Boyd Fowler

Boyd Fowler: "The Finisher"; Serial Rapist; Serial Killer

Boyd Fowler is a supporting antagonist in Season Five of the Showtime series DEXTER.

He works for the Miami-Dade Dead Animal Pickup. He is also a member of the Barrel Girl Gang. It is Boyd's responsibility within the group to kill and dispose of women after they are raped and abused. Boyd is a man in his mid-30s, with short, unkempt brown hair and a mustache. He typically wears glasses, but can see fairly well without them. He is shown exclusively dressed in his uniform for the Department of Sanitation: brown khaki shorts, button-up tan shirt, black cap, and brown work boots. Dexter first meets Boyd when he is called in to clean up roadkill, at which time Dexter notes how unusually observant Fowler is regarding dead bodies. Boyd makes the observation to Dexter that typically, when an animal is killed, especially when it is found laying in the middle of the highway like the raccoon was, there are tire-marks as well as a blood spray on the cement. Fowler states that the animal must have been killed elsewhere and then left on the road, which prompts Dexter to think that he's "CSI'ing" the scene. Boyd also notes the raccoon has defensive marks on his paws, indicating he was killed in a struggle rather than by the sudden impact of a vehicle. Later, while riding in his truck with Dexter, Boyd notices the ring band mark on Dexter's ring finger, and makes the assumption that Dexter is divorced. His observation skills are slightly off-putting to Dexter, who doesn't want Boyd to learn too much about himself.

He appears to derive morbid pleasure from his work with dead animals, and evinces pride in his job, as it lets him do as he pleases and get out in the world. When Dexter observes Boyd at home, he sees him as a temperamental man of simple tastes, having little variety in the foods he eats. While Boyd listens to one of his motivational CDs by Jordan Chase, Dexter listens to him yelling along with Chase.

He has a fairly strong survival instinct, so he doesn't succumb as fast as most of Dexter's targets, and even resists the M99 that Dexter injects into each of his victims before bringing them to the Kill Room. Boyd's reflexes and quick thinking result in him being able to turn around and shoot Dexter with a tranquilizer dart. Unlike many of Dexter's victims who panic, Boyd is aggressive.

After being subdued by Dexter, Boyd claims that he was being merciful to the women he killed, by ending their suffering. His claim of a sympathetic attachment to the girls is, however, contradicted by his actions, as he is shown coldly dropping a girl into a barrel and electrocuting her.

Boyd grew up in an Opa-Locka, Florida, with his parents, Richard and Elsie Fowler. They passed away and left the house to Boyd, which he uses as his base of operations for killing young women.

He spent eight months in prison for assault with a deadly weapon and, during this time, he met Robert Brunner. The two formed a friendship over their sick fascination with torturing and raping women. Brunner was hoping to stay with Boyd when he was released on parolee, but ended up homeless, living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway.

Boyd has an unsavory job. He works the 7 a.m.- 4 p.m. shift at the Miami-Dade Department of Sanitation as a Dead Animal Pickup officer. He typically returns home for lunch, which usually includes tomato or chicken noodle soup.