In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Alcott, who came up doing theater in Tennessee before booking roles on The Black List and The Good Lord Bird, reflects on the revelation that Harrison has a Dark Passenger and looks back at that tearful final day on set. The duo formed a close bond, with their final day of filming together happening to be the episode one bus stop scene in which Dexter acknowledges he is indeed Harrison’s father.
(On day one, he shot a scene from episode three, changed costumes and found himself filming something from episode six.) Along the way, Alcott took comfort working with Hall, who earned multiple Emmy nominations during his initial run as Dexter Morgan. Dexter realizes his son, born in blood, also has the Dark Passenger.įor Alcott, New Blood was his biggest acting challenge yet, as he crafted a nuanced character while having to keep track of where exactly he was in the story at any given moment, as the 10 episodes were shot simultaneously. What’s more, Dexter discovers a straight razor among his son’s possession, the same weapon the Trinity Killer used to kill women in a bathtub. In fact, as Dexter’s bloodstain patter analysis reveals, Harrison attacked his friend from behind before stabbing himself to cover his tracks. In “H Is for Hero,” Harrison falsely claims his bullied friend Ethan (Christian Dell’Edera) stabbed him after revealing plans for a school shooting. 'Dexter: New Blood' Team on What It Took to "Get It Right" With the RevivalĪmong those grappling with the implications of the episode is Jack Alcott, a Tennessee native who stepped into the role of Harrison Morgan with New Blood, the 10-episode limited series that picks up ten years after Dexter‘s series finale (2013) and finds serial killer Dexter living under an assumed identity in upstate New York.
Or, as crime podcaster Molly Park (Jamie Chung) so indelicately asks in this week’s New Blood, “How fucked up is that kid now?” Hall) infant son, Harrison, in a pool of his mother’s blood.īoth Dexter and the audience have wondered ever since if Harrison might have Dexter’s compulsion to kill. In December 2009, Dexter‘s season four finale shocked audiences when the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow) murdered Rita Morgan (Julie Benz), leaving her and Dexter’s ( Michael C. This week’s Dexter: New Blood took on questions fans of Showtime’s serial killer series have been pondering for 12 years.
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