Sergeant James Doakes, more commonly referred to as simply Doakes, is a main character in the Showtime series DEXTER. Doakes was a strong-willed sergeant within Miami Metro Homicide. He acted as both a detective and a supervisor at any given crime scene. He often partnered with Sergeant Angel Batista and Officer Debra Morgan, while dealing with forensics on scene, namely Dexter Morgan and Vince Masuka. His direct supervisor (and close friend) was Lieutenant Maria LaGuerta, with whom he had previously been partners for over two years. His most defining trait is that he was the first among his colleagues to realize something was off about Dexter Morgan as well as the first to discover that he was a Serial Killer. His obsessive stalking of Dexter as well as several police related shootings led Frank Lundy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to labeling him their prime suspect in the Bay Harbor Butcher Case. When Doakes catches Dexter in the act he ends up being imprisoned himself and Dexter had intended to either frame Doakes as the Bay Harbor Butcher or turn himself in allowing Doakes to go in with him. However before he could make a decision on this matter Doakes was murdered by Lila West and the case was closed: with the world believing Sergeant James Doakes was the Bay Harbor Butcher.