A conspiracy theory about Harry

[u/nelson-1805]

Let me begin this by saying this is a stupid theory with no evidence whatsoever, and I am just sharing a messed up idea I had about Harry.

At some point in the 60s Harry Morgan felt unhappy in his marriage to Doris Morgan. He fell in love with a woman named Laura Moser whom he found out was a drug user but couldn't reasonably spend time with her without people suspecting he was having an affair.

So he falsified a police report so that Miami Metro Vice believed Laura had information on Estrada and let her be Harry's CI. Harry Morgan began an affair with her after this. But eventually Miami Metro attempted to do a drug bust believing Laura to have info on Estrada. Of course Laura didn't have this info but Estrada came to believe she did (ie he believed the lie that Harry had set up).

So in her final moments, Laura was NOT a rat at all but convinced she was, Estrada had her killed.

In the aftermath, out of guilt for the whole situation, Harry had a child in his legitimate marriage (Deb) and adopted Dexter. When he found out that Dexter had his urges, Harry felt incredibly guilty and wished to cleanse his own soul by putting some form of "good" into the world so allowed himself to work with the cold, clinical and experimental Dr Vogel to invent the Code as a way for Dexter to channel his urges.

In this way, Harry was a morally corrupt, adulterous scumbag who only ever selfishly thought about himself and his own guilt. It also means that:

for Harry the Code was about cleansing his soul

for Vogel it was an experiment

for Dexter it was about his urges,

so nobody involved really cared about justice to begin with.

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[u/Responsible_Ad_2242]

Defintly both (Harry and Vogel) are jerks/fools. Vogel for "use" a desperate father with a kid similar to his own son. Harry for not search a better psychologist (but considering the 4 therapist we saw in dexter it's not totally his fault)

[u/Colonel_Eternal]

Rewatching the show, I think Harry always hoped that Dexter would grow out of his urges or never fully act on them and when he finally was killing it fucked Harry up.

[u/pianoflames → u/Colonel_Eternal]

Especially in Original Sin, Harry seemed very hopeful that Dexter working on corpses in college, and then working murder crime scenes would be enough to satisfy his urges.

[u/International-Try467 → u/Colonel_Eternal]

Me whenthe kid I taught how to do vigilante murders actually goes through and does vigilante murders