[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Dexter: Resurrection Episode 4, “Call Me Red.”]
Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Corridor) has all the time been one thing of a serial killer collector himself, however he’s met his match in Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage). The billionaire enterprise capitalist is obsessive about slaughterers to the purpose that he not solely collects the tokens of a few of the world’s most notorious mass murderers, however he additionally invitations those which can be nonetheless energetic to dinner.
In Friday’s latest episode, Dexter takes up Purple a.okay.a. Darkish Passenger’s invitation to Prater’s occasion and, due to Purple’s replicated thumbprint, finds himself surrounded by trophies and others with a starvation for carnage — “the itch,” “the necessity,” “the good craving,” and “the urge,” as they dub it in a second of unsettling unity.
Dexter is immediately taken with Mia a.okay.a. Woman Vengeance (Krysten Ritter), a wine-savvy girl who additionally targets predators — these of a extra lascivious nature, in her case — however he doesn’t know what to make of the others at first. There’s Al (Eric Stonestreet), a jovial household man who likes to kill ladies with ponytails however is in any other case bouncy and even nice. Then, there’s Gareth a.okay.a. Gemini Killer (David Dastmalchian), a thriller man with an inclination to focus on multiples, it appears. After which there’s Lowell (Neil Patrick Harris), who’s obsessive about tattoos and has his sights on a brand new sufferer on the town, a lot to Dexter’s chagrin.
Throughout their very intimate dinner at Prater’s lavish house, they’ve the final word privateness by which to debate serial killer enterprise, with solely Prater and his assistant Charley (Uma Thurman) as outsiders current. Even Dexter finds consolation on this uncommon little bit of exclusivity and openness — although, thanks partly to Harry’s (James Remar) reminders, he is aware of he has to do one thing about Lowell.
How do these wildly completely different, however uniquely united characters actually really feel about one another?
“I don’t know if Gareth feels collegial with anyone. I really feel like Gareth is aggravated, irritated,” Dastmalchian advised TV Insider of the character’s sentiment within the scene. “Clearly, he has a familiarity and a gentle quantity of respect for his fellow serial killers, however actually, contemplating that he’s the FBI’s most wished, he actually seems to be at everybody else as second greatest.”
In the meantime, Ritter dubbed Mia as “incredulous about all people” and “doesn’t belief anyone.” Ritter continued, “[Mia] is there for the curiosity and the cash.” The actress additionally cautioned followers not to attract too many fast comparisons between Mia and Dexter, saying, “We first are pondering, hoping that she shall be a love curiosity for Dexter as a result of she appears to have a code. The media and the press have given her a code, and she or he has massive emotions about that as a result of she looks like folks can’t settle for {that a} girl would simply take pleasure in killing… When she has an itch, she scratches it. She’s the satan in a really fabulous fur coat.”
As for Al, followers additionally could be inclined to attract some comparisons between his outer demeanor and that of one other ostensible household man with a thirst for blood — Arthur Miller a.okay.a. Trinity Killer (John Lithgow). About that Stonestreet stated, “I even respect being talked about in the identical sentence because the Trinity Killer, however that was actually an awesome reference level, as a result of I do characterize to Dexter what he needs he had. Clearly, we all know that Trinity didn’t have that, and we do consider that Al has that… which makes my character very, very distinctive on this world, that I can actually compartmentalize these two issues, which I believe confuses everybody, and hopefully, it confuses the viewers as a result of the aim right here is to place folks relaxed and put folks in consolation, after which come from nowhere.”
The tip of the episode sees Dexter reunite with two of his dinner companions — first, with Mia for a little bit of train and commiseration, and second with Lowell, who he in the end presents a spot at (learn: on) his desk.
After that, Dexter decides to lastly come nose to nose with Harrison (Jack Alcott) for good measure — their first encounter since Harrison left Dexter for lifeless within the occasions of Dexter: New Blood.
What’s subsequent for the father-son duo? Michael C. Corridor teased, “Nicely, they clearly have a giant crater out of which they should each crawl, however I believe watching the 2 of them work together and negotiate all that wreckage and attempt to transfer ahead shall be attention-grabbing for the viewers. And I believe each Dexter and his son [will be] needing to develop up a bit and let the previous be what it’s. Not deny it, however I discover a option to transfer ahead regardless of it.”
Dexter: Resurrection, Fridays, Paramount+