Serial Killer by Night

Serial Killer by Night is a standalone commercial for Season One of Dexter, which marks the character's first television appearance. Michael C. Hall filmed several scenes for the promo and recorded the narration.

Summary
Musing about how he likes his job and 'contributing the only way I know how', Dexter exits a crime scene, goes through several seedy alleyways in Miami, and enters a kill room with an unknown victim strapped to a table.

Continuity

 * In the series, Dexter usually wears specialized attire when killing, while here he kills a victim in his street clothes, without changing.
 * Dexter does not collect a blood slide trophy immediately before the kill, despite equipment present on site.
 * The victim in the promo is someone from the first box of blood slides. He is also a Caucasian male who may be:
 * 1) Rick Jensen
 * 2) Jeff Linder
 * 3) Renzo Sandoval
 * 4) Carlos Gutierrez
 * 5) Dylan Maddock
 * 6) Robert Thatcher
 * 7) Marcus White
 * 8) Chad Carpenter
 * 9) Anthony Rodrigo
 * 10) Smith
 * 11) Orozco
 * 12) Luke Wellens
 * 13) Andy Jorgen
 * 14) Kevin Mott
 * 15) Jerry Voltic
 * 16) Sean Dibberman
 * 17) Berry Cooper
 * 18) Herbert Washington
 * 19) Jacob Wilson
 * 20) George Hoss
 * 21) Olman Estavez
 * 22) Rick Cross
 * 23) Peter Matherson
 * 24) Alan Elson
 * 25) Henry Vortman
 * 26) Larry Costes
 * 27) Marty Terison
 * 28) Larry Mueller
 * 29) Fowls
 * 30) Walter Munro


 * Dexter used a similar model of power saw to kill Peter Thornton.
 * The Kill Room location is the same that is in pilot, where Dexter kills Jamie Jaworski.

Transcript
"You know what? Things are good. Most people get all angry about going to work, the grind, just living for weekend and all that. Not me. Nope. I enjoy what I do. Yeah. Contributing the only way I know how. There's no place I'd rather be. Nothing else I'd rather be doing. This is what life's all about for me. And I only really feel like myself... when I'm surrounded by blood."

Production
Serial Killer by Night is the only known piece of Dexter media filmed on 16 mm film rather than digital.

Releases
The promo originally aired on Showtime and was also uploaded 15 September 2006 on YouTube.

Near the tenth anniversary of the series, video's quality on YouTube was updated to Full HD.