Why Dexter Stopped Bringing Donuts For The Station
One of Dexter’s earliest quirks was the fact that the serial killer would bring donuts for everyone at the Miami Metro police station, but the series abruptly stopped including this habit. The majority of Dexter’s life in public is spent putting on a charade of “normalcy,” wherein he attempts to act in ways that would be deemed socially acceptable to dissuade any suspicion about his bloody extracurricular activities. When Dexter Morgan isn’t tracking down dangerous killers or covering up his own crimes, Dexter is following the Code of Harry that instructs him to blend in and make people like him.
The pilot episode of Dexter sees the titular serial killer bring a box of donuts into the station, with each colleague greeting him with a friendly smile (besides James Doakes, of course). Dexter repeats this trick to get his coworkers to like him throughout the series, with the majority of the show’s season pilots and finales seeing Dexter try to get into the good graces of the station through Sadie’s Donuts. Dexter's daily habit of buying a dozen donuts was so important to him that he even considered inviting the donut guy to his wedding. Realizing the donuts have worked to make most of Miami Metro like him, Dexter Morgan even reuses the trick when Harrison enters preschool in Dexter season 6, with the serial killer desperately hoping that young Harrison Morgan’s budding social skills will be better than his own.
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Considering the donuts gag was one of the most recognizable quirks of Dexter (outside of the vigilante serial killing), it felt oddly abrupt that he stopped bringing in donuts around Dexter season 7. However, this is largely explained by
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