He's a manifestation of his psychosis. He's obviously not some angel or ghost, and he's not some storytelling device. All their conversations are entirely in Dexter's head otherwise people would obviously wonder why this guy's always talking to himself.
He also almost always shows up when Dexter has the urge to kill, and he's the one telling him to murder and hide everything.
Let's get it straight, folks. Dexter's dark passenger has no form or face. The dark passenger is his compulsion and urge to kill.
Apparition Harry and apparition Deb are NOT dark passengers. They are manifestations of his conscience that help provide him perspective. Even though Dexter is a psychopath, they are manifestations of the parts of him that are his humanity. They are guides that help balance him. But again, they are not dark passengers.
Dexter's dark passenger is what drives him to kill. As far as I can recall, the dark passenger never revealed itself in a human form. The closest argument that could be made, I think, is when Dexter started seeing his dead brother Brian Moser. However, I believe that was more the manifestation of his guilt rather than the dark passenger.
All that said, I'm posting this because many people are speculating that Trinity may appear as Harrison's dark passenger. It may be mere semantics and choice of words how to describe Trinity if he does appear to Harrison, but he would not be a dark passenger.
***Now, here's the theory - you can skip this part if you want***
In my exchanges with some of you, someone brought up the idea that Harrison could be the exact antithesis of Dexter - Harrison could be fundamentally good. That got me thinking. He doesn't have a dark passenger or any passenger at all. I was originally opposed to the idea that Harrison sees Trinity and I'm vehemently opposed to Trinity being a dark passenger. However, I might be able to accept that his trauma split his personality and he has a dark guide that could take the form of Trinity. Okay, maybe I'm mincing words, but I need to do this otherwise I can't reconcile this theory with the original series. This dark guide would have no basis in real-life interactions like Dexter had with Harry. Instead, Trinity would be entirely based on however Harrison's fragile and impressionable mind interprets the research he uncovers about Trinity. Most news accounts sensationalize and over-dramatize the serial killer, so this dark guide could be darker than the real Trinity himself. Instead of being a voice of reason and conscience, this apparition in Harrison's mind begins to drive him insane and urges him (urge, like a dark passenger would) to do evil. This theory sort of repeats the "Trinity is Harrison's dark passenger theory," but it starts there and can get much more interesting if explained as a dissociative disorder.
Part 2 of this theory would involve Dexter and Harrison working together, father passing on the code to his son, and catching Kurt or whoever the killer is, all the while Harrison struggles with dark Trinity who urges him to kill Dexter for causing Rita's death and abandoning Harrison until Dexter dies in the process of finally reaching Harrison and defeating dark Trinity and perhaps even replacing Trinity as a guide... but I'll leave that theory to incubate for a bit longer </end run-on sentence>
The Dark Passenger is a concept that represents the demon inside that makes us do terrible things. “I just know there's something dark in me. I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it. But it's there. Always. This ‘Dark Passenger.’ And when he's driving, I feel...alive. Half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him. I don't want to.” Dexter Psychiatrist Carl Jung describes those aspects of the personality that we choose to reject and repress as the Shadow. He saw the psyche as something that could be divided into component parts which function like secondary selves that contribute to the whole. “No one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.” Have you ever said or done something really shitty, mostly on an impulse, that you later regretted? In this moment the lack of control you had betrays the existence of a different person lurking beneath. The Dark Passenger can also refer to an addiction, such as for a drug, and other distinctive dark desires. If you give in, you're no longer driving behind your own actions, and your darker self does whatever it wants until you're left with only wreckage and aftermath. See also: feeding the alligators by Darkpool February 3, 2020
On the U.S. TV series "Dexter", Dexter's Dark Passenger is his urge to kill very bad individuals (criminals). Dexter's Dark Passenger (a need to kill) was born during his mother's brutal murder by chainsaw at the hands of Santos Jimenez and two other men. After the killing when he was still a toddler, Dexter was trained by his father, Harry Morgan to focus his urge on other killers and to live by a code. Although Dexter had a preferred modus operandi, he would frequently improvise. He found glee in killing and dismembering his victims. His way of working made the disposal of the bodies easy.
