Did Camilla know about Harry teaching Dexter how to kill (and possibly the Bay Harbor Butcher)? What makes me think this is the scene in the 3rd season
Where Camilla is asking Dexter to kill her because she’s dying of cancer. She can’t do it herself because she’s Catholic and suicide is a mortal sin.
Dexter: I have a code I live by.
Camilla: Harry, taught you right?
I’m not sure if she’s asking if Harry taught Dexter to be a killer or if she’s saying Harry taught Dexter right from wrong.
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I think she did know, otherwise she would not have asked him to do it, I think. IIRC, she also knew about Rudy/Brian being his brother (maybe I imagined that) and put two and two together. She was pretty close to Harry, so he may have said something indirectly to her.
I always thought there was a lot of back story between Camilla and Harry that we didn’t get exposed to. As shown, they were at least familiar and friends, but I think they might have been more and I think that she might have gained an inkling after “tidying up” in Harry’s records.
After the inkling, merely carefully observing Dexter’s comings and goings and the diverse bodies (and their histories) that showed up after the Bay Harbor Butcher investigation would have led to at least some troubling conclusions. I mean, she was pretty much the historian of the place - she’d known that a lot of these scumbags were people whom Harry himself had ached to be rid of. From there it would be a small leap of logic to deduce that even if Harry hadn’t taken any direct action himself, he might well have created a tool to do so for him.
I don’t think she knew, given how upset she seemed that she was asking him to (in the legal sense) commit murder; if she’d of known, I think there would have been something in her dialogue to indicate that she didn’t think it’d be hard for him to kill. She asked him because he was the only one who came to see her, and was therefore the only one she was still close enough to request the favor from. Not to mention that considering the suffering he’d seen his own parents go through, he was probably more inclined to spare her the lingering death she so feared having like her husband had. I’d be more inclined to bet she was playing on her guess that he still felt bad about that than any guess on her part what his hobby was.
She did know Brian was the Ice Truck Killer and Dexter’s brother. She looked at Dexter’s file before destroying it.
I have a question about Dexter and didn’t want to have the storyline spoiled too much so I posted it here.
I’m nearly half way through Season three on DVD, we’re a bit behind here in the UK if you don’t have cable or a satellite dish.
I am not enjoying this as much as the first two seasons as it all seems a bit too conventient with Miguel helping and covering up for Dexter.
Does the quality improve? Because at present I am tempted to not bother watchign the rest of the season. Is season 4 better or is this it for Dexter and the first two seasons were the best?
UK also.
I enjoyed season 3, even though I agree it wasn’t up to standards of 1 & 2.
But rest assured season 4 has started well.
Finish Season 3. It gets better. Even if it’s not as good as the other seasons, there’s other stuff going on besides the “A” plotline. Season 4 is at least as good as Season 2.
Thanks to both of you. I will stick with it and see what happens.
Keep watching Season 3.
If you think Miguel’s acceptance of Dexter seems suspiciously convenient, that’s because it is.
different take on OP’s conversation
Dexter: I have a code I live by.
Camilla: Harry, taught you right. (as in right from wrong)
i’ve always heard it that way.
Camilla knew Harry was a good man and taught an adopted son what was the moral and good thing to do in a world full of injustice. I don’t think she knew he was a killer but I did think she knew about the poison pie and that’s why she replied with this is the best pie I ever tasted (probably wasn’t).