Even after six seasons, Dexter still botches a kill now and then. At the moment, he’s trying to take out a nasty-looking thug, but the blade in Michael C. Hall‘s hand won’t flip into position. He flips once — nothing. Again, nope. Third time, Hall just flings the thing and starts laughing. Which gets the thug laughing, which gets everybody on the Dexter set laughing, too.
“You’d think I’d know how to slash a throat,” Hall says, breaking character. You’d think. But you’d also think meticulous Dexter would have locked the cathedral door behind him last season before plunging a sword into poor Colin Hanks‘ chest on the church altar. In Season 6’s unholy finale, Dexter offed Hanks’ Travis “Doomsday Killer” Marshall with his trademark efficiency and calm. Only this time, there was a witness — Dexter’s saucer-eyed sister, Debra (Jennifer Carpenter).
For Dexter, Deb and breathless fans alike (not to mention shrink-wrapped Travis), it was a stunning twist — years in the teasing — that instantly reinvigorated a so-so season just as it ended. It also sets up the series for its conclusion next season. As Hall says, “It was, like, knife-in-chest, Debra sees it, reset-button-on-the-show. Everything is suddenly reframed, recontextualized, more complicated and more layered, not just for the audience but for us as actors.”
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