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|description = A Young Virtuoso
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|full name = '''Jeremy Downs'''
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|nicknames = '''Jer'''
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|profession = '''None'''
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|status = '''Deceased'''
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|status_reason = Committed Suicide
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|status_reason = '''Committed Suicide'''
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|age = 19 (at death)
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|age = '''19 (at death)'''
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|hair = Brown/Blond
  
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|eyes = '''Brown'''
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|gender = Male
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|gender = '''Male'''
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|marital status = Single
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|marital status = '''Single'''
 
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|relatives ='''Unknown'''
 
|first_appearance = '''[[Episode 103: Popping Cherry|Popping Cherry]]'''
  
|first_appearance = '''[[Episode 103: Popping Cherry|Popping Cherry]]'''
 
|last_appearance = '''[[Episode 107: Circle of Friends|Circle of Friends]]'''
  
|last_appearance = '''[[Episode 107: Circle of Friends|Circle of Friends]]'''
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|actor = Mark L. Young
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|actor = '''[[Mark L. Young]]'''
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|victims = '''3 (Including himself)'''
 
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|reason = Committed Suicide
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|reason = '''Committed Suicide'''
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|method = 'Random' knife-strokes severing major arteries. Death by exsanguination.
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|method = '''Random knife strokes severing major arteries'''<br>'''Death by exsanguination'''
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|weapons = Short hunting knife
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|weapons = '''Short hunting knife'''
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|disposal = '''None'''
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|cause = He stated he feels "empty", and is looking for a way to fill the emptiness
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|cause = '''He stated he feels "empty" and is looking for a way to fill the emptiness'''
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|seasons = '''[[Season One]]'''|episodecount = '''Two Episodes'''|status_reason2 = '''Bled out'''|address = '''Homestead Halfway House'''}}
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'''Jeremy Downs''' is a character in [[Season One]] of [[Showtime]]'s series '''''[[Dexter (show)|DEXTER]]'''''.
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'''Jeremy Downs''' is a character in '''''[[DEXTER]]'''''. He was a 19-year-old living in a halfway house after he is released from juvenile hall. At the age of fifteen, he was convicted for killing another boy. Though the police assumed it was a sloppy crime of passion, Dexter saw the work of someone who had studied and prepared to be as brutal as possible by cutting several major arteries ensuring a bloody death.
  
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==Plot==
  
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===Season One===
  
   
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He was a young man responsible for the death of another boy when he was fifteen and after his release, [[Dexter Morgan]] investigates if he still possesses the instinct of a killer.
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'''[[Dexter Morgan|Dexter]]''' follows Jeremy and a boy named '''[[Lucas]]''' into the swamps, where Jeremy claims he is going to show his friend an alligator, while secretly reaching for a knife. Dexter interrupts the boys, who both panic and flee. When Dexter returns to his car, he finds the window smashed and his wallet missing. Later that night, he attacks Jeremy alone in the halfway house. Before he can be rendered unconscious though, Jeremy threatens to kill Dexter like "the last guy" who raped him, implying that his first murder was actually self-defense. When Dexter asks why he never told the police about it, Jeremy implies that he was too ashamed. Dexter quickly changes his own story to being that he followed Jeremy just to get his wallet back. Before leaving, Dexter warns him that while his first victim may have deserved to die, the boy Jeremy almost attacked in the swamp didn't, and encourages him to only kill those who deserve to die.
  
   
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== Background ==
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[[File:Jdowns_swamp.png|200px|left]]
  
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At the age of 15, Jeremy was raped, fueling a desire for revenge. He later led the guy to a pond within a South Miami park under the pretense of watching alligators. He then killed him brutally with a knife and robbed him, entering custody shortly thereafter. He was convicted of manslaughter due to the coroner's report that the knife strokes appeared random and impulsive, and was sentenced to four years in the Dade County Youth Correction Facility.
   
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Dexter began tracking Jeremy when he observed the report, noticing that the knife strokes targeted major arteries, including the femoral, brachial and carotid. Dexter marked his calendar waiting for Jeremy's release, intending to add him to his table.
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Weeks later, another body is found matching the wounds of Jeremy's first victim, leading Dexter to believe that Jeremy had not taken his advice. When he attempts to track Jeremy down, he discovers that he sells sexual favours to random men in a nearby park. Dexter goes to the park and attempts to confront Jeremy again, but '''Sergeant [[James Doakes]]''' arrives and arrests Jeremy instead. While he is detained, Dexter talks to Jeremy, who reveals to Dexter that he kills because he is trying desperately to feel something and feels "empty" all the time, just like Dexter. Dexter is sympathetic to Jeremy after this and feels he may have a connection to him. He later visits Jeremy in prison, feeling that he is the only one who can understand him, and vice-versa, but finds Jeremy had taken his advice and killed someone who, in his own mind, deserved to die: himself.
  
   
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==Victims==
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== Summary ==
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*Unnamed Classmate
 
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*School Yearbook Editor
 
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*'''Jeremy Downs''' - suicide, made in style of previous murders.
 
