‘DEXER: ORIGINAL SIN’: All of the Easter Eggs in the Serial Killer Prequel

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Three Years After Concluding with Dexter: New BloodShowtime’s Favorite Serial Killer Returned with Dexter: Original sin. The Prequel Series Stars Patrick Gibson As a Younger Version of Dexter, with Michael C. Hall Providing Narration (and A Surpring on-Camera Return As Well). Set During Dexter’s Earliest Days Working Alongside Miami Metro, Original sin Came Packed with Returning Characters, Tropes and Easter Eggs Apleny for Fans of the Original Show.

“We have this canon of Lore from Nine Seasons of the Show From Wich To Draw,” Dexter Franchise Veteran and Original sin Showrunner Clyde Phillips Told The Hollywood Reporter WHEN LAUNCHING The 10-EPISODE Prequel Show (of Which He Later Said He Hopes to Continue, After Dexter: Resurrection). “If people like easter eggs, this show is an easter egg hunt. We would Write the Shows and Start Shooting atm. Someone would come in and say, ‘oh goshh, i have this Great Story About An Easter Egg,’ and We Wound Go Running Down to Set and Put a Picture on. LOVE. ”

Throughout the Season, Thr have been chronicling all the Dexter Easter Eggs Littered Across Original sinUpdating as the episodes Rolled Along. Durying A Midseason Check-in Chat, Phillips Said He Was Enjoying Following Along with the Online Reaction to His Egg Hunt. “IT’s also fun because this season is a period Piece, within a period Piece. We have all of this Great Imagery We Get to Use from the ’90s, But Also From The’ 70s, with Harry’s Storyline. We Get to Lay in All These Wonderful Wall Phones, The First Car Phone, WHATEVER IT IS. We’re Having SO Much Fun Watching People Watch Out for All of That. ”

WHEN SPEAKING AFTER The FINALE TO ThrThe ShowRunner Called Out The Laguerta-Miguel Prado Easter Egg and Explained His Outlook on What’s To Come, As The Franchise Continues on with Resurregion This Summer. “I Walked Into All of this with a Completely Blank Slate. We Knew There Were Several Things We Have to Do. We have to get dexter his boat. We have to get the Henley Shirt. HE WAS GOING TO START USING THE RED STRING. We would See the Evolution Begin. But As Far As Actual Storytelling? We didn’t know everything going in, and still don’t [for future seasons]”HE Shared.

Now that Original sin Has Released ITS FINALE, HERE ALL OF THE EASTER EGGS THAT WERE COOKING IN THE PRODUL SERIES, WITH REMINDERS AND PREDICES ON HOW theying theying INTO DEXTER’SERTURE.

Dexter…Lives? Let’s Start Here. I Not Exactly An Easter Egg, But We Definitely Need to Get One Thing Straight Right at the Top. If you only watched the original Dexter Run and Somehow Didn’t Watch Dexter: New BloodTHEN’S PASSIBLE YOU TONOUGHT DEXTER WAS STILL A LUMBERJACK CONMEWHERE. Nope! Not Even Close. The Serial Killer Returned for a Sequel A Couple Years Back, and in the Finale of New BloodDexter – wait for it – dies. Dies! Shot to death by his own teen Son, Harrison. So, if you were wondering WHY DEX WAS SITING IN THE BACK OF A CAR, BLEEDING OUT, BUT STILL ALIVE… SO WAS EVER SINGLE PERSON Who Watched Dexter: New Blood. Expect… no, Demand! More Answers Who Dexter: Resurrection Premieres this Summer, Starring the Resurreted Michael C. Hall As Dexter Morgan. (Phillips Explained the Decision to Thr.)

Dexter Rides OK, The Wildest Part Out of the Way, Let’s Dig In. The Very First Scene of Both Dexter an Original sin Share One Thing in Common: Miami Metro’s Deadliest Blooder Spatter Analyst is Riding Along in A Car. Big Diffeences, of Course, Include the Original Dexter’s Self-Confidentnce As He Drove Through the Night Stalking Prey, While the Ther Original sin Dexter’s Just Been Shot Dead in the Chest and Is Somehow Still Alive. Sorry, Still Not Quite Over It!

