Jorge Castillo

Jorge Castillo is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER.

He was a human smuggler and murderer who transported people from Cuba to Miami in his boat. If they couldn’t pay a release fee, Jorge would kill them. Dexter became aware of the smuggling operation and took matters into his own hands.

Summary

 * "Love American Style"

During lunch, Rita tells Dexter that Yelina is distressed because her fiancé never arrived in Miami after leaving Cuba. Dexter offers to talk with someone who deals with immigration.

Officer Gerard gives Dexter a bleak description of human smuggling and the fate of undocumented immigrants. Dexter then compiles a list of local suspected smugglers, with Jorge Castillo being the most likely one to have dealt with Yelina.

Dexter goes to Jorge’s auto salvage yard and introduces himself as "Dave Cutler.” He pretends to be looking for a particular car part, but Jorge says he can’t help him and lets it slip that he runs the place alone. When Dexter tests him to see if he’s Cuban, Jorge says that he’s American and doesn’t speak Spanish.

After dark, Dexter breaks into the auto yard and finds dirty mattresses and items of clothing inside a large garage where people had been held captive. Dexter doesn’t think they were killed there, though.

From his boat the next day, Dexter observes Jorge living a life of luxury from the money he extorts from desperate Cuban families. Dexter secretly  photographs his attractive wife, high-priced home, and expensive sports car. At this point, Dexter believes that Jorge’s wife is unaware of her husband’s activities.

A couple of nights later, Dexter sneaks aboard Jorge’s boat, and finds evidence of human smuggling, including old cell phones. When he opens the boat's fish hold, he discovers dead bodies submerged in water. They had been drowned because they couldn’t pay the fee and were going to be tossed overboard. The police would assume they drowned while trying to get into the country illegally and not investigate further. As Dexter is taking photos of the victims, Jorge suddenly appears at the dock and unties his boat, but Dexter escapes unseen.

Later, Jorge returns to the salvage yard, holding at gunpoint a new group of kidnapped Cubans, and locks them inside the garage. Then he notices a line of lit candles leading to an old Airstream trailer. Jorge follows them inside, and is surprised to see photos of his victims fastened to the walls. From behind, Dexter injects Jorge with M99 and says, “God bless America.” Jorge immediately passes out.

Shortly thereafter, Jorge’s wife Valerie arrives at the yard and, much to Dexter's surprise, she is fully aware of her husband's illegal schemes. Dexter hastily captures her as well and prepares to kill both of them.

Just before Dexter moves to kill the Castillos, Jorge and Valerie profess their love for one another, and he hesitates. When Dexter asks them how they make their relationship work, each says they have the same dream. Dexter then stuffs cotton into their mouths and kills them. Because he is short on time, Dexter simply slices Valerie's carotid arteries and doesn't dismember her. He dumps their bodies at sea.


 * "Return to Sender"

Dexter is shocked when the Ice Truck Killer dives after Valerie's body and returns it to the trailer. Vince Masuka discovers that she had been injected with M99, and a possible witness to her murder was found. To cover his tracks, Dexter frames Jorge for his wife’s murder by transferring Valerie’s blood from her blood slide to Jorge's sock and planting a knife at the auto yard. Dexter also reminds Doakes and Deb that Jorge, a deep sea fisherman who knows how to use a knife, is missing.

Related Pages

 * Auto Salvage Yard
 * The Castillos
 * The Gazebo Restaurant
 * Human Smuggler Murder Case
 * Kill Room
 * Mariel
 * Officer Gerard
 * Oscar
 * Underwater Graveyard
 * Valerie Castillo
 * Yelina

Victims

 * Unnamed boy
 * Unnamed woman
 * Unnamed grandmother
 * Ernesto Rodriguez (age 31)
 * Presumably many other victims drowned on boat.

Trivia

 * The line Dexter says to Jorge Castillo in Spanish translates to "Perhaps the fish find you." He says this when Jorge claims that he only owns a rowboat with a hole in it.
 * The actor, José Zuniga, portrays another character named Jorge Castillo on the hit ABC drama, How to Get Away with Murder.
 * Jorge and Valerie are the first shown partner killers in the series. Additionally, they're the first couple involved with murder.
 * Jorge keeps his boat at the Reef Shore Marina.