Father

Father is a character in Season Four of the Showtime series DEXTER.

He is one of the fathers, including Dexter Morgan, who takes several boys on an overnight camping trip.

Summary

 * “Slack Tide”

Dexter signs up Cody Bennett for the Young Sailors Club, hoping it will free up his time for his secret hobby. He’s surprised when Rita informs him that he’s expected to take boys on an overnight camping trip that leaves the next morning. With his plans for the weekend derailed, Dexter decides to kill Jonathan Farrow that night. He quickly leaves, telling Rita that he has to prep the boat and provide a tent, sleeping bags, food, water, and children's life vests. However, Dexter is forced to abandon his murder plan because he discovers that Joey Quinn is tailing him.

Early the next day, four of the Young Sailors are enjoying their ride on Dexter’s boat, as he calls out, “The Biscayne Bay, boys! Home of the Seminole Indians, the Spanish Conquistadors, cutthroat pirates…”

They soon arrive at a dock near a camping area. While Dexter unloads the boat, the boys run off to play. Dexter tries to make the most of his time with Cody by teaching him how to tie  rope knots, but Cody would rather throw dirt clods with the other boys. That night, Dexter joins the other fathers and boys around a campfire as a father tells a scary story

"Father: “When all of a sudden...they heard a scratching noise on the roof of the car. What was that? And they thought, 'Let's get out of here.' So they drove home as fast as they could. And when they got home, he went around to open the car door for his girlfriend and there hanging from the handle, a bloody hook!”"

The boys burst into laughter as Dexter thought that doesn't even make sense.

Then it’s Dexter’s turn. After some prompting, Dexter begins to tell a genuinely creepy story.

"Dexter: “All right. There's a man. You can call him the Man of Three. You can call him Trinity. You can call him anything you want but the fact is he's not a man at all. He's a monster. He was born in a bathtub filled with blood. For countless years, he's roamed the countryside killing the innocent, leaving behind bits of his dead sister. Sometimes he’ll sneak up on a man and raise his hammer overhead, and then he'll swing it down…”"

Just as Dexter is getting to the bludgeoning part, the father jumps in with a lame finish: “And smash his own thumb and then go crying all the way home.”

The kids laugh while the father looks at Dexter a little strangely. The father then tells the boys that it's time to hit the sleeping bags.

Once everyone's asleep, Dexter slips away and takes his boat back to the city. He kills Farrow (who turns out to be an innocent man), before returning to the campsite to cook breakfast for Cody.


 * “Lost Boys”

Cody’s gets into a fight at school because one of the boys claims that Dexter sneaked out of the campsite that night because he was afraid. Cody ends up with a black eye, and drops out of the Young Sailors Club because he doesn’t want to be around liars.

Related Pages

 * Biscayne Bay
 * Charles MacLay Elementary School
 * Cody Bennett