34 Facts About Angel Batista

Angelo "Angel" Juan Marcos Batista is a fictional character in the Showtime television series Dexter and the novels by Jeff Lindsay upon which it is based.

Angel Batista is portrayed in the television series by David Zayas, and as the younger version of Batista by James Martinez.

Angelo "Angel" Juan Marcos Batista is a Detective in Miami Metro Police Department's Homicide Division.

Angel Batista is portrayed as a friendly and good-natured man who brings a sense of humanity and compassion to the show.

Angel Batista is notable for his signature fedora hat, which he is rarely seen without.

One night at a club, Angel Batista sees a woman with a prosthetic hand, the nails painted in the same manner as the victims of the Ice Truck Killer, a serial killer who preys on prostitutes.

Angel Batista investigates and finds out that the woman had a customer with an amputee fetish.

Angel Batista helps to uncover Cooper's true identity by asking for Cooper's prints to be compared to mental institution files.

However, Dexter eventually admits that Angel Batista is the closest thing he has ever had to a real friend.

Angel Batista becomes especially involved in one case of a suspected murderer named Oscar Sota.

Angel Batista begins to trust Batista, and offers him more details on the case.

Angel Batista eventually takes an interest in Dexter's on-off lover Lila Tournay, and asks her out after she and Dexter break up.

Unbeknownst to Angel Batista Lila is only using him to get close to Dexter.

Angel Batista is terrified of being convicted, as it will ruin his career and his life.

In season three, Angel Batista is promoted to Sergeant and made the department's new lead case investigator to replace the now-deceased Doakes.

Angel Batista attends Dexter's wedding with Barbara as his date.

Angel Batista looks to Dexter for advice, and he then becomes an involuntary counselor between the two.

LaGuerta teams up with the investigating officer, but that prompts Angel Batista to be even more jealous; he starts checking her cell phone for suspicious messages and finds a rendezvous appointment in a hotel room.

Angel Batista has moved in with his younger sister Jamie in the apartment adjacent to Dexter's, thus allowing Jamie to babysit Dexter's son Harrison whenever Dexter might need to leave in the middle of the night.

Debra breaks this news to Angel Batista, who takes it in stride and congratulates her, but is still hurt by constantly being involved in LaGuerta's battles with Matthews.

When Jamie starts dating forensics intern Louis Greene, Angel Batista makes a failed attempt to scare him away during a dinner with both of them.

In season seven, Angel Batista considers retiring after his friend and colleague Detective Mike Anderson is murdered.

Angel Batista wants to buy a restaurant by the beach, saying that thinking about the restaurant is the only thing that makes him happy.

Angel Batista initially has trouble finding the money and dealing with the paperwork, but his problems are solved when Quinn gives him a great deal of money for a down payment; he does not tell Batista that the money was laundered by the Russian Mafia.

In season eight, Angel Batista chooses to continue running the restaurant while returning to Miami Metro.

Angel Batista is promoted to Lieutenant of Homicide after Debra leaves Miami Metro.

Angel Batista holds a dedication ceremony for LaGuerta, who was killed in the season 7 finale, and gives a reluctant Dexter a vase she kept in her old office.

Quinn does well on the exam, but Angel Batista ultimately chooses another candidate after being pressured by Matthews.

Dexter later kills Saxon in full view of a security camera, but Angel Batista accepts his claim of self-defense and lets him go.

Angel Batista is last seen receiving the news about Dexter's apparent death; unbeknownst to him, Dexter staged his death and is living under another identity.

In "Runaway", it is revealed that between the end of the original series and New Blood that Angel Batista has been promoted to the Captain of Homicide of the Miami Metro Police Department.

Angel Batista attends a conference in New York City attended by Iron Lake Police Department Chief Angela Bishop.

Angel Batista realizes that Dexter is alive and heads to Iron Lake with LaGuerta's old files on the Butcher case.

Angel Batista plays a less prominent role in the novels than in the television series, and is a forensic scientist rather than a homicide detective.