Dexter: Resurrection

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"A Beating Heart..."

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Clyde Phillips & Scott Reynolds

July 11, 2025 (2025-07-11)

Now living in New York City and working as a bellhop at the Empire Hotel, Harrison Morgan gives in to his own dark urges and murders Ryan Foster, a sexual predator attempting to rape a drugged hotel guest. Dexter Morgan survived being shot and wakes from a ten-week coma, during which he saw visions of people from his past urging him to go on living. Teddy Reed and Angel Batista visit Dexter at the hospital and reveal that Angela Bishop, after discovering Logan shot at Dexter, recanted her allegation of Dexter being the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter receives a note from Angela suggesting she recanted to repay him for solving her friend Iris’s murder. Reed also shares that Matt Caldwell's murder has been attributed to his serial killer father and Logan's murder has been ruled an act of self-defense. Batista, however, continues to suspect Dexter of being the Bay Harbor Butcher and has him legally declared alive. Dexter hears familiar details about the Ryan Foster murder at the Empire Hotel and realizes his son Harrison as the killer. Despite a weakened physical state, Dexter escapes the hospital and heads to New York City to find his son.

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"Camera Shy"

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Scott Buck

July 11, 2025 (2025-07-11)

Dexter investigates the crime scene at the hotel and cleans up blood spatter evidence that Harrison had missed. Dexter is urged by his Dark Passenger in the form of his deceased adoptive father, Harry, to guide his son, but he is reluctant to upend Harrison's life, preferring to protect him from a distance. Reclaiming his real identity, Dexter rents an apartment and buys a car, settling into life in New York. Dexter meets and befriends a UrCar rideshare driver named Blessing Kamara. While talking with Blessing, he learns of a serial killer called the Dark Passenger who is targeting rideshare drivers. Dexter identifies the killer as Ronald "Red" Schmidt, but chooses to save the life of Red's next victim over getting the kill, a change from how Dexter has operated in the past as he now cares about other people. After Dexter's disappearance, Angel attempts to find him with the help of Teddy. Haunted by his killings, Harrison sells Dexter's truck, which he still owns.

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"Backseat Driver"

Monica Raymund

Nick Zayas

July 18, 2025 (2025-07-18)

Dexter's work as a UrCar rideshare driver gets off to a rough start, which Blessing helps him to rectify. Dexter undergoes acupuncture with Blessing's daughter Joy, which restores his strength. Dexter acquires new kill tools from the Internet. Angel learns from Teddy that Dexter is in New York City and announces to Joey Quinn and Vince Masuka that he is retiring from the police force to chase after something. Harrison continues to grow closer to his co-worker Elsa, but becomes the prime suspect in Foster's murder. Rather than confess, Harrison reveals that he has been squatting in vacant rooms with Elsa's help as an alibi. Dexter successfully sets a trap for Red by setting himself up as the Dark Passenger's next victim and learns that Red is bitter because his cab driver father lost his job and committed suicide because of rideshare apps driving him out of business. Before Dexter kills him, Red reveals that he was invited to a dinner party for serial killers, which Dexter decides to attend in Red's place.

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"Call Me Red"

Monica Raymund

Alexandra Franklin & Marc Muszynski

July 25, 2025 (2025-07-25)

Posing as Red, Dexter meets Leon Prater, a billionaire venture capitalist who runs a secret society of serial killers and has a large trophy collection celebrating infamous serial killers, including Arthur Mitchell, Brian Moser, and (unknowingly) Dexter himself. Dexter is drawn to the group, whose other members are Al, Lowell, Gareth, and Mia LaPierre; he bonds with Mia, who targets sexual predators who escape justice after her young sister was raped. Dexter later kills Lowell in order to save his next victim. Inspired by Prater, he resumes his practice of collecting blood slide trophies. Angel arrives in town and unsuccessfully attempts to convince Harrison to tell him what he knows about Dexter's activities. Learning of Foster's murder, Angel offers his help to the NYPD, but does not tell them his suspicions about Harrison, determined to catch Dexter and sympathizing with Harrison. Harrison continues to struggle with his guilt over Foster's murder, culminating in him nearly turning himself in to the police after meeting Angel and being rejected after trying to kiss Elsa, but Dexter reveals himself to Harrison and stops him.

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"Murder Horny"

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Katrina Mathewson & Tanner Bean

August 1, 2025 (2025-08-01)

Dexter reunites with Harrison, who reveals Batista is hunting him. Harrison opens up about his guilt, but is reluctant to have his father back in his life. Harrison continues to struggle with his guilt over Foster's murder and being a suspect in the investigation. To distract himself, Dexter spends more time with Mia and considers revealing the truth about his identity to her. Mia suggests collaborating on a kill, and Dexter discovers that Mia does not have a code, and will target anyone when the need to kill strikes her. Unable to kill Mia without drawing attention to himself, Dexter has her arrested as she is about to kill her next victim and frames her for Foster's murder. Prater orders Charley to deal with Mia. She promises Mia that her stay in prison will be comfortable and short. Dexter finally opens up to his son and promises not to try to mold him in his image anymore, and the two begin to rebuild their relationship.

