Why does Dexter cut the cheek?

6. Blood Trophy. Just before the murder, Dexter collects a trophy from his victim so that he can relive the experience. Dexter's trophy signature is to slice the victim's cheek with a surgical scalpel (usually when he/she is still alive, but sometimes postmortem) underneath the victim's right eye.
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Why does Dexter cut the face?

Whenever Dexter has his victim on the slab ready to be killed, he cuts them with a surgical knife and takes a blood sample. Obviously the knife is fake and the blood is fake but quite often you will see the knife touch the skin and the fake blood comes out, emulating a cut on the cheek.
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What does Dexter put the blood on?

The bad news is that we may never look at our pancakes the same way again. The show's prop master Joshua Meltzer once revealed to Buzzfeed that the blood on "Dexter" mainly used maple syrup because of its thicker texture. But there's more thought put into the fake blood other than thickness.
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What did Dexter do with his blood slides?

Season 4. Dexter moved his kill tools and blood slide box into a shed located behind his house with wife, Rita.
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Why does Dexter use plastic wrap?

Dexter Started Using Less Plastic To Save The Actors

Like him being a serial killer, and sending you off to live with a stranger in Mexico whilst he fakes his death and becomes a lumberjack. Based on how well he secures his victims, however, you just know he's going to be an expert at tucking you into bed.
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Is Dexter a cannibal?

This episode is from the final season, and is the only one to feature a cannibal, which seems like a pretty shocking oversight really. Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall, who played David Fisher in Six Feet Under) is a serial killer who also works as a blood spatter technician for the Miami metro police.
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Does Dexter eat his victims?

Dexter generally disposed of his victims by dismembering them, putting the parts into black trash bags, and dropping the bags off his fishing boat into the ocean.
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Who finds out Dexter secret?

Debra Morgan finds out Dexter's secret.

By the end of Dexter: New Blood, only four were still alive, with eight being directly murdered by Dexter.
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Does Batista find out about Dexter?

In the series finale, "Sins of the Father", Batista is contacted by Bishop, who suspects Dexter of being the Bay Harbor Butcher, and sends him a picture of her and Morgan together dated a month prior. Batista realizes that Dexter is alive and heads to Iron Lake with LaGuerta's old files on the Butcher case.
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Does everyone know Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher?

Dexter Morgan (the true Butcher) - In the early stages of the investigation, Frank Lundy suspected him. However, he later came to believe that Doakes was the Butcher. Lundy never found out that Dexter was the true killer.
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Why was Rita killed off in Dexter?

The writers felt that dexter needed a more dark passenger side to him and decided that having Rita negated that idea. So they killed her.
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Why does Dexter keep the blood of his victims?

Blood Trophy

Just before the murder, Dexter collects a trophy from his victim so that he can relive the experience.
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Where did Dexter burn Matt's body?

Later, Dexter attempts to move the body to an abandoned iron mine, but abandons the idea after encountering a very angry bear. He eventually burns Matt's remains in a local sanitation incinerator.
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Is Dexter based on a true story?

In Showtime's official Dexter: New Blood Wrap-Up Podcast, writer Scott Reynolds confirmed that the secluded hunting aspect of Kurt Caldwell's serial killer character is based on the true story of Robert Hansen.
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Is Dexter a psychopath?

Other than the traits from PCL – R, Dexter Morgan is a psychopath because of what he does for a living. Dexter Morgan conceals himself from the world because he is a serial killer, an organized serial killer as he calls himself a neat monster.
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Why did Harrison stab Ethan?

Harrison tells the police that Ethan approached him to help him in a future school shooting to kill Ethan's bullies. When Harrison tried to get him some help, Ethan stabbed him in the stomach, forcing Harrison to almost fatally cut Ethan's leg.
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What happens to Angel Batista on Dexter?

Angel and Maria LaGuerta begin a relationship (as his relationship with Barbara ended between seasons). After breaking up to keep their positions within the department, they reconnect. At the end of the season, they are married, with Dexter signing as the witness.
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Who kills Maria LaGuerta?

In the first book, LaGuerta is stabbed to death by Dexter's brother Brian; in the TV series, LaGuerta remains alive and very much a factor in Dexter's life until her death at the end of Season 7.
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What episode does LaGuerta arrests Dexter?

In the season finale, LaGuerta arrests Dexter for the murder of Hector Estrada, unaware that he actually escaped Dexter.
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Who did Dexter leave his son with?

Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) arrives at the airport with his son Harrison (Jadon Wells) to leave for Argentina with Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahovski), who is hiding in the women's bathroom from private detective Jacob Elway (Sean Patrick Flanery).
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How did Dexter get caught?

Before dinner, Angela sends the kids out for groceries. When Dexter goes in for a hug, she pulls a gun on him. The jig is finally up, as Logan storms in and cuffs him. Dexter is officially under arrest for Matt's murder… but not Kurt's.
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Does Harrison know what Dexter did?

While Harrison still spent most of New Blood knowing that Dexter had a flawed persona and past after he faked his death, changed his name, and abandoned Harrison, one flashback scene from Dexter: New Blood's finale episode suggests that Harrison also secretly knew that he killed Matt Caldwell the entire time.
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Who is smarter Hannibal or Dexter?

They both are fictitious characters, however Hannibal is written as more sophisticated, more in control, and more intelligent. Dexter plans a step ahead, Hannibal plays several, like he plays people to be exactly where he wants them to be.
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Is Debra pregnant on Dexter?

At the conclusion of Dexter is Delicious, Deborah is pregnant by her boyfriend, Kyle Chutsky, and in Double Dexter we learn that she gave birth to a son, Nicholas, and raises him alone.
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Is Dexter Morgan a good guy?

Overall, Dexter is a villain protagonist as opposed to traditionally "good" ones. While he does have an anti-heroic attitude on killing only criminals who are likely to kill again, it's not out of the goodness of his heart nor is it to make the world a better place.
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