Dexter: Authentic Sin simply threw viewers for an enormous loop in its newest episode with a twist that nobody noticed coming. In Episode 7, titled “The Massive Dangerous Physique Drawback,” Dexter (Patrick Gibson) is coping with the fallout of Tony Ferrer’s (Roberto Sanchez) severed arm floating above the water in Alligator Alley. However that case is small potatoes in comparison with a much bigger one which Miami Metro PD is coping with.
Following the kidnapping of 1 younger boy of a outstanding determine within the metropolis, Captain Aaron Spencer’s (Patrick Dempsey) son has been kidnapped in the identical style. The clock is ticking on the investigation, and new particulars counsel that the kidnapper and potential killer might have simply been revealed. And it’s the final particular person followers ever imagined.
Dexter: Authentic Sin
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December 15, 2024
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Paramount+ with Showtime
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Patrick Gibson
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What Occurred With Aaron Spencer’s Son in ‘Dexter: Authentic Sin’?
The primary episodes of Dexter: Authentic Sin observe the case of a younger boy named Jimmy (Brayden Gleave), the son of a outstanding choose, who’s kidnapped in the future after college. He’s chained in a darkish basement room and fed the identical factor daily: Sunny Smiles boxed meals. The abductor is simply ever seen in a full black bodysuit, full with a black face masks.
After a couple of days, the person cuts Jimmy’s finger off with pruning shears and sends the appendage to the police, who run DNA exams to find out that it certainly belongs to Jimmy. Whereas the investigation continues, sadly, it’s too late. Jimmy’s physique is found hanging from a bridge overpass days later in some of the horrific scenes of the whole franchise. The police suspect that the kidnapping and homicide was gang-related, maybe in retaliation towards the choose who may need been concerned in a case that despatched one (or extra) of their members to jail. However there’s no proof and no leads.
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Not lengthy after, Captain Aaron Spencer’s son Nicky (London Thatcher) is kidnapped in the identical method. His mom is knocked out whereas the identical man grabs Nicky and takes him away. She doesn’t understand he’s gone till she involves and is horrified that her son is lacking. Nicky is later seen in what seems to be the identical darkish basement room, chained up the identical approach Jimmy was. He tries to style a weapon out of a steel object he removes from a lamp, utilizing the bottom to sharpen its tip. When the person tries to go the Sunny Smiles meal via a slot within the door, Nicky yells that he’ll want to return and hand it to him if he needs him to eat it.
The person does, and Nicky tries to assault, slashing the person’s wrist within the course of. However he’s not sturdy sufficient to subdue him. The person grabs Nicky’s arm, pulls out pruning shears, and cuts off his finger. He sends this in the same field to the police, simply as they acquired Jimmy’s finger. Now, panic units in as a result of if this killer is doing the identical factor, it means Nicky solely has days to reside earlier than he’s killed. Naturally, Spencer is horrified however tries to maintain it collectively for the sake of his workers and permit them to do their jobs and discover this killer earlier than it’s too late.
How and Who Figures Out the Killer’s Potential Id in ‘Authentic Sin’?
After receiving the field with the severed finger, Tanya (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her staff swiftly get to work to search for clues and ensure that it certainly belongs to Nicky. Whereas analyzing the proof, Dexter (Patrick Gibson) spots a drop of blood on the aspect of the field. It’s a protracted shot, nevertheless it’s doable the kidnapper was injured, and this could possibly be their blood. Tanya praises his eager eye and tells him to run the pattern.
In the meantime, the finger is confirmed to belong to Nicky primarily based on college data that famous his blood kind. Tanya is reluctant to inform Spencer all of the grotesque particulars she found, however he insists she does. She tells him it was lower utilizing pruning shears, and primarily based on the blood, they’ll verify that Nicky was alive on the time. After hours, as soon as everybody has gone dwelling, Dexter re-examines the finger and notices, when taking a re-assessment, that there’s a transparent indication of a second of hesitation through the lower that didn’t exist with Jimmy’s finger. It appears to be like just like the killer was reconsidering doing it earlier than he pushed down absolutely on the shears to slice the finger off. It wasn’t a clear lower prefer it was with Jimmy.
