Showtime has released the first teaser trailer for the return of everybody's favorite killer; Dexter.
And in a brave move, the short clip evokes memories of season eight's universally despised finale, in which Dexter faked his death in a hurricane accident and let Hannah take his son to live in Argentina, all while the blood spatter analyst adopted a fake name to become a lumberjack in Oregon.
In the 10-second teaser, captioned "Nature is calling" on the show's official Twitter account, an axe can be seen standing in a tree stump as a fire burns away in the background.
Over the top of the clip, Dexter - played by Michael C. Hall - says: "There really is nothing like getting back to nature... my nature."
Of course, fans of the show will know that Dexter Morgan's nature involves his dark passenger, a shot of etorphine, and a plastic-wrapped kill room.
Let's just hope Dexter has put his axe down for good and left his beardy lumberjack days behind him.
Addressing the criticisms the show faced following that finale, Hall told IGN back in 2014 that the character had "morphed".
"It was a many-headed creative monster, and certain heads were lopped off halfway through the life of the show," Hall said, adding:
"It was difficult to maintain a cohesive narrative in many ways, but primarily, in terms of the conception of the character, once he started to move into murkier, blurrier, more human territory, it became a very difficult thing to wrap my head around."
And when Hall was asked his opinion on how the show should have ending, Hall said:
"It's tricky. Sometimes I wish he'd offed himself, wish he'd died, wish Deb had shot him in that train compartment - of course, that would have made an eighth season difficult to do."
Fortunately for fans of the show, Dexter did not die, and plans for the upcoming limited series were revealed back in October, with showrunner Clyde Phillips returning as executive producer.
Speaking to NME about returning for a 10-part limited series, Hall also refused to comment about whether or not season nine would be the last we'll see of Dexter: "I've never returned to a job after so much time. Having 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."
Hall added: "I'm reluctant to say 'definitely,' you know? Let's see. What's plain now is that there's 10 new episodes."
