John Reese (Person of Interest ) VS Dexter Morgan (Dexter)

[eon001]

Just started the 2nd season of POI. Loving it so far. Been a fan of Dexter since the first season/ Couldn't help but compare the 2 anti heroes.

I've played with every possible scenario but I can't see John Reese losing. prep or no prep, but thought it would be an interesting match.

Dexter's number come's up. Reese tail's Dexter enough to realize that he only kills bad guys, so does he take him out or does he give him a pass?

Or Dexter starts investigating the "killer in the suit", decides to go on a hunt. Does his usual stake out to make sure Reese is a genuine killer, but get's rumbled by Finch and the machine.

Dexter's a skilled martial artist but I don't think he comes close to Reese in regards to skill and experience.
Reese has a billion dollar machine and a genius hacker as a resource. Dexter has Miami PD's limited resources and he doesn't even have full access to that.

[Kuro]

Pretty sure they just let each other slide. Dexter is pretty set in his ways on killing only monsters (only saw up to season 3 and even then, Dexter was willing to let a sexual predator go until he stalked his girlfriends daughter) and Reese/Finch only kill people who are a threat to others - something Dexter really isn't. His number miiiiiiiiiiight come up, but it doesn't mean they'll follow through with offing the guy.

[eon001]

His number miiiiiiiiiiight come up, but it doesn't mean they'll follow through with offing the guy.

That's another fun question to play around with. If Dexter's number does come up, would he be the victim or the perpetrator? I think I recall Dexter accidentally killing someone innocent before. So in that case he'd be the perpetrator. And of course Dexter puts himself into so many dangerous situations he could easily be the victim.

[Chou Blaster]

That's another fun question to play around with. If Dexter's number does come up, would he be the victim or the perpetrator? I think I recall Dexter accidentally killing someone innocent before. So in that case he'd be the perpetrator. And of course Dexter puts himself into so many dangerous situations he could easily be the victim.

In the "Trinity Killer" Season, Dexter DOES kill the wrong guy.

[Stigma Rex]

Reese should destroy Dexter in a fight though, he regularly thrashes guys with much more training.

That's another fun question to play around with. If Dexter's number does come up, would he be the victim or the perpetrator? I think I recall Dexter accidentally killing someone innocent before. So in that case he'd be the perpetrator. And of course Dexter puts himself into so many dangerous situations he could easily be the victim.

Even if he did go for the right guy and killed one of his serial killers, Dexer's number would still come up, seeing how he'd be a murderer, and even well intentioned murderers have their numbers come up (a woman who was after her sister's murderer, who was still killing girls had her number come up). I'm not sure Dexter's number would come up though seeing how Finch only seems to have the machine send him local numbers.

How this would be for a scenario, I'm entirely sure they'd just let Dexter walk. Reese would be fine with him for the most part, but Finch tends to be more moral about killing.

[Kuro]

Yeah, Reese mollywhops Dexter with impunity. In season 1, he gets sniped - survives that and manages to escape down several flights of stairs in a building, bullet wound and all and doesn't die from blood loss. A few episodes later, he manages to evenly fight an MMA fighter with the bullet-wound still weakening him. Couple hours later, they meet again and he pretty much no-sells all of the fighters moves. Then he proceeds to sprinting around town. Guy has INSANE stamina/durability/endurance.

The machine doesn't know how to distinguish between perps/victims, so in the case of the girl trying to avenge her sister's death, she might have been construed as a victim towards leading to the actual perp, which was that rapist murderer. In Season 1, the machine pulls up a hotel supervisor (Ironically, the actor who plays Sgt. Batista in Dexter), and they go on the entire episode thinking he was a stalker, when in actuality, he was trying to STOP the real stalker.

[Holacik]

That's another fun question to play around with. If Dexter's number does come up, would he be the victim or the perpetrator? I think I recall Dexter accidentally killing someone innocent before. So in that case he'd be the perpetrator. And of course Dexter puts himself into so many dangerous situations he could easily be the victim.

Honestly, I'm not sure how Dexter's number would come up through the machine...

[eon001]

Honestly, I'm not sure how Dexter's number would come up through the machine...

Like I said, he might accidentally be plotting to kill an innocent, making him a perpetrator. He tried to kill Lt. LaGuerta in the last season of Dexter, and she was perfectly innocent and he knew it. The machine doesn't care that he's killed a bunch of villains before.

[Holacik]

Like I said, he might accidentally be plotting to kill an innocent, making him a perpetrator. He tried to kill Lt. LaGuerta in the last season of Dexter, and she was perfectly innocent and he knew it. The machine doesn't care that he's killed a bunch of villains before.

The machine works by collecting data from emails, phone calls etc. Dexter works alone there isn't usually a digital footprint for him. That's why the machine wouldn't be able to pick up serial killers in general.

[Stigma Rex]

The machine works by collecting data from emails, phone calls etc. Dexter works alone there isn't usually a digital footprint for him. That's why the machine wouldn't be able to pick up serial killers in general.

Well in theroy there should have been enough of records of Dexter accessing his victims files through police networks (that's always been a bit of a plot hole for me), so it could pick up on that, plus there have been cops that have looked into his activities and left a digital trail there. If the machine really wanted to it could probably piece together enough video footage of Dexter being near his victims, that it could put 2 and 2 together.