In Season 1, the Dark Passenger was mentioned as a general term for the burden Dexter carried as a result of his childhood trauma. In Season 2, the Dark Passenger was used to refer to an addiction, such as for a drug (it was an inconvenient lie). In the following seasons until the end in Season 8, Dexter felt that his Dark Passenger represented a part of his inhumane side, that the only way he could control it was to channel it, not suppress it, and that notwithstanding the Dark Passenger he (Dexter) had to accept personal responsibility for his actions.
"Dexter" is a TV crime drama mystery series that aired on Showtime from October 2006 to September 2013. Set in Miami, FL, the show centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a forensic technician specializing in blood analysis for the police. Dexter leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers.
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Original US 2007 Cover Publication date The first novel in the series to explore supernatural elements, Dexter in the Dark was released September 18, 2007, in the United States and October 3, 2007, in the United Kingdom. The Season 1 DVD of the Dexter television series allows access to the first two chapters of Dexter in the Dark when viewed on a computer, additionally revealing that the book was originally scheduled to be released earlier in the year.
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ISBN 0-7528-8509-X (UK)Preceded byDearly Devoted Dexter Followed byDexter by Design
Dexter in the Dark original UK 2007 version.
Dexter Morgan investigates a double homicide at the University of Miami campus, where two female students have been found burned and beheaded. Their heads are replaced by the ceramic heads of bulls. Something about this uncharacteristically frightens Dexter's "Dark Passenger" into silence, leaving him to solve the crime on his own. As a series of similar murders take place, members of a mysterious cult begin stalking Dexter, believing his Dark Passenger to be a threat to them.
Dexter soon begins to question the Dark Passenger, as he slowly realizes that it's a true entity unto itself, possibly an offspring of the ancient god Moloch. While attempting to dispatch a killer who had been stalking him, Dexter becomes frightened and is unable to go through with the deed. He soon realizes that the Dark Passenger had given him an unusual amount of confidence and an almost supernatural awareness of the world around him; now that it's gone, he feels vulnerable for the first time in his life. Dexter begins to develop sadness and anger, emotions that were once suppressed by the Dark Passenger. While missing the helpful clues and hints of the Dark Passenger, Dexter feeds off of his newfound emotions to find some balance in his life as well as solve the mystery unfolding around him.
Meanwhile, traumatized by their abusive biological father, Dexter's soon-to-be stepchildren Astor and Cody Bennett have developed homicidal tendencies similar to his own. Dexter intends to teach them the "Code of Harry", which his adoptive father used to help him hide his dark nature, blend in with normal people, and channel his sociopathic urges to rid society of killers who deserve to die. While Cody and Astor are eager to learn, Dexter informs them that they aren't ready yet, and still have years of training left before they'll be able to inflict any real human suffering.
The cult kidnaps Astor and Cody, thereby forcing Dexter to engage them head-on. However, the cult soon captures Dexter through a supernatural captivation of music. Though confined in a small storage closet, Dexter escapes and encounters an old man who's the current avatar of Moloch. Though Dexter is instantly humbled and frightened by Moloch, he continuously mocks the malignant spirit, which in turn entrances the trio and orders them to be sacrificed in a flaming pit. Dexter manages to snap out of his trance and opens fire on the cult members. Moloch takes Astor hostage and threatens to kill her, only for Cody to stab him in the back with his own ceremonial knife.
Dexter laments that, due to having killed at such an early age, Cody's journey will now be more difficult. Weeks pass, and Dexter is left alone to accept life without his Dark Passenger. At his wedding to Rita Bennett, Dexter falls into a state of depression as he thinks about how painful his life is going to be in its banality. Just then, the Dark Passenger returns, brought on by Dexter's immense suffering, and Dexter is made whole again in the final paragraphs of the novel.
This is the first of Jeff Lindsay's "Dexter" series not narrated exclusively in the first-person point of view. Along with Dexter's first-person narration, the novel includes third person narration from two other points of view. One is a person called the Watcher, a member of the cult that follows and observes Dexter. The other is a mythical, godlike entity called "IT" (revealed to be Moloch) which has existed since the beginning of time and is similar in various ways to the Dark Passenger. IT takes great pleasure in entering creatures as a "passenger" and making them kill other creatures, and it works to create other murderous entities similar to itself, but soon turns against many of them, causing them to flee. IT and its offspring go to war, and IT prevails. Some of IT's remaining children stay in hiding, fearing IT's power.
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