{"id":201678,"date":"2025-09-05T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201678\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:06:13","slug":"who-is-the-new-york-ripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201678\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is the New York Ripper?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT:\u00a0<\/strong>This story contains spoilers for \u201cAnd Justice for All\u2026,\u201d the Season 1 finale of \u201cDexter: Resurrection<\/a>,\u201d now streaming on Paramount+<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tLongtime fans of \u201cDexter\u201d should be pleased with the Season 1 finale of \u201cResurrection,\u201d after missing the mark with the ending of the original series (and with the recent \u201cNew Blood\u201d) \u2014\u00a0but this season-ender capped off the franchise\u2019s return to form. With a finale that featured thumbprints, hallucinations in vaults and more father-son angst than a Shakespearean tragedy, it was solid enough to warrant more Dexter adventures in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\n\tLeave it to Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall<\/a>) to get trapped in a billionaire sociopath\u2019s museum room for serial killers, alongside his former colleague and now-dead friend Angel Batista (David Zayas)<\/a> lying on the floor. Quintessential hallucinatory conversations take place, as always, with Dexter\u2019s dead father Harry (James Remar, who later delivers a funny \u201cfucking kill him\u201d line later in the episode), who reminds him of his code, and a surprise cameo by Brian Moser \u2014 the Ice Truck Killer (Christian Camargo), aka Dexter\u2019s older brother whom he killed back in Season 1 .<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPeter Dinklage<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Zach Dilgard\/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the episode, Peter Dinklage\u2019s Leon Prater finally goes full Bond villain. With a mansion filled with files, cameras and an army of waitstaff, Prater reveals himself as not just a collector of killers, but an eager applicant to the Dexter School of Dark Passengers after he commits his first kill by murdering Batista. The plan by Prater and his resourceful sidekick Charley (Uma Thurman) is to leave Dexter in the vault for three days without food and water until he dies. Of course, he\u2019s holding a gala to raise money for local police just downstairs.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne thing Prater and Charley didn\u2019t count on was Batista still having his cellphone on him, which begins to ring with a call from his former partner Joey Quinn (Desmond Harrington), who leaves a voicemail saying he\u2019s worried about him after the NYPD called and learned that Batista was retired and no longer a cop, and still pursuing the Bay Harbor Butcher case. Quinn has no idea that Batista is dead, but that will surely be a factor next season.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tChristian Camargo as Brian Moser
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Zach Dilgard\/Paramount+<\/p>\n

\n\tSo with a cellphone in hand, Dexter calls his son, Harrison (Jack Alcott), who is currently in the midst of intimate relations with his girlfriend Gigi. Harrison goes to the gala, where he was hired to work, but declined after he\u2019d met Prater two episodes ago. While Dad tries to give Harrison directions from inside a vault, with the camera on FaceTime, Harrison is busy using waiter routes and vault codes to navigate the mansion. Their whispered phone tag turned power play \u2014 Dexter wanting him to run, Harrison doubling down \u2014 is fun (but also frustrating), and the finale (mostly) cements Harrison as a worthy strategic partner.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarrison gets to the vault area and has to input an eight-digit code that you only get one chance at before the alarms go off and the police show up. Good thing Dexter is in the room with a file cabinet containing a treasure trove of documents on every serial killer in the world, including the ones Dexter has killed this season. One file is on Prater himself, which has the clue Dexter thinks will unlock the door.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo Harrison, with FaceTime on, springs into action. Meanwhile, Charley has spent all season in chic jackets and moral quicksand, and once she runs into Harrison and looks like she\u2019s about to kill him, Dexter dangles bait, telling her Prater is pulling the strings, as he has a file on her too. Dexter threatens to send it out, and her counteroffer is he doesn\u2019t send it out, she won\u2019t kill Harrison, but Dexter must still stay in there and die. She walks out to deal with Prater.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPeter Dinklage as Leon Prater and Jack Alcott as Harrison Morgan
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Zach Dilgard\/Paramount+<\/p>\n

