By day,
Dexter Morgan is a blood splatter expert for the Miami-Dade
Police Department. By night he hunts down and kills those who he feels
\"deserve to
die\". These are usually violent criminals (murderers,
rapists,
etc) who
Dexter thinks have escaped
justice.
As a child,
Dexter suffered an
event so traumatic he repressed the memory.
Dexter's adoptive father,
Police officer
Harry Morgan, recognized that
young Dexter was a sociopath with an uncontrollable need to
kill.
Harry decided to
train Dexter to channel his violent tendencies in a "positive" direction. He taught the sullen
teen to be a cautious, meticulous and efficient killer, and showed him how to leave no clues.
Harry also taught Dexter to
live a public life that discourages suspicion. Most importantly, Harry gave Dexter a system of ethical principles that Dexter came to call "the
Code of Harry." Living by that
code, Dexter kills only
people who deserve to
die because they are themselves killers.
(wikipedia.org)