Spoilers under for anybody who hasn’t but watched the most recent episode of Dexter: Resurrection through Paramount+ subscription or on Showtime, so be warned.
Because the begin of Dexter: Resurrection, followers have watched Michael C. Corridor’s Dexter combating to maintain his fatherly duties separated from his Code-related actions, just for all of it to dramatically dovetail when the episode “The Kill Room The place It Occurs” hit the 2025 TV schedule. Our morally pushed protagonist was within the midst of getting a jolly good non-Vegan meal with Harrison when Peter Dinklage’s Leon Prater made his presence recognized, thus signifying “the jig is up,” because it had been.
I’ve little doubt Dexter will be capable of completely bullshit his method out of being immediately taken down by Prater and Uma Thurman’s Charley, as a result of that’s exactly the skillset that received him up to now. However the truth that he was publicly accosted in such a method flies within the face of this character’s logic, and a lot of what we’ve seen this season ought to have helped prep him to keep away from this very scenario. I’ll enable Al’s escape being a wise plot transfer, however have to attract a line someplace.
Dexter ought to be as nameless as anybody in a metro space as bustling as New York Metropolis, and but it didn’t take that lengthy for Charley and Prater to trace him down. As such, I’m undecided whether or not this difficulty is supposed to be seen as a particular character flaw, or if it’s a difficulty the writers simply didn’t suppose to handle correctly. Let’s get into a number of the explanation why Dex ought to have been prepared for this.
Dexter Spent The First Few Episodes Monitoring Harrison And The Darkish Passenger Killer
Earlier than straight connecting with Prater’s serial killer membership, Dexter spent his early days in NYC stuffing his face in his automotive whereas following Harrison, and as quickly as he gained information of somebody killing rideshare drivers, he shortly gained all of the information he wanted to establish and monitor the actions of Marc Menchaca’s “Crimson,” and was in a position to method each his son and goal with out both being conscious of it. I get that he didn’t instantly suppose others may do the identical to him, however that intuition ought to have kicked in quickly after.
Dexter Knew Charley Had Additionally Adopted Crimson And Broke Into His Condominium
Although he didn’t know everybody else who was concerned from the leap, Dexter discovering the invitation to Prater’s gathering made him immediately conscious that Crimson’s actions and homebase had been recognized and infiltrated by another person, and he later decided that Charley was accountable. To the purpose the place, when suspicions had been raised about that house’s lack of current exercise, Dexter improvised the excuse that he may not reside someplace that others knew about. So why didn’t that instantly tip him off that Charley and others may do the identical factor to him?
Dexter Knew That Batista Was Following Him
Even when Dexter didn’t grasp how efficient Prater’s head of safety was at her job, as a result of not having recognized her for nicely over a decade, he has recognized Angel Batista for ages, and is aware of the person is an efficient detective, whether or not he’s on lively responsibility or not. Not solely that, however in witnessing Batista mixing it up with Blessed’s household, Dexter found his former colleague was in a position to monitor him all the way down to his dwelling preparations, possible organising a serious showdown. However did he actually suppose that making threats would efficiently preserve Batista from telling different correct authority figures the place he’s dwelling? Additionally, how the hell did it take him that lengthy to wash out his passenger door? No surprise he’s not a five-star driver.
Understanding All This, Why Didn’t Dexter Take Higher Precautions To Not Be Adopted?
As a dude who’s largely evaded seize for an untold variety of murders through the years, Dexter ought to nonetheless be essentially the most evasive and paranoid creature on the planet, whatever the Bay Harbor Butcher being misidentified. The character shouldn’t have any spare time at this level, as a result of he ought to be consistently on alert and altering areas on an hourly foundation. He ought to have left Blessed’s home behind the second he noticed Batista’s face on the property. He undoubtedly shouldn’t be sitting snug and having meals with Harrison.
So what’s the deal right here? Is that this one other symptom of Dexter getting older and non-wiser? Maybe a psychological setback to accompany the bodily muscle pains he’s been going through? Or is that this only a character element that the inventive crew didn’t suppose was pertinent sufficient to handle in full? I can’t think about that’s the case, although, and would extra readily assume it slipped by means of the cracks.
After all, the following episode may at all times function an enormous reveal that Dexter DID know he was being adopted, and that he arrange some form of elaborate cat-and-mouse state of affairs to attract Prater and Charley out at simply the proper time. If that occurs, I’ll be the primary one in line to congratulate all concerned for pulling the wool over my eyes. However till then, I’ll be sitting exterior in my automotive, watching and judging Dexter from afar with out him realizing it.