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He couldn't make things right with Rita, so he took in a battered and broken individual and selflessly took on her own darkness. The things he did for Lumen were essentially an act of contrition. Story-wise it was sort of an extension of the last season because Dexter was dealing with guilt over his brief and neglectful marriage.

(On a side note I think this was eventually illustrated in a clumsy way with the twist ending, but at least the point was clear.) Dexter eventually learned the hard way that you can't just make perfunctory appearances and not expect things that have been built up to degrade. With family comes a great need for responsibility and priority (see also care, neglect, nurturing). Friendship and marriage are ultimately built on the same foundation of trust. There were parallels drawn between Dexter's relationships with Miguel and Rita. This mostly goes hand-in-hand with friendship, but it extends beyond that somewhat. (Addiction lies in this same sphere so you were pretty much on the money here.) Doakes brought up suicide, and even planted seeds of regret and shame in Dexter's mind, causing him to consider turning himself in-other ways of letting go.

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Dexter struggled with this when he had to make his toughest decision yet regarding Doakes: 'Kill me now or set me free!' It was either give in to his greatest weakness, the need to kill, or set him free and ultimately risk losing everything. The opposite action is to let go, to free oneself of the bindings, the vices that sustain yet also chain us. Lila was the embodiment of dependence, she coveted Dexter to the point that it nearly brought down everyone around her. By the end of the season, Dexter's strict adherence to Harry's teachings ended up costing him his brother, 'the only one he ever wanted to let go'.

#Dexter pilot script code

Brian represented the antithesis of Harry's code he was a free spirit with no rules. He never really questioned a way of life that came from within. In the beginning Dexter followed Harry's code to the letter and never really let his own feelings get in the way.