'Dexter Resurrection' Episode 7 Recap — Course Correction

Dexter Resurrection Episode 7 Recap

News spreads to the group that Mia is gone. Dexter wonders if she chose to leave or if she was taken out. Harrison and Elsa take her son out to the park. Her landlord continues to ignore her and dodge his responsibility. Harrison tells her that things are good between him and Dexter. Harrison is considering a career in criminal justice.

All of the meat tempts Dexter at dinner. He is able to convince Prater that he is backsliding. He is a meat-eater, whereas Red, the killer he is impersonating, is a vegan. He receives a text from Harrison to join him on a college tour. Prater interrupts; he wants Dexter to show and tell. Al goes first. Dexter notices that the group he became a part of enjoys show-and-tell. It is gore porn for them. Dexter is disgusted by the murder of Al’s victim. It is then that Dexter firmly decides that he has to kill every one of them. As Dexter prepares for show and tell, Harry visits, and he says it was a bad idea. Why is Dexter giving them more killer porn? Harry calls them monsters, but Dex says that he is a monster, to which Harry vehemently disagrees. Dexter reminds Harry that he abandoned him because he couldn’t handle what he was. So he killed himself.

"Gareth" voices his suspicions, and Dexter vows to take care of him soon. Prater wants to see Dexter. He tells him that his share was spectacular. Prater talks about his parent's murder. He tells the story about meeting their murderer. Prater says that he wanted the details. He ended up befriending him. He learned that the man killed before. He was the first serial killer to share his story with him. That was the beginning of Prater's idolization of serial killers.

After his talk with Prater, Dexter taunts "Gareth” and tells him that he knows that he is a twin. He pretends to be impressed. “Gareth” opens up because Dexter is the first one to figure out his secret. Gareth opens up, and then Dexter reveals that he killed his twin, which makes "Gareth” attack him, leading to Dexter killing him out in the open. He pins Lowell's disappearance on him. A little to neatly wrapped for my liking but Charlie may be suspicious.

Frustrated, Batista presses Wallace to investigate Dexter. They have nothing to pin on Dexter. all that they have are theories which are inconsistent and misaligned with facts. He presses Wallace. They can’t build a solid theory, but there is one detail: Mia’s prints were not on the watch. All of her other trophies had her prints.

Dexter doesn’t show up for Harrison, but while he waits, reading the brochure, he meets someone.

Dexter lands with the rest of the serial killers on the pier. He is soon off to meet Harrison to complete the college tour. In a surprising turn of events, Harrison and other potential students audit a criminal forensic course. Wallace is the guest speaker and presents the New York Ripper case, which is incredibly gruesome. She says that psycho paths cannot feel empathy or love. Harrison looks at Dexter, who assures him that when class is over, while he may not feel love the way people do, what he feels for Harrison is more than he feels for anyone else. It was a touching scene between father and son. Wallace meets Dexter officially. She tells him about Batista, and Dexter talks about his poor friend Batista, who went off the rails when his friend was found to be the Bay Harbor Butcher.

Dexter goes home and hears familiar music upstairs; he realizes that it is Batista. He goes up, and Blessing is happy to meet Dexter's friend. No one picks up on the tension. Dex says that he can drive Batista where he needs to go so that they can catch up along the way, and he ends by offering to give Batista a ride to his destination. In the car, he warns him to stay away from him, his family, and more importantly, his son. They go back and forth, and Dexter flat-out asks him: "If I am who you think I am, this can’t possibly end well for you.” Batista is willing to take his chances, and we end with Batista getting out of the car, but not before placing a tracker in the door console.

Final Thoughts

This episode really upped the tension. The scenes flowed without a lull in between scenes. Batista is closing in, and Wallace just might be swayed to listen to him. With the tracking device placed in his car, Dexter’s kills won’t be so easy to keep hidden. I thought that Batista was going to meet a gruesome end, similar to his ex-wife, but he didn’t… yet. My rating is a solid nine out of ten. It would have been a ten if not for Dexter reverting to the slides and Batista slipping in a tracking device so easily.

There was enough Harrison weaved in and his decision to become a cop was unexpected and a nice call out to the legacy of being a Morgan. Many layers and beats can unfold here over the seasons. 

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