Whereas there are a ton of nice villains later within the present that lay declare to being the most effective large unhealthy in Miami, the Ice Truck Killer, a.okay.a Brian Moser (Christian Camargo), stakes his declare proper out of the gate as the last word Dexter antagonist. No villain is extra reflective of Dexter’s personal morality whereas additionally depicting sensible serial killer tendencies than Moser. 

The complexity of the killer dynamics between Dexter and the Ice Truck Killer constructed the sturdy basis that the present benefited from for not less than 4 extra seasons henceforth. Dexter and Brian are mirror photographs of each other as a result of they’re organic brothers. Each surviving their slain mom’s demise in a transport container of their youths, Dexter learns of Brian’s life and the way his brother manages his trauma otherwise than him. 

Brian doesn’t have lots of guidelines. The truth is, the Ice Truck Killer preys on the susceptible and ruthlessly goes after Dexter’s sister, Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), in a psychotic try to glean details about Dexter and pressure him over to his aspect. The writers expertly unveil every of those bits of details about the Ice Truck Killer by means of his creepy interactions whereas fake-dating Debra and the distinctive chemistry between Corridor and Camargo. 

As an alternative of making an attempt to withstand the urge to kill harmless victims like Dexter does, the Ice Truck Killer leverages his data of Dexter’s previous in an try to feed on his vulnerability. This merciless tactic represents Moser’s symbolization of Dexter’s darkest aspect, or what might have occurred to the blood spatter analyst with out loving members of the family resembling Debra to struggle for. 

When Moser kidnaps Debra on the finish of the season and asks Dexter to kill her with him, it offers our sympathetic antihero a alternative that might have destroyed the present, however as a substitute catapulted it to final success. Brian is the one dwelling organic relative left alive. Debra is an adoptive sister, however one who loves him greater than a DNA sibling ever might. Brian tries to placate Dexter’s want for household and bloodshed with out realizing that he wakened the a part of Dexter that makes him completely different. 

Dexter chooses Debra as a result of she’s the nice that’s nonetheless left in him. Brian is a bottomless pit of evil. He feeds on extra loss of life and destruction. His pursuit of Dexter as his Robin to his Batman represents the utter ethical depravity of each males’s conditions. Their beginnings had been the identical, however the path to redemption begins just for Dexter as soon as they meet. With out the Ice Truck Killer, Dexter would have by no means been in a position to see how he differs from somebody even worse than him.