\n\tCharley\u2019s final conversations \u2014 with Dexter, and then Prater \u2014 are loaded with possible teases for more of her in future seasons (perhaps?). She escapes with her ailing mother and tells her they\u2019re going back \u201chome,\u201d wherever that is.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom the vault, Batista\u2019s cellphone is dying (thanks Apple!), and after Dexter changes his mind about which numbers Harrison should enter, it dies. But don\u2019t worry, the door opens and the two are reunited. The father-son escape \u2014 sneaking through service corridors and improvising under the noses of NYPD brass \u2014 which was pure \u201cDexter\u201d and kind of hilarious in a time of technology being everywhere.<\/p>\n

\n\tDexter decides to gather all the files on him and other killers to take with him. He tells Harrison to leave, but Prater sees him, just moments after Charley goes up to him and quits. Prater goes to his head of security, tells him to turn off all the cameras in the mansion and goes after Harrison. He calls Dexter back upstairs, and has a gun to Harrison\u2019s head. After he pleads for Prater to kill him instead, which he declines, we find out the \u201cprotection\u201d that Dexter slipped his son two episodes ago, which led us all to believe was a condom for his shenanigans with his girlfriend, was one of his signature needles to put his prey to sleep. Harrison sticks Prater with it, and he goes down.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Zach Dilgard\/Paramount+<\/p>\n

\n\tDexter sets up a kill room in the vault and delivers a closing narration on par with Season 4 when he killed the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow), which reframed Dexter\u2019s arc. A very audibly whiny Prater is killed by one of the knives in the room. Dexter cleans up (so fast, by the way that my wife was impressed), sets the alarm off and goes off into the night with Prater\u2019s bloody thumb so he can get out of the room, and to his boat to dump his body right in front of the Statue of Liberty (there have to be cameras there, though, right?). He leaves Batista in there for the cops to find, and the gun with Prater\u2019s prints on it. They think he did it, which he did, but also, is no one going to check Angel\u2019s phone logs and see he called Harrison Morgan after he died? Maybe that\u2019s Quinn\u2019s clue for his arc next season. Is everyone from Miami Metro about to come to NYC one at a time, and end up dying because of Dexter? Remember: Eric Stonestreet\u2019s ponytail killer is still out there after bailing out of the intermission of \u201cHamilton.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a very fitting internal monologue as he gets rid of Prater\u2019s chopped up body, Dexter puts the series back into focus. Once resigned to isolation, he now admits he needs Harrison \u2014 not just as a son, but as a confidant. \u201cI\u2019m exactly who I need to be. Exactly who you want me to be,\u201d he tells the audience in voiceover. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut let\u2019s get to the underwhelming part. For weeks, the New York Ripper case has lurked on the periphery of the series \u2014 a boogeyman that the show kept hinting was someone in Dexter\u2019s life. We\u2019ve learned the killer\u2019s weapon of choice was a crowbar-like tool, that his spree ended eight years ago and that he now torments families with cruel late-night phone calls. One of his murder weapons was revealed among Prater\u2019s grotesque collection. In the finale, the mystery became tangible when Dexter discovered a file in Prater\u2019s homage room to serial killers. On it: a name. Are you ready? Don Framt.<\/p>\n

\n\tWho? Exactly. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe reveal left more questions than it provided answers. Was Prater manipulating evidence? Is Framt a nobody, a red herring or someone we\u2019ve already met under a different name? For now, Dexter left the Ripper file as a gift to Detective Claudette Wallace (Kadia Saraf), the \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive\u201d-loving cop whose instincts may prove vital in the story\u2019s future. It\u2019s less closure for the season, than a breadcrumb trail to Season 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This story contains spoilers for \u201cAnd Justice for All\u2026,\u201d the Season 1 finale of \u201cDexter: Resurrection,\u201d now…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,39934,39936,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,15329,39938,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-201678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dexter-resurrection","10":"tag-michael-c-hall","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-paramount","18":"tag-peter-dinklage","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115150427650969550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}