Talk:Rita Morgan/@comment-35557521-20200229115734

I have mixed feeling about Rita as a character.

All of the clichés are present: 1)divorced mother with two children, ex-husband who was abusive, struggling to make ends meets, etc,

2)She had a brief marriage at 16 (probably to escape her unhappy childhood, and after meeting her mother, Gail, we begin to understand why), yet she never discussed it with Dexter.

Still, I wished they had never killed off Rita.

In an alternative timeline: 1)she would have left Miami (packed up the kids and departed for parts unknown). 2) She never would have married Dexter, let alone bore his child 3) She would have become pregnant with another man's child, and Dexter would have left her (he would have called Gail and said, "You're welcome to her!")