Introduating Dexter Morgan Whatever Shock Still Exists from Dexter’s Miracles Survival is Quickly Replaced by a Big Hit of Nostalgia. The Original sin Opening Credits Are Not Exactly a Shot-For-SHot Re-Creation of the Original Series’ Iconic Version, But It’s Pretty Darn Close-from Bloodied Breakfast to Knowing Smile at The End. Apply Dexter’s Familiar Morning Routine to Dexter Successor Gibbson Gives The Whole Thing a Well-Worn Feeling While Making it Clear We’re in for Something.

A shaggy-hair story Shocked by Young Dexter’s Long-Haired Looks in His First Scene of the Series? I Straight from the Original Show, whohh offen featured flashbacks starring an aged-down hall. And by “Aged Down,” I Mean Wearing A Ridiculous Long-Hair Wig to Make Him Look Like A Teenager. It Works Better on Gibson for Sure, But We’re Thankfully Out of this Era Before Too Long.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Speaking of Hair, Let’s Talk About One of the Show’s Returning Characters. Forensics Expert and ConfirMed Pervert Vince Masuka Returns in Original sinthis time played by alex shimizu, and this time, Boasting a whole head of hair. Please Tell Me We’re Going to Get A Masuka Hair Loss Origin Story Episode.

City of Angel Continuing in Returning Characters Territory, Angel Batista is Back, and so is his hat! James Martinez Plays A Young Version of the Original Show’s Iconic Detective, Complete With His Signature Look: Immaculate Hat and Tropical Shirts APLENTY. Could be worte paying particularly close at angel’s Story this Season, as in the Modern Timeline, David Zayas’ Version of the Character Just Learned Dexter Is The Bay Harbor. Resurregion Revs up.

Evil Urges We Get to See The Full Morgan Family Enjoying Dinner Together in the Firmst Episode, Including Molly Brown Doing A Very Good Jennifer Carpenter as Deb, and Christian Slater Doing. Harry Morgan. The Scene Does A Great Job Making Making You Forget DEX IN LOVE WITH DEX FOR A SEASON OR TWO, WHILE ALSO DUTIFULLY REMINDING The AUDIENCE THAT WHEN THIS SHOW BEGINS.

Goodnight, NURSE The Original sin Premiere Follows Dexter As He Makes His First Kill, and It’s Not The First Time We’ve Seen Tese Events Dramatized. We Originally Saw Dexter’s First Kill Back in the First Season of the Original Show, In An Episode Called “Popping Cherry.” Obviously, Nurse Mary’s Death is Elaborated Upon Her in Original sinand Appears to Serve Something of a Launch Point Into the REST OF THE SEASON.

Rough Start After killing the nursse, dexter makes a couple of slump moves. For One, He Deposits Her Body in A Swamp, Leaving Her To Be Devored By Alligators. For Another, HE DOOK The NURSE’S EARRINGS as TRPHIES. Expect the REST OF THE SEASON TO DELVE DELVEPER INTO WHY BOTH OF Those Choices Were Very Badand whoy’ll Ultimately lead to dexter’s USE of the Bay Harbor As A Burial Gund, not to Mention Collecting Blood Samples as trophies.

You spin me ryight Round Original sin‘S VERY FIRST EPISODE ENDS WITH DEXTER MORGAN, NEWLY APPOINTED MIMI METRO FORONSICS INTERN, SPINNING AROUND AND AROUND IN A LAB Chair Dexter series.

Full Masuka There’s a Lot of Fantastic Recasting in Original sinbut shimizu as a younger version of masuka May take the cake. It Helps That Writing Feels Incredibly Masuka, What With Calling Dexter “Dexedrine” and “Dex-Mex” in Episode Two. But It’s Also Little Things, Like Perfectly Imitating the Original Masuka’s Laugh.

Full Michael C. Hall In that same vein, “kid in a candy store” Reinforces All of Hall’s Work Imbued in Gibbson’s Turn As Dexter. The Actor’s Physicality As Dexter Mirrors Hall, With His Dramatic Crime Scene Gesticulating, Not To Mention Nailing The Original Dexter’s Donut Habitat with Note Perfection.

