Dexter Morgan quotes from Dexter

Dexter

Who's that?

Debra

One of Dad's old fuck buddies. Emphasis on old.

Dexter

[voiceover] We all have the public life, the private life...

Harry

...And the secret life. The one that defines you.

Harry

Blood tech, husband, father, serial killer, and now Kyle Butler, extortionist. Which one are you?

Dexter

All of them.

Dexter

Guess you were picturing a different scenario.

Arthur

I was following my path.

Dexter

So was I.

Arthur

God led you to me.

Dexter

Hardly.

Arthur

Is this who you are?

Dexter

Ta-da!

Arthur

Look at you! I never took pride in what I did!

Dexter

No, you were a very special kind of monster. You destroyed your own family.

Arthur

I gave them everything!

Dexter

No, you took everything; their future, their diginity, their hope... Christine even killed herself...

Arthur

No!

Dexter

...because of you.

Arthur

She was weak!

Dexter

I can't believe there was a time when I actually thought I could learn something from you.

Arthur

You think you're better than I am?

Dexter

No. But I want to be.

Arthur

You can't control the demon inside of you any more than I could control mine.

Dexter

Did you ever actually try?

Arthur

Oh, God yes. I prayed to be changed, to be made different.

Dexter

That's not trying, that's waiting to be stopped.

Arthur

It worked, didn't it?

Arthur

Case in point.

Dexter

So what's the alternative, Arthur? Leave? Disappear? Fake my own death and start over again?

Arthur

No. You'll still be you.

Dexter

I have a family too, Arthur. And I'm good for them.

Arthur

[Laughs] You're like a child.

Dexter

A child with a big knife.

Arthur

You dream of a heaven you'll never see.

Dexter

I don't believe in heaven.

Arthur

Oh, but you do! This isn't your doing. This is God's plan. I accept that now. You have to do the same.

Dexter

I accept nothing. Nothing is inevitable.

Arthur

It's already over.

Arthur

It's already over. [Looks at the toy train set in the room] Could you...?

Arthur

Thank you. [singing] "I'll give her all the love I have to give, as long as we both shall live..."

Dexter

Now it's over.

Rita

What’s upsetting me is the idea of losing you. You have your demons, I accept that, because I know that you don’t have to be a slave to them.

Dexter

I wish that were true.

Rita

It is. I know you, better than you know yourself. You can conquer whatever darkness there is in you, I know you can.

Dexter

I want to be that man.

Rita

You already are.

Dexter

Please. Please fly to the keys tomorrow morning. I wanna meet you. Truly, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.

Debra

I have something to tell you. And maybe I shouldn't. I don't know.

Dexter

OK.

Debra

I found another CI Dad was sleeping with. A woman named named Laura Moser.

Dexter

[Voiceover] Harry was right. This is it.

Debra

Does that name mean anything to you?

Dexter

Should it?

Debra

It doesn't? Look, she died, but she left behind two little boys. And one of those little boys was you. Laura Moser is your biological mother.

Dexter

[Voiceover] Don't say the rest. Don't know it.

Debra

The other little boy, your brother, was named Brian. Brian Moser - the Ice Truck Killer.

Rita

I know I should hang up right now, but I just need to say it. I don't know why exactly, but you make me feel good. Like things could be different.

Dexter

So do you...Make me feel that way too, I mean.

Rita

Glad I called. I know I felt up in the air the way things ended. You know, like we never said a proper goodbye, so..

Dexter

Goodbye, Rita Bennett.

Rita

Goodbye, Dexter Morgan.

Dexter

Goodbye...

Harry

That's the first human thing I've seen you do since she died Dexter.

Dexter

I thought you'd left me.

Harry

I'm here. It's okay, son. To show what you're feeling.

Harry

They're not better off without you. You're not better off without them. You need to go back.

Who are you?

Dexter

Just a fellow traveler who also likes to pick up dead animals.

Debra

I'm just trying to get the truth. However long that takes is up to you.

I'm telling you the truth. I'm not lying.

Debra

First you said you didn't do drugs, and then you said you did.

I said I might have tried some at a Tri Delt party once.

Debra

You might have? What the fuck does that even mean? You did or you didn't. You can't kind of do blow.

But that was six years ago in college.

Debra

And I'm supposed to believe you're not on anything now?

I'm totally clean.

Debra

Then why are you so nervous?

Because I wasn't expecting on getting these kind of questions. I mean, you sound like a cop.

Debra

I am a cop. I work for Miami Metro Homicide.

Look, I don't know what's going on here. I came for a nanny job. I'm not like, planning to kill the president.

Dexter

[Voiceover: Harrison needs a nanny and Deb insisted on running point. The way it's going, only Mary Poppins would make the cut.]

Dexter

You didn't answer your cell.

Well, I had my hands full. Oh, I left a note on the fridge. Oh, I didn't mean to worry you.

Dexter

No, it's fine. I'm just... I'm not used to checking the fridge for notes. [Voiceover: Just messages from other serial killers.]

Debra

When you lose someone close, routine can be a ladder that can help you climb back into some kind of normalcy.

Dexter

Where'd you hear that?

Debra

I am capable of independent thought, Dexter. Oprah.

Let me the fuck out of here.

Dexter

I bet you've heard that before, "let me out of here", from all the women you've killed. I wish you could see the room I set up for you. But you fucked everything up, Boyd. All those pictures I took of the woman you killed - it's a shame you'll never get to see them. I'll just have to paint a word-picture for you instead. They were young, just starting their lives... Now they're floating in formaldehyde and stuffed into barrels strewn around a swamp.

Who the hell are you?

Dexter

Just a fellow traveler, who also likes to pick up dead animals.

I did them a favor. They were all suffering and I put them out of their misery.

Dexter

Yeah, you'll be doing one more favor tonight.

What are you talking about?

Dexter

I've recently suffered a loss. My wife...was murdered by someone like you. Someone like me... It turned my life upside down.

Why is that my problem?

Dexter

Because you're the start of my healing process.

I knew you were fucked up the minute I laid eyes on you.

Dexter

I was fucked up long before that.

Harry

I'm not liking the trend here. You rip a man apart in a public bathroom...

Dexter

No one saw.

Harry

You nearly botch Boyd's kill.

Dexter

He's dead, isn't he?

Harry

Yeah. And now you've got her. What's the first rule of the code?

Dexter

Never kill an innocent.

Harry

Don't get caught. So what's your plan here? Nurse her back to health so she can go to the police? She gives the cops enough to track you down...then everything falls apart. Harrison grows up visiting you on death row.

Dexter

I think my wife; his mom...might have left her luggage here, Lumen Pierce.

Let's have a look-see. Can you spell that, please?

Dexter

Yeah, it's P-I-E-R-C-E.

The other name - the weird one. No offence.