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== Episodes ==
#REDIRECT [[List of Dexter episodes#Season 1 (2006)]]
{{See also|List of Dexter episodes}}
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|EpisodeNumber = 1
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|Title = [[Dexter (episode)|Dexter]]
|DirectedBy = [[Michael Cuesta]]
|WrittenBy = [[James Manos, Jr.]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|1}}
|ShortSummary = Dexter Morgan is introduced as a serial killer who kills other killers who have escaped from, or haven't been found by the justice system. By day he is a blood spatter analyst who works for the Homicide Department of the Miami Metro Police. He is called to murder scenes involving mutilated bodies, but with no blood visible. The murderer, nicknamed the "Ice Truck Killer", intrigues Dexter with this intricate methodology and a personal message in form of a mutilated doll. At the same time, Dexter's sister Debra, a vice squad officer, tries to gain a transfer into the Homicide Department.
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|EpisodeNumber = 2
|EpisodeNumber2 = 2
|Title = [[Crocodile (Dexter)|Crocodile]]
|DirectedBy = Michael Cuesta
|WrittenBy = [[Clyde Phillips]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|8}}
|ShortSummary = Dexter assists detectives [[List of Dexter characters#Angel Batista|Batista]] ([[David Zayas]]) and [[List of Dexter characters#James Doakes|Doakes]] ([[Erik King]]) in investigating the murder of an officer, who was working undercover investigating drug baron Carlos Guerrero ([[Rudolf Martin]]). Doakes is personally involved in the case, since he was having an affair with the officer's wife, who was also attacked. Meanwhile, Debra discovers the refrigerated truck in which the Ice Truck Killer dismembers his victims, and is promoted by her superior, Lieutenant [[List of Dexter characters#Maria LaGuerta|Maria LaGuerta]] ([[Lauren Vélez]]), to the Homicide Department. Inside the truck, Debra, Batista and Dexter find a block of ice with five fingertips in it, left deliberately by the Ice Truck Killer.
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|EpisodeNumber = 3
|EpisodeNumber2 = 3
|Title = Popping Cherry
|DirectedBy = Michael Cuesta
|WrittenBy = [[Daniel Cerone]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|15}}
|ShortSummary = After the discovery of another victim of the Ice Truck Killer at an ice rink, the missing guard, [[List of Dexter characters#Tony Tucci|Tony Tucci]], becomes a potential suspect. Rita receives an unpleasant visit from her ex-husband's drug dealer, who confiscates her car, forcing her to take the bus to and from her job as a hotel receptionist. Dexter selects his next murder victim while having flashbacks of his first killing—a nurse who was caring for Dexter's sick father, but was administering overdoses of medication to and slowly killing her patients. Elsewhere, Sergeant Doakes continues to harass Guerrero, as a group of renegade police officers decide to take matters involving Guerrero into their own hands.
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|EpisodeNumber = 4
|EpisodeNumber2 = 4
|Title = [[Let's Give the Boy a Hand]]
|DirectedBy = [[Robert Lieberman]]
|WrittenBy = [[Drew Z. Greenberg]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|22}}
|ShortSummary = As the hunt for Ice Truck Killer continues, posed body parts are discovered which appear to be the [[calling card (crime)|calling cards]] of an increasingly impatient killer. The Ice Truck Killer escalates his killing spree, leaving body parts of his latest victim at sites connected to Dexter's childhood, which leads Dexter to confront his dark personal history. As Halloween approaches, Rita kidnaps a barking dog with a cynical owner, who keeps her children up at night, and gives it to a loving family. Lieutenant LaGuerta seeks to comfort the mother of the latest Ice Truck Killer victim. The pressure on Sergeant Doakes escalates when Guerrero's associates begin following him.
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|EpisodeNumber = 5
|EpisodeNumber2 = 5
|Title = [[Love American Style (Dexter)|Love American Style]]
|DirectedBy = Robert Lieberman
|WrittenBy = [[Melissa Rosenberg]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|29}}
|ShortSummary = Dexter finds the Ice Truck Killer's latest victim mutilated but alive and strapped to a table for Dexter to kill. Instead, Dexter reports the crime scene, and his sister finds a partial fingerprint of the Ice Truck Killer. [[List of Dexter characters#Rita Bennett/Rita Morgan|Rita]] learns that her colleague's fiancé, who was illegally immigrating from Cuba, is missing, and asks Dexter to investigate the problem using his police connections. He investigates Jorge Castillo, a salvage yard owner, and discovers that Castillo is murdering the smuggled immigrants who cannot pay for their freedom. Dexter discovers that Castillo's wife is involved in the murders, and kills both of them. Afterwards, he dumps their bodies in the ocean and frees their Cuban prisoners, not noticing a person watching him from the trunk of a car in the yard.
