Re: Dexter: Original Sin season 1 (spoilers)

On 2025-02-17 2:47 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-17 12:07 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 

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This is largely continuing story with only a few killers of the week.

 

The whole series is backstroy to the original series, with "present" set
in 1991, plus backstory within backstory telling of Harry's affair with
Laura Moser, in which she has a five year old son Brian, and three year
old Dexter. Harry, Dexter's father, had an affair with Laura, whom he
made a C.I. to take down a drug trafficker with... no preparation
whatsoever. How might this possibly go wrong?

 

You're not trying to say that Harry is the father of Brian or Dexter are
you? . . .

 I clearly said Harry had an affair with Laura Moser, who had two sons.
 

Yes you did but you might have had a different perception of how long the affair had been going on and whether it might have been long enough for Harry to father one or both of her sons.

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In the final episode, we see that he has serious doubts about being the
father of his son, implying that his wife's affair was a long-standing
one. Killing the boy seems to be his ultimate revenge on his wife's
betrayal.

 If the boy had another father, then he justified violence against him in
his own mind because he wasn't the natural father.
 Regardless, if he had reason to believe that when he wasn't acting on
anger and resentment toward his wife, he'd have had a test done. Blood
testing, even without DNA testing that wouldn't have been available at
the time, could have ruled him out as the boy's father. A police
detective would have known that.
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Agreed. A simple blood test would have been sufficient to prove/disprove paternity and the captain would have known it.

I assume he didn't have reason to believe it at all.
 

Was Spencer so emotional that he would have forgotten that a blood test might put his mind at ease over Nicky's paternity? It seems dubious but not impossible.

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Rhino