Talk:Debra Morgan/@comment-253525-20180409185215/@comment-35641448-20200521174255

Lazy production staff that put a text insert prop caused this "computer screen = canon" problem. Instead of thinking about the young actors they cast in the adoption certificate scene and extrapolated from what they showed previously they use real life stats.

If they were really 8 years apart, Debra wouldn't be able to TALK during the scene where Dexter gets his official adoption certificate with his new name. The actor Dominic is 7-8 in that scene.

In fact, they didn't pay much attention to age and dates period. Dexter is listed as being born in Feb 1971. He is suppose to be 3 when his mother died on Oct 3rd 1973. And he is the class of 1991, which would make him 20 when he graduated high school without any mention of being held back in school.