We are now officially halfway through Dexter: New Blood, and Dexter Morgan/Jim Lindsay’s small-town hideout of Iron Lake, New York, is about to get dangerously smaller.
In an unlikely sort of cahoots with Molly Park, host of the viral true-crime podcast Merry Fucking Kill, Angela allows her to tag along on a trip to NYC where she can use the excuse of attending a law-enforcement conference to further investigate the whereabouts of Matt Caldwell.
In an exciting twist for fans of the original Dexter series, this seminar is hosted by Lieutenant Angel Batista, who finds himself sitting across the table from a very curious Angela at the end of his presentation.
Seeing as this is just one of several intense story lines being served out in one episode, it’s safe to say that we just watched the best of the batch so far.
Will there be a big exciting reveal why Kurt traps and kills young drifters, angered at their sexuality? Will we be stunned to learn why he’s lying about his son still being alive? If I were to bet yes, I’d probably lose.
Instead of plunging a knife into the man who almost caused his son to die, he uses it to shove fentanyl up his nose, causing him to OD in a dead way, not just a hospital way.
He tells him that he’s got potential, and, in the final scene of the episode, we see a rifle hanging on the wall next to Harrison’s room that hints he might be right about that.
Harrison is back home, but his relationship with his dad is forever changed.