{"id":291785,"date":"2025-08-30T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/?p=291785"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:30:35","slug":"dexter-resurrection-episode-9-dexter-morgan-fuck-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/?p=291785","title":{"rendered":"Dexter: Resurrection Episode 9 — Dexter Morgan, Fuck You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight\u2019s the night. Dexter: Resurrection<\/strong> Episode 9 is now streaming on Paramount + and will air Sunday evening on Showtime. If you haven\u2019t already watched \u201cTouched by an Angel\u201d which was directed by Marcos Siega (teleplay by Scott Reynolds, story by Matt Venne), proceed with caution. This article will be filled with spoilers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Adios, Hermano<\/h2>\n

Angel Batista is dead. I think we\u2019ve all seen this coming. I know that I\u2019ve written<\/a> about it, the feeling that this legacy character who was once Dexter\u2019s closest friend would perish before the end of the season. But being able to draw this narrative conclusion doesn\u2019t take away from the emotional impact. Dexter: Resurrection <\/em>Episode 9 was a solid farewell for this beloved character and, ultimately, that\u2019s the most you can ask for.<\/p>\n

\u201cTouched by an Angel\u201d was the fastest paced episode of the season. While its run time was relatively short at 47 minutes long, the episode moved frantically, weaving from one beat to the next with no time for the audience to catch its breath. Insane penultimate episodes are a trademark of this franchise, setting the stage for the finales to be action centric and often emotionally challenging. The tried and true formula appears to the game plan here as well.<\/p>\n

Dexter: Resurrection <\/em>Episode 9 effectively tied all of the various story beats together, bringing Dexter, Prater, Charley, Angel and Harrison all narratively together. The episode picked up exactly where last week left off, with Prater interrupting Dexter and Harrison\u2019s meal together. Prater and Charley becoming aware that Dexter has a son raises the level of tension. Angel is outside watching and taking photos, using Prater\u2019s public ambush as means to tie him and Dexter together.<\/p>\n

\"Prayer

Screenshot \/ Showtime<\/p><\/div>\n

Angel\u2019s arc in this episode saw him range from being (still) a good cop to displaying how angry and out of character he\u2019s acting to tragic, before repeating the cycle in that exact order again. Watching him take photos of Dexter and Prater was a bigger scoop than he realized at the time. He followed Dexter and Harrison to the subway and when Dexter was able to escape, Angel cursed in front of a child, angering the child\u2019s mother. For Angel to not apologize or even acknowledge this woman showed that he\u2019s not himself right now. That\u2019s the Dexter Morgan effect, where Dexter doesn\u2019t have to kill a person to ruin their lives.<\/p>\n

Seeing Angel at the police station was hard to watch. This amazing career police officer was talked down to and made out to be a crazy person by the detectives. Watching them tell Angel to leave town and that they had to take his badge before he left was tough. Angel deserved to go out a hero after decades of being a good cop. Instead, he turned his badge over with his head down, still not ready to give up the case that\u2019s defined his life.<\/p>\n

The dots were all connected and secrets revealed when Angel went to see Prater. It was here where he revealed who Dexter really was and set the wheels in motion for the high stakes ending to not only this episode, but also next week\u2019s season finale. Angel Batista would never leave Prater\u2019s property, with the last hour of his life serving to complicate Dexter\u2019s life more and perhaps also foreshadow more people being indirectly hurt by Dexter.<\/p>\n

A Brief Detour<\/h2>\n

I need to stop and talk about Prater and Charley for a moment. Dexter: Resurrection <\/em>Episode 9 gave us a lot more insight as to who they are. Prater firmly cemented himself as the \u201cBig Bad\u201d of the season this week. He sent Charley to \u201cvet\u201d Harrison early in the episode, which consisted of intimidating him, prying for information and lifting a glass so she could get his fingerprints. This obviously sent Dexter into a rage and he first went to Charley\u2019s house, where he discovered not only her dying mother, but also that she and her mother are both former military.<\/p>\n

Uma Thurman gave her best performance of the season, particularly in the scene where Dexter forced her to drive while he held a saw to her neck (a la<\/em> the real Red). We could see that her character does not enjoy any of this but she\u2019s good at following orders and she\u2019s completely motivated by keeping her mother alive, which is what Prater holds over her head.<\/p>\n

Prater is the true psychopath. We watched him experience true glee over Charley\u2019s wounds on her throat courtesy of Dexter. We watched him be practically giddy at the realization that Dexter was actually the Bay Harbor Butcher. He feels like a strange commentary on our true crime obsessed society\/the dangers of the wealthy having too much power. Which is scary to think about.<\/p>\n

Another Detour<\/h2>\n

Harrison remains the heart and soul of this new series. We got to see him be terrified when talking to Charley, smitten while with GG, and vulnerable when talking to his father. There\u2019s much needed levity in scenes where Dexter is trying to be a father to his son, such as offering him condoms, but as Harrison reminded us this week, he still feels like his dad could abandon him again at any moment.<\/p>\n

Dexter sending Harrison and GG to GG\u2019s apartment for the night allowed him to confront Prater, who he is now locked in on killing. With our detours now out of the way, let\u2019s get back to where we were, which was the death of Captain Angel Batista.<\/p>\n

What About Angel?<\/h2>\n

The conclusion to Dexter: Resurrection <\/em>Episode 9 came when Charley apprehended Angel, and Dexter showed up to talk to Prater, with the intention of killing him. Prater took Dexter back to his vault full of serial killer memorabilia, and this is where he let him know that he knew that he was really Dexter Morgan. He knew that he was the Bay Harbor Butcher. It was then revealed that Angel was strapped to a kill table.<\/p>\n

\"Angel

Screenshot \/ Showtime<\/p><\/div>\n

Prater offered to be Dexter\u2019s benefactor, on the condition that he kill Angel right now, in front of him. Prater was jubilant at the fact that Dexter was truly a much more prominent serial killer than Red. Dexter\u2019s decision to not kill Angel, but rather free him from the kill table, would be a costly one: Angel went straight for Dexter\u2019s throat. Even though Dexter refused to kill him (and freed him) Angel\u2019s purpose was still very much to end the reign of terror from the Butcher. This led to Prater shooting Angel and then locking Dexter in the vault with a dying Angel.<\/p>\n

I appreciated Dexter trying to talk to Angel as he bled out, confirming that he was the Butcher but claiming innocence over the deaths of Doakes and Maria. Angel\u2019s response was perfect, still blaming Dexter and not absolving him at all. His last words were \u201cDexter Morgan, fuck you\u201d before slumping over. A fitting ending, going out tough and true to his beliefs as a cop. Dexter might not have killed Maria, Doakes or even Angel, but he was responsible for all three deaths.<\/p>\n

Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n

Next week\u2019s season finale will likely be the end of both Prater and Charley, most likely at the hands of Dexter. Harrison is clearly getting involved, most likely to save his dad. I just really hope that he doesn\u2019t kill anyone and can continue on his path of healing. See you next week for the season finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight\u2019s the night. Dexter: Resurrection Episode 9 is now streaming on Paramount + and will air Sunday evening on Showtime. If you haven\u2019t already watched \u201cTouched by an Angel\u201d which was directed by Marcos Siega (teleplay by Scott Reynolds, story by Matt Venne), proceed with caution. This article will be filled with spoilers. Adios, Hermano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[295,153,97,39],"class_list":["post-291785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-recaps","tag-dexter","tag-michael-c-hall","tag-paramount","tag-showtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298882,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291785\/revisions\/298882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}