Dexter (Seasons 1-3) in MP4 FORMAT (PSP, iPOD, etc.)

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These episodes of the Showtime Show, Dexter, are formatted for your iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, etc. This file contains ALL EPISODES from Seasons 1-3. I've tested these out on my iPod, and they all work just fine - the video and audio work fine (at least for me)!



There are 36 video files included. These were all converted by myself using a program called "WinAVI iPOD/PSP/3GP/MP4 Video Converter." I converted these all myself from the original avi files on the pirate bay (thanks to the original uploader).



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Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on the premium channel Showtime. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a covert serial killer governed by a strict moral code who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood spatter analyst.



The show is based on characters invented by Jeff Lindsay for his series of "Dexter" novels. It was adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode.



On October 21, 2008, Showtime renewed the series for a fourth and fifth season, each consisting of 12 episodes. Production is stated to begin in early 2009, with season four premiering September 27.[1]



Contents [hide]

1 Production

1.1 Title sequence

1.2 Cast

1.3 Crew

2 Plot

2.1 Season 1

2.2 Season 2

2.3 Season 3

2.4 Season 4

3 Critical reception

3.1 U.S. broadcast controversy

3.2 Viral marketing controversy

3.3 Missing person case

4 Other media

4.1 DVD/Blu-ray releases

4.2 Video game

4.3 Soundtrack

5 Awards

5.1 Wins

5.2 Nominations

6 References

7 External links







[edit] Production

The series premiered on the premium cable network Showtime on October 1, 2006. Dexter has received considerable critical acclaim and has won two Emmys in technical categories, and has also generated public controversies concerning its content and promotion. An edited version of the series began airing on CBS on February 17, 2008 to make up for the shortage of new content caused by the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike. Canada's CTV simulcasts episodes along with CBS, and is also airing the edited version in order to follow Canadian cable simultaneous substitution rules.[2]





[edit] Title sequence

Dexter's opening title sequence features an extended montage where ordinary day-to-day events such as shaving, flossing, dressing, preparing breakfast and eating are used to visually evoke Dexter's darker nature; in so doing it parodies the title sequence of the film American Psycho.[3] Per television critic Jim Emerson, "The first time you see it... it tells you everything you need to know about the character."[3]



The series won an Emmy Award in 2007 for "Outstanding Main Title Design", while the title music was also nominated for "Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music" in the same season.





[edit] Cast

See also: List of Dexter characters

In addition to Michael C. Hall, the show's principal cast also includes Hall's real life wife Jennifer Carpenter as Dexter's sister Officer Debra Morgan, Julie Benz as Dexter's girlfriend (and later wife) Rita Bennet and James Remar as Dexter's deceased father Harry. Dexter's co-workers include Lauren Vélez as Dexter and Debra's commanding officer Lt. Maria LaGuerta, David Zayas as the friendly Detective Angel Batista, and C.S. Lee as the lab tech Vince Masuka. Rita's children Astor and Cody are played by Christina Robinson and Preston Bailey (who replaced Daniel Goldman after the first season). Erik King portrayed the troubled Sgt. James Doakes for the first two seasons of the show. Keith Carradine, as Special FBI Agent Frank Lundy and Jimmy Smits, as ADA Miguel Prado, each appeared in season-long character arcs in seasons 2 and 3, respectively. John Lithgow is set to join the cast in season four as the notorious "Trinity Killer".





[edit] Crew

The main creative forces behind the series (Head Writers/showrunners) are executive producers Daniel Cerone and Clyde Phillips; Cerone left the show after its second season.



James Manos Jr. (35 episodes, 2006–2008)

Melissa Rosenberg (8 episodes, 2006–2008)

Marcos Siega (7 episodes, 2007–2008)

Lauren Gussis (7 episodes, 2006-2008)

Scott Reynolds (writer) (7 episodes, 2007–2008)

Timothy Schlattmann (6 episodes, 2006–2008)

Scott Buck (5 episodes, 2007–2008)

Keith Gordon (5 episodes, 2006–2008)

Michael Cuesta (5 episodes, 2006)

Steve Shill (4 episodes, 2006–2008)

Tony Goldwyn (4 episodes, 2006–2007)

Kevin Maynard (3 episodes, 2006)

Robert Lieberman (2 episodes, 2006)

Drew Z. Greenberg (2 episodes, 2006)

Nick Gomez (2 episodes, 2007)

John Dahl (2 episodes, 2008)

Charles H. Eglee (2 episodes, 2008)



[edit] Plot

The plot summary in this article is too long or detailed compared to the rest of the content. Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work rather than merely reiterating the plot. (December 2008)



Main article: List of Dexter episodes



[edit] Season 1

Season 1's plot was adapted from the first novel in Jeff Lindsay's "Dexter" series, Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Subsequent seasons have featured original storylines.



