Dexter Prequel’s Remake Of A Huge Original Show Episode Scene Adds A New Twist

The new Dexter prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin, redid an iconic scene from the original series’ first season, and it added an interesting new twist to Dexter’s first kill. Dexter: Original Sin season 1, episode 1 has already changed a few significant things about the shows that came before it. From revealing that Dexter survived the ending of Dexter: New Blood to retconning Dexter’s trophies in the original series, Original Sin hasn’t been afraid to carve a new path for Dexter’s story. Most of those changes have been for the better, including one remake of an iconic moment in Dexter‘s first season.

Dexter’s backstory was scattered throughout Dexter‘s eight seasons, but the first season had a few moments that fit with Original Sin‘s timeline. Since Original Sin takes place right as Dexter graduates college and begins working at Miami Metro, some parts of the original show, like the six kills Original Sin will likely depict, will be redone for the prequel series. One of those scenes was Dexter’s first victim, Nurse Mary, and Harry Morgan’s hospitalization. Original Sin changed Nurse Mary’s death in a surprising way, but it only made Dexter’s first kill even better.

Dexter: Original Sin Redoing Nurse Mary’s Death Actually Reveals Her Victims & Serial Killing

Original Sin Explored The Victims Mary Killed & How She Got Away With Her Poisonings

In the original series, Dexter killed Nurse Mary rather easily. Harry discovered that she was poisoning him in the hospital, told Dexter about it, and Dexter snuck into Mary’s house to kill her. Dexter spread Nurse Mary’s death across a few flashbacks, so it didn’t dive too deeply into her backstory or previous victims before Harry. Original Sin also stayed almost entirely faithful to Dexter‘s depiction of Nurse Mary’s death, down to including some of the exact same dialog from the original show.

Original Sin, however, also differed from the original show. It depicted much more of Nurse Mary, from the trophies of her previous victims to the method she used to kill them. When Dexter flipped through her file of obituaries, he revealed that Mary had killed at least three of her patients, and likely many more. Original Sin also showed Dexter’s first independent investigation into a serial killer, and it even explained that she used potassium nitrate to avoid suspicion. Dexter even got to interrogate Mary’s reasoning for killing: she believed she was punishing people who didn’t value their lives enough to stay healthy.

Dexter: Original Sin Makes Nurse Mary’s Death Even Darker

Original Sin Showed That Dexter Brutally Fed Mary’s Corpse To Hungry Alligators

The biggest changes Original Sin made to Nurse Mary’s death, however, were after Dexter actually did the deed. Since he didn’t have his boat at the time, Dexter took Mary’s body to the Everglades and fed her corpse to hungry alligators. The way Dexter disposed of Mary’s body made his first kill even darker. It’s hard to get darker than the image of alligators tearing a woman’s naked body to shreds. After all the morbidity the original series was known for, it’s surprising that Original Sin was able to make Dexter’s first kill even more disturbing.

The way Original Sin handled Nurse Mary’s death is a excellent sign for the future of the prequel series. The entire sequence of Dexter investigating and killing her was basically a miniature version of what a prequel should strive to do: honor the original while expanding upon the source material. Original Sin clearly has a lot of love for Dexter, but it also clearly understands the character enough to add to what viewers have already seen in a meaningful way. If the rest of Dexter: Original Sin is anything like Nurse Mary’s death, it should be very good.

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  Dexter: Original Sin explores the origins of Dexter Morgan as he transitions from student to serial killer in 1991 Miami. Guided by his father, Dexter channels his dark urges through a moral code while starting a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.

  Release Date

  December 15, 2024

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  Paramount+ with Showtime

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  Based on the character created by author Jeff Lindsay, Showtime’s Dexter follows Miami Metro Police Department’s most skilled blood spatter analyst, Dexter Morgan, as he attempts to satisfy his Dark Passenger’s need to kill by hunting down criminals who have escaped justice. However, using the rules his adoptive father taught him to remain undiscovered, Dexter must walk the fine line of seemingly blending into society while continuously feeding his dark urges. Dexter faces several serial killers as his facade slowly crumbles around him; with every problem solved by his Dark Passenger, another one arises for his suburban fatherly life. When Dexter takes things personally or feels that the law is failing, he takes matters into his own hands and even compromises the investigations of his co-workers. Dexter aired on Showtime for eight seasons before receiving a mini-sequel series called Dexter: New Blood, which picked up ten years after the show’s events. You can buy each season for just $9.99 for Prime Day. 

  Release Date

  October 31, 2010