Editor’s note: The below recap contains spoilers for Dexter: Resurrection Episode 6. If you thought after three TV series that the world of Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) had run out of things to do, oh, has Dexter: Resurrection been glad to prove you wrong. The latest dip into the life of our favorite serial killer hero has succeeded by shaking things up and getting away from the well-worn format of Dexter hiding who he is while fighting that season’s big bad. This time, not only is Dexter himself different with his burgeoning emotions, but everything around him has changed as well. On top of his son, Harrison (Jack Alcott), in danger of being caught after killing a bad man in New York City, Dexter’s curiosity has led him to get too close to members of Leon Prater’s (Peter Dinklage) dinner party of fellow killers. In the last episode, Dexter found himself drawn to Mia (Krysten Ritter), only to discover that the woman who killed male sex criminals also liked targeting the innocent, too. With his new feelings leaving him unable to kill her, Dexter instead sets her up to take the fall for Harrison’s crime. Now she sits in jail, but Lady Vengeance knows too much. What will happen if she starts to put together who sold her out, or just as badly, what happens when Prater discovers that Dexter isn’t who he says he is? Let’s find out what goes down next in Dexter: Resurrection’s sixth episode, “Cats and Mouse.”
Leon Prater Is Looking for Dexter in Episode 6

The episode starts with Dexter at his new apartment talking to Blessing (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), whose mother, Prudence (Sharon Hope), has just passed away. Dexter was planning to spend time with Harrison, but now he has to go to her wake that afternoon. Needing a suit, Harrison comes over and hooks him up. He also agrees to go with his dad because he knows how hard funerals are to go to alone. A flashback to Hannah (Yvonne Strahovski) shows exactly what he’s talking about. His now-better father apologizes that Harrison had to go through it by himself. He then teaches his boy how to tie a tie like they’re two normal people, letting Harrison know that both of his mothers would be proud of him. Harrison tells Dexter that he’s glad he’s back, earning a promise from his father that he’ll never disappear again. They go upstairs to the wake, where everyone is celebrating instead of being sad. Dexter goes to Prudence’s casket, the first he’s stood at since Rita’s. There is no escaping the past. In a sweet act of celebration, the family takes pieces of Prudence’s cat figurine collection and speaks about what she meant to them. Dexter takes a cat, too, and talks about Prudence wanting to die surrounded by the people she loved. He’s doing better, but he still has to pretend to wipe away a tear. Meanwhile, Charley (Uma Thurman) goes to Red’s apartment to pay him a visit, only to find moldy food and no one at home. She calls Prater with the news that Red is MIA, so Prater phones during the funeral. Dexter, pretending to be Red, tells him that he moved away after being discovered. Leon tells Red to meet him at his home ASAP.
Batista Is Closing in on the Real Bay Harbor Butcher

Detectives Wallace (Kadia Saraf) and Oliva (Dominic Fumusa) interview the man who was supposed to be Lady Vengeance’s next victim. He talks about what happened and how he never tried to assault her. They’re intrigued that Lady Vengeance said that she was excited about him being her first kill in New York City. Hmm. So who killed Ryan Foster (Bryan Lillis) then in a vastly different type of murder? Angel Batista (David Zayas) approaches them to share that he thinks the real Bay Harbor Butcher, Dexter Morgan, is involved. He can’t be the killer, because he was in a coma, but he believes Harrison killed Ryan. He has it all figured out, and he wants to tag along on their interview to show Mia Dexter’s photo. Uh oh. Dexter, as Red, shows up at Prater’s mansion, where Al (Eric Stonestreet) and Gareth (David Dastmalchian) are waiting. They talk about the possibility of Mia ratting them out to the cops, but Prater has connections all the way to the FBI. If she speaks, he’ll know. As this is happening, Charley goes to an underground gambling ring and gives an unknown man a huge stack of cash. “Need a friend?” she asks. He only nods. Who is this guy? Dexter begins to look more into the Gemini Killer. With Gareth fitting his code, he begins to follow the next potential body for his table. They end up at a bookstore, where Gareth puts a bookmark in a book in the true crime section. Dexter checks it out and finds a selection for the Gemini Killer with the words “8 pm” written on the bookmark. Who is he wanting to meet? Dexter goes back home to his new basement apartment, but someone is watching from a car parked on the street.
Dexter Sets His Sights on the Gemini Killer

Image via Showtime/Paramount+

Gareth sneaks inside and confronts Dexter about his note stealing. Bullshitting his way through it, the pretend Red says that he’s a big fan of Gemini. Dexter gets a drink for Gareth while also sneaking a syringe and emptying its contents into a glass. When handed a glass, Gareth switches which one he gets, but Dexter’s way ahead of him, as Gemini falls to the ground unconscious. Harrison goes to Elsa’s (Emilia Suarez) to watch her son, Dante (Liam Delgado), where she talks about her kid’s asthma being caused by black mold in the apartment and how the landlord has yet to do anything about it. Later, the boy’s asthma starts up, and Harrison gets a machine to help him breathe. Before bed, he reads him a comic book, and it’s so obvious how much Harrison loves him. That’s bad news for the cranky landlord, Vinny (Steve Schirripa), who shows up later looking for rent. An angry Harrison says he’s getting nothing until the mold is taken care of. The landlord doesn’t care, making Harrison even more mad. When he calls Elsa a bad mom, Harrison drives a fork straight into the man’s eyeball, but thankfully, it’s revealed to be a fantasy he doesn’t act on. He has his dad’s urges, but can he continue to keep them at bay? The Gemini Killer comes to on the true Bay Harbor Butcher’s table as a new blood slide is being made. Dexter quickly kills him. There goes that idea of loving Harrison making him want to be better. Before he can do anything else, though, Blessing is knocking on the door, so Dex rushes to hide the body. His kinder landlord is broken up over his mother’s death, a woman who adopted him and saved him from a rough life in Sierra Leone. She told Blessing to leave the darkness of the past behind and never bring it into your home, because the present is all that matters. Those words hit home with a guy who has a dead man in his bathtub. As Dexter burns Gemini’s body, Harry (James Remar) tells him that it’s time to figure out what Harrison needs, not what he doesn’t. At lunch the next day, Harrison confesses his visions of killing Elsa’s landlord. Dexter is proud that Harrison did the right thing and says there is nothing wrong with him. A temper makes you human, not a monster. He tells him to find his open path in a second chance, and he’ll be by his side. He’s really trying without faking it. The three detectives go to meet with Mia, but before they can, an alarm goes off inside the jail. Mia is found dead, hanging from a noose in her cell. A guard who looks exactly like the gambler Charley paid off pronounces her dead. Lady Vengeance won’t be talking, and she’ll never know the truth about Red’s identity. Dex hears the news on the radio as he drives to meet Prater for some sort of surprise. He is waiting beside a helicopter, and now more concerned than ever, Harry warns Dexter to be careful. Prater is going to take him, Charley, and Al on a helicopter ride. They’re waiting for Gareth, too, but he’s not showing up. Or is he? Because a car pulls up, and out walks the man Dexter killed. It then hits him. The Gemini Killer are twins. At the library, one brother was leaving a message for another. “Fuck me,” Dexter thinks.

Dexter: Resurrection

Dexter: Resurrection continues to impress by taking the franchise in directions never before explored.

Release Date

July 13, 2025

Network

Paramount+ with Showtime

Directors

Marcos Siega

Writers

Scott Buck

Pros & Cons

Dexter’s new fatherly instincts bring out a new side to the character.
Batista’s insistence on catching Dexter perfectly bridges the gap between the past and now.
The Gemini Killer twist is the perfect shock to end the episode on.