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| “ | You can't be a killer and a hero. It doesn't work that way! | „ |
| ~ Brian Moser to Dexter Morgan. |
| “ | A real brother. None of this foster bullsh-t. We're blood brothers, through birth and death. | „ |
| ~ Brian Moser to Dexter Morgan. |
| “ | You’re the one that needs setting free little brother.. Your life is a life, you’ll never be what you- | „ |
| ~ Brian Moser’s last words before getting his throat slit by Dexter. |
Brian Anderson Moser, also known as the Ice Truck Killer, is the main antagonist in the Dexter novel series and Season 1 of its TV adaptation.
Brian is the older brother of Dexter Morgan, assumes the identity of Rudy Cooper, and begins stalking Dexter, also dating Dexter's adoptive sister Debra to get closer to him.
He is portrayed by Christian Camargo, who also portrayed Dracula in Penny Dreadful.
History[]
TV series[]
Brian is Dexter Morgan's older brother. When he was seven and Dexter was three, they both saw their mother, Laura, murdered and dismembered by drug dealers working for Hector Estrada, who then left the boys sitting in a pool of their mother's blood for three days inside of a shipping container. They were both irreparably traumatized by the incident and essentially transformed into sociopaths. Dexter was adopted by Harry Morgan, the detective who found them, while Brian was left in the foster care system. As an adult, he began murdering prostitutes, draining their bodies of blood, dismembering them, and freezing their severed body parts in refrigerated trucks; this earned him the nickname "The Ice Truck Killer." He also murders Dexter's biological father, Joe Driscoll, who may have also been his father, though whether or not this is the case is unconfirmed.
During his rampage, he learns that Dexter is also a serial killer, and he sets out to find him. He kills a man named Rudy Cooper and steals his identity. He starts stalking Dexter and putting doll parts related to his crime scenes in Dexter's apartment. He starts dating Dexter's adoptive sister, Debra, in order to get closer to him. When Detective Angelo Batista starts to catch on to him, he stabs the officer in the back, but not fatally. He kidnaps Debra, intending for Dexter and himself to kill her together as some sort of family reunion. After a long conversation, Brian tries to kill Debra, and Dexter attacks him. The police show up at the hideout, but Brian is able to escape. He shows up later that night at Dexter’s apartment intending to kill Debra, but Dexter drugs him and slits his throat, staging his death to look like a suicide.
He later appears as a manifestation of Dexter's "dark passenger," advising him on how to kill.
Book Series[]
Jeff Lindsay's book series, on which the TV show is based, portrays Brian differently. In the first book of the series, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Brian tells Dexter, who does not remember his childhood, about the trauma that made them into killers. Dexter prevents Brian from killing Debra, but Dexter allows him to escape. In later books, he reluctantly allows Brian to help "mentor" his stepchildren Astor and Cody as budding murderers. In Dexter is Dead, the last book in the series, Brian is killed by mobsters who have kidnapped Astor and Cody.
Dexter: The Game[]
Although Brian does not directly appear in the video game, the second level, Dear Dexter, revolves around the department investigating two murders carried out by an unknown individual in which the bodies were drained of all blood. The Ice Truck Killer's M.O. Dexter figures out that the killer used an ice truck to transport his victims, further indicating that the perpetrator is Brian. Presumably, he suffers the same fate as his TV show counterpart after the events of the game.
Victims[]
- Two Prostitutes - Frozen, decapitated and dismembered, then drained of blood by Brian Moser, mentioned they were killed in Broward county.
- Prostitute - Frozen, decapitated and dismembered, then drained of blood by Brian Moser. Found in hotel swimming pool.
- Prostitute - Frozen, decapitated and dismembered, then drained of blood by Brian Moser. Found near a fountain.
- Sheri Taylor - Frozen, decapitated and dismembered, then drained of blood by Brian Moser. Found in Ice Hockey Stadium. Her blood was later used in the blood buckets.
- Unnamed Prostitute - Frozen, decapitated and dismembered, then drained of blood by Brian Moser. Shown dead.
- Joe Driscoll - Injected with diabetic insulin by Brian Moser. Shown dead.
- Irma Holt - Killed off-screen in an unknown manner by Brian Moser,
- Monique - Strangled and killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Rudy Cooper - Killed by Brian Moser in 1998 to steal his identity, mentioned.
- Officer Fred - Bludgeoned with a hammer off-screen by Brian Moser for his car.
- Jill Vartos - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Teri Ludlow - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Heather Costas - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Alice Curry - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Amy True - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Terry Foster - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Gilda Rupert - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Tammy Goode - Killed off-screen by Brian Moser, blood used for blood buckets in room 103.
- Total - Brian killed at least 14 people, and at most 19 people.
Gallery[]
External Link[]
- Brian Moser on the Dexter Wiki.
