Need help for a potential Criminal Minds/Dexter crossover

[liliaeth]

I've been watching Dexter lately, and the more often I watch s2, my fave season, the more I start thinking of what would have happened if Dexter had had to deal with the BAU instead of Frank Lundy.

So anyone feel like helping me out in how the BAU would profile the Bay Harbor Butcher? And what differences there'd be in how the gang would deal with the case, in comparison to how it was dealt with on the show?

And most of all, can anyone explain to me, why so far I've found only one CM/Dexter crossover? Because I've been wanting one, since I first started watching Dexter
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[dragonladyk.livejournal.com]

Frankly, Season One (and I did watch the whole season waiting for it to get better) disgusted me so thoroughly I didn't go back.

I'm glad to hear they've shown the consequences of Dexter's actions and adopted some sort of moral compass.

That being said, judging how many of the show's fans root for him to continue and do not wish for him to be caught, I don't think that message is sinking in. In a Dexter/CM crossover, there could be no Boondock Saints-like "understanding" reached, and any escape on Dexter's part would have to be treated as a tragedy that will be fixed later ("we'll catch him") to be true to the spirit of CM. I don't think that would appeal to the Dexter fanbase at all.

However, I also concede the possibilty I stumbled upon the nutter-butters contingents of the fanbase and that they are in no way representative of the fanbase as a whole. :/

DragonLady

[liliaeth]

Thing is, as I mentioned earlier on the page, personally, I want to write a fic where he gets caught :-)

In huge part, because I want to see the impact on his friends and family, were they to find out what he's doing.

Of course, the one huge problem is, that if he does get caught, the potential for ongoing stories becomes rather small. Which is why it most likely won't happen until the last season of the actual show.

As far as I see the show, the voices of morality are Dexter's sister, Debra, who clearly states to Dexter that the Bay Harbor Butcher (aka Dexter) is a killer and needs to be stopped. Despite already knowing at this point that the Butcher only kills killers. And Angel Batista, an honest and decent cop, whom in one ep is seen dealing with the wife of one of Dexter's victims.

There's also an interesting contrast, between the media's reaction to the Bay Harbor Butcher, once it comes out he only kills killers and the end of the series, when we see Doakes funeral. Doakes being the man whom Dexter framed for his own crimes.

And you see that the only people attending the service, are Doakes mother, sisters and his former partner who still believes in his innocence (and well Dexter himself) It's one tragedy that I really want to set right in the fic, with the BAU exonerating Doakes and bringing his family the relief of knowing that their son/brother/friend truly was the good man they'd believed him to be and not the murderer they were told he was.