sin?

Christina Milian plays María LaGuerta, Miami Metro's first female homicide detective, assigned to a squad accused of letting murders of sex workers and addicts go unsolved.

What was the Dexter prequel series called when Showtime ordered it in 2023?

Dexter: Origins was the announced title when Showtime ordered the prequel in 2023; it was renamed Dexter: Original Sin before its December 2024 premiere.

Which Buffy star guest-stars in Original Sin as forensics chief Tanya Martin?

Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Tanya Martin, who takes the newly graduated Dexter into her lab as an intern and becomes his boss.

Who plays the billionaire who runs a secret society of serial killers in Resurrection?

Peter Dinklage plays Leon Prater, a billionaire who collects serial-killer trophies and hosts an annual dinner for active killers, having any guest who endangers the group killed.

In Resurrection, where does Harrison work?

As a bellhop at the Empire Hotel: Harrison kills a predatory guest there, and the familiar details of the murder are what bring his father to New York.

What job does Dexter take in New York in Resurrection?

Rideshare driver: Dexter drives for UrCar in New York, where fellow driver Blessing Kamara becomes his friend and landlord and tells him of a killer preying on drivers.

Neil Patrick Harris plays which killer in Resurrection?

The Tattoo Collector: Neil Patrick Harris plays Lowell Sloane, a guest at Prater's gathering; Dexter kills him to save his intended victim, then takes a blood slide as a trophy.

Who plays Mia LaPierre, alias Lady Vengeance, in Resurrection?

Krysten Ritter plays Mia LaPierre, the Lady Vengeance the press takes for a vigilante; Dexter warms to her until he learns she has no code and will kill anyone.

At which event was Dexter: Resurrection announced in 2024?

San Diego Comic-Con: Michael C. Hall made a surprise appearance at the July 2024 panel for the prequel Original Sin to reveal that Dexter would also return in a sequel.

Which award did Michael C. Hall win for playing Dexter in January 2010?

A Golden Globe: Hall accepted it only days after his spokesman confirmed he was being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma, and he took a Screen Actors Guild award the same month.

How does Dexter's long-dead brother return in season six?

As a vision guiding Dexter: Christian Camargo came back as the imagined brother, riding along on a road trip to Nebraska and egging Dexter on to kill the son of an old enemy.

How did Harry Morgan really die, as a friend later tells Dexter?

Suicide by overdosing on his medication: Harry took his own heart pills three days after walking in on Dexter with a dismembered victim, horrified by what his Code had created.

What was 'The Ice Princess', the manuscript by Debra's boyfriend Gabriel, really?

A children's book: Debra assumed it was a tell-all about her ordeal and dumped Gabriel, only to learn that he wrote for children.

Michael C. Hall was born and raised in which US state?

North Carolina: Hall grew up in Raleigh, where he lost his father at the age of 11, and he later left for college in Indiana and drama school in New York.

Which HBO series made Michael C. Hall famous before Dexter?

Six Feet Under: Hall had worked only in theatre when he was cast as David Fisher, the son who hides his sexuality while helping to run the family funeral home.

What was Michael C. Hall's first Broadway role, in a 1999 Sam Mendes revival?

The Emcee in Cabaret: Hall took over the role Alan Cumming had made famous, having already starred in the musical as a student at Earlham College.

Michael C. Hall performs in which New York band?

Princess Goes: Hall sings in the trio, whose members met in 2014 in the Broadway company of Hedwig and the Angry Inch; it began as Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum.

Which 2005 horror film established Jennifer Carpenter as a scream queen?

The Exorcism of Emily Rose: Carpenter performed many of the possessed girl's contortions herself, without visual effects, and won an MTV Movie Award for Best Frightened Performance.

Jennifer Carpenter voiced which Mortal Kombat character in two animated films?

Sonya Blade: Carpenter voiced the fighter in Scorpion's Revenge (2020) and Battle of the Realms (2021), where Sonya is chosen with Johnny Cage and Liu Kang to fight for the fate of Earthrealm.

How does New Blood end for Dexter himself?

His son shoots him: after killing an innocent police sergeant to escape, Dexter admits he destroys everyone close to him and tells Harrison to fire; Resurrection later reveals he survived.

The leader of the gang Dexter hunts in season five is famous as what?

A motivational speaker: he fills seminars urging people to take what they want while secretly leading the gang, and one of its surviving victims finally kills him.

How does Dexter get into Leon Prater's dinner for serial killers in Resurrection?

Posing as a dead guest: Dexter kills another murderer who had been invited, then turns up at the gathering in the dead man's place.

Which show beat Dexter to the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy four years running?

Mad Men won the award from 2008 to 2011, each year Dexter was nominated; the run ended in 2012, when Showtime's own Homeland took the prize.

Dexter's opening titles make what look violent?

His morning routine: the studio Digital Kitchen shot Dexter shaving and making breakfast in extreme close-up, and the sequence won the 2007 Emmy for main title design.

Dexter: Early Cuts, voiced by Michael C. Hall from October 2009, was what kind of project?

An animated web series: each first-season story spent four short chapters on a past victim the show only touches on in passing, and the second season, Dark Echo, was drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz and David Mack.

Which publisher released a Dexter comic limited series written by the novels' author in 2013?

Marvel announced the five-issue series by the character's own creator for an earlier date, then pushed it back, and it finally reached shops in mid-2013.

On which platform did Icarus Studios first release a Dexter video game in September 2009?

iPhone: the player hunts killers from the first season as Dexter, and has to gather proof of each one's guilt before making the kill.

Which watchdog group protested plans to rerun Dexter on broadcast TV during the 2007–08 writers' strike?

Parents Television Council: the conservative watchdog argued that even an edited version would glorify murder, but the censored first season aired on network television in February 2008 regardless.