Orphaned at the age of three and harboring a traumatic secret, Dexter (Michael C. Hall, Six Feet Under) was adopted by a Miami police officer named Harry Morgan (James Remar), who recognized Dexter's sociopathic tendencies and taught him to channel his gruesome passion for thrill killing by giving it a constructive direction: killing people who deserve it. Most have slipped through the justice system, due to loopholes and technicalities in the law or were never apprehended.



To hide in plain sight and to erase his own crimes, Dexter works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department. Although his drive to kill is unflinching (otherwise overcome by a feeling of "emptiness") Dexter is, through extensive instruction from Harry, able to fake normal emotions and keep up his appearance as a socially-responsible human being. Flashbacks throughout the series show how Harry (dead of natural causes several years before the start of Season One) instructed Dexter on the art of appearing normal, and he follows Harry's instructions as a sacred "Code of Harry." In accordance with this code, most of Dexter's victims must be killers themselves; people who have killed multiple times with no remorse. Dexter must also have proof that the criminals are definitely guilty before he takes action. In the episode "Return to Sender", Dexter is shown to have used the email alias "Patrick Bateman" to disguise his actions. This is the same name used by Bret Easton Ellis for the serial killer in his 1991 novel American Psycho (as well as the 2000 film of the same name), who has the same modus operandi as Dexter, a seemingly normal businessman by day but a ruthless, sociopathic serial killer by night.



Dexter has a girlfriend, Rita Bennett (Julie Benz), whom he dates in order to appear normal. Rita is psychologically damaged from past rape and abuse by her former husband (a violent felon) and is too distraught to want to be in an intimate relationship. This suits Dexter, who believes he is unable to fake intimate emotions. Dexter hopes to keep up his facade of normality by distancing himself from Rita. At the same time, he feels genuine affection for Rita and her two children, Astor and Cody.



The first season focuses mostly on "The Ice Truck Killer" — a serial killer eluding the Miami PD who is communicating with Dexter through his crime scenes. Dexter's adoptive sister (and Harry's biological daughter) Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) begins dating Rudy, who is revealed to the audience to be the Ice Truck Killer. At the end of the season, Rudy reveals that he is really Dexter's biological brother, Brian Moser, and describes additional details of Dexter's early childhood, complementing Dexter's vague memories as well as details he has been piecing together over the length of the season. The formative event for the brothers was witnessing their mother and several other people being chainsaw-butchered by a drug dealer and being locked in a cargo container for two days with the dismembered corpses, the floor covered in blood. Dexter (then three years old) was adopted by Harry who was lead detective at the crime scene, while Brian (several years older) was more obviously traumatized and spent much of his childhood institutionalized. Harry deliberately hid the details about the crime from Dexter, as well as information about his biological family. Dexter's perception of Harry's betrayal begins to weigh on him.



Rudy/Brian has kidnapped Debra, having intended all along that he and Dexter would kill her together to cement their bond and sever the ties between Dexter and his adoptive family. Dexter instead turns against Brian and ultimately kills him, making the death look like a suicide. Everyone, including Debra, remains unaware of the exact connection between Dexter and Rudy/Brian and a recurring theme throughout the series is her jealousy of the perceived preferential treatment Harry gave Dexter. She is unaware of Harry's training or Dexter's tendencies. Dexter feels some regret over killing Brian, the one person who fully understood him, in order to save Debra, whom he knows would turn away from him if she ever learned his true nature.



Dexter uses his calculated charm to become well-liked by all of his colleagues, with the exception of Sgt. James Doakes (Erik King), who repeatedly calls him a freak and openly accuses him of being up to something, as well as harboring vague suspicions that Dexter has some connection to the Ice-Truck killer and even keeping Dexter under surveillance. The tension between the two is an ongoing plot motif.



Rita's ex-husband, set up by Dexter for a felony parole violation, is back in prison proclaiming his innocence, and points Rita to a clue to the truth about Dexter. The season ends with Dexter and his sister entering a crime scene, with Dexter imagining a tickertape parade for himself, complete with confetti and airplane fly-over, and the crowd praising him for his fine work "taking out the garbage" (i.e. killing those who prey on the weak and vulnerable).



In the U.S., the complete first season of Dexter was released in a four-disc DVD package on August 21, 2007. On January 6th, 2009, a three disc Blu-Ray version was released.





