It is helpful for Dexter's case that he seems to be surrounded by people who are themselves a little bit off. Especially the scenes with Masuka [C.S. Lee] are a lot of fun, just being perplexed by his oddity.
Now that he's married Rita, does he give up the apartment? Can he? Can he give up that AC unit?
In the first episode we discover that, without revealing it to Rita, he's committed to keeping his apartment. I'm not sure how he pays for it, but we never get into that.
We've had lots of fantastical things on the show. Like being able to get his brother Rudy back to the site of the crime scene where they discovered the Ice Truck Killer, in that room, and slash his throat and get out of there. He obviously has some sort of shape-shifting ability, but we don't see those scenes.
He is extremely strong.
Extremely strong, extremely intelligent, yet almost autistic, and, I don't know. I looked at the pilot script and thought, "Is this a person who could ever be?" But somehow we give over to suspending our disbelief.
The audience roots for him, which can get extremely creepy.
Considering what we know about him and what we've come to accept in terms of his undeniable affliction, he's taken really remarkable responsibility for it, if we can give over to the fact that he has no choice but to kill, which people seem to give over to him.
Can you tell us anything else about Season 4?
We've flash-forwarded a little bit. Dexter and Rita have a new home that they're sharing together, with Astor and Cody and Dexter's new baby son, Harrison. And Dexter hasn't been alleviated. His compulsion remains. I don't know if we'd be able to keep our audience if Dexter woke up one day and said, "I don't really feel like killing anybody anymore."
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