Dexter: Resurrection star David Dastmalchian might have solely simply crossed paths with Dexter Morgan, however the present’s new villain has teased a significant twist to return. Serving because the franchise’s second sequel sequence, and the continuation of 2021’s Dexter: New Blood, the franchise’s newest chapter sees Michael C. Corridor’s titular anti-hero drawn right into a secret society of serial killers.

Throughout the brand new present’s fourth episode, Dastmalchian is launched because the quietly unassuming Gareth, aka the Gemini Killer. Different members of the society embrace Krysten Ritter’s Girl Vengeance, Neil Patrick Harris’s Tattoo Collector and Eric Stonestreet’s Rapunzel.

Showing on the Dexter: Resurrection panel at this 12 months’s San Diego Comedian-Con, for which ScreenRant was in attendance, Dastmalchian steered that his character will ultimately current an surprising problem for Dexter. He additionally hinted that there may even be a twist concerned that he can’t look forward to audiences to expertise. Try his feedback under:

[Gareth gets to present] great challenges for Dexter himself… I can’t wait so that you can see the twist.

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Because the quietest and most reserved of billionaire Leon Prater’s society of serial killers, audiences haven’t realized a lot about Dastmalchian’s Gemini Killer. Nonetheless, Dastmalchian’s newest feedback would counsel that there’s rather more to his character past his persistent must kill.

Dexter Morgan with a sad smile on his face in Dexter: New Blood with Angel Batista and Debra Morgan in Dexter

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Precisely what type that twist might take is but to be revealed, although the problem that Gareth presents would be the eventual discovery of Dexter’s identification. With Dexter’s invitation to Prater’s gathering primarily based on him pretending to be the now deceased Ronald “Red” Schmidt, Dastmalchian’s Gareth could possibly be the one destined to uncover the reality.

Dastmalchian’s character is probably going already suspicious of his fellow killers, and that’s solely prone to be compounded as soon as Harris’ Tattoo Collector goes lacking.

On condition that Gareth has already been offered as essentially the most standoffish members of Prater’s society, Dastmalchian’s character is probably going already suspicious of his fellow killers, and that’s solely prone to be compounded as soon as Harris’ Tattoo Collector goes lacking. In some ways, Gareth’s position in Dexter: Resurrection might doubtlessly echo that of Erik King’s Doakes from the unique present.

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The Gemini Killer Could Have A Connection To A Earlier Dexter Villain

David Dastmalchian as Gemini smiling kindly while leaning against a fireplace in Dexter: Resurrection

Past the Gemini Killer’s potential discovery of Dexter’s secret, much more tantalizing is Dastmalchian’s trace that he’s additionally hiding his personal. Whereas it is just attainable to invest precisely what which may be, one thrilling chance might doubtlessly hyperlink him to one in every of Dexter’s greatest villains, John Lithgow’s Trinity Killer.

With showrunner Clyde Phillips nonetheless hoping to present the Trinity Killer his personal prequel sequence, it’s probably that audiences will be taught way more about Arthur Mitchell than what they already know. One chance is that Dastmalchian’s Gemini Killer might even secretly be one other of Trinity’s illegitimate youngsters. Even Gareth’s moniker, which means that he kills in pairs, echoes Trinity’s modus operandi.

Whereas this idea is little greater than conjecture at this level, the opportunity of Dexter having to face the son of Arthur Mitchell in Dexter: Resurrection can be a greater than becoming continuation of the father-son dynamic already at play within the present.

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