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Boyd Fowler is a supporting antagonist of Season Five of Showtime's TV show Dexter and a member of the Barrel Girl Gang.
He was portrayed by Shawn Hatosy, who also portrayed Chester Manning in Law & Order and Jimmy Hall in Criminal Minds.
Biography[]
Background[]
Growing up, Boyd developed a sexual fetish for torturing and raping women. At summer camp, he met and befriended fellow sexual sadists Jordan Chase, Dan Mendell, Cole Harmon and Alex Tilden. They conspired together to rape a camp counsellor named Emily Birch, who was abducted by Chase and then gang raped by the other four. The five of them went their separate ways but kept in contact, meeting up regularly to torture and rape a woman. It was Boyd's responsibility to kill the rape victim by electrocuting them after they finished up, dissolving their bodies in barrels of Formaldehyde to hide the evidence. By the events of the show, Boyd has killed at least twelve women this way.
At some point, Boyd was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and met fellow sex offender Robert Brunner who was imprisoned for kidnapping, torturing and raping a woman. The two formed a friendship that ended when Boyd was released from prison.
Role in the show[]
At the beginning of Season Five, Dexter Morgan decides to move several items of furniture out of his house as part of the grieving process for his wife Rita, who was murdered by the Trinity Killer in the previous season. As a result, he rents a moving van, noticing blood on the interior. A further investigation reveals bloody hand prints in the back, and a blood pattern indicating blunt force trauma. Dexter then checks and discovers that it's human blood and that the truck was previously rented out to roadkill disposal officer Boyd Fowler.
Deciding to investigate Boyd, Dexter kills a raccoon and leaves it in the road in order to lure him out. When Boyd arrives, he comments that the lack of tire tracks makes it seem like the raccoon was killed and then dumped in the road, making Dexter nervous. After Boyd leaves, Dexter decides that Boyd is suspicious and follows him before breaking into his house, finding a firearm, something prohibited for a convicted felon. Boyd then arrives back home, and Dexter hides, overhearing Boyd listening to Take It! CDs by Chase. Before Dexter escapes, he sees a tag with the number "8" on the floor, as well as a lock of human hair.
That night, Dexter follows Boyd to a swamp, where he sees him dump a metal drum in the swamp. Dexter opens the drum after Boyd leaves, and finds a dead woman inside. He also finds three similar drums nearby. The camera then cuts to elsewhere, where Boyd places an unconscious woman inside a drum and electrocutes her to death.
In the following episode, Dexter meets up with Boyd, asking him for a job in roadkill disposal as a way to get near him and kill him. The next day, Dexter and Boyd dispose of several dead animals, before being called to deal with a dead gator. As Boyd approaches the gator, Dexter injects him with M99, but Boyd turns around and manages to shoot him with a tranquilizer dart before passing out. They are both found and transferred to hospital, where Boyd tells a paramedic that he fainted after accidentally shooting Dexter. When left alone by the doctors, Boyd gets out of his bed and goes to stab Dexter, only to discover he has already left, going home himself after realizing this.
After arriving home, Boyd is jumped by Dexter, who injects him with M99 again, knocking him out. Boyd comes round tied to his table with Dexter standing over him. Dexter confronts him about his crimes, and collects a blood slide from him. Boyd claims he was being kind by putting the women out of their misery, and tells Dexter he has no idea what he's getting into, but Dexter simply kills him by stabbing him in the heart. Dexter later goes on to find Lumen Pierce, a woman who the gang had raped and tortured and who was going to be killed by Boyd, in Boyd's attic, ultimately leading to him finding and killing the rest of the Barrel Girl Gang.
Victims[]
- Jessica Shelton - Raped, tortured, electrocuted with jumper cables in barrel filled with formaldehyde by Doctor Dan Mendell, Cole Harmon, Alex Tilden, and Boyd Fowler on the orders of Jordan Chase. Found dead, killed five years ago.
- Susanna Flood - Raped, tortured, electrocuted with jumper cables in barrel filled with formaldehyde by Doctor Dan Mendell, Cole Harmon, Alex Tilden, and Boyd Fowler on the orders of Jordan Chase. Found dead, killed five years ago.
- Irene Plax - Raped, tortured, electrocuted with jumper cables in barrel filled with formaldehyde by Doctor Dan Mendell, Cole Harmon, Alex Tilden, and Boyd Fowler on the orders of Jordan Chase. Found dead, killed five years ago.
- Julie Fiasconaro - Raped, tortured, electrocuted with jumper cables in barrel filled with formaldehyde by Doctor Dan Mendell, Cole Harmon, Alex Tilden, and Boyd Fowler on the orders of Jordan Chase. Found dead, killed five years ago.
- Jane Doe - Raped, tortured, electrocuted with jumper cables in barrel filled with formaldehyde by Doctor Dan Mendell, Cole Harmon, Alex Tilden, and Boyd Fowler on the orders of Jordan Chase. Found dead, killed five years ago.
- Seven Women - Raped, tortured, electrocuted with jumper cables in barrel filled with formaldehyde by Doctor Dan Mendell, Cole Harmon, Alex Tilden, and Boyd Fowler on the orders of Jordan Chase. Shown in a video, happened over 20 years ago.
Gallery[]
External Link[]
- Boyd Fowler - Dexter Wiki