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|EpisodeNumber = 6
|EpisodeNumber2 = 6
|Title = [[Return to Sender (Dexter)|Return to Sender]]
|DirectedBy = [[Tony Goldwyn]]
|WrittenBy = [[Timothy Schlattmann|Tim Schlattmann]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|11|5}}
|ShortSummary = The body of one of Dexter's previous female victims has been found, despite Dexter's having thrown both of the corpses into the ocean. A young Cuban boy had witnessed the previous night's events, and Dexter dismisses his colleagues' leads that could direct them towards him. Eventually, Dexter frames the husband, whose body is still missing, with his wife's murder. The witness had described [[Jesus]] rather than Dexter. During this time, Rita dissuades her abusive husband Paul from attending their daughter's birthday party after he is released early from prison.
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|EpisodeNumber = 7
|EpisodeNumber2 = 7
|Title = [[Circle of Friends (Dexter)|Circle of Friends]]
|DirectedBy = [[Steve Shill]]
|WrittenBy = Daniel Cerone
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|11|12}}
|ShortSummary = Dexter must deal with Rita's menacing husband. Debra goes on a date with the prosthetics expert who made prosthetic legs for an Ice Truck Killer survivor. Debra and Angel are investigating the Ice Truck Killer and discover a familiar name with speeding violations near the scene of the Ice Truck Killer's third murder. Dexter is investigating Sergeant Doakes's knife victim; he already knows the killer's identity but needs time to locate him. The Ice Truck Killer is finally apprehended, but Dexter doubts that they have caught the correct man.
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|EpisodeNumber = 8
|EpisodeNumber2 = 8
|Title = Shrink Wrap
|DirectedBy = Tony Goldwyn
|WrittenBy = [[Lauren Gussis]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|11|19}}
|ShortSummary = An unexplained suicide of a wealthy and powerful woman leads Dexter to suspect that her psychiatrist, Dr. Emmett Meridian (in the style of [[Jack Kevorkian]]), may have killed her. But he gets a shock when a visit to the suspect reveals dark secrets from Dexter's past. Elsewhere, Rita becomes warmer towards her ex-husband Paul, who claims to have reformed. She wants to become more intimate with Dexter, who is afraid of physically consummating their relationship. Meanwhile, Debra is falling in love with her new boyfriend Rudy.
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|EpisodeNumber = 9
|EpisodeNumber2 = 9
|Title = Father Knows Best
|DirectedBy = [[Adam Davidson (actor)|Adam Davidson]]
|WrittenBy = Melissa Rosenberg
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|11|26}}
|ShortSummary = Dexter learns that his biological father, Joe Driscoll, who he thought had been long dead, has only recently died and has left all of his belongings to Dexter, including his house. Dexter travels to the house with Rita. Debra and Rudy arrive there later (following Rudy's advice) to assist him in cleaning out the house. Dexter suspects Joe Driscoll's death to be [[murder]]. Flashbacks to Dexter's childhood show his questioning his foster father [[List of Dexter characters#Harry Morgan|Harry]] ([[James Remar]]) about his real parents, and Dexter finds that Mr. Driscoll donated some of his blood to the young Dexter for surgery. In the last scene, one of Joe's neighbors, an elderly woman, recognizes Rudy as a cable repairman, who happened to be Joe's last visitor before his death; after Dexter, Rita, Debra and Rudy had left the premises, Rudy is shown to have returned to the elderly woman's house, dressed as the cable repairman again. Meanwhile, Paul begins to slide back into his old abusive habits when Rita attempts to prevent him from seeing their children.
