[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Dexter: Original Sin‘s Season 1 finale, “Code Blues.”]
The primary season of Dexter: Unique Sin ended on a joyous observe — properly, type of. The season finale picks up the place the penultimate episode left off, with Dexter Morgan (Patrick Gibson) giving chase to Aaron Spencer (Patrick Dempsey) after letting him escape his kill desk. Dexter follows Aaron to the place the place he’s been hiding his kidnapped baby, and Aaron forces Dexter to decide on between saving the boy from drowning or catching him. Dexter, with all of his aversion to kids being harmed, chooses the previous and lets Aaron go free.
After Aaron goes to assault his spouse and her new fiancé, although, Dexter manages to catch as much as him and take him for a fateful trip on that boat. So lengthy, Captain Child Killer!
Harry (Christian Slater) is left in shock by the truth that his boss, who has had such a benevolent management type, particularly with him, was able to such atrocities, and the one that comforts him is Angel Batista (James Martinez), who is aware of a factor or two about lacking the plain when somebody near him is the wrongdoer — as Dexter followers properly know.
To replicate on the finale and discover out what is perhaps subsequent if and when the collection is renewed for Season 2, TV Insider caught up with James Martinez.
There’s a second on the finish when Angel talks to Harry about him lacking Aaron Spencer’s murderous methods, and he talks about being too near the case. Do you suppose he was additionally speaking to himself in that second?
James Martinez: Completely… I believe that was a dialog that he was having for himself in addition to the remainder of the division. As a result of it wasn’t simply Harry’s slip-up; it was all of us. We had been all making an attempt to determine who was doing this. So the truth that none of us noticed it introduced plenty of guilt for Angel and I think about the remainder of the division. So I believe he was additionally talking for himself…
The explanation we love Angel is as a result of he’s so human, so flawed, though his coronary heart’s in the fitting place. And I do suppose that he additionally worries about Harry and is frightened that Harry may begin to query himself after every thing is disclosed. So I believe it’s very very like Angel to go forward and attempt to console Harry and just about let him know that it’s not his fault, and he does have some extent as a result of Aaron was an unbelievable actor. He additionally was too near him. And when he says that, I believe he signifies that he was so near Aaron — not solely professionally, however personally — that he wouldn’t ever let himself imagine that Aaron may ever do one thing like that, and he wouldn’t wish to imagine that he was unsuitable about Aaron. So I believe that’s very Angel to type of be sure that he’s okay, attain out and console and simply make him really feel prefer it’s okay.
Now that Deborah goes to be coming into the station, do you look ahead to having an initiation ritual along with her, like what they did with Dexter?
Yeah, I believe Angel provides everybody the advantage of the doubt, particularly being a Morgan. The connection between Harry and Angel is so shut that … he appears as much as him. I hold saying this, however I do imagine Angel believes in Harry and actually respects what he does and the way he does it. So I believe he’s keen to welcome any Morgan that’s keen to affix the station and check out their finest, and he’s keen to assist, yeah.
If there’s a Season 2, is there something from Angel’s previous that you simply’re actually trying ahead to digging into?
This primary season was very a lot centered on the Morgan background, Harry’s backstory, which is de facto essential to get this collection off to the fitting begin. So I might count on in Season 2 — and another potential future seasons — that they’re going to begin diving into the squad and what their backstory is, and I believe Angel’s private life must be very attention-grabbing. Given his life-style, his occupation, I’d prefer to see the way it impacts his relationship along with his sister, simply his private life, what he’s on the lookout for, simply as a human being, an individual. Is he on the lookout for love? I do know that he had an unpleasant divorce within the authentic, so I’d prefer to see type of how he met his spouse and what’s it that he was on the lookout for, or thought he was on the lookout for on the time, as a result of the job’s very time-consuming, and I’m positive the shortage of a private life is perhaps attending to him. So I believe it’d be attention-grabbing to discover.
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David Zayas is returning to his function for Dexter: Resurrection, so Angel will likely be coming again. What do you hope to see of the character in that, and is there any probability you may need a flashback scene in that present?
So, I imply, I believe I might have gotten a name by now. They’re in manufacturing. No, I don’t suppose so. However David, since I do know him, truly did invite me to set to test it out and simply meet everybody and introduce everybody to me, simply type of to get each universes collectively and see what occurs. So I like David. We’re associates, so I believe that may be a enjoyable concept. However what I might count on, what I think about for Angel, on the finish of the day, discovering out who Dexter actually is should be actually heartbreaking for him. And I think about there’s going to be plenty of self-reflection on Angel’s half, once more, simply as an individual, and the way correct his choose of character is. I believe he could also be simply disenchanted with what he finally ends up discovering out, but in addition very disenchanted with himself.
That type of circles again to that speech we had been speaking about in the beginning.
Yeah, precisely. It actually does, full circle,
Normally, was there something that shocked you as a fan of Dexter with Unique Sin?
I might most likely say, plenty of Harry’s background. What led as much as him discovering Dexter within the container, I believe that was my favourite a part of the season, truthfully, was how a lot they centered on Harry and all of the redemption that he was making an attempt to perform by taking in Dexter and never repeating errors from his previous, being a greater father than he was the primary time. I didn’t see any of that within the authentic, so to dive that deep into Harry and his intentions and the place he truly was coming from when he determined to turn out to be Dexter’s dad. Yeah, that was tremendous cool. And I don’t suppose plenty of the followers had been anticipating that both.
What are a few of your different hopes for the way forward for Unique Sin?
I imply, there’s a lot floor to cowl, now with Spencer, I believe it’s protected to say that he received’t be working at Miami Metro any longer…. So I believe it’s that transition of management for the Metro. I believe additionally they’re going to must most likely do an overhaul within the division, so far as how they do their job, what wants to alter, the quantity of belief that they put into their co-workers, and that battle of curiosity, not mixing private relationships with the job website. And, after all, how they discover their new captain — how they discover Matthews, how he labored, how his relationship with the division begins to evolve. Plus, LaGuerta, how the belief in her begins to develop, as a result of she does nonetheless have rather a lot to show to turn out to be part of the squad, of the brotherhood. So I believe that’s going to be very attention-grabbing to observe. And, after all, different characters like James Doakes, what her relationship with him is like, getting extra particular with that, and the way he probably finally ends up becoming a member of us, and the way everybody adapts to those new folks which might be coming in.
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