Who is the New York Ripper?

Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers for “and justice for all …”, the final of season 1 of “Dexter: Resurrection”, which is now streaming on Paramount+.

For a long time fans of “Dexter” must be satisfied with the final of season 1 of “Resurrection”, after missing the stamp with the end of the original series (and with the recent “New Blood”)-but this season ender closed from the return of the franchise to form. With a final with thumb prints, hallucinations in vaults and more father-son fear than a Shakespeare tragedy, it was solid enough to justify more Dexter adventures in Manhattan.

Leave it to Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) to get trapped in a billionaire Sociopath’s Museum Room for serial killers, next to his former colleague and now dead friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) who is on the floor. Typical hallucinatory conversations take place, as always, with Dexter’s deceased father Harry (James Remar, who later delivers a funny “damn kill him” line later in the episode), who reminds him of his code, and a surprising cameor by Brian Moser – the ice -wagmen killer (Christian Camargo), Aka Dexter.

In the episode, Leon Prater van Peter Dinklage finally goes the full bond villain. With a mansion full of files, cameras and an army of Waitstaff, Prater reveals himself as not only a collector of murderers, but as an enthusiastic applicant from the Dexter School of Dark passengers after having committed his first murder by killing Batista. Prater’s plan and his resourceful Sidekick Charley (Uma Thurman) is to let Dexter in the vault for three days without food and water until he dies. Of course he has a gala to raise money for the local police just below.

Een ding waar Prater en Charley niet op rekenden, was dat Batista nog steeds zijn mobiele telefoon op hem had, die begint te rinkelen met een telefoontje van zijn voormalige partner Joey Quinn (Desmond Harrington), die een voicemail achterlaat en zei dat hij zich zorgen over hem maakte nadat de NYPD belde en hoorde dat Batista met pensioen was en nog steeds een COP achtervolgde en nog steeds een agent achtervolgde en nog steeds een Agent chased and still chased a cop and chased the Bay Harbor Butcher case. Quinn has no idea that Batista is dead, but that will certainly be a factor next season.

So with a mobile in hand, Dexter calls his son, Harrison (Jack Alcott), who is currently in the middle of intimate relations with his girlfriend Gigi. Harrison goes to the gala, where he was hired to work, but refused after he met two episodes ago. While Papa Harrison tries to give the instructions from a safe, with the camera in Facetime, Harrison is busy using waiter routes and safe codes to navigate through the mansion. Their whispered telephone tag became Power Play – Dexter who wanted him to run, Harrison Doubling – is fun (but also frustrating), and the final (usually) cementt Harrison as a worthy strategic partner.

Harrison comes to the vault area and has to enter an eight -digit code on which you only get one chance before the alarms go off and the police appear. The good that Dexter is in the room with a file cabinet with a wealth of documents on every serial killer in the world, including that Dexter killed this season. One file is on Prater itself, which has the indication that Dexter thinks will unlock the door.

So Harrison, with Facetime On, comes into action. In the meantime, Charley has spent the entire season in chic jackets and moral quicksand, and as soon as she meets Harrison and looks like she’s about to kill him, Dexter is dangling and tells her Prater pulls the strings because he also has a file on her. Dexter threatens to send it out, and her counter offer is that he does not broadcast it, she will not kill Harrison, but Dexter has to stay there and die. She walks outside to deal with Prater.

Charley’s last conversations – with Dexter and then Prater – are full of possible pests for more of her in future seasons (maybe?). She escapes with her sick mother and tells her that they ‘go back’ at home, wherever that is.

Batista’s mobile phone dies from the safe (thanks Apple!), And after Dexter changes ideas about which figures Harrison should come in, it dies. But don’t worry, the door opens and the two are reunited. The father-son escaped-sneaking through service banging and improvising under the nose of NyD-brass that Puur “Dexter” was and a bit hilarious in a time of technology that was everywhere.

Dexter decides to collect all files on him and other murderers to take with you. He tells Harrison to leave, but Prater sees him, only a few moments after Charley goes to him and stops. Prater goes to his head of security, tells him that he has to disable all cameras in the country house and goes after Harrison. He calls Dexter back upstairs and has a gun in Harrison’s head. After he argues for Prater to kill him instead, what he refuses, we discover the ‘protection’ that Dexter slid two episodes ago from his son, which led us all to believe that a condom was for his shenanigans with his girlfriend, one of his characteristic needles to sleep his prey. Harrison puts Prater with it and he goes down.

Dexter sets up a killroom in the safe and delivers a closing narrative on the same footing with season 4 when he killed the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow), which re -formed Dexter’s bow. A very audibly nagging talker is killed by one of the knives in the room. Dexter cleans up (as fast, by the way that my wife was impressed), sets the alarm off and goes into the night with Prater’s bloody thumb so that he can get out of the room and dump his body right for the statue of liberty (there must be cameras, although, right?). He leaves Batista there for the police to find, and the gun with Prater’s prints on it. They think he did it, what he did, but nobody is going to check Angel’s phone logs and see that he called Harrison Morgan after he died? Perhaps that is the designation of Quinn for his bow next season. Is everyone from Miami Metro about to come to NYC one by one and die from Dexter? Remember: Eric Stonestreet’s ponytail killer is still there after saving the break of “Hamilton”.

In a very appropriate internal monologue while he removes Prater from the chopped body, Dexter puts the series in the picture again. Once resigned by isolation, he now admits that he needs Harrison – not only as a son, but as a confidant. “I am exactly who I should be. Exactly who you want me to be,” he tells the audience in Voiceover.