Re: Dexter: Original Sin season 1 (spoilers)

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

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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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.

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.

The emotional onslaught came on suddenly. Then Dexter and another
detective sort of agreed it was possible for someone to flip out
unexpectedly. It was a script weakness.

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