[edit] Season 2

New cast members for this season include Jaime Murray as Lila, an artist who is a former meth addict and arsonist who becomes Dexter's sponsor (and later his lover),[4] Keith Carradine as FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy and JoBeth Williams as Rita's mother Gail. The role of Rita's son Cody was re-cast, and in Season 2 was played by child actor Preston Bailey.



Dexter begins the season unable to satisfy his urges for over a month, due to the constant surveillance by Sgt. Doakes. When the opportunity to kill arises, he has problems executing his victims after killing his brother at the end of season 1.



To further complicate matters, treasure hunters discover Dexter's underwater dumping ground for his victims. As the police extract body part after body part from the ocean, the media dubs the killer the "Bay Harbor Butcher", and FBI Special Agent Lundy (played by Keith Carradine) is brought in to catch the "Butcher."



A cult following begins to form behind the "Butcher" when it is discovered that his victims were themselves responsible for deaths.[5] Dexter even finds that a comic-book character, "The Dark Defender", was created in his honor where he comically states as he looks at the poster, "Nah, it's too hot to wear all that leather in Miami".



Rita's relationship with Dexter becomes more tense as she and her children are dealing with the death of her ex-husband Paul, who was killed in a prison fight. Paul's repeated suggestion that Dexter was to blame for his imprisonment eats at Rita's conscience and eventually Rita accuses Dexter of setting up her ex-husband. Dexter admits to setting up Paul, but Rita refuses to believe that Dexter premeditated the crime and assumes that Dexter is a heroin addict. He acquiesces to "having an addiction", though he characteristically allows her misinterpretation to go without clarification; in return, she vows to stay with him while he goes through the Narcotics Anonymous program. In this way, Dexter avoids responsibility for Paul's death (though he set the process in motion) and consequently maintains the rationalization that he only (directly) kills people who are murderers. Doakes continues to pursue Dexter until he encounters Dexter leaving a NA meeting. Doakes seems satisfied that Dexter's odd behavior and apparent drug use can be explained by traumatic experiences as a career police officer.



Debra continues to struggle with the trauma of her experience with the Ice Truck Killer combined with all the people recognizing her as the "Ice Truck Killer's" girl. For a sense of safety and comfort, she stays with her brother, another new source of stress in Dexter's life.



Throughout Season 2, Dexter is pursued by Special Agent Lundy, while both Debra's affection for Lundy and her confidence in her own detective skills grow. Doakes' suspicions about Dexter are revived, and he ultimately discovers Dexter's collection of glass slides containing blood sample souvenirs from all of his victims. The possibility of matching the slides hidden in Dexter's air conditioner with the bodies of the Butcher's victims sets up a climactic episode in which Doakes confronts Dexter at a drug dealer's remote cabin. Despite receiving a gunshot wound in the leg, Dexter overpowers Doakes and keeps him locked in the cage inside the cabin while he begins to frame Doakes as the Butcher after the police discover Dexter's slide collection in Doakes' car while searching for him, making Doakes the prime suspect. Lieutenant LaGuerta, Doakes' former partner, is the only one who believes in Doakes' innocence. She finds evidence of Doakes' innocence and takes it to Lundy, but he tells her that the evidence is tainted by her previous failure to report Doakes' telephone conversation to the investigation team. Lundy rejects LaGuerta's case files, though he believes she may be correct about Doakes' innocence.



Near the end of the season, Doakes escapes from the cage temporarily and is recaptured by Dexter after being threatened by two drug dealers. Dexter struggles with his life as a serial killer, thanks to revelations throughout the season regarding Harry Morgan, his foster father. Dexter learns that Harry was sleeping with Dexter's biological mother before she died and that Harry took his own life after walking in on Dexter in the middle of a murder, unable to deal with the reality of the monster he had created. With his confidence in the Code of Harry and himself destroyed and exhausted from having to maintain his "mask" for so long, Dexter plays out the possible resulting scenarios in his head of turning himself in. Dexter's events on his last day of freedom include having Deb review his will, having a final dinner with her, and taking Rita and the kids out on the boat. During the "last meal" with Deb, he realizes how much she depended on him to resolve her feelings about the murder attempt by the Ice Truck Killer and decides to continue with his original plan of framing Doakes as the "Bay Harbor Butcher."



In the season finale, Lila finds the cabin where Doakes was imprisoned and causes a propane tank explosion, blowing up both Doakes and the corpse of one of Dexter's victims and preventing Dexter from being named as a serial killer. Lila then meets with Dexter, expecting him to accept her love now that