Dexter Morgan quotes from Dexter

Dexter

[voiceover] Jordan promises change. But he also accepts credit cards. [Answering his phone] Lumen?

Lumen

Can you talk? Or are you about to have a major life revelation?

Dexter

No, that came around 9:00am, when I realized that I really wanted a doughnut.

Lumen

Cole's other victims. Why did you put their pictures up?

Dexter

Cole needs to see what he's done.

Lumen

What do you get out of all this?

Dexter

I like knowing that the men who did this to you won't do it to anyone else.

Lumen

This isn't about me.

Dexter

You're standing here.

Lumen

Look at all this. If you didn't know me you'd still be in this room. Boyd wasn't your first. You've been doing this a long time.

Dexter

I'm going to take this gag out of your mouth; but if you make one sound I don't like I'm gonna cut your eyes out. Blink so I know you understand. [Cole blinks, so Dexter removes the gag]. We know about Boyd, and Dan the Dentist, and now you. Who were the others?

Lumen

The guy who held a watch up to my ear? "Tick, tick, tick, that's the sound of your life running out."

[smirks, but doesn't say anything]

Dexter

[holds a knife to Cole's throat] What are their names?

[whispers something]

Lumen

What did he say?

[defiantly] Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Dexter

[Regags him, and then turns his head to the pictures of his victims] Look at the women, whose lives you destroyed. [Forces Cole's eyes open] Look. Death was the only kindness you showed them. [Dexter slices Cole's cheek and takes a sample of his blood, as Lumen watches with a mixture of fascination and horror. Picks up his knife] It's a shame that you can only die once. [He then looks at Lumen, who nods in approval. Dexter then stabs Cole in the heart. After a long pause] You said I've done this before, that's true. This is who I am. When I was a child my mother was murdered in front of me. It shattered me. I've done this ever since. Because, for the longest time it was the only way that I could feel ... unbroken. And then, Rita was killed, and none of this made sense any more. [Long pause] Until now. [He picks up the blood slide and holds it out to her]

Dexter

[voiceover] Miguel couldn't, my father couldn't, can anyone live with the truth of what I am? [Lumen takes the blood slide] Is Lumen what will make me whole?

Dexter

Is everything OK?

Jordan

It's nothing important - just a little security glitch.

Dexter

[Voiceover: Like your chief of security's head is in my luggage?]

Jordan

Now you know my secret, you ready to tell me yours?

Dexter

[voiceover] Over your dead body!

Dexter

[voiceover] An hour on the treadmill and I came up empty, not a clue. The only upside is that I got in my cardio for the day. Jordan is one tough nut to crack.

Jordan Chase

You're one tough nut to crack, you know that Dexter?

Dexter

[voiceover] I wish he'd stop doing that.

Mr. Chase says he's been beefing things up.

Dexter

[voiceover] Well that's no surprise. Lumen and I have been knocking off his friends one by one.

Lumen

Share something with her. What you did with her when you were her age.

Dexter

I killed the neighbor's dog

Lumen

Well don't tell her that.

Harrison. He doesn't even recognize me.

Dexter

Well you didn't look like a raccoon the last time he saw you.

Dexter

Astor showed up drunk on my doorstep with a friend.

Masuka

How old's the friend? [long pause] Just kidding.

It's tough looking after somebody else's kid. Sometimes you just gotta show 'em who's boss.

Dexter

Is that what you do with Olivia, show her who's boss?

What's that supposed to mean?

Dexter

I know about Olivia's bruises. How they're strategically placed so they won't show.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Dexter

No? Let me show you? [Dexter punches Barry twice in the chest, causing him to gasp and cough in pain] That's your solar plexus. Right now your diaphragm is partially paralyzed which is why you're having trouble catching your breath.

[coughing] What are you, man? Some kind of psycho?

Dexter

Not today, just a concerned parent. [Punches Barry twice in the side, causing him to gasp further] That's your liver. [Punches him in the liver three more times] The nice thing about the liver is if you hit it just right, you hit the vagus nerve which tentacles out to the rest of your body. [Punches him there twice more] Your brain short-circuits, your body shuts down, and you feel, what's the word? Terror? Which is what Olivia felt every time you hit her there just so the bruises wouldn't show. I want you to listen to me carefully. Listen to me very carefully, because this is what you're gonna do. You're gonna call Olivia's mother, you're gonna tell her you're sick of her fat ass. You can't stand to look at it anymore. And you're gonna make her believe it. Because if you don't, she may take you back one day, and let you near her kid, or mine. And I can't let that happen. [Throws Barry to the ground] You're not even gonna swing by to pick up your stuff, you're just gonna leave. Tomorrow, when I drop Olivia off, you will be gone. If you ever come back, believe me I won't go so easy next time. [Kicks Barry in the side] By the way, that's your kidney. [Walks off. Gets into his car]

Harry

I can't believe it.

Dexter

I don't want to hear it, okay. "This isn't your business, Dexter. Don't get involved, Dexter. You put too much at risk, Dexter."

Harry

That's not what I was going to say. [Dexter looks at him, surprised] I'm proud of you.

Dexter

You are?

Harry

You protected Astor. Put yourself out there for another person. I had no idea you had that in you. I underestimated you, assumed you were a monster. When you were capable of, so much more. If only I'd seen that, maybe I wouldn't have lead you down this path.

Dexter

I didn't notice you last time - you new here?

Just started three days ago.

Dexter

I don't remember so much security either.

Mr Chase says he's beefing things up.

Dexter

[Voiceover: That's no surprise. Lumen and I have been knocking off his friends one by one.]

Debra

You gonna introduce us?

That's the one I was telling you about - his new girlfriend.

Dexter

She's my tenant. Lumen, this is my sister Debra. Deb, Lumen.

Debra

I didn't know he had a tenant.

Lumen

Didn't know he had a sister. I'm gonna...go check on the girls.

Debra

Seriously? That's your tenant?

Dexter

Yes.

Debra

Where's all her stuff?

Dexter

She hasn't really moved in yet.

Debra

But you know her well enough to trust her with your son.

Dexter

It was an emergency. I thought the girls had been taken.

Debra

Why are you keeping her a secret?

Dexter

I'm not.

Debra

Really? Cos at the station we asked you who you were spending your time with. You didn't think to mention the hot blonde that's living in your house?

Dexter

Didn't seem...like it mattered. Obviously she didn't take the girls.

Debra

That's not the point. I'm not judging you. Believe me - I understand rebound as much as anybody. But don't you think it's a little soon?

Dexter

I'm not on any rebound.

Debra

Come on. She's your tenant - really?

Dexter

There's nothing going on.

Debra

Fine. I give up.

I want you to know something. If Lumen's your girlfriend, I want you to tell me.

Dexter

OK. But she's not.

She's not just your tenant, though.

Dexter

She's a friend...who's been through some really...really bad stuff. I'm helping her deal with it.

Does it make you feel better?

Dexter

What do you mean?

About Mom. Being there for Lumen...does it make you feel better about what happened to Mom?

Masuka

DNA report's from the coroner's office point to multiple perps.

Do we have any names?

Masuka

No. What we do have are partial sequences from seriously degraded DNA. But the evidence confirms what we knew about Boyd Fowler; and also points with a high probability to Cole Harmon, Jordan Chase's head of security.

As you know Cole Harmon was our original suspect in the case...

Dexter

[voiceover] Until I pointed them toward Boyd Fowler.

He is now our main target again.

Dexter

[voiceover] A target you'll never hit. He's already been buried at sea.