Dexter Morgan quotes from Dexter

Dexter

Miami Dolphins

Masuka

Club Level! Jeez, who do I got to fuck to get those kind of tickets?

Dexter

Here ... no fucking.

You can't hide what you are.

Dexter

Oh, I can. I'm better at it than you.

You will choose your life over theirs.

Dexter

I won't. I'd rather risk with them knowing the truth ... [Dexter stops talking, thinking] than losing them. [emotionally] I don't want to lose them. I don't.

You gonna rape and kill me?

Dexter

What is it with you and rape? No one's raping anyone. Killing on the other hand...

Dexter

[Voiceover] As a cop, Zoey's been to plenty of crime scenes. She knows what should be there, and what shouldn't. No prints on the blood of the door, which means she wore gloves. She was still wearing gloves when she shot herself. But they were gone when the EMT's arrived.

Dexter

Where'd you leave those gloves, Zoey?

Harry

Easier to think here, isn't it? Only 52 hours of freedom left. You sure chose an interesting person to spend it on.

Dexter

Don't read anything into it. Zoey was a challenge, that's all.

Harry

A woman who wiped out her own family in order to be free.

Dexter

She should've shot herself instead of her husband and child.

Harry

Yeah. Except that doesn't get her free, just dead.

Dexter

Well, she had other options.

Harry

Alimony, visitation, trading off holidays. There go your weekends.

Dexter

Fine, she could've moved away.

Harry

And forfeit her job? Her home? Her only option was to make her vacation from her family as permanent as possible.

Dexter

There are always alternatives.

Harry

Why do you think Trinity's been so successful?

Dexter

He travels a lot. Stays on the move.

Harry

He doesn't have a family.

Dexter

Well, I do.

Harry

Miss them yet?

Debra

You can't even see our blood. It's like it never happened.

Dexter

Deb?

Debra

What the fuck's your problem?

Dexter

I got here as fast as I could.

Debra

You have everything, and you're doing your goddamn best to throw it all away.

Dexter

[sighs] Rita told you about the apartment?

Debra

What the fuck were you thinking? You have to make this right.

Dexter

I'm not sure I know how.

Debra

You figure it out. I'm the fuck-up in the family. Not you.

Dexter

Don't say that.

Debra

You have a choice. To be a good husband. To be a good father.

Dexter

I know. It's just... sometimes I feel trapped.

Debra

By what? Three kids? A wife who adores you? Yesterday, I had Lundy and Anton. And now they're gone because of me.

Dexter

You didn't do anything wrong.

Debra

It doesn't matter what I do. Or what I choose. I'm what's wrong! There's nothing I can do about it. If I'm not hurting myself, I'm hurting everyone around me. There's nothing I can do about it. [voice cracking] I'm... I'm broken!!

Dexter

No, you're not... I am. [reaching for her] Why don't we go back to the house-

Debra

Don't! Don't! [sobbing] I need to be here! Where Lundy died. I can't do a fucking thing about it! [breaks down in Dexter's arms]

Dexter

[voiceover] My sister doesn't deserve to be in this kind of pain. But I know who does.

Rita

A bread maker?

Dexter

We're always running out of bread.

Rita

We're always running out of milk. Did you get me a cow too?

Rita

Where are you going?

Dexter

I gotta prep the boat. If we're camping out, we'll need a tent, sleeping bags, food, water. I gotta get two children's life vests. [Voiceover] Abduct Jonathan Farrow, take him back to his studio, kill him, cut him to pieces, dump him in the ocean. Honestly, Rita, this is gonna take some time.

Cody

Your turn, Dexter.

Dexter

Actually, I don't know any scary stories.

Come on. Give it a shot.

Come on.

Dexter

All right. There's a man. You can call him the Man of Three. You can call him Trinity. You can call him anything you want but the fact is he's not a man at all, he's a monster. He was born in a bathtub filled with blood. For countless years he's roamed the countryside killing the innocent, leaving behind bits of his dead sister. Sometimes he'll sneak up on a man and raise his hammer overhead... and then he'll swing it down...

Smash his own thumb and then go crying all the way home, like a little baby.

Arthur

You're being purposely vague, Kyle, like one of my tenth-graders trying to explain why he didn't do his homework.

Dexter

[Voiceover] I have a feeling I'm gonna make some tenth-graders very happy.

Dexter

I killed a man.

Arthur

You killed someone?

Dexter

[Voiceover] You, of all people, act appalled. [voiceover ends] By mistake.

Arthur

How? What happened?

Dexter

I thought he was the right... I thought he was an animal.

Arthur

You... You were hunting?

Dexter

Yes, it was a hunting accident. I was so sure. I'm always so careful.

Arthur

This is where it all started.

Dexter

What started here?

Arthur

I was standing here... watching my sister take a shower.

Dexter

You were watching your sister?

Arthur

I was ten. It was innocent. But Vera saw me... in the mirror. I startled her, and she slipped... shattered the shower doors. The glass... sliced her leg. She was dead by the time the ambulance came. So much blood...

Dexter

[Voiceover] Born in blood, both of us.

Arthur

My parents blamed me. My mother became a shell, a ghost. She eventually killed herself.

Dexter

[Voiceover] Jumped to her death.

Arthur

Left me all alone... with him. He was always a drinker... but without mother, it became worse. So did the beatings. "Little fucking pervert, fucking cunt, you killed them."

Dexter

What happened to him?

Arthur

He died.

Dexter

[Voiceover] No, you killed your father. I'm betting hammer.

Dexter

What kind of father keeps a coffin in his garage?

Harry

What kind of father keeps blood slides in his shed?

Dexter

I'm thankful to be out of that fucking house!

Harry

You showed Trinity the monster in you. He'll see you coming now.

Dexter

I don't know. Seeing them like that... He's destroyed everyone in that family.

Harry

That's what happens to people who live with a monster.

Dexter

I am nothing like him! My family is nothing like that.

Rita

Why don't we go around the table and everybody say what they're thankful for?

Dexter

No! I don't want this yummy food to get cold.

Cody

I'm thankful for Dexter.

Jonah

Who doesn't have email, Kyle?

Dexter

[Voiceover] Off the top of my head, people who don't exist.