Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Dexter Faces a Dangerous New Deal

Dexter is back to driving rideshare. When he stops at the gym, he puts on a manosphere podcast about surviving a midlife crisis. Apparently, he took Harry’s diagnosis to heart.

The guy on the next treadmill has opinions about the killers making the news. He figures Rapunzel couldn’t have been that hard to kill, and he thinks the Five Borough Killer has a great serial killer name. Dexter tells him you need at least three kills to qualify. When the guy asks if he’s an expert, Dexter just looks at him.

Harrison’s First Day in Homicide

Harrison lands a homicide assignment straight out of the academy, which is a big deal. Then he sees who’s training him. Remember Fiona, the woman he hooked up with after celebrating his graduation? She’s Officer Mixon. When she asks who Harrison had to screw to get into homicide, he asks who her nepo daddy is. That would be Captain Mixon.

The captain is busy laying into his detectives over the baseball game murder. The killer managed to shoot someone out in the open without a witness, then circulated a video of it. Mixon figures even his mother-in-law has probably seen it by now. The video went out over AirDrop, so the detectives have little to go on there.

Over lunch at the diner, Harrison tells Dexter he’s excited to work with Detective Wallace. I get it. She’s meticulous, and Harrison got to see how good she is from the other side of the table when he was one of her suspects. Dexter has a different theory about why his son landed the job. What if Wallace wanted him close enough to keep an eye on him?

Charley Makes Dexter an Offer

Harrison spots Charley coming into the diner and goes cold. You can see the anger in his face, along with the fear he’s trying to hide. Charley says she comes in peace. Once she and Dexter are alone, she tells him she knows where the two remaining killers from Prater’s circle are and wants to help him take them out. She even offers to pay him. Dexter barely trusts her enough to hear her out, and he turns down the money. We know he already has his own reasons for doing what he does.

Charley’s mother has died. Last season, Dexter used her mother as leverage to keep Charley off his back. Now I’m wondering how much of this offer is about Prater. She knows what Dexter did to him, so revenge is on the table. Then again, maybe she likes setting up the kill and letting someone else handle the messy part. We already know she can get her hands dirty. Harry thinks Dexter should take the deal. Dexter would like a break from murder offers and midlife diagnoses. He just wants to be happy.

Guess Whose Back

Quinn shows up at Dexter’s door, and the two go out for beer and burger sliders. Quinn is working as a private investigator. He’s asking about Prater, the killers Prater backed and their victims. He’s also looking for Batista, who, as far as Quinn is concerned, wouldn’t just disappear. Dexter offers to help, which gives him a reason to keep tabs on Quinn.

Two episodes in, the season is still taking its time showing who might get closest to Dexter. My money is on Quinn. Batista spoke to Wallace last season, and I suspect she’s shared some of her suspicions with Quinn. It’s easier to ask dangerous questions when it looks like two old friends catching up.

Dexter Vs The NYC Ripper

Charley also calls Dexter out for letting the New York Ripper walk around in his own backyard. Dexter cites the code. The NYPD has an active investigation, which puts the Ripper off-limits. Of course, Dexter starts following him anyway. He sees him pose for a photo with a woman who seems a little too excited to meet him, then tails him to a strip club. After talking with him there, Dexter is ready to put him on the table.

Then Dexter goes to fix Harrison’s air conditioner. Harrison tells him how much it means to Wallace to solve the Ripper case and how much it means to him, too. That gets through to Dexter. He agrees to leave the Ripper to Harrison and the NYPD. He still plans to go after the two killers Charley brought him, though.

Broadway Falls

Reporters swarm Wallace after her partner’s daughter posts on TikTok that her dad warned the family to stay away from the baseball game. As far as she’s concerned, he saved their lives. Wallace, who loves a statistic, tells reporters how low the odds are of becoming the killer’s next victim in a city this big. The Five Borough Killer hears her and takes it as a challenge. He calls the precinct and says he’ll strike on Broadway. The police clear the area and beef up security.

Meanwhile, Dexter meets Charley for dinner and wine. Is there a romance brewing here? We know Dexter has a thing for dangerous women. He agrees to take out the two killers, and Charley borrows from Prater’s playbook. She’ll invite them to a party, Dexter will drug them, and a back room that looks a lot like Prater’s old trophy room will serve as his kill room.

And now Dexter has a yacht. He used to take his boat out into open water in Miami. How is he planning to keep making bodies disappear on a busy New York river?

While Dexter and Charley have another dinner complete with wine to solidify their plans, someone comes hurtling down from a rooftop. Dexter looks up and spots the Five Borough Killer. Remember that conversation on the treadmill about needing three kills? Dexter ends the episode determined to stop this guy before he gets to three.

I am not thrilled about the midlife crisis taking on its own identity within the Dexter verse. We know that Dexter is aging and we know that midlife crises are possible. I just don’t know if it is necessary or needed in this series. Outside of that, I enjoyed the episode. I enjoyed Uma’s character and the brewing chemistry with Dexter. Harrison’s storyline complements Dexter’s in a way that sets it up for future conflict. This episode earns an 8/10 from me.

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