Dexter Morgan (TV Series)

Dexter Morgan is an American television crime drama mystery series that aired on Showtime from 1981 to 1982. Set in New York City, Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician specializing in blood spatter pattern analysis for the fictional NYPD, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system.

Cast

 * Tom Cavanagh as Dexter Morgan
 * Billy Dee Williams as Albert Doakes
 * Rachel Ticotin as Maria Laguerta
 * Melanie Griffith as Rita Morgan
 * Pat Corley as Thomas Matthews
 * Chishû Ryû as Vince Masuka
 * David Zayas Angel Batista

Season 1 (1981)

 * 1) "Dexter Morgan"- Dexter Morgan  is introduced as a serial killer who kills other killers who have escaped from, or haven't been found by the justice system. By day he is a blood spatter analyst who works for the Homicide Department of the Miami Metro Police. One day, Dexter is called to a murder scene involving mutilated bodies, but with no blood visible. The murderer, soon to be nicknamed the "Tsunami Slasher", intrigues Dexter with this intricate methodology and a personal message in the form of a mutilated doll. At the same time, Dexter's hard-nosed friend Maria Laguerta, a vice squad officer, tries to gain a transfer into the Homicide Department despite refusal from Lt. Doakes.
 * 2) "Crocodile"- Dexter and Batista assist Lt. Doakes assist in investigating the murder of an officer, who was working undercover investigating drug baron Carlos Guerrero . Doakes is personally involved in the case, since he was having an affair with the officer's wife, who was also attacked. Meanwhile, Laguerta discovers the refrigerated truck in which the Tsunami Slasher dismembers his victims, and is promoted by Doakes, to the Homicide Department. Inside the truck, Laguerta, Batista, and Dexter find a block of ice with five fingertips in it, left deliberately by the Tsunami Slasher.
 * 3) "Popping Cherry"-After the discovery of another victim of the Tsunami Slasher at an ice rink, the missing guard, Tony Tucci, becomes a potential suspect. Dexter selects his next murder victim while having flashbacks of his first killing—a nurse who was caring for Dexter's sick father, Harry Morgan, but was administering overdoses of medication to and slowly killing her patients. Elsewhere, Lieutenant Doakes continues to harass Guerrero, as a group of renegade police officers decide to take matters involving Guerrero into their own hands.
 * 4)  "Let's Give The Boy A Hand''- As the hunt for Tsunami Slasher continues, posed body parts are discovered which appear to be the calling cards of an increasingly impatient killer. The Tsunami Slasher escalates his killing spree, leaving body parts of his latest victim at sites connected to Dexter's childhood, which leads Dexter to confront his dark personal history.  Meanwhile,  LaGuerta seeks to comfort the mother of the latest Tsunami Slasher victim. Dexter finds the victim mutilated but alive and strapped to a table for Dexter to kill. Instead, Dexter reports the crime scene anonymously to Laguerta. The pressure on Lieutenant  Doakes escalates when Guerrero's associates begin following him.
 * 5) "Love American Style"-Laguerta learns that her colleague's fiancé, who was illegally immigrating from Cuba, is missing, and decides to investigate the problem using her police connections. He investigates Jorge Castillo, a salvage yard owner, and discovers that Castillo is murdering the smuggled immigrants who cannot pay for their freedom. Dexter discovers that Castillo's wife is involved in the murders, and kills both of them. Afterwards, he dumps their bodies in the ocean and frees their Cuban prisoners, not noticing a person watching him from the trunk of a car in the yard.
 * 6) "Return To Sender"- The body of one of Dexter's previous female victims has been found, despite Dexter's having thrown both of the corpses into the ocean. A young Cuban boy had witnessed the previous night's events, and Dexter dismisses his colleagues' leads that could direct them towards him. Eventually, Dexter frames the husband, whose body is still missing, with his wife's murder. The witness had described Jesus Christ rather than Dexter.