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===Attempted===
  
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*[[Dexter Morgan]] - when he came close to Downs unnoticed, while Downs was practicing with a knife he wanted to buy, Dexter was very near to be slashed if not his quick reaction.
 
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*[[Lucas]] - prevented by [[Dexter Morgan]].
 
   
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* "[[Episode 103: Popping Cherry|Popping Cherry]]"
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Jeremy, now 19 years old, is released after serving his sentence proceeding to live in the Homestead Halfway House. Dexter is there to witness his release and later hunts him down at a marketplace, observing as he inspects a knife vendor's wares. After paying the man for a blade and while waiting for change, Jeremy enters a stance and starts slashing it around in the air. He nearly comes in contact with Dexter who catches his hand. The vendor chastises Jeremy as he returns the change along with a sheath for the blade. Jeremy leaves the area while Dexter ponders his own youth, relating it to his target.
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A short time later, as Dexter is staking out the halfway house, Jeremy and another boy named [[Lucas]] exit the building heading off towards a nearby swamp under the pretense that they would be watching alligators. Dexter believes he intends to recreate his first kill and follows the two keeping a distance as Lucas becomes increasingly more concerned for his safety. When it becomes apparent there is no alligator, Lucas turns his attention to Jeremy who reaches for his knife. Dexter interrupts the boys, who both panic and flee the area while Dexter actually encounters an alligator, stumbling towards his own safety. When Dexter returns to his car, he finds the window smashed and his wallet missing.
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Later that night, Jeremy is alone in the halfway house playing an arcade game when Dexter shuts off the lights and attacks Jeremy. While being pressed against a pillar face first, Jeremy threatens to kill Dexter like "the last guy" who raped him, implying that his first murder was actually self-defense. When Dexter asks why he never told the police about it, Jeremy says that he was too ashamed. Dexter quickly changes his own story to being that he followed Jeremy to get his wallet back. Before leaving, Dexter warns him that while his first victim may have deserved to die, the boy Jeremy almost attacked in the swamp didn't, and encourages him to only kill those who deserve to die.
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*"[[Episode 107: Circle of Friends|Circle of Friends]]"
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[[Jason Riech]]'s body is found with wounds matching those of Jeremy's first victim, and Dexter realizes that Jeremy was the killer. Dexter returns to the halfway house where he learns from[[Metalhead| another boy]] that Jeremy sells sexual favors to random men in Flamingo Park.
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Dexter, wearing dark sunglasses and a hoodie, follows Jeremy through the park. Jeremy turns around and asks Dexter if he wants company. Dexter orders him to keep walking and look ahead. Jeremy suggests they go into the mangroves, but Dexter says it's too public. Dexter mentions that his car is in the parking lot and Jeremy asks if the windows are tinted. Dexter again tells him to keep his eyes front.
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Suddenly, Jeremy stops walking and Dexter asks what's wrong. Just then, Sgt. [[James Doakes]] runs past Dexter, yelling to get the fuck out of his way. Dexter immediately hides behind a tree and watches Doakes and two other cops arrest and handcuff Jeremy. Dexter sighs in relief as none of them seem to have recognized him.
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While Jeremy is detained, he reveals to Dexter that he kills because he is trying desperately to feel something and hates that he always feels "empty." Dexter tells Jeremy that he is just like him, and advises Jeremy to pretend to have feelings. Soon after, he finds that Jeremy took his advice and killed someone who deserved to die: himself.
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== Victims ==
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* Unnamed Classmate - stabbed multiple times, slashed several arteries
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* [[Jason Riech]] - (school yearbook editor) killed in the same way as first victim
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* Himself - committed suicide in the style of his previous murders, by cutting an artery
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== Attempted Victim ==
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*[[Lucas]] - prevented by Dexter interrupting the act
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== Related Pages ==
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* [[Lucas]]
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* [[Knife Vendor]]
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* [[Jason Riech]]
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* [[Valedictorian Murder Case]]
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* [[Jeremy Downs' Lawyer]]
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* [[Metalhead]]
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== Trivia ==
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*Jeremy is the first killer that compromises Dexter's safety by breaking into his vehicle and stealing his wallet. This action is later rectified when Dexter gets the wallet back.
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*He is the first killer Dexter chooses to spare in the series (outside an impulsive desire to kill [[Carlos Guerrero]] in "[[Episode 102: Crocodile|Crocodile]]"). Dexter feels that due to the circumstances where Jeremy killed someone who deserved to die that they were the same, giving him a chance to make the right choices.
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*He is the first non-main antagonist killer to appear in multiple episodes.
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*Jeremy is the first antagonist in the series to commit suicide.
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== Gallery ==
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<gallery>
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JDowns1.png|'''Jeremy released from juvenile facility'''
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JDowns2.png|'''Court image'''
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JDowns4.png|'''Image of skull tattoo on neck'''
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Knife Vendor 3.PNG|'''Jeremy buys a knife'''
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Lucas 3.PNG|'''Jeremy lures Lucas to a deserted area'''
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Jdowns_swamp.png|'''Jeremy readies to kill Lucas'''
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Dexter relents on killing Jeremy.jpg|'''Dexter spares Jeremy'''
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JDowns5.png|'''Jeremy in halfway house'''
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Pullman5.png|'''Jeremy arrested in Flamingo Park'''
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Pullman10.png|'''Doakes and Pullman bring in Jeremy'''
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1 Circle of Friends 8.jpg|'''Dexter visits Jeremy in jail'''
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Pullman13.png|'''Detective Pullman enters room'''
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</gallery>
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Revision as of 23:06, 15 April 2020

Jeremy Downs:

Jeremy Downs: A Young Virtuoso

Jeremy Downs is a character in Season One of Showtime's series DEXTER.

