My name is Albert Doakes, and I'm as guilty as hell of the things I'm being executed for and then some. My only consolation as I go to my death is that Dexter is still free to continue our work. Had I not gotten sloppy, not gotten caught, I would still be out there in the moonlight letting my Dark Passenger take control, letting my Dark Passenger take its fill until the moon was full once more. There is work that needs to be done, and Dexter and Cody will be out there taking care of it as I go to my death under a moon I know is full.

Friends wouldn't even begin to describe what Dexter and I were. Pack would probably be more accurate considering the fact that we are both predators of a sort. We worked together, we hunted together, and we filled that bright Need that our Dark Passengers created together. Both of us, under the law laid down by Harry Morgan. It is perhaps because I hadn't grown up under the tutelage of the one who had set our work out for us that I had been the one to be caught.

It didn't start out the way it was in the end. In the beginning, Dexter and I were two lone predators warily circling each other. There were only two ways it could have gone down, we could either have struggled until one or the other of us were destroyed, or we could have become pack as we had done. We very nearly ended in a death spiral, but it all got sorted out in the end. You see, in the beginning, I had no idea of my Dark Passenger. I knew there was something there of course, something that whispered things to me, something that would sometimes make me tighten my finger around the trigger just a little bit, and yell at me to pull it on occasion.

Dexter had been the one who made it all clear. Dexter had been raised knowing what dwelled in the darkest corners of his mind and how to deal with it rather than try to ignore it and push it away as I had tried to do for decades.

After Dexter made it all clear, he gave me a mission, a purpose, a path, he gave me the Way of Harry.

I have done all I could to follow that Way, and I will go to my death content in knowing that I have brought final justice to those who would kill the innocent.