Dexter finds Spencer at his desk within the morning, trying over the blood report outcomes. He’s defeated as a result of it reveals the identical blood kind, suggesting that the drop of blood Dexter discovered was Nicky’s and never the killer’s. Dexter tries to reassure him, telling him that a lot of folks have the identical blood kind, so it’s nonetheless solely doable the blood belonged to another person.
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Dexter additional reveals his findings in regards to the hesitation within the lower. His idea is that the kidnapper was both an inexperienced, new gang member who wasn’t as snug with what he was doing as the one that sliced Jimmy’s finger off was or somebody who someway had a private connection to Nicky and thus hesitated earlier than performing the act.
On this second, Dexter notices a bandage round Spencer’s wrist. Spencer feedback that that’s what he will get for attempting to repair an air conditioner at dwelling himself. However Dexter isn’t shopping for it. He picks up the blood slide when Spencer leaves, asking himself how he didn’t see this earlier than. It’s evident that Dexter plans to run the blood pattern towards Spencer’s DNA and expects that he would possibly discover a match. Did Spencer abduct his personal son? And did he additionally abduct Jimmy, sever his finger, and kill him as effectively? The scene switches to a grocery retailer the place a person in a swimsuit is on the checkout shopping for two Sunny Smiles meals. The cashier examines them and asks in the event that they’re any good. The digital camera pans to the person, and it’s Spencer who declares that his son appears to like them.
What Does This All Imply for ‘Dexter: Authentic Sin’?
Whereas it isn’t outright confirmed, it’s possible that Spencer is the perpetrator in his son’s abduction and fairly probably kidnapped Jimmy as effectively. Is he essentially the most heinous serial killer of all of them? Or did he simply abduct his son in a copycat case to get again at his ex-wife Becca (Amanda Brooks), who cheated on him and broke up their household? If Spencer is certainly the kidnapper and killer, this might have widespread implications at Miami Metro PD. It could clarify why Spencer now not works there a number of years down the road when the story picks up in Dexter. (Granted, he’s additionally older than the others and will very effectively have simply retired.)
It could additionally clarify but another excuse that Harry Morgan (Christian Slater) reached the tip of his rope and determined to die by suicide. Spencer was not solely a mentor but additionally good friend to Harry. He went to bat for Harry on a couple of event. He saved his job when Harry’s mistake led to the killer Levi Reed (Jeff Daniel Phillips) going free. Studying that your finest good friend is a serial killer and one with no empathy nor conscience who would hurt kids could be greater than devastating.
Spencer additionally stood by Dexter and Debra (Molly Brown) after Harry’s coronary heart assault and welcomed Dexter with open arms into Miami Metro PD. It appears the one one that acknowledged that one thing was off about Spencer was Maria LaGuerta (Christina Milian), one of many returning characters from the unique, who butted heads with him from the beginning.
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It could be an epic season finale if Spencer makes his solution to Dexter’s desk ought to the vigilante killer verify his guilt. Will Harry be by his aspect to talk his thoughts? Is that this the physique Harry finds Dexter chopping up that lastly drives him to do what he did? With no affirmation but of a second season, followers anticipate to see not less than some free ends tied up earlier than the season is over. One different main one is the grotesque dying of Laura Moser (Brittany Allen) in flashback scenes that followers of the unique know is coming.
If this data leads Dexter to kill Spencer and Harry to see him, it might imply that Slater won’t return to the present ought to or not it’s renewed, except for in potential flashbacks. And that is very possible. It’s revealed in Dexter that Harry died when Dexter was 20 years previous. He’s certainly 20 on this collection, which suggests Harry’s dying is imminent. And it could make complete sense that what drove Harry to die by suicide was not solely catching Dexter within the act of dismembering a physique however seeing the physique of somebody he is aware of and as soon as liked because the sufferer.
That’s all hypothesis, in fact. The complete Spencer storyline could possibly be a purple herring designed to deliberately mislead viewers. However all indicators level to Spencer having a darkish aspect and arguably being essentially the most terrible villain ever within the present’s historical past. It additionally suggests not solely that Dexter missed a killer proper underneath his nostril however that Harry’s personal life was surrounded by extra darkish and ominous folks than he realized. Stream Dexter: Authentic Sin on Paramount+.