The last we saw of Julie Benz on the "Showtime" hit Dexter was that she was definitely dead in a bathtub at the end of season 4 -- a victim of the Trinity Killer.
But somehow Julie Benz's character Rita will return for season 5, according to EW.com.
This is big for the serial-killer-turned-cop Dexter (Michael C. Hall) who previously was going through the motions of being Rita's husband. They seemed to be breaking new emotional ground before she ended up really dead in the bathtub.
But could there be more, much more?
We've ruled out a few possibilities. Rita does not return as a vampire or mummy (a good guess these days). Nor will it be a "spectral" visit, according to new showrunner/executive producer Chip Johannessen.
“We’re not going to do some ghostly thing with her,” he said.
How she's going to come back seems to be very much up to speculation. But somehow it's going to have a profound effect on her hubby -- a man who means well but happens to have a serial killer brain.
A Showtime rep would only say that the presence of dead Rita will “help Dexter deal with his new-found feelings of loss and grief — emotions he has never really felt before.”
Emotions. A big deal for a serial killer. This seems like the beginning of the end somehow.
