Doakes was not so smart character, he practically outplayed himself the entire season by telling Dexter he was onto him every 5 seconds, while also taking his blood slides and just hanging around with it instead of reporting it
Intution ≠ IQ, He had a extremely great intution to recognize a serial killer or someone who have some of this value. When he first time saw Brian Moser, he saw something was off with him but he hided it better than Dexter. Doakes is a very smart character but he lacks in other aspect of intelligence most of time and do something on his own than waiting or try to not make the killer awareness of him. He could spy on Dexter simply not letting him know this and stalk. We know he is a good stalker but Doakes lack in this most of time, i would say it's his arrogance and selfishness led to his death because he really could be the one who discover the case of The Bay Harbour Butcher but decide to stupidly make everyone aware that he can be the potential serial killer. He could just took photo of Dexter who dumps bag in the lakes and after this just take this bag and give to the Miami station. Liddy did that but he captured Dexter and died because he understimated him. The recording Dexter was a forced scene to make him killed this is why he lost to Dexter.
the smartest character in Dexter in my opinion is Lundy or Brian. Lundy would discover the case of the Bay Harbour Butcher and the case of Trinity killer but was unlucky in my opinion and Quinn fcked up letting a reporter know about Lundy who was really close to discover the Trinity Killer but he was just unlucky by far. He died only because by other mistakes that is sad and comparing to Doakes and Liddy, Lundy was not arrogant and never gave assurance to the killer that he was following him just lurked and waited. Doakes and Liddy walked their arrogance, ignorance and their needs, as for Quinn it was more ignorance and his needs but he guessed that it was Dexter but knew that he would end up as a corpse because Dexter more than once easily covered up all his crimes and had no problem even killing an innocent person just to save his ass. Quinn knew but didn't tell, Lundy felt something was wrong with Dexter but knew that Dexter was doing it to kill the bad guys and all in all he would have had a very hard time discovering in a LEGAL way Dexter because he knew that Dexter was a genius and killed murderers and sometimes you have to ignore the data of your morals to survive and do better good because Dexter didn't threaten anyone but murderers and very bad people.
Brian is the smartest character, a killer who would never get caught in fact he covered up the case by using another person for his crime, played with Miami Metro Police as if he was playing some kind of computer game at the same time playing with Dexter to discover who The Ice Truck Killer is. Brian was killed only because of the love he had for his brother Dexter but disregarded the fact that he could break Dexter's code, failing to kill Angel Battista when he had the perfect opportunity to do so because Battista saw a prostitute who has prosthetics painted where the Ice Truck Killer also uses the same way and the same colors, leaving a candy by accident in an abandoned hotel (but that is one of the biggest flaws). Trinity Killer is very intelligent but The Ice Truck Killer is the most dangerous and smartest killer. If he didn't love Dexter he would kill him outright because Brian tracks every move and weaves in every background he can. As much as I would give to see how Lundy would be able to deal with The Ice Truck Killer it would be interesting.
doakes>dexter>quinn(in iq)
Doakes was not so smart character, he practically outplayed himself the entire season by telling Dexter he was onto him every 5 seconds, while also taking his blood slides and just hanging around with it instead of reporting it
Intution ≠ IQ, He had a extremely great intution to recognize a serial killer or someone who have some of this value. When he first time saw Brian Moser, he saw something was off with him but he hided it better than Dexter. Doakes is a very smart character but he lacks in other aspect of intelligence most of time and do something on his own than waiting or try to not make the killer awareness of him. He could spy on Dexter simply not letting him know this and stalk. We know he is a good stalker but Doakes lack in this most of time, i would say it's his arrogance and selfishness led to his death because he really could be the one who discover the case of The Bay Harbour Butcher but decide to stupidly make everyone aware that he can be the potential serial killer. He could just took photo of Dexter who dumps bag in the lakes and after this just take this bag and give to the Miami station. Liddy did that but he captured Dexter and died because he understimated him. The recording Dexter was a forced scene to make him killed this is why he lost to Dexter.
the smartest character in Dexter in my opinion is Lundy or Brian. Lundy would discover the case of the Bay Harbour Butcher and the case of Trinity killer but was unlucky in my opinion and Quinn fcked up letting a reporter know about Lundy who was really close to discover the Trinity Killer but he was just unlucky by far. He died only because by other mistakes that is sad and comparing to Doakes and Liddy, Lundy was not arrogant and never gave assurance to the killer that he was following him just lurked and waited. Doakes and Liddy walked their arrogance, ignorance and their needs, as for Quinn it was more ignorance and his needs but he guessed that it was Dexter but knew that he would end up as a corpse because Dexter more than once easily covered up all his crimes and had no problem even killing an innocent person just to save his ass. Quinn knew but didn't tell, Lundy felt something was wrong with Dexter but knew that Dexter was doing it to kill the bad guys and all in all he would have had a very hard time discovering in a LEGAL way Dexter because he knew that Dexter was a genius and killed murderers and sometimes you have to ignore the data of your morals to survive and do better good because Dexter didn't threaten anyone but murderers and very bad people.
Brian is the smartest character, a killer who would never get caught in fact he covered up the case by using another person for his crime, played with Miami Metro Police as if he was playing some kind of computer game at the same time playing with Dexter to discover who The Ice Truck Killer is. Brian was killed only because of the love he had for his brother Dexter but disregarded the fact that he could break Dexter's code, failing to kill Angel Battista when he had the perfect opportunity to do so because Battista saw a prostitute who has prosthetics painted where the Ice Truck Killer also uses the same way and the same colors, leaving a candy by accident in an abandoned hotel (but that is one of the biggest flaws). Trinity Killer is very intelligent but The Ice Truck Killer is the most dangerous and smartest killer. If he didn't love Dexter he would kill him outright because Brian tracks every move and weaves in every background he can. As much as I would give to see how Lundy would be able to deal with The Ice Truck Killer it would be interesting.