Dexter’s father: How to raise a psychopath

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Dexter’s father: How to raise a psychopath

Until now, viewers of the Dexter TV series had always seen Harry Morgan — the adoptive father of one of the most famous fictional murderers in popular culture — as a simple memory. He died years before the events shown in the series and, for eight seasons, he personified the voice of the protagonist’s conscience whenever he had an internal dialogue. Morgan was the man who managed to impose a moral code on a psychopathic mind, placing the murdere…