Dexter: Resurrection's Michael C. Hall Says Premiere's Surprise Cameos Were the ‘Best Way to Start' — Who Came Back?
A newly resurrected Dexter Morgan just got Scrooged.
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In the opening moments of Dexter: Resurrection (the first two episodes are now streaming on Paramount+ Premium, and will also air Sunday, July 13 at 8/7c on Paramount+ With Showtime), a bed-ridden and barely alive Dexter is visited by three different ghosts from his past — and boy, were these cameos big.
It's 10 weeks after the events of Dexter: New Blood when we first find Dexter comatose in a bed at Iron Lake's Seneca Nation Clinic. Just minutes into this thing, boom! The Trinity Killer (aka, Arthur Miller) is standing in his hospital room. John Lithgow's appearance allows us to recap some of Season 4's best bits, as Trinity chastises Dex for downplaying patricide. 'If you hadn't thought that you could live the dream, your wife would still be alive and your son wouldn't have been left to sit in a pool of his own mother's blood, just like you were at the same age.' Wow, lay it on thick, why don't ya, Trinity.
Next up is Jimmy Smits' Miguel Prado, who meets Dexter in the middle of a cemetery. Miguel commends Dex for saving lots of potential lives by slaying some killers but says, 'When you tried to be normal, people who didn't deserve it found themselves equally as dead.' Good point, Prado. Dexter then realizes he's standing at the graves of his dearly departed sister Debra, wife Rita and colleague Maria LaGuerta.
After a rendezvous with his father Harry (watch our interview with James Remar below), he soon hears, 'Surprise, motherfu–er!' It's Sgt. Doakes (Erik King). Dex tells Doakes that he was right about him all along, only Doakes' response is an actual shocker. He says deep down, Dexter has a 'kernel of good,' and that Dex must hold on to it for the sake of his son. 'Go to him, Morgan. Otherwise you really are just some creep motherfu–er.'
When TVLine sat down with Michael C. Hall ahead of the show's premiere, the actor revealed that he was stoked to 're-engage' with this lineup of franchise all-stars.
'It was awesome,' Hall said. 'It was such a perfect way to re-engage with the mythology of the character. For me as an actor, for the character, for the audience, to grow out of that soil was the best way to start.'
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