Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Dexter: Resurrection season 1, episode 7.Harrison Morgan decided to go to college to be a cop inDexter: Resurrection, and it revived one of theDexterfranchise’s oldest and most overlooked plot holes in the process. In just its first season,Dexter: Resurrectionhas already resolved a fewDexterplot holes.Resurrectionfinally put the M99/ketamine debate to bed, for example, but it actually made one complaint even worse.
InDexter: Resurrectionepisode 7, Harrison decided that he wanted to be a police officer, and he decided to go to Collings College of Criminology to do so. It’s a big step for Harrison and marked a major bonding moment for him and Dexter, but it also had some issues. The biggest is a logistical nightmare: Dexter will have to help Harrison with tuition, even though he seemingly has no money.
Harrison’s Decision To Go To College Makes Dexter’s Money Plot Hole Even Worse
Harrison’s decision to go to college has madeDexter’s money plot holeeven worse.It’s always been a mystery how Dexter finances his double life as a killer and, eventually, a single father. His forensic technician salary shouldn’t have been able to cover his regular expenses and all his killing equipment, such as his boat and the associated docking and maintenance fees.
There were a few dubious explanations for Dexter’s lavish lifestyle on such a small budget. Harry, for example, may have given Dexter a hypothetical inheritance after his death. Dexter also inherited Joe Driscoll’s house inDexterseason 1, and selling it would have made a pretty penny. Those explanations, however, don’t work now that 10 years have passed since theending ofDexter.
Dexter didn’t make any money during his time in Iron Lake. He worked as a small town sales rep and his house burned down at theend ofNew Blood, meaning he didn’t get any money out of it. Any nest egg he hypothetically had from Harry or Joe Driscoll also almost certainly got spent while living as Jim Lindsay, if he could even access his old finances at all, considering Dexter Morgan was presumed dead.
He also hasn’t made much money inResurrection. SinceNew Blood, Dexter has only been working a gig job as a UrCar driver, which can’t pay very well. He’s also paying New York rent prices, and his payments from Leon Prater are going to end soon. So, Dexter clearly doesn’t have any money, but now Harrison needs tuition.Harrison can’t pay for it himself - he works as a bellhop - but Dexter can’t either.
Dexteronly has this problem because it never got bogged down in the logistics of Dexter’s financial life, and it shouldn’t have. It’s more fun to watch Dexter do all these things and not care about how he pays for it. That being said,Resurrectionwon’t be able to avoid it anymore. It already brought up Harrison’s inability to pay for college when he saw the NYU pamphlet, and it can’t be glossed over yet again.
Could Leon Prater Finally Solve Dexter’s Money Problems In Resurrection?
There may, however, be an answer to Dexter’s money troubles hiding in plain sight. As previously mentioned, Dexter has been making an indeterminate but seemingly very high amount of money from Leon Prater. Those payments are probably going to end once Dexter kills Rapunzel, the last ofResurrection’s serial killers, but what if they don’t?
It’s certainly a long shot, but bear with me here. After killing Rapunzel, Prater will almost certainly find out that Dexter isn’t really the Dark Passenger but is, instead, the Bay Harbor Butcher.Prater would go nuts to speak to and be friends with the second most prolific serial killer in the world (after the Trinity Killer), and he may offer to continue paying Dexter just to pick his brain.
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Dexter also doesn’t have any reason to kill Prater, as long as he doesn’tend up being the New York Ripper. Prater isn’t a good man, but he hasn’t killed anyone himself, and he doesn’t fit the Code of Harry. Dexter and Prater also had a bonding moment in episode 7, and Prater clearly values Dexter’s honesty more than the trophies and videos from his other killers.
If Prater continues paying Dexter afterResurrectionseason 1, Dexter’s money problems would disappear overnight. It is far-fetched, butit’s also precisely the kind of convenient and extraordinarily lucky ending that Clyde Phillips, the showrunner ofDexter: Resurrection, loves to employ. Phillips was responsible for the first four seasons ofDexter; think about how many miraculous saves came from complete plot contrivances, like Frank Lundy somehow not suspecting him.
Dexter: Resurrection
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Dexter: Resurrection follows Dexter Morgan as he awakens from a coma to discover his son, Harrison, missing. His search leads him to New York City, where he confronts his past and the challenges posed by Miami Metro’s Angel Batista, as father and son face their shared darkness.
Dexter
Dexter is a television series following Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter analyst for Miami Metro Police who secretly leads a dual life as a vigilante serial killer. Released in 2006, the show focuses on Dexter’s internal conflict as he hunts down criminals who elude justice within the legal system.
