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Spoiler alert: This publication contains “Code Blues” spoilers, the end of season 1 of “Dexter: original without”, now transmitting in Paramount+ with Showtime.

In the course of only a few weeks in 1991, Dexter Morgan entered his account as serial murderer.

At least this is how he tells it (through the voice narration of OG Dexter, Michael C. Hall) at the end of the first season of the Showtime prequel series “Dexter: original of sin”. In the end, Dexter (played in his 20 years by Patrick Gibson) satisfies the anger of his “dark passenger” by killing his first big bad: the Miami Metro police captain, Aaron Spencer (Patrick Dempsey), who , it turns out, he was trying to take revenge on his ex -wife kidnaping and trying to kill his son, Nicky.

While Dexter has never been the epitome of moral superiority, he has always drawn the line to endanger children. You can thank the traumatized child who saw his mother be cut with a chainsaw by drug traffickers for that admirable hard limit. So, when he suspects that it is Spencer who kidnapped, mutilated and murdered the son of a judge just to mask his true plan to do the same with his own son, Dexter breaks the strict code established by his father Harry (Christian Slater) for Kill the captain –– If Harry believes it or not.

“As we see later in the original series, children are a place where Dexter begins to feel human,” says Gibson Variety. “But I also think it is important that he goes against his father’s word when it comes to Spencer. Not for the first time, but definitely when it comes to killing. He has always taken Harry’s permission to kill, that is part of the code, so this is a type of flying out of the nest. He made a decision, and it was correct, and I think he gives him that autonomy and that sense of confidence that he is ready. “

But is Dexter too conceited in his evaluation that is almost complete in his evolution only a few weeks after his first murder? “Yes, this was a great swing, and I am curious to know how that feeling of trust you get from it can lead it by bad path,” adds Gibson. “It seems that we are only entering his adolescence as a serial murderer with that bravery.”

Being realistic, this was not the cleaner slaughter that Dexter has committed. He already had Spencer on his table once, just to risk letting him escape to take Dexter to Nicky. Cort the two men who fight in the intestines of an abandoned ship in the port of Miami, where Spencer has imprisoned and finally tries to drown his son to evade capture. “It was good to train,” says Gibson about his fighting scene with Dempsey. But finally, Dexter updates the worst father in the world and finally finds the right place to properly tie Spencer for murder, a boat in Bay Harbor. It is an important step closer to Dexter’s audience was known for the first time in 2006, whose work killing bad people will be known as the Bay Harbor Butcher.

“That scene was so surreal to shoot,” says Gibson. “It was one of the last days, and he felt appropriate. It is very dexter to be in that boat, and that murder felt a bit special. There is something interesting that happens in the killing rooms where there is an air of solemnity about it. It feels sacred because you have all the plastic wrapping and everyone is very quiet, and has this energy with someone tied on the table. But then, to bring that at night in a boat where you really have a limited crew, that was great. “

Showrunner Clyde Phillips, who served in the same role for seasons 1-4 of the original series and the sequel of 2021 “New Blood,” says Spencer’s importance to raise Dexter’s maturity as a serial murderer with consciousness was crucial for move towards this “completely” formed “to be.

“The public already knows a lot about what is going to happen,” he says. “But we are showing the evolution of it. The origins of it. For us, that is a welcome challenge to write. “

After Spencer’s blood, the end changes to something rarely seen in the world of “Dexter”, a happy ending. Dexter is hired full time in Miami Metro as a forensic analyst. His sister, Deb (Molly Brown), renounces a university career playing volleyball to run for the Police Academy, following in the footsteps of his father. And Harry is happy that his serial killer son is satisfying his impulses in private for the moment. The trio even dances in the final scene, which ended up being more coordinated than Phillips initially intended.

