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 Name:
Harry Morgan
Portrayed by:
James Remar
Age: mid 50's
Height: 5'10
1/2"
Hair: brown
Eyes: Brown
Occupation: Detective for the Homicide
department at the Miami Metro Police.
Family:
- Doris Morgan,wife (deceased)
- Debra Morgan, daughter
- Dexter Morgan, adoptive son
History:
Harry Morgan was a detective and highly-respected
member of the Miami Police Department, and a close
friend of his immediate superior Lieutenant Tom
Matthews. In the course of a high-stakes drug case,
Harry began an illicit relationship with Laura
Moser, Dexter's biological mother, to gather
information and evidence on the drug lords in
question. As Laura feared, she was discovered and
made an example of; she and three others were
executed with chainsaws in a shipping container. Her
sons Brian and Dexter were left in the container for
several days, sitting in two inches of blood, until
Harry and a police team recovered them. Harry
adopted Dexter, while Brian was sent into foster
care. Harry believed that the older Brian would be
forever traumatized by the event and was
"unsalvageable," but that Dexter was still young
enough to be "saved." Eventually, however, Harry
realized that the experience had bred in Dexter an
innate need to kill.
At first, Harry
attempted to manage Dexter's violent urges by only
allowing him to kill animals, but he eventually came
to the conclusion that Dexter's pathology couldn't
be repressed, only controlled: Harry decided to
train the boy as a vigilante, to hunt and kill
murderers without leaving any clues. Dexter prized
these lessons as a means to fulfill his desires with
his father's approval, dubbing them the "Code of
Harry". Harry's relationship with his biological
daughter Debra, meanwhile, was more complicated. She
craved her father's approval, but felt that he
favored Dexter.
When Dexter was 19,
Harry fell seriously ill and gave Dexter
"permission" to kill one of his nurses, who was
intentionally poisoning him with morphine. A year
later, when Juan Rinez, a pimp who was murdering his
own prostitutes, was released due to a faulty search
warrant, Harry lost his temper and told Dexter he
was right in training him. When Dexter killed Rinez,
Harry was horrified by the way Dexter proudly showed
him the pimp's dismembered body; it was Harry's
first actual view of Dexter's "work", and he was
ashamed of what he had trained Dexter to do. Harry
committed suicide a few days later by deliberately
overdosing on his medication, but not before telling
Matthews to look after his children.
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