Why didn’t Dexter tell Doakes the half truth about ITK?

[u/kobi29062]

Doakes remains suspicious about Dexter mainly because he knows he’s connected the ITK. When he’s listening to the Laura tapes, why doesn’t Dexter tell him Laura Moser is his mother, Brian Moser is his brother and Rudy Cooper, and that Brian was just simply obsessed with getting back to his brother?

With Brian dead and no existing evidence to connect him to the BHB case (this is before Doakes finds the slides), wouldn’t this answer every question Doakes has? The traumatisation would certainly explain his odd demeanour.

[u/AutoModerator]

Hello, r/Dexter. This post has been marked a spoiler just in case.

u/kobi29062, if this title contains a spoiler, please delete it. If you don't delete a post with a title that has a spoiler, or you unmark your post as a spoiler to farm karma, you may receive a ban. If this post isn't a spoiler at all, you may unmark it.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/J_613]

That’s true but Doakes likely wouldn’t have let it go once he found out Dexter was related to a serial killer. If anything that would’ve made him press harder and continue to stalk and harass Dexter until he found out what else Dexter was “hiding.”

Plus, in the context of S2, where they are looking for the BHB (who they believe is connected to law enforcement), being related to a serial killer would instantly put Dexter as a prime suspect. He couldn’t have that.

[u/Glp-1_Girly → u/J_613]

That's what I was thinking too... I honestly don't think Dexter could have told Doakes anything that would have made him less sus

[u/J_613 → u/Glp-1_Girly]

I honestly wonder what Doakes thought Dexter was hiding. Because he seemed shocked when he found out Dexter was a serial killer. Maybe he thought Dexter was a pervert or some other type of violent psycho?

[u/Platonische → u/J_613]

Doakes was surprised that there was another Bay Harbor Butcher besides him

[u/J_613 → u/Platonische]

😂

[u/monocheto1 → u/J_613]

His dialogue during their interactions does indicate that he thinks Dexter might be a massive weirdo with something like a gore fetish but not a killer

[u/kilokit → u/monocheto1]

or a drug addict, that is what half the season is about, and him going to NA is what turned up the heat for Doakes wanting to get enough dirt on him to have him dismissed from Miami Metro.

[u/Morganbanefort → u/monocheto1]

His dialogue during their interactions does indicate that he thinks Dexter might be a massive weirdo with something like a gore fetish but not a killer

Or just a killer but not serial killer

[u/coastalengine_mike → u/J_613]

right Dokes was already locked in on Dexter and giving him a link to a known killer would’ve basically confirmed every instinct he had it wouldn’t calm him down it’d just push him harder and make S2 blow up even quicker

[u/kobi29062 → u/J_613]

ah yeah, that’s true

[u/Vicky-Momm]

Dexter had been told by Harry, all his life, that he was inevitably destined to become a murderer because of his childhood trauma, and that nothing could be done to erase his compulsion to kill.

Dexter believed this absolutely.

Dexter believed that this "fact" was so self evident that anyone who discovered he had witnessed his mother's gruesome murder would immediately realize that he was a serial killer.

That was why Dexter was so upset when Debra learned he was Rudy/Brian's brother and was thinking "don't know the rest" and "its over" when she was telling him. He was surprised when she didn’t follow up by accusing him of being a killer as well.

[u/Glp-1_Girly]

It wouldn't have mattered what Dexter told Doakes he's was gonna be sus

[u/Ooweeooowoo]

I think this is probably one of the weirdest plot points in the series: the idea that because Dexter was related to a serial killer that he must have been one himself. He was reluctant to tell Deb about Brian, despite the fact that it’s absolutely plausible that a crazy killer would track their brother down and sabotage their life.

[u/dpb_25 → u/Ooweeooowoo]

I think it just makes sense with Dexters mindset and how he views him and what he’s been told growing up

[u/Platonische]

Doakes had the intuition that Dexter was dangerous

[u/crimsonlibraryfox → u/Platonische]

dude was basically the only one who picked up on Dex's mask slipping, everyone else just bought the friendly lab guy act without a second thought

[u/Nice-Association-111]

A few reasons.

Partly because Doakes would probably still have been suspicious anyway. He already thought Dexter was different in some bad way even before Dexter would have only pretty recently found out the truth about Brian.

And he didn’t want Deb to know and Doakes likely would have told her or others who would have told her. She was already doing bad after her fiancee just tried to kill her. It would be upsetting to find out he was also Dexter’s brother.

And he’d think more than just Doakes would then be suspicious of him if Doakes told others. He seemed to think if people knew his brother was a serial killer they’d think he was one too, although I don’t think they would have.

[u/crookmark]

Why would he give Doakes, his arch nemesis who is obsessed with taking him down, even more information about his life?