“Anyone sitting here?” Did we just get an Ice Truck Killer Easter Egg? The Jury’s Out, Thought We have at the Very Least Seen the Season One Villain in Flashback Form Already, What With Harry’s Trip Home to Laura Moser’s House and Seeing Baby. But There’s Another Moment in Episode Two Where A Lanky, Brown-Haired Young Man Asks Dexter if he can sit with HIM. Dexter Says No, and The Character Moves Right Along Off The Screen, AS IF IT NEVER HAPPENED AT all. Is Dexter: Original sin A Secret Ice Truck Killer Origin Story? Stay tuned.

Angel and Christian’s hair Episodes Two and Three of Dexter Original sin Continue One of the Show’s Developing Traditions: Notable Hair. Specifically, Slater Undergoes the Rite of Passage Involved with Having Horrible Flashback Hair. Additionally, Martinez’s Young Batista Shows he have a full head of hair under his classic hat. Are we getting and angel’s hair loss origin? Original sin Really does have everything!

Familiar Faces Episodes Two and Three Introduce Two Classic Dexter Characters Into Original sin for the first time. First, There’s Sarah Kinsey As Camilla Figg, The Miami Metro Records Worker Played in the Original Show by Character Actress Margo Martindale. THEN SHOULD MARIA LAGUERTA, PLAYED HERE by Christina Milian, Taking Over The ROLE Originated by Luna Lauren Vélez.

“Hello Darkness, My Old Friend” The Dark Passenger Returns! Succumbing to his desires to kill again, dexter closes out episode two with Those Haunting Words: “Hello Darkness, My Old Friend.” IT’s Almost Hall Winking Directly at Us He References Dexter’s “Dark Passenger,” The Name Given to the Killer’s Killer Instinct.

The Rental Cop Deb Buys Drugs Outside of A Blockbuster, WHICH IS An EASTER EGG FOR TWO REASONS. For One, Deb Starts The Original Series As A Vice Cop, and We Could Be Seeing Some of that Energy in Her Storyline. For Another, Blockbuster No Longer EXISTS, AND IT IS FEATUED HERE as A Reminder That Those of Us Who Went There * And * Watched The Original Dexter Are, with Question, Old.

Laguerta Makes Enemies I just a thing she does! In the Original Series, Maria Was A Cutthroat Political Animal Willing to Do MOST Anything to Rise to the Top. She’s not so Cutthroat Here, But She’s Already Butting Heads with Patrick Dempssey’s Miami Metro Chief Captain Spencer, Signaling The Earliest Parts of Her Ambitious Path. Also, she doesn’t like dexter much at all all. Yet. That will change soon enough (before it fatefully changes again).

Family Secrets In the Original Series, Desk Cleerk Camilla Is Very Fond of Dexter, for a Number of Reasons, Including Her Fondness for His Father Harry. But It is Deeper: Camilla Is One of FEW WHO KNOWS About Dexter’s Beginnings, Discovered in A Shipping Crate, Covered In Blood. We get to see howled she is to proTecting young dex in the Fourth Episode, As She Helps Harry Out with A Favor About His Kid, No Questions Asked. “That’s What Family’s For,” After all.

The Bay Harbor Botcher Dexter tries to take down a boat cap and Killer named Mad Dog, Played by the Legendary Joe Pantoliano. Before HE CUT HIM UP IN THE KILL ROOM A LA Tony Vs. Ralphie, Dex Botches the Job, Lozing Mad Dog to the Streets – Only for the Guy to Get Pancied by a Car Mere Moments Later. Perhaps is not all a lost Cause, Thought, As Dex Sems to Have Found A Boat that Doesn’t Exactly Have His Name on It But Very Well May Soon.

Hunger Games In the Original Series, Dexter’s Appetites Extend Beyond His Killer Instinct. Sometimes, Demolishing An Entire Kitchen’s Worth of Food is the Only Way Han Chan Choke Back His Violent Needs. Dex Does Exactly That in Episode Five, Leading To…

Stone Cold Killer … Dex Getting Extremely Stoned, Having Eaten Four – No, Make That Six – Pot Brownies. Dex Tells Deb He Doesn’t Like Being Out of Control, WHICH IS VERY MUCH A Reflection of the Man from The Original Series, Who Wound Always FEIGN INTOXICATION weeds.

