Tropics

Tropics is a location in Season Seven of the Showtime series DEXTER.

It’s an inexpensive restaurant where Thomas Matthews and Maria LaGuerta discuss the possibility that Dexter Morgan is the real Bay Harbor Butcher.

Description
It’s dimly lit inside with dark red walls and Asian-style artwork.

Summary

 * “The Dark… Whatever”

LaGuerta meets Matthews at Tropics, a restaurant she calls a "dump." He says dismissively, "Come on, Maria. It's perfect for all this cloak and dagger bullshit. It's the kind of place you take hookers and ugly broads." Hoping to identify the real Bay Harbor Butcher. Maria has followed up on a list of suspicious police employees who own boats and narrowed it down to Dexter. He had moved his boat in 2007 when they were closing in on his marina. Matthews is skeptical that Dexter is the Butcher and says it's a waste of time looking into him. They agree that if James Doakes was framed, it was probably by the real Butcher. They decide to check into Doakes' final days, starting with the cabin in the Everglades.

LaGuerta and Matthews visit the location of the cabin before it was blown up. They speak to Juan Alonzo, the owner of the property who is living there now in an RV. He says that he rented the cabin to Santos Jimenez, not James Doakes. The name sounds familiar to Matthews.

Back at Tropics, Matthews tells Maria that Jimenez was one of three men who murdered Dexter’s biological mother, Laura Moser.

Tom: "She was butchered by Jimenez with a chain saw right in front of Dexter and his brother Brian." Maria: (surprised) "Brian Moser? The Ice Truck Killer, that was Dexter's brother?" Tom: "Yeah." Maria: "So that means that Dexter watched his mother get chopped up, just like the Bay Harbor Butcher chopped up his victims?" Tom: "So what are you saying?" Maria: "Where's Jimenez now?" Tom: "He disappeared." Maria: "Murdered by the Bay Harbor Butcher?" Tom: "Maybe." Maria: "So who was more likely to want Jimenez dead, Doakes or Dexter?" Tom: "Oh, come on, Maria." Maria: "No, Tom. We can't ignore the facts. The Bay Harbor Butcher took blood slides from his victims. Dexter is a blood spatter analyst. And Doakes always thought there was something off about Dexter. What if Doakes was on to him? Jesus. What if Dexter is the real Bay Harbor Butcher?" Tom: "What if he isn't?" Maria: "I am going to go question him." Tom: "No, no, no. You're not going to do that. Now, I don't think you're right about this." Maria: "Trust me, I hope I'm not." Tom: "If somebody's got to talk to Dexter, it's going to be me. I've known him since he was a kid. He trusts me. What's more, I'm a lot less likely to fuck it up."

Related Pages

 * Bay Harbor Butcher Case
 * Cabin in the Everglades
 * Dexter Morgan
 * James Doakes
 * Juan Alonzo
 * Maria LaGuerta
 * Thomas Matthews