WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for Dexter: Original Sin season 1 episode 2!Throughout the original series,Dexter Morgan was known for frequently bringing a box of donuts to work to share with his coworkers, andDexter: Original Sinfinally reveals where that idea came from. AsDexter: Original Sin’s timelinetakes Dexter back to the first time that he really joined a team and began honing his social skills, it becomes increasingly apparent that once he learned these strategies to make others like him, he never stopped using them. Case in point, bringing donuts for his colleagues, which he not only did all throughoutDexter’s original series, but also inNew Blood.
Though he generally struggled to understand basic social skills in making friends, getting people to like him, and making everyone think that he was just another “normal” guy,Dexter found that offering others donuts was the easiest way to get to their hearts. InDexter: Original Sinseason 1, episode 2, the prequel reveals the very first time that Dexter brought donuts into Miami Metro. There are some comical errors in Dexter’s alternate attempts to make his colleagues like him but, by the end of the episode, a tradition is born that he maintains for decades.
Dexter Started Bringing Donuts After His Colleagues Hated His Idea Of Bringing Vegetables
Dexter Knew That Food Was The Way To Win His Coworkers' Appreciation
Dexter: Original Sinreveals that, before he brought donuts, Dexter tried to win his colleagues’ favor with a different type of food. While his heart was in the right place,20-year-old Dexter Morganwas a bit misguided withhis first attempt, which saw him bring a vegetable tray to share with others at the station. This didn’t go over so well, with the detectives on the police force and those in other departments around Miami Metro rejecting Dexter’s offer while finding it a bit odd.
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After Dexter showed the vegetable tray to Camilla Figg, a mother figure to him after the deaths of his biological mother Laura Moser and adoptive mother Doris Morgan, she helped guide him in the right direction. Bluntly, Camilla told Dexter that cops “don’t eat that s***,” then proceeded to throw the veggie tray in the garbage. With Camilla’s help,young Dexter showed up the next day with a box of donuts, which was immediately met by excitement and gratitudefromDexter: Original Sin’s charactersat Miami Metro. Therein, Dexter found the key to fitting in and being likable at work.
Dexter Bringing Donuts Was The First Time Others At Miami Metro Started To Appreciate Him
The Donuts That Dexter Brought For Years Were Based On His First Major Social Accomplishment
For years, Harry had been trying to find ways to get Dexter to connect with other people around him. However, whileHarry didn’t want Dexter working at Miami Metrobecause of his fears that it would be too easy for Dexter to get caught, it finally gave him a community and a sense of “normalcy” with a social outlet. Not only that, butit gave Dexter friends for the first time in his life through Batista and Masuka.
InDexter’s original series, he even passes on this strategy to his son to help Harrison make new friends at preschool.
Though Harry gave Dexter some advice to joke around with the others to fit in,it was Dexter’s own idea to bring donuts that finally worked. It’s heartwarming that Dexter sharing donuts is the first thing that makes others at Miami Metro appreciate him, and that he keeps it up for the next few decades when he works there. Through his routine of bringing donuts into Miami Metro, Dexter gets an interesting look into the simplicity of social acceptance in groups, something he’s always struggled to contend with, but that integrates one of his favorite things outside killing: food.
Dexter Eventually Stops Bringing Donuts To Miami Metro In Dexter Season 7
Dexter bringing donuts to Miami Metro became a staple of the show for almostevery season ofDexter– until it abruptly stopped in season 7. This element in Dexter’s efforts to maintain his mask of normalcy is so integrated into his routine that he gets to know the people who work at Sadie’s Donuts. However,inDexterseasons 7 and 8, he stops bringing donuts to his colleagues at Miami Metroafter more than 20 years of being the “donut guy” at work.
Dexter Morgan not bringing donuts to Miami Metrocoincided with a divisive shift in his character in the original show’s later seasons. At that point, Dexter had been getting sloppier in his killing, which included breaking the Code of Harry, and he began to explore whether he could rid himself of his Dark Passenger for good. This involved shedding some of the masks that he had long put on in front of those around him, such asno longer believing he needed to bribe others with donuts if he already seemed “normal” enough with his and Rita’s family.
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Early in the originalDextershow, the titular serial killer’s mask of normalcy was typically exhibited through bringing donuts to the station,playing on Miami Metro’s bowling team, and dating Rita. However, once he got married to Rita and had his son, Harrison, those aspects of trying to make himself seem more approachable and likable through sugar-based bribes and group activities were phased out. Of course, like inDexter: Original Sin, Dexter had tobring these strategies back into play when he was starting his social disguises all over again in Iron LakeinNew Blood.
New episodes ofDexter: Original Sinseason 1 release Fridays on Paramount+ with Showtime.
Dexter: Original Sin
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Dexter: Original Sin explores Dexter Morgan’s early years in 1991 Miami as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer. Guided by his father, Harry, Dexter crafts a moral code and navigates a forensics internship at Miami Metro Police, all while controlling his darker impulses.
Dexter
Dexter is a television series following Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter analyst for Miami Metro Police who secretly leads a dual life as a vigilante serial killer. Released in 2006, the show focuses on Dexter’s internal conflict as he hunts down criminals who elude justice within the legal system.