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|EpisodeNumber = 10
|EpisodeNumber2 = 10
|Title = Seeing Red
|DirectedBy = Michael Cuesta
|WrittenBy = Kevin R. Maynard
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|12|3}}
|ShortSummary = Dexter is sent to investigate a horrific blood-soaked crime scene, which he usually enjoys, but is taken aback by a long-suppressed memory of a childhood trauma instead. Rita is charged with assaulting Paul and could lose her children in a custody battle. However, when Dexter finds out, he decides to remove Paul from his and Rita's lives, but by framing him rather than killing him. Angel investigates a [[intuition (knowledge)|hunch]] regarding the Ice Truck Killer concerning [[acrotomophilia|amputee fetish]]; he turns to Rudy for help but ends up getting stabbed in the parking lot. Meanwhile, Rudy displays a growing interest in getting to know Dexter, particularly in the lately awoken trauma he had recently experienced.
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|EpisodeNumber = 11
|EpisodeNumber2 = 11
|Title = Truth Be Told
|DirectedBy = [[Keith Gordon]]
|WrittenBy = Drew Z. Greenberg & Tim Schlattmann
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|12|10}}
|ShortSummary = The Ice Truck Killer strikes again, leaving a real nightmare before Christmas at Santa's Cottage. Sergeant Doakes becomes more suspicious about Dexter after uncovering a series of Dexter's lies about his connection to the Ice Truck Killer. Dexter finally finds he is connected to the Ice Truck Killer over a past case involving Harry Morgan and a blood-bath crime scene in 1973 involving Dexter's biological mother. Lieutenant Maria LaGuerta braces herself as Captain Matthews blames her for the department's failure to find the Ice Truck Killer, and he has her replaced. Rudy and Debra spend some quality time together, and Rudy proposes marriage to the smitten detective. Rita decides to take her children, Astor and Cody, to visit Paul, who has been sent back to prison.
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|EpisodeNumber = 12
|EpisodeNumber2 = 12
|Title = [[Born Free (Dexter)|Born Free]]
|DirectedBy = Michael Cuesta
|WrittenBy = Daniel Cerone & Melissa Rosenberg
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|12|17}}
|ShortSummary = Doakes and LaGuerta begin to suspect that Rudy is the Ice Truck Killer, while Dexter finds a suspicious picture of the shipping container where his mother was killed. A call from her ex-husband makes Rita suspicious of Dexter and his behavior. Dexter recalls that Rudy is in fact his biological brother, whose real name is Brian Moser. Brian intends to kill Debra with Dexter in a reunion with his true family, but Dexter stops him. As the police close in, Brian escapes and Dexter is left with Debra, appearing to have saved her. The same night, Brian breaks into Dexter's apartment and attempts to stab Debra, but Dexter captures him. After an emotionally charged conversation, Dexter slices his brother's throat and leaves him upside down to drain, staging it as a suicide, while wondering what would happen if everyone knew the truth about him.
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Revision as of 13:15, 4 November 2010

Episodes

See also: List of Dexter episodes
№ # Title Directed by Written by Original air date
11"Dexter"Michael CuestaJames Manos, Jr.October 1, 2006 (2006-10-01)
22"Crocodile"Michael CuestaClyde PhillipsOctober 8, 2006 (2006-10-08)
33"Popping Cherry"Michael CuestaDaniel CeroneOctober 15, 2006 (2006-10-15)
44"Let's Give the Boy a Hand"Robert LiebermanDrew Z. GreenbergOctober 22, 2006 (2006-10-22)
55"Love American Style"Robert LiebermanMelissa RosenbergOctober 29, 2006 (2006-10-29)
66"Return to Sender"Tony GoldwynTim SchlattmannNovember 5, 2006 (2006-11-05)
77"Circle of Friends"Steve ShillDaniel CeroneNovember 12, 2006 (2006-11-12)
88"Shrink Wrap"Tony GoldwynLauren GussisNovember 19, 2006 (2006-11-19)
99"Father Knows Best"Adam DavidsonMelissa RosenbergNovember 26, 2006 (2006-11-26)
1010"Seeing Red"Michael CuestaKevin R. MaynardDecember 3, 2006 (2006-12-03)
1111"Truth Be Told"Keith GordonDrew Z. Greenberg & Tim SchlattmannDecember 10, 2006 (2006-12-10)
1212"Born Free"Michael CuestaDaniel Cerone & Melissa RosenbergDecember 17, 2006 (2006-12-17)
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