“We have already established that Dexter does not know how to dance,” he says. “When I wrote that end, I also made Christian Slater was dancing the old white with the thumbs up and the lower lip. But he came to me and told me that he knew how to dance and asked if he could. Molly is also a great dancer, so they simply made this scene even more cheerful to the Morgans. ”

However, it would not be “Dexter” without the imminent spectrum of fatality, and this time came from a familiar face. During the final episodes, Harry and Laguerta (Christina Milian) are investigating a possible serial murderer who deduces is actually Brian Moser (Roby Attal), Dexter’s older brother that Harry and his wife left their home due to behavioral problems after they tried to adopt and Dexter after the murder of his mother. Brian, of course, will return in season 2 of the original “Dexter” series to face his brother as the ice truck killer. But here, he is a solitary and disturbed child who seeks to attract his brother leaving him a grotesque trail of bodies tied to his tense adoption.

Although Brian’s story will really be worth it at the OG “Dexter”, Phillips says they wanted to visit her again to remind the public that Dexter was refining his skills, Brian was also Brian. Dexter is not the only one with an original sin, and Brian did not have the benefit of the Harry Code to keep him under control while evolving.

“Don’t forget that Brian was also in that shipping container,” says Phillips. “Harry is partially responsible for Brian becoming who it is because they could not accommodate both children and had to separate them for the second time. We have that scene in the installation where we see Brian Morph from the age of 8 to 18 years, and you realize that this child has really had 10 years of shit. It is already damaged, and now it is basically destroyed. “

Dexter and Brian only briefly cross this season, but it is Harry who faces face to face with him and manages to talk about Brian to leave Dexter alone, for now. However, he is looking from the window while the Morgans dance their worried in the final scene.

A person who, surprisingly, did it alive this season was Sarah Michelle Gellar, like Dexter’s Forensic Chief, Tanya, whose billing of “special guest star” left some fans worried that it could be collateral damage in the messy evolution of Dexter from the character that does not ‘t in the original series. While it is Harry who desperately tries to contain Dexter’s hunger to kill, Gibson says that there is a beautiful irony that Tanya is molding without knowing it Dexter’s evasion skills.

“I love how Dexter is a really enthusiastic student, but not only to be good at work, which I think wants to be,” says Gibson. “But also because she is teaching him the advice and tricks on how to escape the murder. It is fun because he believes he is taking him along a road, but he is also feeding the beast at the same time. “

Both Clyde and Gibson want to make more seasons of “original sin”, and if they get their desire, Phillips says they want Gellar to return to remain Dexter’s mentor, if everything works with his possible return as “Buffy The Vampire Slayer.” “” Dexter needs to learn her forensic, and it is a joy to work with her, “says Phillips.” If we can solve some kind of arrangement with its other program, we definitely want it back. “

So what is happening elsewhere in the world of “Dexter”? Phillips is currently in New York with Hall Shooting “Dexter: Resurrection”, the continuation of the history of the serial killer after “New Blood.” The series will give Dexter its strongest cast so far with people like Uma Thurman and Peter Dinklage signing. Gibson really visited the set recently and could see the other Dexter in action for the first time. “Seeing Michael working live was incredible,” he says. “Solo, very great. I’m ready, bring it! “

He also praised the change to an environment of New York, which, according to him, has “an energy that is different, but has that vitality as Miami did.” Phillips, on the other hand, is a true Fort Knox when it comes to what fans can expect from the program, pointing out only that “Maintains the theme of the father and the living son big.”

But where does that “original sin leave?” If Phillips and Gibson come out with his, this is only the beginning of the beginning of Dexter.

“I would love to do more,” says Phillips. “The program premiered as the highest transmission premiere in the history of Paramount and Showtime. We know they are loving it there, we are only waiting for the phone call. ”

If they get to deepen the world of the young Dexter, both men have their own desire list for the questions they would like to answer.

“Something I was thinking about the first season is that Dexter has certain links with characters from the original,” he says. “I would not be surprised if the secrets tied those characters. It is someone who knows that an alliance is very valuable, and can use people for their advantage. I would love to know if there were things that we did not listen to in the original because they were secrets that were never mentioned. ”

Phillips, meanwhile, wants to mark the finest details of what makes Dexter who he is. “We want me to continue learning to mix,” says Phillips. “You know, you will eventually meet Rita. But before that, he will learn to leave, maybe get that apartment when he starts earning money. When did Henleys start using? When will you receive a boat? Everything is there to explore. “