Sure, Dexter murders a lot of people, but at least he's civil about it. His sister, meanwhile, the adopted Debra Morgan, is a fairly straight-down-the-line cop who has a filthier vocabulary than a sailor raised on Tarantino films. Somebody actually did the maths, and Jennifer Carpenter's character said f*ck 996 times during the show's run. That's 996 f-bombs over the course of eight seasons. Eight seasons equals 96 episodes. Which means that Deb averaged something like ten f*cks per episode. That's a whole lot of f*cking. Apparently the character uses more expletives overall in any given episode than all of her male colleagues in the police force combined. Debra's ability to appear like just one of the guys was usually facilitated by her dirty mouth, and masked an internal loneliness. That and her pure moral code also put her in stark contrast to her brother, who was mild-mannered and found it difficult getting on with his colleagues (whilst also moonlighting as the sort of murderer his sister chased).
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