Resurrection ‘Episode 5 End Credits Song, explained

Publisher’s note: The above contains spoilers for Dexter: Resurrection Episode 5.If you looked Dexter: Resurrection Close to this season, you know that the Showtime series is punching. Five episodes in, and Michael C. HallDexter Morgan discreetly exchanged blood splashes for something more disorderly: emotional benefits. Like the episode of this week, “Murder Horny”, delivers the turn of mid-season of the show, the beloved the vigilante was forced to face the truth that his teenage son, Harrison (Jack Alcott), do not share his darkness or does not even want a part of it.

It’s a huge moment to dexter when he sails in the father-son relationship, but it does not end with a dialogue or an action. Instead, as credits roll, It turns into a synth wave and beats the care of the Hall’s avant-garde supergroup, the princess goes (with Rock Yanowitz And Mast Katz–Bohe) By playing on the track, “eat an eraser”.

But What does this particular song mean to dexter in the future? Moreover, why that Does the song feel familiar? Well, to start, this is not the first time that the Hall group, Princess Goes, has appeared in the Showtime series.

Michael C. Hall presented his group’s music in “Dexter: New Blood”

During the first Dexter Revival of the series New blood In 2021, the public was treated to the surprising “Ketamine” needle track during the credits of the fifth episode, “Runaway”. Written and interpreted by Hall with his independent group for their first album, Thank you for comingThe slow psychedelic ballad with a simple bass line with four notes and a unique battery section looked like a cheeky eye to the episode events, especially since Dexter literally Looking for Ketamine for the sedating of his next victim.

But with intelligent placement and consideration, it has never been only a traffic jam at the surface. THE The words reflect the double life of Dexter in a spiral And his growing fears that the “code” was no longer enough, especially since things were getting closer to him:

I want to feel forever changing / but it is difficult when all this rearrangement / means that I could lose you.

In an interview with popculture shortly after the final, Hall admitted that it seemed appropriate to include the track of the seriesEspecially in the context of the situation of his character.

“There was also something sound at that time of the season at the end of this episode, who just felt like people who made these decisions,” said Hall. “It was just a cool way, if nothing else, maybe people heard and loved it. I think some asked me if I was singing or just loved the song and explores it from there, and discovered from there. Dexter restart. “”

What is the song that plays at the end of episode 5 of “Dexter: Resurrection”?

This calm and hall staff New blood Now brings us to Resurrection With the end credits exploding “eat an eraser”. Elegant with hall’s David Bowie Vibes, the track is a thematic punch. While “ketamine” accompanies Dexter sailing in the tension between its impulses and its carefully maintained code, “Eat an eraser” weaves the wires for a very different type of crisis: rejection.

After finally opening in Harrison on his past, including his first murder (with a scene of Dexter: Original sin Sewn), and what the “code” means for him, Dexter is not encountered by curiosity or understanding, but rather something cold. Harrison does not feel the same liberation as his father. In fact, he doesn’t want to be him at all. The young man, vulnerable and frightened, says that his dark thoughts haunted him every evening after his brutal murder of Ryan Foster (Ryan Lillis), a serial rapist staying at the Empire hotel. This is a moment that lets dexter confused because he wants a connection with his son, and thinks that it is the path – something to which the words are alluding to:

Things that I have never told you / stockings on my knees / Why not let me stand? / Give me your weight

Dexter does not want to feel alone. After all, he tries to forge a link with Mia (The Crown Ritter) In the midst of hope that Lady Vengeance, with her own “code”, looks very much like him. But as the episode proves, dexter East Isolated with his dark passenger – there is nobody like him. Between his son who did not relate to him or to Mia, confessing his murders does not always concern the “search for justice”, a moment ago after her interaction with the pretty femme fatale when he realizes that having a link with the others is not possible:

Utopia is a simulation / nostalgia is not worth a whore

Floating just under the credits, The song and its words capture the emotional center of the episode. This aforementioned line could just as easily be the internal monologue of Dexter at the end of the episode. His nostalgic conviction that he could finally find someone like him is opened by the betrayal of Mia. And Harrison? Well, the dream of dextering to pass the code to his son has gone long after having taught him to eliminate a body New blood. He is not the real Dexter mirror really hoped, nor that of his conscience, Harry Morgan (Remark), mentioned in. Instead, he is the “eraser” of this dream:

Eat an eraser / dismiss your brain / Destiny cannot face it

It is not at all subtle. It’s painful because the track is not just another closer for credits, but rather, a confession that Dexter cannot say aloud. However, we can feel these feelings through each micro -expression brought by Hall for his character. In a similar way to New bloodIt is an Easter egg that only reaches only once you realize how deep it is – both for the character and the actor behind him.

“Eat an eraser” does it prefigure what’s going on on “Dexter: Resurrection”?

As a track which does not reflect what is happening before, “Eat an Eraser” quietly sets the tone for what is still to come in the second half of the season. Combine this with the mess that Dexter created by Leon Prater’s infiltration (Rock Dinklage) Serial Killer Club, and things are about to become much more superimposed. But while the princess goes from dream detachment to the track masks something sharper by stirring below for ResurrectionIt is obvious that no matter how much someone hides behind routine or even love, there is always a calculation:

Turn in place / more waiting …

If the lyrics are quietly doing something to come for the next five episodes, it is because there is a growing feeling that time has exhausted for the characters who are no longer simply surrounding their choices, but rushing towards the consequences. Harrison could live the SSPT in the style of Edgar Allan Poe‘s The revealing heartbut This has evolved in addition to what is happening when control slips from your hands.

In a line of “eating an eraser”, Hall sings, “cold water awaits you”. Although it may seem too offbeat for interpretation, it is a line that carries a strange calm. Not a threat in any way, but an inevitability which, for some of these characters, This impact is already starting (As Mia arrested after Dexter anonymously called an attack). But with only five episodes to play, you will have to wait to see how everything is breaking down.

Dexter: Resurrection is in streaming every Friday on Paramount + with Showtime and Switzes at 9 p.m. HNE on Showtime.

Dexter: Resurrection

Release date

July 13, 2025

Network

Paramount + with Showtime

Directors

Mowing frames

Writers

Scott Buck