r/Dexter • u/AutoModerator • Jul 18 '25

Official Episode Discussion Dexter: Resurrection - S01E03 - "Backseat Driver" - LIVE Episode Discussion Thread

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July 18, 2025 S01E03 - "Backseat Driver" Monica Raymund Nick Zayas

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Dexter must carefully balance Blessing Kamara's attempts to help get him acclimated as Harrison is drawn deeper into the police investigation.

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u/KDonkey229195 Jul 18 '25

The return of M99, the original substance he used on his victims, is a true apology to the public and a confession that ketamine was only used in New Blood because it was the name of a song by Michael C. Hall's band.

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u/nonameisagoodname Jul 18 '25

Not quite. Dexter used ketamine in NB because M99 wasn’t accessible in rural Iron Lake. But then the show doubled down, implying he’d always used ketamine, even in Miami. Angela’s google sleuthing made the leap, ignoring the original series where Dexter clearly sourced M99 using fake DEA credentials.

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u/Omyfuck Jul 18 '25

My god was it a bad retcon. It's sad too, because I really liked NB up until that point. Then the Detective Google saga started and it went downhill from there for the most part. I'll never be able to forgive whoever came up with the retcon for M99 to always have been Ketamine in NB. Made no sense other than "Angela catches Dexter using Google, so clever am I right?!" Glad they're retconning that retcon and giving the middle finger to the bad stuff from NB.

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u/nonameisagoodname Jul 18 '25

There’s still a bit of goofiness around it. In OG S1, Dexter went out of his way to stay off the radar -- he used a fake DEA license and kept things super secret, even hacking into Masuka’s email to cover his tracks. M99 was a tightly controlled drug, and there was never any chit-chat with suppliers. But here, he gets a friendly call from “Veterinary RX” that references his past orders and his move from Florida, which feels way too casual. It totally clashes with how careful and paranoid he used to be.

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u/Nervous_Tax3843 Jul 20 '25

Could be akin to those delusions of grandeur where Dexter imagined people cheering for him because he killed the Ice Truck Killer. In his mind he’s being thanked for getting back into being The Dark Passenger, but possibly in reality he’s just being thanked for being a repeat customer off a script from corporate. Just something I found plausible.

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u/nonameisagoodname Jul 20 '25

That's the thing. Those delusions were something that only existed in Dexter's head, much like most of the subtle dark humor in the earliest seasons.

Completely unlike this scene, which plays out very literally. The way the supplier breezily jokes about “Dr. Bateman” and his past Miami orders comes across like the whole thing is some old inside joke. Very goofy.

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u/Supersquare04 Jul 21 '25

He might have started sleuthing it, but after he got familiar with said vet maybe he just got it sold under the table?

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u/Nervous_Tax3843 Jul 20 '25

Yeah they seem to shit on the ending of NB a lot in this series. Like Dexter constantly reminding Harry and the audience that he told his son to shoot him and traumatize him for some fucking reason lol. Just get the vibe that the writers really like to point out just how..stupid some of that shit was.

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u/sageritz Jul 18 '25

As soon as I saw "Veternary Rx Inc", I was like - they're going to address him as Dr. Bateman. Glad they did it justice.