Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Dexter: Resurrection season 1, episode 2.Dexter’s (Michael C. Hall) return in Dexter: Resurrection forgot about a crucial moment from his prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin. Both Resurrection and Original Sin were marketed as a package. They released about half a year apart, and it was understood that Patrick Gibson would play Dexter at the beginning of his career as a serial killer, while Hall would reprise the role as an adult following the ending of New Blood.

Original Sin even exists as Dexter’s life flashing before his eyes after he survived being shot in New Blood. The two series are inextricably linked, but Resurrection has still found a way to forget about one of the most important parts of the ending of Original Sin season 1. In fact, the newer show outright contradicted the entire main message of Dexter: Original Sin.

Harry Said That Dexter’s Desire To Save People Was New In Resurrection, But Original Sin Just Showed Us It Was There From The Start

Dexter Risked Letting Spencer Get Away To Save Nicky From Drowning In Original Sin

In Dexter: Resurrection episode 2, Dexter stops hunting the Impostor so that he can protect one of the ride-share drivers he hunts. Harry (James Remar) then tells Dexter that he had never risked being caught just to save an innocent person before, and Dexter says that he now cares about people. Except, that’s simply not the first time Dexter has risked everything for an innocent before.

At the end of Original Sin season 1, Dexter let Aaron Spencer (Patrick Dempsey) go so he could find Aaron’s son, Nicky. When Aaron later tried to drown his son, Dexter let him get away just to save Nicky’s life. Clearly, Dexter had the desire to save innocent people even at the risk of being caught right from the start.

Dexter was banking on the fact that Aaron was going to go to his ex wife’s house and try to kill her, but he still risked everything to save Nicky Spencer’s life. If Aaron was any smarter, he would have escaped either when Dexter initially let him go or after he tried to drown Nicky. Plus, there would have been someone out there who knew Dexter was a serial killer.

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The weirdest thing about it all is that both Dexter and Harry knew about how Dexter saved Nicky’s life. Shortly afterward, Dexter told Harry that he chose to save Nicky instead of pursuing Aaron. It was a moment of real bonding between them. Dexter also supposedly remembered all this during his coma at the start of Resurrection, so his hallucinations of Harry also should have remembered it.

Dexter Has Always Wanted To Protect People More Than He Wants To Kill

Every Time Dexter Strays From The Code, He Ends Up Miserable Because He Doesn’t Want Innocent People To Get Hurt

Perhaps even stranger than Resurrection forgetting that Dexter has risked everything to save an innocent life before is the fact that it forgot basically the whole point of Original Sin. The main point of Original Sin and the main thing that separates Dexter from other killers, like Brian Moser, is that Dexter kills killers to protect their future victims.

The entire basis of the Code of Harry is that it lets Dexter use his Dark Passenger for good. He’s not just targeting killers because the police don’t look too deeply into their deaths, he’s targeting them because they’re bad and he’s good. It’s just strange that Resurrection is treating the fact that Dexter is an anti-hero as some new revelation when it’s literally the basis of the entire franchise.

To be fair, Dexter: New Blood did try to make Dexter into more of a villain than an anti-hero. New Blood saw Dexter unraveling and killing the completely innocent Sergeant Logan just to escape. It makes sense that Resurrection is renewing Dexter’s status as an anti-hero; it is a “rebirth” after all. It’s also just strange that Dexter: Resurrection forgot that Original Sin had already started that process.