Michael C. Hall -- an actor that plays the lead character of Dexter Morgan in the Showtime series of Dexter. Dexter Morgan was born in 1971 ("Dexter Morgan (Character)" n.d.). At the age of 3, Morgan witnessed the violent murder of his mother Laura Moser, in a shipping container. With the untimely demise of his mother, Morgan and his brother Brian Moser were left in the container for days, unable to escape the carnage. His brother being older than himself was shipped to a mental facility while Morgan was adopted by the local police officer, Harry Morgan that was investigating his case and the first person to find him at the scene of his mother’s murder. Becoming aware of the patterns that emerge behaviourally from the young Morgan, Harry …show more content…
This cipher is known as “Harry’s Code” (Ryan, “Being Dexter Morgan”, 2012); it serves to discipline Morgan, requiring that he investigates his kills carefully, so as to ensure that his victims fit the pattern of not only committing a sort of crime, but one that would normally go unsolved by the legal system. Fittingly enough, Morgan has a daytime job working as a blood spatter analysis for the Miami Metro Police in the homicide department that is also used as a cover up when Morgan has his desire to kill, which allows Morgan to function in society “normally”. According to Donnelly (2012) Morgan has a clear reason for his killings, it poses no threat to civilisation and that allows the person to go unnoticed if Morgan does kill the …show more content…
Although these rules are never actually written down, but instead dictated verbally to Morgan by Harry that are more of a general set of guidelines that are learning to as the first rule states as “Never get caught” since that would result in imprisonment and may even be resulted in being put to death. In the case of an innocent finding out what Dexter does, he may for the sack of protecting himself may need to kill them to keep his “Dark Passenger” a secret from society. Harry’s second rule is to “Never kill an innocent” that Morgan must be certain that his target is a killer. Although he prefers that his victims that are likely to kill again, he takes the time and researches their history (and their homes) before deciding their fate of being on his killing table. Morgan is even more gratified to kill a person that has harm children. There are even smaller rules that will lay beneath the first two as for example to “never make a scene, Fake emotion and normality to fit in, never get emotionally involved, don’t leave any traces, killing must serve a purpose otherwise it’s just plain murder, control urges and channel them.” (Dexterama, "The Code of Harry",