| EPISODE 1: "Dexter"
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Episode summary: Dexter Morgan, Miami Metro Police Department blood spatter analyst, has a double life. When he's not helping the Homicide division solve murders, he spends his time hunting and killing bad guys who slip through the justice system. His sister, Debra, a vice squad officer, pulls Dexter into her world when a series of hookers are being murdered around Miami. With his help, she sees a chance to get on the good side of Lt. LaGuerta, thereby strengthening her request to transfer to Homicide. Meanwhile, Dexter's girlfriend, Rita Bennett, a single mother of two whose abusive ex-husband is in jail, suddenly wants to take their relationship to the next level. Dexter has to cope with her more-urgent physical demands on him at the same time the killer leaves him a cryptic invitation to "play."
Original air date: 10/1/2006
Written by: Timothy Schlattmann
Directed by: Michael Cuesta |   Description of crime: A serial killer is targeting prostitutes, dismembering and displaying their blood-drained bodies. The third of his victims is discovered in the pilot episode.
Victim(s):
 |  | Name: La Perla
Body found: Third victim of the serial killer, found in the drained pool of a cheap motel frequented by hookers | Name: Jaya
Body found: Near a restaurant/club |
Assigned officer(s): Angel Batista
Suspect(s): None
Clue(s): No prints, no witnesses
Blood evidence suggests: Victims have been entirely drained of blood
Killer signature(s): Flesh of bodies is clean, dry, bloodless; body parts cut in pieces with clean, symmetrical cuts; some body parts are wrapped and tied; bodies are posed with body parts assembled; heads are missing.
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 Description of crime: "Hotel coke head murders" -- a drug dealer and a woman are found murdered in a hotel room.
Victim(s): Man and woman are believed to be slain by a rival drug dealer
Assigned officer(s): James Doakes
Crime scene: Hotel room
Suspect(s): Rival dealer; Dexter points Doakes to look for the woman victim's boyfriend, who is arrested for the murders.
Clue(s): Killer used a sharp knife, killing the man quickly with a slash to the carotid artery; blood spatter from woman's murder suggest a crime of passion, with numerous sprays of blood from multiple stabs.
Blood evidence suggests: Dexter disproves Doakes theory that the murders were committed by a rival drug dealer, instead suggest the "crime of passion" blood signatures of the woman's murder suggests a spurned lover/former boyfriend.
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Victim name: Mike Donovan
Victim name: James Jaworski
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