‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Star Teases Unfinished Business After Season 2’s Surprising Return

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Dexter might be trying to move on from killing his longtime friend Batista, but the Season 2 premiere makes it clear that his past isn’t going anywhere if that buddy-cop dream sequence is any clear indicator. We can see how his guilt is eating him alive, and even killing Al Walker (Eric Stonestreet) does little to ease it. But to make matters worse, Joey Quinn (Desmond Harrington) is back and asking questions about his former colleague.

Speaking with Collider about Quinn’s return, Saraf, who plays Detective Claudette Wallace, teased that the investigation into the former cop’s death could still resurface, even as she and Oliva focus on the New York Ripper. “Whether he’s going to open that Pandora’s box or not, we will find out later in the season. But in terms of Claudette and Melvin, they are busy. I mean, all of that that has to do with Batista is put in a box — for now.”

One of the things that also pops up for Saraf this season is her relationship with the New York Ripper. During a moment of concentration with her signature track, “Staying Alive” playing by the Bee Gees, we see images of blood spatter on a record player. The actress admits there’s a lot behind the moment. “This is all cumulative. It’s like when you keep trying to cover up a wound; underneath, it’s still so raw and painful,” she says. “That image shows how deeply painful and traumatic this experience was for her. We’ll see this unfold, what this actually means.”

A great detective is really just a personality with a method attached,
which is why we keep remaking the same four of them. Here is yours, what it says about you, and the
case for them being the best in the business.

You let people think you are not a threat and then you simply
never go away. Columbo is the only major detective show that tells you who did it in the
first ten minutes, because the pleasure was never the puzzle, it was watching a rich man
slowly realise he is in trouble.

• You are underestimated constantly, and you have stopped minding because it keeps
  working.
• The show invented the inverted detective format for television and nobody has bettered
  it since.
• Peter Falk won four Emmys for the part and played him across five decades.
• Your flaw is that one more question is rarely one more question.

You are the most interesting person in the room and you know
exactly how to use it. Rian Johnson built Blanc as a gentleman detective who is also an
outsider everywhere he goes, which lets him be charming at people who would never otherwise
talk to him.

• You read a room in seconds and you are not above performing a little to speed things up.
• Rian Johnson was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Knives Out in
  2020.
• Wake Up Dead Man arrived on Netflix in December, making three Blanc films in six years.
• Your risk is enjoying the performance so much that people stop taking the point
  seriously.

Everybody tells you everything, and you have never once asked
them to. Jessica Fletcher is a crime novelist from a small town in Maine who is so warm and
so obviously trustworthy that suspects confess to her essentially as a social courtesy.

• You are the person friends call first, and you have a frankly alarming amount of
  information about everybody.
• Angela Lansbury was nominated for the Emmy twelve times for this role and never won
  once.
• The show ran twelve seasons, and Jamie Lee Curtis is now bringing the character back.
• Your flaw is that being told everything is only a gift if you know what to do with it.

You expect to be lied to and you are almost never disappointed.
Chandler wrote Marlowe as a man with a rigid private code in a city that has none, which is
why he takes the case, solves it, gets nothing out of it and takes the next one.

• You are the most cynical person your friends know and the one they would call at four in
  the morning.
• Bogart played him in The Big Sleep in 1946 and the plot is famously impossible to
  follow, which matters not at all.
• Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and Liam Neeson have all taken the part, and every version
  says something about its decade.
• Your weakness is a code so strict that it mostly punishes the person holding it.

As for the New York Ripper investigation, Fumusa explains that Claudette and Melvin face an unusual challenge. They believe Cox’s Don Framt is their killer, but proving it is another matter entirely. “Usually, you’re looking for who did it. Well, now we think we know who did it, but how can we prove it? And that’s a different set of objectives and challenges.”

Woodbine’s Captain Mixon is equally cautious about rushing the investigation, with the actor explaining that his character has learned to temper his expectations. “I’ve had wonderful victories, and I’ve also withstood brutal defeats. So, I’m not going to celebrate till we cross the finish line.”

Harrison’s Big Reveal Could Create Serious Tension With Dexter

Harrison is caught between two very different versions of justice.

After showing an interest in law enforcement in Season 1, Dexter is officially following the family’s career path by becoming a cop. When asked what joining the police means beyond getting a job, Alcott explains that Harrison is trying to reconcile his father’s approach to justice with his own. “It means a myriad of things. It means following in his family’s footsteps — to some degree, his father’s. It means, to a degree, reconciling what his father does with what he does, with what Harrison does.”

Despite their different methods, Alcott believes the father and son duo are ultimately after the same thing, although those differences will become a source of friction. “For now, there is a mutual understanding that we want to help innocent people and protect them and deliver justice, in whatever way we choose, to those who hurt innocent people.”

Harrison will also find himself looking to Claudette for guidance, leaving him torn between two people who have very different ideas about how justice should be delivered. “Harrison’s going to be torn. He’s got two people he can be leaning on for guidance, and they both make pretty compelling cases,” he says. “Claudette really cares about justice; Dexter really cares about justice. They do it very differently, and both of them have, I think, pretty significant influence over Harrison, and that’s definitely going to be a source of tension for him and both of them, as well.”

Meanwhile, Harrison’s new career brings him into his training officer and new love interest, Fiona’s orbit. Johnson teases that viewers will get to see another side of her character as the season unfolds. “I think for Fiona, you’ll be seeing a lot of her tough exterior kind of fall away, which was really fun to do, and a new perspective and a deepening of the relationship she has with her father,” she says, adding that she hopes viewers get to see the “very true essence” of someone guiding Harrison along the way.

Watch the full interview above for more from the Dexter: Resurrection cast, including Woodbine on why fatherhood becomes Captain Mixon’s biggest priority, Johnson on Fiona’s evolving relationship with her father, and Fumusa on working opposite Brian Cox as the terrifying New York Ripper.

Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 streams every Friday on Paramount+ in the U.S.