 * 7) "Circle of Friends"-Dexter must deal with Rita's menacing husband. Laguerta goes on a date with the prosthetics expert who made prosthetic legs for an Tsunami Slasher survivor. Laguerta and Angel are investigating the Tsunami Slasher and discover a familiar name with speeding violations near the scene of the Tsunami Slasher's third murder. Dexter investigates Lt. Doakes's knife victim; he already knows the killer's identity but needs time to locate him. The Tsunami Slasher is finally apprehended, but Dexter doubts that they have caught the correct man.
 * 8) "Shrink Wrap"-An unexplained suicide of a wealthy and powerful woman leads Dexter to suspect that her psychologist, Dr. Emmett Meridian, may have killed her. But he gets a shock when a visit to the suspect reveals dark secrets from Dexter's past. Meanwhile, Laguerta is falling in love with her new boyfriend Rudy. At the end of the episode, the audience finds out that Rudy is the Tsunami Slasher, while unknown to the characters.
 * 9) "Father Knows Best"-Dexter learns that his biological father, Joe Driscoll, who he thought had been long dead, has only recently died and has left all of his belongings to Dexter, including his house. Dexter travels to the house alone. Laguerta and Rudy arrive there later (following Rudy's advice) to assist him in cleaning out the house. Dexter suspects Joe Driscoll's death to be murder. Flashbacks to Dexter's childhood show his questioning his foster father Harry about his real parents, and Dexter finds that Mr. Driscoll donated some of his blood to the young Dexter for surgery. In the last scene, one of Joe's neighbors, an elderly woman, recognizes Rudy as a cable repairman, who happened to be Joe's last visitor before his death; after Dexter, Laguerta and Rudy had left the premises, Rudy is shown returning to the elderly woman's house dressed as the cable repairman again.
 * 10) "Seeing Red"-Dexter is sent to investigate a horrific blood-soaked crime scene, which he usually enjoys, but is taken aback by a long-suppressed memory of a childhood trauma instead. Rita is charged with assaulting Paul and could lose her children in a custody battle. However, when Dexter finds out, he decides to remove Paul from his and Rita's lives, but by framing him rather than killing him. Angel investigates a hunch regarding the Tsunami Slasher concerning amputee fetish; he turns to Rudy for help but ends up getting stabbed in the parking lot. Meanwhile, Rudy displays a growing interest in getting to know Dexter, particularly in the lately awoken trauma he had recently experienced.
 * 11) "Truth Be Told"-The Tsunami Slasher strikes again, leaving a real nightmare before Christmas at Santa's Cottage. Lieutenant Doakes becomes more suspicious about Dexter after uncovering a series of Dexter's lies about his connection to the Tsunami Slasher. Dexter finally finds he is connected to the Tsunami Slasher over a past case involving Harry Morgan and a blood-bath crime scene in 1973 involving Dexter's biological mother. Lieutenant Doakes braces herself as Captain Matthews blames his for the department's failure to find the Tsunami Slasher and he has him replaced by Mike Anderson. Rudy and Laguerta spend some quality time together, and Rudy proposes marriage to the smitten detective.
 * 12) "Born Free"-Doakes begins to suspect that Rudy is the Tsunami Slasher, while Dexter finds a suspicious picture of the shipping container where his mother was killed. Dexter recalls that Rudy is in fact his biological brother, whose real name is Brian Moser. Brian intends to kill Laguerta with Dexter in a reunion with his true family, but Dexter stops him. As the police close in, Brian escapes and Dexter is left with Laguerta, appearing to have saved her. The same night, Brian breaks into Dexter's apartment and attempts to stab Laguerta, but Dexter captures him. After an emotionally charged conversation, Dexter slices his brother's throat and leaves him upside down to drain, staging it as a suicide, while wondering what would happen if everyone knew the truth about him.

