'Dexter' Actor Explains Major Plot Twist in New Series

After the last season of Dexter, fans thought they'd seen the last of the serial killer blood spatter expert.

After all, at the end of Dexter: New Blood, the titular character died. He was shot by his son Harrison, no less. Or was he? 

Now, Michael C. Hall, who plays Dexter Morgan, has explained the major plot twist in the new series Dexter: Resurrection. Namely, how could Dexter be back?

“Well, you know, he didn’t get shot in the head,” Hall told the Guardian. 

According to the Guardian reporter, Hall attempted "to explain Dexter’s latest miraculous comeback to me over Zoom."

“The conversation started as a result of my saying, ‘What if he didn’t die?’” he revealed to the Guardian. “I can’t take credit for the whole scope of what we’re up to, but it was a notion that I casually floated. What if the end of New Blood was something that enabled Dexter to relinquish some burden that he’d been carrying for a long time?”

A group of serial killers gathers in New York, according to USA Today.

"They don't all live in New York City, but let's say they've been invited there; it's a gathering," Dexter creator Clyde Phillips said to USA Today. "This season is a unique launching pad for however many years this series will be going."

When is the new series launching?

The first two episodes premiere on July 11 on Paramount+ Premium.

"Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma and sets out for NYC to find Harrison," the network explains.

The network has posted an official trailer. "Somebody once told me, you have to go through hell to achieve resurrection. Hallelujah," Dexter says at the beginning of it.

It shows Dexter in New York, where "nobody knows who you really are," Dexter narrates the trailer.