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Editor’s note: The below recap contains spoilers for Dexter: Resurrection Episode 2. Even if you think it should have come to an end years ago, the Dexter universe has continued on through two failed series finales for the original series and Dexter: New Blood. Yet we keep coming back for every retry because Michael C. Hall is just so good as our favorite vigilante serial killer. He’s such a fascinating character that even a prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin, with Patrick Gibson stepping into the role, was way better than anyone could have hoped for. Now, though, Dexter’s world is about more than the usual drama of potentially being caught. In New Blood, his teenage son, Harrison (Jack Alcott), re-entered his life. Dexter tried to teach Harrison his code, but ended up taking a gunshot to the chest for his efforts. Somehow, Dexter survived, and in the premiere of Dexter: Resurrection, we see Dex waking up from a ten-week coma while Harry tries to start a new life working as a concierge at an upscale New York City hotel. However, when Harrison encounters a man who fits his father’s code, he kills him. With the body quickly found, Dexter knows it’s his own offspring who is responsible. He’s now off to the Big Apple to find Harrison, while we see a mysterious woman played by Uma Thurman leaving an invitation for another serial killer.
A New Serial Killer Is Stalking New York City
The episode gets your attention straight away as Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” blares as an unknown man (Marc Menchaca) walks through the New York City night. His head hung low, he gets into a car and starts a conversation with the Haitian driver, Stanley (Harding Junior). The man has lived in the Big Apple his whole life, but he hates it now. It’s then that the driver gets a message from the guy he was supposed to pick up, wondering where he is. So who is this guy in the back seat? At that moment, the stranger attacks, wrapping a cord around Stanley’s throat and telling him where to drive. Will he kill the driver? “Well, let’s just say, it all depends.” The man gets the driver to talk about his kids, before saying his family lost everything because of men like him. Stanley is about to find out what that feels like too. In the next scene, a kid finds Stanley’s decapitated body still sitting in his car the next day. Dexter watches Harrison walk around NYC from afar, giving him his space, although Harry (James Remar) wants the father to go to his son now and help him. At night, Dexter sneaks into an employee entrance at the hotel, before stealing a key card as he searches for Harrison’s crime scene. He finds it, telling Harry that he’s looking for blood, then smiles like a very proud papa because he finds none, realizing that Harrison used the shower curtain to wrap up the body. But then Dexter is forced to hide when detectives Wallace (Kadia Saraf) and Oliva (Dominic Fumusa) show up to examine the scene one more time. Wallace has already figured out the part about the curtain, and she knows the toilet lid was the weapon. She calls the killing some sort of crime of passion, all of which concerns Dex, because this cop is very observant.
Harrison Is Haunted by What He Has Done
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Harry is worried that Harrison is going to get himself in trouble, but Dexter knows that showing up out of the blue, when his son thinks he’s dead, would mess him up. He’d rather let Harrison figure it out on his own while protecting him from a distance. He wants to find where the body was cut up, which leads him to the hotel kitchen. It’s filled with workers, so he returns later, examining the scene, where he finds a spot of blood on a ceiling tile. He removes it with a smile on his face. Harrison gets to an apartment building, where he is haunted by an image of his victim. He’s there to visit Elsa (Emilia Suarez), his friend from work, whom he babysits for. Harrison is good to her young son. Later, while staying at the hotel (he lives where he works), Harrison is woken up by a nightmare about shooting his father. Wanting a distraction, he meets a co-worker, Lance (Darius Jordan Lee), in the garage, where they take a guest’s sports car for a joyride. Harrison thinks he sees his dad, but dismisses it as a vision when, instead, it’s the man in the flesh. Angel Batista (David Zayas) meets up with the new Sheriff and former Deputy of Iron Lake, Teddy Reed (David Magidoff), to talk about Dexter. Batista wants to find him, but Teddy remembers Dexter, then known as Jim Lindsay, as a nice man he feels bad for. Batista gets Reed to agree to set up a notification if the stolen truck Dex used to get away is found. With nothing else he can do, Batista decides to fly home and wait. But how long will he have to wait, because not too long later, the truck is picked up by a tow truck? Dexter gets a ride from a UrCar (the show’s version of Uber) to go to the impound lot, where the driver, Blessing Kamara (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), talks about a serial killer who is taking out ride-share drivers. The killer is called the Dark Passenger. Curiosity getting the best of him, Dexter decides to get a job as a driver.
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“I built my life on Harry’s code.”
We next follow Charley (Thurman), who surprises a man who is very nervous to see her at an ATM in Michigan. All of his money in his account is gone, and now Charley demands that the man come with her. The man is a serial killer who was wanted for some sort of club Charley is in, but because he’s making requests, the $100,000 that was given to him has been taken back. He begs for another chance, but Charley won’t give it. Instead, she swings a bat in his direction.
Dexter Is Drawn Away From Harrison’s Troubles
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Back at the hotel, the detectives continue their investigation. Going through old video footage, they find where Shauna (McKaley Miller) was drugged at the bar by the now very dead Ryan Foster (Bryan Lillis). Elsewhere in the hotel, Elsa asks Harrison if he’d like to get a drink with her later. The way he smiles tells us that he likes her. That smile quickly fades away, though, when he walks past Shauna and the detectives, who now ask to speak with him. Blessing has invited Dexter to a party where a friend who survived the Dark Passenger is going to be, so Dex decides to go. There, he is introduced to the driver who was nearly killed, who describes what his attacker looked like. He also has a video of the incident, but infrared lights in the hoodie of the killer hide his face. Blessing, being the kind man that he is, offers Dexter an apartment downstairs to rent. Harry wants Dexter to take it, but he isn’t so sure about staying in New York City. Still, if he wants to be near Harrison, he needs a permanent address, so he gives in. Having seen a logo for a company on the Dark Passenger’s backpack, Dexter goes there. He finds a name for someone named Ronald Schmidt and begins to follow him at night. When he takes a photo of the guy he’s following and sees that his face disappears in the photo, he knows he has the right man. Dexter follows Ronald to a subway station, but he gets away. Harry tells Dexter that he put everything at risk to save someone rather than to kill someone. Wanting to know when that started, Dexter tells him now. Is he developing human feelings? Not enough, because a voiceover tells us that his kill table is ready.
Dexter: Resurrection
Dexter Morgan is allowed to do what he does best as a new serial killer emerges.
Release Date
July 13, 2025
Network
Showtime
Pros & Cons
Seeing Harrison’s emotional pain over taking a life adds a layer not seen in his father.
The Dark Passenger is a creepy new serial killer.
Dexter being torn over helping Harrison brings depth to his character.
Dexter’s new friendship with Blessings Kamara feels forced.
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