# Dexter on Showtime thread (SPOILERS)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 14, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-on-showtime-thread-spoilers/380392 "2006-11-14T16:15:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-on-showtime-thread-spoilers/380392/121 "2007-07-10T14:03:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Enderw24]  
4) Dexter kills when the people are beyond the reach of the law. Wasn’t that part of the Code of Harry?  
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Not quite. He kills people who the law could punish (and in some cases has punished) to prevent future deaths. For instance, the kid from around episode 2 or 3, who Dexter targeted after the kid was released from juvie becasue he recognized that the kid would kill again. He let the kid go because he had kiled to avenge being raped, but then targeted him again after a second body turned up.

> [@Ender24](#):
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> The case on these women isn’t closed! How easy would it be for him to go to his sergeant, say “look what I found! These three women all have the same doctor. I don’t think it was a suicide after all.” They go get a search warrant, find the camera and it’s game over. Dexter didn’t bother doing that.

The cases were closed, as suicides, and the coincidence of their having the same therapist would be unlikely to be enough to convince the department to re-open the case or to convince a judge to issue a search warrant.

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