Dexter in a completely different context, we’ll see how that feels. “It’s been interesting to figure out how to do that and I thought it was time to find out what the hell happened to him.” ‘Dexter’. Credit: Fox/Showtime/Alamy. Hall went on to say that returning to the role was all about about “being presented with a story I felt was worth telling,” and suggested the new episodes could have taken various different angles. “There had been some other proposals and possibilities for Dexter, other roads we started down, but this was the first one that was worth continuing on,” he explained.