Showtime’s "Dexter" has hired the actor who most famously played RoboCop to play a troubled Miami Metro police officer for the majority of the show’s next season’s episodes, reports Deadline.com.

Peter Weller, known for the playing the title charactes in the films "RoboCop" and "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension," will appear in eight of the show’s 12 episodes as a police officer who gets tangled in an internal affairs investigation, the story says. The fifth season is currently in production for a Sept. 26 debut.