She had her bright spots, her brief infidelities and her nagging wife moments, but through it all Rita never gave up the guy she loved. That’s why Dexter will be a lot darker for her passing.
In his relationship with Rita, Dexter learned to love, to become a parent, and to form the human bonds that he claimed only to mimic when the series began. Her death gives new license for him to unleash his Dark Passenger. Watch out!
Today, we pause and remember Rita Morgan in her last season on the show. Thanks, Julie Benz, for making Rita a character who displayed a fragility beneath her beauty and balanced the show’s violence with a calming, enduring faith in humanity. You will be missed.
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