Q.
What is it supposed to be on the show?
A. Out at sea aboard an expensive yacht.
Q.
Where is it supposed to be on the show?
A. In New York Harbor.
I Q. When did we see it on the show?
A. At the very end of Episode 10, the season finale of Season One of Dexter: Resurrection.
This is the final scene of the series' first season.

Dexter has killed billionaire Leon Prater (after
Prater murdered Angel Batista, and tried to kill both Dexter and
Harrison), and in this scene he has taken Prater's yacht from its dock,
has sailed out to sea, and is in the process of throwing Prater's
remains into the ocean (as he used to do from his own boat, the Slice of Life), while the Statue of Liberty is clearly visible in the background.
( The name of this yacht is The Getaway, which was the title of the final episode of Dexter's 4th season, which many people consider to be the peak of the original series. )
While he it goes about this task, we hear his
internal dialog, as he muses about his change of attitude. In the past,
he thinks, he always wanted to leave his dark passenger behind and
lead a normal life. But now he has accepted the fact that is never going
to happen, and has embraced his true role in life: methodically
eliminating other serial killers.
He is armed with a thick stack of files from Prater's
collection containing information about a number of infamous serial
killers, and is obviously planning to hunt them in the near future.
He accepts that perhaps he wasn't meant for a solitary life,
as his father had assumed he was. And instead, that he needs people
around him. He thinks that he always depended on his sister Deb, but
with her gone, he can look forward to a mutually helpful relationship
with his son, Harrison.
In the final
shot, he looks into the camera and says that he is exactly what he is
meant to be, and exactly what you want him to be.
Q. What is it actually in real life?
A. Out at sea aboard an expensive yacht.
Q.
Where can I find it in real life?
A. Given that you can see the
Statue of Liberty glowing in the background behind this night scene, it
is obvious that it is supposed to take place in the New York
Harbor. The only question you may have is whether it is authentic,
or whether it was faked in post-production.
Well, I have good news for you: This is one time
when the scene is exactly what it appears to be. Dexter is out on an
expensive yacht in the New York Harbor, near the Statue of Liberty.
And it's obvious
from the scene that the yacht was out in the waters bounded roughly by Battery
Park/Manhattan on the north, Liberty Island (and the Statue of
Liberty) on the south, Governors Island on the east, and Ellis
Island on the west.
For a little behind-the-scenes info: in the real world, when the yacht
left to film this scene with MCH, it left from a dock on the south side
of the North Cove Yacht Harbor (AKA North Cove Marina),
which is just one block west of the World Trade Center, next to
Brookfield Place shopping center, on the west side of lower Manhattan
Island.
The only inconsistency is that during the Gala, we overhear part of a
conversation in which Prater reveals that he is auctioning off a charter
on the yacht as part of the benefit. Prater says that he just brought
the ship up from St. Barts [Saint Barthιlemy, a French-speaking island
in the Caribbean], and its mentioned that the ship will be at Chelsea
Piers. Dexter overhears this, which is what gives him the idea
of borrowing the yacht to dispose of Prater's remains. But North Cove Yacht Harbor is actually about two and a half miles south of Chelsea Piers.
Here is a matching StreetView of the marina;
Here is an aerial
photo of the location. And here is a map
link.
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Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was?
A. Back when they were filming this scene, a short video
surfaced of Michael C. Hall aboard the yacht while it was still docked
in Battery Park, in addition to still photos from the yacht out at sea near
the Statue of Liberty. So I knew in advance that this scene was
coming, and that the yacht had launched from Battery Park.
But I almost made a mistake about the location. When I heard that they were filming at Battery Park, I assumed they meant the actual Battery Park, a historic park at the southern tip of Manhattan island. I even found a slip there that they might have used.
But when
I saw the video image above, I noted those tall skyscrapers
in the background, and they didn't match the background seen from
Battery Park. I realized then that they probably meant the
relatively-new Battery Park City, as opposed to the actual park
named Battery Park.
So I kept looking at boat harbors along the Hudson
River coast and soon was able to match the three buildings in the
video's background with the Bethany Place
towers next to the Northern Cove marina and yacht harbor, which is about
a mileup the coast from the actual Battery Park. ( I was able to line
up a virtually identical StreetView from the south side of that marina. )
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