SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses plot developments in Episode 4 of “Dexter: Resurrection,” currently streaming on Paramount+ Premium.
The Showtime series “Dexter: Resurrection,” which premiered July 11, follows the events of the 2021 limited series “Dexter: New Blood,” with serial killer of serial killers Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) surviving being shot by his son Harrison (Jack Alcott), then following him to New York City.
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In the fourth episode, which premiered on Paramount+ Premium on Friday, Dexter infiltrates a secret party for serial killers, including Gareth, aka the Gemini Killer (David Dastmalchian), and Mia, aka Lady Vengeance (Krysten Ritter).
“It creates a situation where there are these seemingly oppositional things going on,” Hall said at the Comic Con Variety Studio presented by Google TV on Friday. “He is in a situation where he is with like-minded people with whom he can connect in a substantive way, in ways that he can’t with other people. He’s also confronted with a buffet of worthy victims. So he simultaneously wants to connect with and kill these people.”
Ritter’s Mia forms an instant bond with Dexter, who she thinks is a different serial killer of ride-share drivers known as the Dark Passenger. “She’s immediately intrigued, interested, distrusting, but wants to know more,” Ritter said. “And she is very forward with him. She grabs a hold of him, and she’s not gonna let go until she’s done playing.”
Dastmalchian — who played real-life serial killer Albert DeSalvo in 2023’s “Boston Stranger” — wasn’t aware at first that his character was a murderer. He was just excited for the chance to work with Hall on a franchise he’s been watching since it first premiered since 2006.
“I assumed serial killer,” Dastmalchian added of his character, “because I do have a certain, um, thing on my resume that seems to scream this guy can kill people.”
The society of killers is organized by Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage), an extravagantly wealthy venture capitalist who has a vault filled with trophies collected by a host of serial murderers.
“I love [how] the real and fictional fantasy world of Dexter intersect in that room,” Hall said. “There’s John Wayne Gacy’s clown suit and Jeffrey Dahmer’s refrigerator, but there were also artifacts from kills that Dexter executed in the fictional world in this same space. I like that they’re all kind of swirling around in the same world in that vault.”
Is Prater perhaps based on a real-life venture captialist?
“Sure,” Hall said. “No one I’ll name, but, yeah, I think there are real life people who maybe inspired the idea of Prater. But ultimately, he’s his own fictional man.”
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