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"Cats and Mouse"

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Kirsa Rein

August 8, 2025 (2025-08-08)

Dexter and Harrison continue to grow closer and attend the wake of Blessing's mother, Prudence, together. After snapping at Dexter, Blessing opens up about his painful past as a child soldier for the Revolutionary United Front. Harrison considers attending New York University. While babysitting for Elsa, he is deeply disturbed by his fantasy about killing her neglectful landlord, Vinny. Angel tells Wallace and Oliva his suspicions about Dexter and Harrison, but before they can question Mia, Charley bribes a guard to kill her and make it look like a suicide. Dexter stalks his next target, Gareth the Gemini Killer. Gareth in turn stalks Dexter back to his apartment, where Dexter offers him a drink laced with M99 before killing him. Prater invites Dexter on a trip with the rest of the group. At the meeting place, as Dexter heads to Prater's helicopter, he thinks about how suspicious it is that members of Prater's circle are disappearing at the pace that they are right after he joined. To Dexter's shock, Gareth arrives and boards the helicopter, revealing that the Gemini Killer is in fact identical twin brothers.

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"Course Correction"

Monica Raymund

Teleplay by : Hilly Hicks Jr.Story by : Hilly Hicks Jr. & Edith D. Rodríguez

August 15, 2025 (2025-08-15)

Prater's killers are taken to a rented castle for a retreat where Dexter, in character as Red, takes the opportunity to cryptically talk about his true self. Inspired by Dexter, Prater tells him about his difficult past and his friendship with the serial killer who murdered his parents. Dexter reveals to the remaining Gemini Killer that he killed his brother; enraged, he attacks Dexter, who kills him and portrays it as self-defense, while also attributing Lowell's death to him. Back in the city, Dexter accompanies Harrison on a college visit as he considers a career in law enforcement. They attend a lecture by Detective Wallace on the New York Ripper, an unidentified killer whom Wallace failed to catch. Having spotted the Ripper's murder weapon in Prater's collection, Dexter offers Wallace some advice on the case. Angel visits Blessing's house to meet Dexter, who offers to give him a ride. While driving Angel, Dexter warns him to stay away from him and his son, but Angel refuses, wanting to avenge the deaths of his friends. Dexter forces him out of the car and Angel secretly places his AirPods in the passenger door as he exits to use as a GPS tracker.

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"The Kill Room Where It Happens"

Monica Raymund

Teleplay by : Tony SaltzmanStory by : Tony Saltzman & Dane Anderson

August 22, 2025 (2025-08-22)

A suspicious Charley investigates Dexter, who prepares to kill Al, but Al decides to go home to Wisconsin early, leaving Dexter unable to kill him. Dexter's attempts to help heal the relationship between Blessing and his daughter only cause more issues when Dexter breaks Blessing's confidence by telling Joy that her father was a child soldier. Harrison applies for college and spends the night with his new friend Gigi. With Elsa's situation worsening, Dexter abducts her landlord, Vinny, to his kill room in a wig shop and threatens him into treating his tenants better before releasing him. Having been tracking Dexter, Angel finds the kill room, but Dexter escapes and then finds and destroys the AirPods. Without evidence to back up his assertions and the laws that he broke chasing Dexter, Angel's credibility is damaged with Wallace and Oliva. Wallace later calls Quinn, who reveals that Angel has left the police force, a detail Angel had failed to share with her. As Dexter has dinner with Harrison, they are approached by Prater, who has learned of Harrison's existence.

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"Touched by an Ángel"

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Teleplay by : Scott ReynoldsStory by : Matt Venne

August 29, 2025 (2025-08-29)

Evading Prater's questions, Dexter flees the restaurant with Harrison, explaining the recent events to him. Harrison is later cornered and questioned by Charley who he provides a version of the truth to. Furious, Dexter tracks her down in her car and strangleholds her. He spares Charley only when she reveals that working for Prater is the only way she can afford her mother's cancer treatments. Angel continues his pursuit of Dexter, but the revelation that he is operating outside of the law results in Wallace cutting his access. Unaware of who Prater truly is, Angel approaches him and reveals Dexter's true identity. Prater then summons Dexter to his vault and offers to be his new benefactor if he murders Angel. Dexter instead cuts his friend free, and Angel immediately attacks Dexter in a rage before being fatally shot by Prater, who locks Dexter in the vault. Dexter confesses that he is the Bay Harbor Butcher, but that he did not kill James Doakes and María LaGuerta. Angel dies cursing Dexter's name, and Dexter is devastated and furious at Angel's death.

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"And Justice for All..."

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Teleplay by : Clyde PhillipsStory by : Clyde Phillips & Alexandra Franklin & Marc Muszynski

September 5, 2025 (2025-09-05)

Trapped in the vault, Dexter hallucinates Brian Moser taunting him. A phone call from Quinn enables Dexter to find Batista's cell phone and call Harrison for help. Taking a job as a waiter at the gala, Harrison sneaks in, but is caught by Charley. Searching through the vault for clues, Dexter finds Prater's serial killer files and a dossier on Charley, which he is able to use to blackmail her. Furious at Prater's breach of trust, Charley quits and leaves New York with her mother. Dexter deduces for Harrison that the vault code is the inmate number of the man who killed Prater's parents. However, Prater captures Harrison and tries to kill him and Dexter. Having been given M99 by Dexter for protection, Harrison knocks Prater out and Dexter kills him. Dexter recovers his blood slides before triggering the vault's alarm as he escapes and the NYPD finds Batista's body, the murder weapon with Prater's fingerprints, and the New York Ripper's file, revealing his name to be Don Framt. Dexter dumps Prater's body into New York Harbor and takes his files and yacht to hunt more targets, accepting that he will never have a normal life, but that his connections to Blessing and Harrison will help him to be more human.