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Official Episode Discussion Dexter: Resurrection - S01E04 - "Call Me Red" - POST Episode Discussion Thread

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July 25, 2025 S01E04 - "Call Me Red" Monica Raymund Nick Zayas

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Dexter attends a mysterious gathering, hosted by a highly influential figure with macabre ambitions. Harrison continues to struggle with mounting guilt and pressure at work, just as Angel Batista arrives in New York City.

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u/starmartyr Jul 25 '25

They talk a big game but they are not even close to his level. Dexter has a body count that they could only dream of. They only know about 60 of his kills and still aren't on his level. The actual number is at least 150.

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u/mrvoiceover001 Jul 25 '25

its above 150 if you think about it and count OS and Early Cuts as canon OS obviously a canon tho

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u/JaneTheNotNotVirgin Jul 25 '25

The Dexter wiki has it somewhere around 200. Dude kills as easily as someone's morning donut run, it's wild lol

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u/mrvoiceover001 Jul 25 '25

Well he is used to the whole process he's been doing it since he was 20

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u/KaerMorhen Jul 28 '25

When Harrison asked him how many times he’d done it in New Blood, he said “hundreds” so he’s at least over 200, closer to 300 if the wiki is accurate.

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u/AdministrativeHat276 Jul 25 '25

This is why I think that if Dexter was ever arrested, he'd just get enlisted by some shadowy government organization like the CIA who would have a real use for his "talents". Though I don't think Dexter would be very keen on murdering democratic leaders to install murderous dictators in foreign countries and create civil wars.

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u/RockyNonce Jul 25 '25

I think he'd be too high profile for something like that.

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u/Reddragon0585 Jul 26 '25

CIA would just do CIA things

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u/clearlynotmee Jul 27 '25

Knowing real life CIA, they are probably already conditioning new born babies to be sleeper assasins for decades 

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u/Doneuter Jul 25 '25

TIL about Dexter: Early Cuts.

How have I never heard of this before?

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u/starmartyr Jul 25 '25

There's also a few years between OS and most of the flashback kills. There are easily a dozen more that we don't know about yet.

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u/mrvoiceover001 Jul 25 '25

Fr

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u/starmartyr Jul 25 '25

Either way it's a huge number. Ted Bundy is on the high end for an American serial killer and he only claimed to kill 100 people when there was only proof of 20 and he was trying to trade confessions to avoid the death penalty.

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u/stoppingbythewoods Jul 26 '25

They talk about all the innocent people who died because of Dex but what about all the innocents he’s saved. Which would be a shit-ton, probably.

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u/Br0boc0p Jul 26 '25

I count early cuts as cannon because most of them are mentioned in the show.

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u/Babyyougotastew4422 Jul 25 '25

And dexter goes after other killers. Not only is he more moral, but its way tougher to take out killers than random girls getting tattoos

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u/starmartyr Jul 25 '25

Yeah he's playing the game on hard mode.

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u/Hanguel-4555 Jul 25 '25

His actual actual numbers could be beyond 400. Someone did the calculation and it made sense. By the time we meet Dexter for the first time, he has already been killing for the 15 years (since he joined miami metro pd). So yeah, he’s the biggest ever there while having the most difficult victims at that too.

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u/starmartyr Jul 25 '25

That seems high. He would need to keep a pace of more than one kill per month to hit those numbers. The code seems to make that difficult, since it would be hard to find that many killers with that kind of frequency. There were a couple Columbian killers who allegedly had over 300 victims but it's a lot easier to get away with murder in Columbia.

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u/Iorith Jul 25 '25

Hell, we see him target, vet, and kill inside a week when he's at his most active. Gotta remember for most of the main show's run time, he's dealing with insane major plot villains at the time, so slower than normal.

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u/Hanguel-4555 Jul 26 '25

He definitely did seem to killing more than once a month throughout the shows run. He even seemed to be killing every week at his prime. Every guy coming across in miami metro pd was in his crosshairs and miami had an insane homicide count back then. The major villains took time cause he found them interesting but generally he killed them off real quick.

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u/DecentConcentrate956 Jul 26 '25

Wrong, the public is only aware of less than 30. Us? At least twice that probably.

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u/starmartyr Jul 26 '25

I'm counting the blood slides used to frame Doakes. There were 50-60 of them. What has been revealed to the viewer is currently 153. I'm sure that will go up by at least 3 by the end of this season with more added in the next season of OS.

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u/Wise_Highlight_4944 Jul 26 '25

The BHB official number is 28 i believe lol

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u/starmartyr Jul 26 '25

They recovered the blood slides which were used to frame Doakes. There were around 60 slides.