Resurrection ‘I just knew us the most devastating of the franchise to date

Publisher’s note: The following contains spoilers to dexter: Resurrection season 1, episode 9.

In the world of dexter, unless you are Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), almost everyone dies. It is not only the bad guys, but his family, his colleagues and as indicated at the end of Dexter: New bloodIt even seemed that Dexter himself was a goner for a while. We know not to become too comfortable when a new character appears, but Angel Batista (David Zayas) was different. He was there from the first day of the original series, the detective of Cool and Happy Homicide who did not see who was really Dexter. Instead, he saw a best friend. Batista has become a darker character when more people in his circle started to die, and by New blood and in Dexter: ResurrectionHe knew that Dexter was indeed the real butcher of Bay Harbor.

From the moment he decided that he did not give up in his pursuit, we knew that Batista was going to make a violent outing. This moment came at the end of Dexter: ResurrectionThe ninth episode, rightly entitled “Touched by a Ángel”. Angel Batista is dead, but even if it has long been planned, that has not prevented her from being the most tragic death to date.

Angel Batista was the quintessence of good

Each season of Dexter sees our protagonist getting the bad guys out, but Being wrapped in other killers put people so often in his life in deadly danger. When Dexter’s wife, Rita (Julie Benz), a good woman who tries to live her life is murdered in a shocking way by Trinity’s killer (John Lithgow) In season 4, it was one of the wildest deaths in television history. Dexter’s death, Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), did not hit as hard as it should have been during these subsequent lower seasons, but she was the greatest character, apart from Dexter, who could have perished.

Working as an analyst of blood splashes for the Miami metro police department, Dexter is next to people who are investigating people like him. This leads to what they get too closer and lose life along the way, but a cop who never leaves us is Angel Batista. Unlike the James Doakes still angry (King Erik), or sometimes cold and not always sympathetic Maria Laguerta (Lauren Velez), Batista was easy to love. He was good in his work, but it was also a good person. With his elegant hats and shirts, he was cool and easy to live, a man with a depressing work that always kept his smile. And he absolutely loved Dexter Morgan.

Others, in particular the Dakes, may have watched dexter with suspicion or considered him unusual, but Batista saw only an original guy who was his best friend. It sometimes bored dexter, but Batista’s kindness made him blind to any negative judgment. He is the last one who would never have thought that Dexter Morgan could be a serial killer.

Batista spent her last days not to be listened to

Batista’s opinion began to change at the end of the original Dexter, With Maria mentioning her suspicion that their colleague could be Real Bay Harbor Butcher. He rejected him for a while, but It was too much to ignore after Maria was killed. In Dexter: New bloodIt was fun to see David Zayas return to a limited role. The series was not on him, but he was there, hidden in the background, starting to understand everything. If he did it, he was condemned.

In Dexter: ResurrectionSuspicions turned to certainty. Angel was sure that Dexter was his man and that he was not going to let him go. Catch the Bay Harbor butcher and get the justice perceived for Doakes and Laguerta, has become his life mission to the point that he retired and left Miami. Dexter Morgan was his work now, and he continued it vigorously, whether it was Dexter, his son, or even put a tracker on the killer’s car.

Batista is a good man and a good detective, so even if we did not want Dexter to be captured or killed, It didn’t mean that fans wanted to see Angel Batista die. Perhaps it could be the opponent always on the dexter path during several seasons of Resurrection. Unfortunately, this has become more and more improbable, especially when New York detectives are Wallace detectives (Kadia valley) and Oliva (Dominic Fumusa), who had their own suspicions, turned on one of their own. They moved from Listening to Angel to treat him as if he were a crazy man obsessed with the capture of a killer who had been brought to permanent justice two decades ago. We knew that Angel was right, which made him see if rejected and isolated a tragedy in itself. He was the hero, but no one could listen to.

Angel’s death was not only tragic, but painfully realistic

By entering “touched by a Ángel”, you could feel that Angel Batista was about to die. He was too close to Dexter, and now, like everyone else, he would pay the price. When he visited Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage), trying to warn him who was dexter, you wanted to shout at your television and tell him to run away. He couldn’t hear us, he couldn’t know, which made it all so brutal. Other deaths in Dexter came out of nowhere, but Batista’s entire arc this season has been a constant and acquired fear. The only question was how it would happen and that would.

We get our response in the ninth episode, when Prater brings Dexter to his home and reveals not only that he knows that he is Bay Harbor’s butcher, but also shows Batista attached to a table. The collector of serial killers is excited, wanting to see the butcher do his thing in person. Of course, Dexter will not kill him, and he almost immediately cuts his former free friend. This little moment gave us a little hope. Now saved, Batista would forgive Dexter, at least temporarily, so that they can move away from Prater and Charley (A thurman))?

The tragedy was that this result could never be. Batista was too good, and her pain too big, to always divert evil from evil. He literally turned his back on a greater evil because he was so consumed by the loss of Dakes and Laguerta that it led to his disappearance. The scene works so well because it is so real. Doakes and Laguerta obtained excessive dead, the first being exploded by the psycho ex Lila of Dexter (Jaime Murray), and Deb Taking Laguerta. Angel’s death was plausible, an ending that could have been avoided but should always be. In the last moments, he had a few seconds to speak with his sworn enemy, to share his pain, and in a defeated voice, say: “Go make you fuck, Dexter Morgan.” Batista died, like so many others, because of him. It was so overwhelming and unfair that Even the dexter in the past in the cold heart let out a guttural cry of his own pain. You cannot become more devastating than that.

The final of Dexter: Resurrection First on Paramount + next Friday.

Dexter: Resurrection

Release date

July 13, 2025

Network

Paramount + with Showtime

Directors

Mowing frames

Writers

Scott Buck