Drug of Choice Speaking of Dex and Drugs, Episode Five Brings Yet Another Example of How Deep Into The – Yes, Again – Weeds Dexter: Original sin Is Willing to Go, As It Provides An Origin Story for Dex’s Use of Etorphine WHEN SUBDUING HIS VICTIMS, COMPLETE WITH A CLASSIC “WHOOPS.” Little Does She Know It, But Sarah Michelle Gallear’s Little Tip About the Drug’s Use in Euthanasia is at Least Partly Responsible for a Whole Bay Harbor Butcher’s.

Target Practice In a pretty Clever Subversion, Episode Five Shows Dex Taking the Etorphine for A Spin, Complete with Improving His Kill Room Set-Up-Not by CAPTING AND KILLING A Murderer, But by CAPTURING not Killing his Father and Giving HIM A FRONT-REW Seat to the Dark Passenger Process. The Scene Is Staged Exactly Like One of Dex’s Actual Kills, Complete with Him Taping His “Victim” on the Forehead and Delvering, in Searing Staccato, “What. Were. You. Thinking ?? ”

The Older Man Episode Five Advances Deb’s Relationship with Older Boyfriend Gio (ISAAC Gonzalez Rossi). Add Him to The List of the Future Detctive Morgan’s Myriad Love Interes, Including But Not Limited To The Original Older Guy, Special Agent Frank “The Cucumber Sandwich” Lundy.

ThrowbackPack Not a dexter Callback so Much as a ’90s Kid Callout: Dexter’s Backpack, A Forest Green JanSport, The Spitting Image of Every Other Backpack and Saw at School Was In Elementary. Folks, Who Aren’t We JanSporting Anymore? Can We Talk About This?

Bowling Over Dexter Morgan Certainly Doesn’t Look 45 and Divorced, at Least Not Here in Original sin. But that doesn’t mean he can’t go buwling. The Serial Killer in Training Was a Well-Establized Bowler by the Time of the Proper Dexter Series, and in episode six, we get to see the Origins of that hobby.

Ice Trucking Along In episode six, dexter staffs serial Killer Levi Reed Through The Streets. Durying his pursuit, he’s nearly flatten like a pancaked by a truck – and not just any truck: an Ice Truck. And not just any Ice Truck! It’s The Ice Truck, The Same One The Ice Truck Killer Drove in Dexter Season One. Is it the exact Same Truck, or is it just a shout-out to dexter’s brother Brian? This One Could Be An Easter Egg, or It Could Be A Big Plot Development. Stay tuned!

Life And/or Death WHAT DO YOU CALL AN EASTER EGG FOR SOMETING THAT HASN’T HAPPENED YET? WHATEVER PHRASE YOU WANT TO COOK UP, Let’s Apply It to Episode Seven, As There’s A Moment Right Away WHERE DEXTER OPENLY WONDERS ABOUT HIS FATE IF IF HETS CAUGHT L LIMI MIMI: Prison or the Electric Chair… I Could Never Decide Which Was The Lesser of Two Evils. ” Well, Considering that Dexter Morgan’s Been Caunght Red-Handed by the Time Dexter: Resurrections Begins, We Might Not Have to Wonder That Question For Too Much Longer.

Better Angels Speaking of Things To Look Forward to In the Next Dexter Show, FEW RELATIONSHIPS STAND TO HAVE MORE TENSION THAN DEXTER AND Angel, Since the Fedora-Clad Detective Knows All About Dex’s Serial-Killing Secret by the end of Dexter: New Blood. In episode seven of Original sinDexter Manages to Give Some Very Solid Advice to Angel, Albeit, Advice Pointing Away from Dexter’s Own Cries. Angel is Grateful: “Thanks for Talking me off the Ledge, Amigo.” Will Future Angel Look Back On these Interations As Kindly? ODDS AREN’T look so good…

“Close Your Eyes, Dexter” AT Long Last, We Finally See It: Dexter’s Birtue In Blood. Episode eight tails US to the Scene of the Crime – the “Original Sin,” as It Were – As Dex, Brother Brian and Their Mother Traped Inside Death. Laura Tells Dex to Close His Eyes, But He Does The Exact Opposite, Eye Wide Open, Soaking in the Violence. Is this the exacture moment that made dexter morgan into the bay harbor butcher?

