The next incorporates spoilers for Dexter: Resurrection and dialogue of kid abuse.
David Zayas formally units his first Dexter follow-up crime sequence after the large Resurrection twist. The Puerto Rican actor performed Detective Angel Batista in all eight seasons of Dexter from 2006 to 2013, and reprised the function for Dexter: New Blood (2021-2022) and Dexter: Resurrection (2025).
Nonetheless, the Dexter: Resurrection season 1 ending featured a large twist by which Angel Batista is fatally shot by Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage), a billionaire enterprise capitalist who runs a secret society of serial killers. Whereas Dexter: Resurrection season 2 has been confirmed, Batista seemingly will not be returning.
Now, in his first present since Dexter: Resurrection, David Zayas has been solid to switch Timothy Busfield in a beforehand pulled episode of Regulation & Order: SVU season 27, per Deadline. NBC pulled the episode, titled “Corrosive,” which was set to air on January 15 and featured Busfield guest-starring as a choose.
David Zayas beforehand appeared in Regulation & Order: SVU season 3, episode 12 as Detective Milton, in addition to 5 episodes of the principle Regulation & Order sequence and three episodes of Regulation & Order: Prison Intent in numerous roles.
The transfer got here simply days after an arrest warrant was issued for Busfield, who faces two expenses of legal sexual contact with a minor and little one abuse. NBC says that Zayas has since been recast within the choose function, the episode has been reshot, and it’s now scheduled to air on February 26.
Intercourse crimes are central to Regulation & Order: SVU, and the episode “Corrosive” facilities on abuse, following a disturbing case by which a well-respected choose’s life is threatened. The SVU squad is introduced in to analyze, sending them down an advanced path that finally ties again to an nameless video submitted by their tip line.
Because the story develops, it explores troublesome themes of trauma and therapeutic, highlighting Detective Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) as she helps a survivor confront previous abuse.
The fees towards Busfield stem from allegations of inappropriate conduct involving two little one actors on the set of the Fox sequence The Cleansing Woman in New Mexico, the place Busfield labored as a director and government producer. If convicted, he may face at the least three years in jail.
Authorities first grew to become conscious of the state of affairs in late 2024, when a physician on the College of New Mexico Hospital contacted the Albuquerque Police Division a couple of sexual abuse investigation involving the kid actors, who’re brothers born in 2014.
Warner Bros. Tv additionally launched an inner evaluation after SAG-AFTRA acquired an nameless grievance in early 2025 about an incident on the set of The Cleansing Woman in December 2024. That inquiry finally cleared Busfield of wrongdoing, although the studio is constant to cooperate with regulation enforcement.
Aside from Dexter, Busfield’s substitute on Regulation & Order: SVU, David Zayas, additionally not too long ago appeared in The Operating Man (2025) and has had recurring roles on The Bear, alongside his spouse Liza Colón-Zayas, who performs Tina, Blue Bloods, Oz, and different reveals.