Season 2 (1982)

 * 1) "It's Alive"- A suspicious Doakes follows Dexter at all times, which makes it impossible for Dexter to kill. Thirty-eight days after his last kill, Dexter gains an opportunity, but finds himself unable to murder a blind voodoo priest called Jimmy. A member of the 29th St. Kings gang is killed by the leader Little Chino (Matthew Willig), in whom Dexter sees a chance to get his urges under control again. An emotionally unstable Laguerta returns to work in the Homicide Department. She tries to resume a normal lifestyle, but finds herself under scrutiny from the public. Lieutenant Mike Anderson gets murdered by a member of Guerrero's mob.
 * 2) "Did You?"-Lieutenant Mike Anderson is murdered by a member of the Cuban mafia after finding a dead prostitute in his trunk. Dexter identifies the murderer as Norberto Cervantes and later kills him. Doakes and Batista begin to make amends as they investigate the Anderson's and prostitute's murders. Meanwhile, Louis Greene hacks into Dexter's computer and cancels all his credit cards as the first phase of his revenge against Dexter Increasingly suspicious about Dexter, Doakes ultimately ransacks his apartment and discovers his knives and blood slides. Doakes then decides to take the blood slides to Batista to take a look at them.
 * 3) "Fuck The System"-  Dexter informs Doakes that Ray Speltzer (Matt Gerald), a suspect in two murders, is likely going to kill again. Guerrero learns that Norberto's last location was on Dexter's boat, and determines that Dexter killed him. Doakes follows Speltzer, but is forced to get involved when Speltzer traps his latest victim in a Minotauran labyrinth. Dexter manages to save Doakes but Speltzer escapes.
 * 4) "Rush Hour"-Speltzer is arrested by police and admits to the murders, but his case is dismissed on a technicality and he is set free. As Dexter pursues Speltzer, he is captured and trapped in Speltzer's labyrinth, but manages to escape. Meanwhile, Guerrero convinces the club's bartender to be a scapegoat for Anderson's murder to get the police off them.  Dexter finally catches and kills Speltzer.
 * 5) "Swim Deep"-In order to makes Doakes suffer, Guerrero decides to kill Dexter. Rita Bennett leads the police to the bodies of a couple killed by Wayne Randall, but Dexter realizes one of them, was murdered by Rita herself. Guerrero is arrested and jailed after Dexter lures him into a shoot-out at a rival Colombian bar.
 * 6) "Do The Wrong Thing"-Dexter continues to investigate Rita McKay, suspecting that she may have murdered her late husband. Sal Price (Santiago Cabrera), a true crime writer, approaches Miami Metro for case files on the last Wayne Randall murders, as he is writing a book about Rita. Meanwhile, Guerrero arranges for a corrupt cop to remove evidence linking him to the bar crime scene. Doakes finds out that Dexter was not completely truthful in the blood report on the Wayne Randall murders. Dexter takes Rita out on a date where he intends to kill her, but things do not go quite as planned.
 * 7) "Chemistry"-Guerrero is released from prison, but Doakes has him followed everywhere. Meanwhile, Sal Price discovers Dexter's relationship with Rita and tries to get information from him, but Dexter blackmails him into silence by framing him for an unsolved murder. However, Price dies suddenly following an interview with Rita (who poisoned him to protect herself). Doakes brings Rita in for questioning over Price's death but Rita denies everything. Unable to connect Rita to Price's death and feeling frustrated, Doakes asks Dexter to kill Rita.
 * 8) "Argentina"-Dexter refuses Doakes's request to kill Rita. Meanwhile, Guerrero escapes his police surveillance and attempts to kill Dexter again, but fails.Batista buys a restaurant. Feeling he is out of control with his vendetta against Doakes, George  convinces the rest of the Guerrero Crime Family to turn against him. Elsewhere, Doakes learns that Dexter and Rita are seeing each other and, in conversation with him, reveals more than he wanted. Guerrero reveals to Doakes that the reason he is trying to kill him is because ever since Doakes revealed he was a drug kingpin to his family, his mother starved herself to death, his wife went into depression, and his daughter Rose ran away from home.
 * 9) "Allies"-The Guerrero Crime Family hires two hitmen to find and kill Guerrero. In a desperate move, Guerrero kidnaps Doakes' mother and sisters to enlist Doakes' help to protect him which is why Doakes goes to Dexter to kill the hitmen. Meanwhile, Matthews and the rest of Miami Metro deals with a series of arson-murders with an unknown perpetrator nicknamed the Phantom Arsonist. Dexter, Doakes, and Guerrero work together and kill the hitmen. However, George kills Guerrero. Dexter manages to find Doakes' family and saves them.
 * 10) "The Dark...Whatever"-The Phantom Arsonist continues his spree across Miami. Rita's estranged husband Paul shows up unexpectedly, demanding money to pay off his gambling debts and threatening to expose her as a serial killer. Dexter identifies the Phantom, but decides to hand him over to the department instead of killing him. After George threatens to kill Doakes' family, Doakes kills him and then falsifies a motive. Dexter kills Rita's husband.
 * 11) "Do You See What I See"-Dexter plants evidence to steer Doakes and Matthews' investigation away from Rita. Meanwhile, Hector Estrada, the last surviving killer of Dexter's mother, is unexpectedly released on parole, and Dexter plots to make him his latest victim. Doakes meets with Arlene Schram, a witness to one of Hannah's early murders, and asks her to testify against Rita. After Arlene tells Ritaabout this, Doakes has a car accident, and Dexter realizes that Hannah had drugged her. Dexter attempts to kill Estrada, but discovers that he's been set up by Doakes. Dexter decides to give Matthews evidence incriminating Rita for Sal Price's murder, resulting in her arrest.
 * 12) "Surprise, Motherfucker!"- In the second season finale, Dexter visits Rita in prison, and she admits to poisoning Doakes. Rita later manages to escape custody with a little help from Arlene. Meanwhile, Doakes tries to bring Dexter to justice, Dexter now decides that the only way out is to kill Doakes. He finds and kills Estrada, then lures Doakes to the cage him. Worried, Lila West walks in on them. Lila attempts to kill Doakes only for Dexter to save him. Doakes then decides to drop his vendetta against Dexter and Dexter follows Lila to Paris where he kills her.