10 details from Season 4 revealed at Dexter’s Comic-Con panel

The Dexter stars are off to host their party at Comic-Con, but the cast revealed some good stuff about the new season during its panel tonight.

Here are 10 tidbits from Season 4 we’ve gleaned from the slew of fans and reporters who shared deets from the event on the interwebs:

1. John Lithgow’s Trinity Killer character is a complicated guy — otherwise he wouldn’t be able to get away with murder all these years. Lithgow and the writers are the only ones who know his whole backstory and plot arc (and the series creators only spilled the beans because they couldn’t get him to sign up otherwise).
2. Hard core fans will be able to learn about Dex’s life — and how he developed his killing techniques — through a series of animated shorts, called Dexter Early Cuts. They’ll be online this fall.
3. Dex, Rita, the kids and the new baby all move to the ‘burbs, where Dex isn’t able to sneak out as easily for kills. The ritual will remain, Michael C. Hall said, Dex just has to be more careful carrying it out because his neighbors are the drop-by types.
4. After her promotion, Deb will continue her partnership with Joey Quinn and possibly tangle (in the sheets) again with Special Agent Lundy when he comes to town tracking the Trinity Killer.
5. Julie Benz says Rita will remain clueless about Dex’s dark passenger — she wouldn’t believe it even if someone played the entire series for her on DVD. “I don’t think we’re equipped to see that side when its somebody you love.”
6. Hall said the new baby shows no inclination toward violence … yet. “It’s possibly there, lurking.”
7. Lithgow has filmed five episodes so far and has yet to work with any of the series regulars.
8. Creator Clyde Phillips compared Dexter to the superhero protagonists who’re the bread and butter of Comic-Con. “There is a super hero aspect to what Dexter is … it’s not a conscious decision, but its a natural evolution about what we’re doing.”
9. The entire cast would love to trade places with Masuka.
10. Benz plans to get Lithgow drunk at tonight’s party, hoping he’ll spill the beans about the jaw-dropping ending of Season 4

Catch all the latest party arrivals on Dexter’s photo stream from Comic-Con.

Sources: Twitter, EW, Zap2It, Hollywood Reporter