Dexter finally reveals the origins of why he brings donuts to the station, 18 years later

NOTICE! This article contains SPOILERS for Dexter: Original Sin season 1, episode 2!Throughout the original series, Dexter Morgan was known for frequently bringing a box of donuts to work to share with his co-workers.and Dexter: Original Sin finally reveals where this idea came from. As Dexter: Original SinDexter's timeline takes Dexter back to the first time he actually joined a team and began honing his social skills. It becomes increasingly evident that once he learned these strategies for making others like him, he never stopped using them. Case in point, bringing donuts to his colleagues, which he not only did all the time Dexteroriginal series, but also in New blood.

Although he often struggled to understand the basic social skills of making friends, getting people to like him, and making everyone think he was just another “normal“man, Dexter discovered that offering donuts to others was the easiest way to reach their hearts. In Dexter: Original Sin Season 1, Episode 2, the prequel reveals the first time Dexter brought donuts to the Miami subway. There are some comical missteps in Dexter's alternative attempts to get his classmates to like him, but by the end of the episode, a tradition is born that he has maintained for decades.

Dexter started bringing donuts after his classmates hated his idea of ​​bringing vegetables

Dexter knew that food was the way to earn the appreciation of his co-workers.

Dexter: Original Sin reveals that, before bringing donuts, Dexter tried to win over his colleagues with a different type of food. Although his heart was in the right place, 20-year-old Dexter Morgan was a little misguided with his first attempt, which saw him bring a tray of vegetables to share with others at the station. This didn't go so well, with detectives from the Miami police force and other metro departments rejecting Dexter's offer, although finding it a bit strange.

After Dexter showed the vegetable tray to Camilla Figg, a mother figure to him following the deaths of his biological mother Laura Moser and adoptive mother Doris Morgan, she helped guide him in the right direction. Bluntly, Camilla told Dexter that the cops “don't eat that shit”, so I started throwing the vegetable tray in the trash. With Camila's help, young Dexter showed up the next day with a box of donuts, which was immediately greeted with enthusiasm and gratitude of Dexter: Original SinCharacters from Miami Metro. That's where Dexter found the key to adapting and being pleasant at work.

Dexter bringing donuts was the first time other people in the Miami metro began to appreciate him

The donuts that Dexter brought for years were based on his first major social achievement

For years, Harry tried to find ways to get Dexter to connect with others around him. However, although Harry didn't want Dexter to work on the Miami subway because of his fears that it would be too easy for Dexter to get caught, it finally gave him a community and a sense of “normalcy” with a social outlet. Not only that, but gave Dexter friends for the first time in his life through Batista and Masuka.

Although Harry gave Dexter some advice for playing with others to fit in, it was Dexter's own idea to bring donuts that finally worked. It's touching that Dexter sharing donuts is the first thing that makes other people in Miami Metro appreciate him, and that he will continue to do so for decades to come when he works there. Through his routine of bringing donuts to the Miami subway, Dexter gets an interesting look at the simplicity of social acceptance in groups, something he's always had a hard time facing, but which integrates one of his favorite things besides killing: food.

Dexter eventually stops bringing donuts to the Miami subway in Dexter Season 7

Later, Dexter had better masks than being the “donut guy”

Dexter bringing donuts to the Miami subway has become a staple of the show in almost every season of Dexter – until it stopped abruptly in season 7. This element of Dexter's efforts to maintain his mask of normalcy is so integrated into his routine that he gets to know the people who work at Sadie's Donuts. However, in Dexter seasons 7 and 8, he stops bringing donuts to his Miami Metro colleagues after more than 20 years of being the “donut guy” at work.

Dexter Morgan's failure to bring donuts to the Miami subway coincided with a divisive change in his character in the original show's later seasons. At this point, Dexter was getting sloppier in his killing spree, which included breaking Harry's Code, and he began to explore whether he could get rid of his Dark Passenger for good. This involved taking off some of the masks he had long worn in front of the people around him, such as no longer believing he needed to bribe other people with donuts if he already seemed “normal” enough with his and Rita’s family.

At the beginning of the original Dexter show, the titular serial killer's mask of normalcy was typically displayed bringing donuts to the station, playing on the Miami Metro bowling team, and dating Rita. However, after he married Rita and had their son, Harrison, these aspects of trying to appear more approachable and likable through sugar-coated bribes and group activities were eliminated. Of course, as in Dexter: Original SinDexter had to bring these strategies back into the game when he was resuming his social disguises in Iron Lake in New blood.

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