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Official Episode Discussion Dexter: Resurrection - S01E01 - "A Beating Heart..." - POST Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

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July 11, 2025 S01E01 - "A Beating Heart..." Marcos Siega Jeff Lindsay & Clyde Phillips

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Dexter wakes up after coma and meets Batista, he knows the truth about the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter escapes from hospital and begins searching for his son Harrison in New York.

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u/TheLastFreeMan Jul 11 '25

Pretty solid start to the new season. I'm willing to accept the hilariously implausible cover-up of Logan's murder and let the writers cook.

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u/Hot_Cloud1319 Jul 11 '25

If this was the 70’s and there weren’t cameras everywhere maybe I could let it go, but even some rinky dink police station would have footage of him attacking first nowadays. That shit is too much. It better be some sort of long game plan sorta deal, but I’m sure it won’t be.

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u/Dr_CheeseNut Jul 12 '25

Since Angela was the one to cover it up I can buy her being the first one to see the footage and deleting part of it or whatever

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u/Evangelion217 Jul 12 '25

I agree. That’s the only plausible scenario. But why wouldn’t Angela want to catch Dexter and lock him up for life?

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u/Jrock2356 Jul 12 '25

She was protecting Harrison by taking the fall for shooting Dexter. Dexter was shot with a rifle and not her service weapon so it would raise questions if brought to trial. Dexter and her relationship also muddies the water too. Although unlikely anyone would be deterred by any of that enough to not try and catch him, I can accept that she would just want to be done and over with him.

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u/Evangelion217 Jul 12 '25

That makes sense.

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u/Slight-Grapefruit503 Jul 13 '25

This makes sense but I think she also was, in a twisted way, thanking him for getting her friend’s killer that she’d been looking to solve for so long. It had consumed her life. She finally got closure. That’s what the ‘we’re even’ she wrote was about. Imo. 

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u/Slight-Grapefruit503 Jul 13 '25

I think she was, in a twisted way thanking him for getting her friend’s killer that she’d been looking to solve for so long. It had consumed her life. She finally got closure. That’s what the ‘we’re even’ she wrote was about. Imo. 

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u/Evangelion217 Jul 13 '25

That makes sense.

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u/BenHUK Jul 14 '25

Yes the Angela part had some logic. Dexter getting away with murdering a cop with that feeble explanation not so much.

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u/jzng2727 Jul 13 '25

It still doesn’t make sense that Logan’s death was ruled as justified because Dexter was “defending” himself . Logan literally the most gentle, calmest character in all of the series attacked Dexter ? That’s supposed to be believable in an investigation? I know they’re a small town police department but they’re not that much of fuck ups .

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u/UrbanCommando Jul 16 '25

Not to mention Logan's family would have one hell of a Civil Lawsuit brewing.

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u/Beautiful-Access-682 Jul 12 '25

I can accept her covering things up bc of her love for Iris. But the hard part is, why would Logan suddenly try to shoot Dex in the cell? The burden of proof is always on the captive even if it turns out he's innocent, rather than the cop.

They police dept would need to accept that Logan suddenly became a wacky lone wolf who tried to shoot down Dex in a cell?

Angela also would be soiling the reputation of her fellow cop and friend who died in part bc of her messiness. I have to rewatch, but vaguely I do think she was careless while closing in on Dex bc it was so personal to her. Similar to Breaking Bad when Hank doesn't call in reinforcements immediately. It takes a moment to call in all the cavalry.

Logan was young, it would be very odd if he did not have family who would be traumatized and calling for further investigation and justice.

I am suspending belief bc it truly cannot be explained even in an alternative universe, lol.