Hide and go sea Speaking of the Bay Harbor Butcher, We’re One Step Closer to Seeing Dex Earn that Moniker. WHEN HE GOES AND RESCUES DEB FROM HER EVIL EX GIO, She DESSES A DIMOND BRACELET INTO the WATER, ONLY TO REGRET it instantly. WHEN she asks if she can fish it out, dex replies: “Once i in the ocean, is gone forever.” You can Practical See the Wheels Turning as His New Hiding Spot Comes to Mind.

“B. Moser ” Originally LOOKED UPON As An Easter Egg, Dexter: Original sin Keeps Pushing The Ball Forward on “Brian Moser,” The Boy Who One Day Grows Up to Become The Original Dexter Villain Known As the Ice Truck Killer. Episode eight sees Harry Discovering Brian Is No Longer Institurationalized, As He Once Assumed, Butver Is Now Out and About – and What’s More, CORPSES OF FOLKS WHO WORKED INTKED INTKED INTKED INCITED INTERED INT. Miami. Looks Like This Show Isn’t Just the Story of “Young Dexter,” but Young Ice Truck Killer “as Well.

Another Young Killer Brian isn’t the only Original Dexter Villain Featured in Episode Eight. We Also See a Young Version of Miguel Prado, The Future Serial Killer Played In Dexter Season Three by Jimmy Smits. “It’s Nothing Serious,” Maria Tells Harry about the man Shee Seeing, Only Offering That Day, He’ll “Be The DA,” NODDING AHEAD at Prado’s Future. Will We Seie Him Again On Original sinor is this an Actual Easter Egg, Unlike The Plot Momentum Going on with Brian?

The Older Man In Episode Nine, Harry and Deb Connect Over Her Recent Romantic Escapades. Racher Than Chide Her, Harry Simplaly Makes One Request from DEB: “NO more DATING OLDER GUYS.” The Youngst Morgan Replies with A Grin: “The Heart Wants Whats The Heart Wants, Dad.” And Eventually, One Day, It’ll Want the Older Man: Frank Lundy, The World’s Number One Cucumber Sandwich Fan, Played by Keith Carradine.

Considering the Family Business Speaking of Deb, She Announces Her Decision to Become A Police Officer in the Season Finale, Thought The Groundwork Is Laid One Episode Earlier, WHEN DREES TO ALOOS. I Heret sheets Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Tanya, and Gets the Itch to Join The Force. But There’s Another Person Deb Meets: Maria Laguerta, The Woman Who Will One Day Run Miami Metro, and the Same Woman Deb Will One Day Gun Down in Cold Blood.

A slice of pie In the Finale, Dexter Kills CAPTAIN SPENCER Under A Starlit Neight, On the Back of the Slice of Pie Boat. He Dumps Spencer’s Body in the Bay, Thought Stops Short of Committing to It As His New Burial Ground. Still, As Dex Says: “I Was A Little Closer to My Final Form.”

Hope for the Future Near the end of Season One, Dex and Harry Have a Heart-to-Heart, in Whole The Veteran Detective Glowingly Praises His Son: “You Channeled Your Urges For Good. It’s YOUR CODE NOW. ” Of Course, True Dex Heads Know He Won’t Always Channel his urges for good, given any wee left him at the end of the frosty Dexter: New Blood. But is this antioner call Toward the Future? And not an easter egg for the Original Dexterbut a table-setter for ResurregionWHEN IT arrives in the summer of 2025? Is It Still Possible for Dexter to Use His Code for Good? Only Time Will Tell.

This Story Originally Posted on Dec. 15.

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Dexter: Original sin is Now Streaming All Episodes on Paramount+. Read Thr‘S IN-DEPTH FEATURE ON THE RETURN OF DEXTER WITH Original sin.