He was a young man responsible for the death of another boy when he was fifteen and after his release, Dexter Morgan investigates if he still possesses the instinct of a killer.

Background

At the age of 15, Jeremy was raped, fueling a desire for revenge. He later led the guy to a pond within a South Miami park under the pretense of watching alligators. He then killed him brutally with a knife and robbed him, entering custody shortly thereafter. He was convicted of manslaughter due to the coroner's report that the knife strokes appeared random and impulsive, and was sentenced to four years in the Dade County Youth Correction Facility.

Dexter began tracking Jeremy when he observed the report, noticing that the knife strokes targeted major arteries, including the femoral, brachial and carotid. Dexter marked his calendar waiting for Jeremy's release, intending to add him to his table.

Summary

Jeremy, now 19 years old, is released after serving his sentence proceeding to live in the Homestead Halfway House. Dexter is there to witness his release and later hunts him down at a marketplace, observing as he inspects a knife vendor's wares. After paying the man for a blade and while waiting for change, Jeremy enters a stance and starts slashing it around in the air. He nearly comes in contact with Dexter who catches his hand. The vendor chastises Jeremy as he returns the change along with a sheath for the blade. Jeremy leaves the area while Dexter ponders his own youth, relating it to his target.

A short time later, as Dexter is staking out the halfway house, Jeremy and another boy named Lucas exit the building heading off towards a nearby swamp under the pretense that they would be watching alligators. Dexter believes he intends to recreate his first kill and follows the two keeping a distance as Lucas becomes increasingly more concerned for his safety. When it becomes apparent there is no alligator, Lucas turns his attention to Jeremy who reaches for his knife. Dexter interrupts the boys, who both panic and flee the area while Dexter actually encounters an alligator, stumbling towards his own safety. When Dexter returns to his car, he finds the window smashed and his wallet missing.

Later that night, Jeremy is alone in the halfway house playing an arcade game when Dexter shuts off the lights and attacks Jeremy. While being pressed against a pillar face first, Jeremy threatens to kill Dexter like "the last guy" who raped him, implying that his first murder was actually self-defense. When Dexter asks why he never told the police about it, Jeremy says that he was too ashamed. Dexter quickly changes his own story to being that he followed Jeremy to get his wallet back. Before leaving, Dexter warns him that while his first victim may have deserved to die, the boy Jeremy almost attacked in the swamp didn't, and encourages him to only kill those who deserve to die.

Jason Riech's body is found with wounds matching those of Jeremy's first victim, and Dexter realizes that Jeremy was the killer. Dexter returns to the halfway house where he learns from another boy that Jeremy sells sexual favors to random men in Flamingo Park.

Dexter, wearing dark sunglasses and a hoodie, follows Jeremy through the park. Jeremy turns around and asks Dexter if he wants company. Dexter orders him to keep walking and look ahead. Jeremy suggests they go into the mangroves, but Dexter says it's too public. Dexter mentions that his car is in the parking lot and Jeremy asks if the windows are tinted. Dexter again tells him to keep his eyes front.

Suddenly, Jeremy stops walking and Dexter asks what's wrong. Just then, Sgt. James Doakes runs past Dexter, yelling to get the fuck out of his way. Dexter immediately hides behind a tree and watches Doakes and two other cops arrest and handcuff Jeremy. Dexter sighs in relief as none of them seem to have recognized him.

While Jeremy is detained, he reveals to Dexter that he kills because he is trying desperately to feel something and hates that he always feels "empty." Dexter tells Jeremy that he is just like him, and advises Jeremy to pretend to have feelings. Soon after, he finds that Jeremy took his advice and killed someone who deserved to die: himself.

Victims

  • Unnamed Classmate - stabbed multiple times, slashed several arteries
  • Jason Riech - (school yearbook editor) killed in the same way as first victim
  • Himself - committed suicide in the style of his previous murders, by cutting an artery

Attempted Victim

  • Lucas - prevented by Dexter interrupting the act

Related Pages

Trivia

  • Jeremy is the first killer that compromises Dexter's safety by breaking into his vehicle and stealing his wallet. This action is later rectified when Dexter gets the wallet back.
  • He is the first killer Dexter chooses to spare in the series (outside an impulsive desire to kill Carlos Guerrero in "Crocodile"). Dexter feels that due to the circumstances where Jeremy killed someone who deserved to die that they were the same, giving him a chance to make the right choices.
  • He is the first non-main antagonist killer to appear in multiple episodes.
  • Jeremy is the first antagonist in the series to commit suicide.

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