Dearly Devoted Dexter

Sergeant Doakes suspects Dexter and starts tailing him, which keeps Dexter from acting. A mutilated man leads Doakes to Doctor Danco, a torturer who served with him in El Salvador and has come to Miami for revenge on his old comrades, removing his victims' body parts while keeping them alive. Danco grabs Kyle Chutsky, Deborah's boyfriend. Dexter rescues Chutsky at an alligator farm, but Danco escapes with Doakes and later captures Dexter himself. Deborah arrives in time, kills Danco and saves her brother. Doakes survives without his hands, feet and tongue. Along the way, Dexter accidentally gets engaged to Rita and notices her kids, Cody and Astor, share his dark side.

1. ReferenceFrom here on, a different story

   Only the first book became a season. Here, Doakes survives Doctor Danco minus his hands, feet and tongue; the show took Doakes somewhere else.

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2. Behind the scenesCody and Astor, apprentices

   Dexter spots in Rita's kids the same signs he had as a boy and decides to teach them what Harry taught him. On the show, the kids never go that way.

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