Dexter Morgan quotes from Dexter

Debra

It's Trinity. He's back. He killed again.

Dexter

He... What?

Debra

Two people. Family members, his wife, Sally Mitchell, and his daughter Rebecca. Witpro placed the Mitchells in the middle of Bumfuck, Nebraska, and somehow Trinity managed to track them down.

Brian

Well, not Trinity. You killed Trinity.

Dexter

What about his son, Jonah?

Debra

Trinity came after him, too, but Jonah survived the attack.

Brian

How lucky.

Dexter

Didn't he say what happen?

Debra

According to his statement, Jonah came home from work and saw Trinity push Sally down the stairs and begin to beat her. Jonah fought him off. Trinity ran. And Jonah went upstairs and found Rebecca dead in a tub.

Brian

Or Jonah killed them and is masquerading as the Trinity Killer.

Dexter

And this all happened in Nebraska?

Debra

Some town called Kearney.

Brian

Road trip.

Debra

Brother Sam's death is hard enough on you, I'm sure, and to top it off with this...

Brian

Let's go kill Jonah.

Dexter

I... I'm gonna need some time.

Debra

Whatever you need. Take the day.

Jonah

After Rita Morgan died, Kyle Butler's face was all over the news as her grieving husband. That's when we realized Kyle Butler was actually Dexter Morgan.

Dexter

No one connected the dots for the FBI.

Jonah

We talked about it, but decided as a family you tried to help us. So we tried to help you.

Jonah

Get the fuck out of my house.

Dexter

Show me where it happened, Jonah. Your father killed your mother here, on this staircase?

Jonah

Police can be here in three minutes.

Dexter

Here is where her body was, and here is where you cleaned up your mother's blood.

Jonah

You're a sick fuck, you know that?

Dexter

Where'd you fight your father off? It was here, right? When you took the weapon from him and hit him - chasing him off?

Jonah

Yeah

Dexter

Swinging at him the whole time.

Jonah

Yeah, I was. Yeah.

Dexter

If that were true, there'd be blood on the wall, and on the ceiling here. But there's no spatter here.

Jonah

Hey, that's because I cleaned it up. Now go!

Dexter

With bleach?

Jonah

Yes.

Dexter

Not on this wall - because there was no blood on this wall, because your father was never here. I know for a fact that Trinity did not kill anyone in this house.

Jonah

Is that because you killed him?

Dexter

Yes - just like you killed your mother and your sister.

Brian

Why do you wake up your victims when they're on your table?

Dexter

I want them to know what they've done.

Brian

Bullshit! You like to watch the light go out of their eyes.

Debra

Well, look what the fucking cat dragged in.

Dexter

The cat also brought coffee and doughnuts.

Debra

Why do you have a pen from the Shady Lane Motel at Kearney, Nebraska?

Dexter

Must have picked it up somewhere.

Debra

Yeah, at the Shady Lane Motel in Kearney, Nebraska.

Dexter

I should have never listened to Brother Sam.

Harry

He was right about one thing - if you put your faith in the wrong thing...

Dexter

It can really fuck you up. It was a mistake to put my faith in Travis. From now on, I'm only putting my faith in myself.

So, the game is about homicide. And I know there's, like, a million video games out there about that. But the secret to this game is, and I haven't even told Jamie this yet, but in my game, you can be the serial killer.

Dexter

What?

See, you have these character choices. You can be Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, the Bay Harbour Butcher.

Dexter

[Voiceover: I am the Bay Harbour Butcher.]

Debra

I love you.

Dexter

I love you, too.

Debra

You do?

Dexter

Of course I do.

Debra

I don't think you've ever said it before.

What's the painting of?

Debra

It's the beast being thrown into the lake of fire. It's the last tableau.

Angel

Why do you think he smashed in the face?

Dexter

I can't imagine.

Dexter

This is the way the world ends. Your world, anyway...

Travis

No! No, no! I'm supposed to finish enacting the seven keys.

Dexter

Sorry.

Travis

But I was chosen! I was chosen to bring about the new world.

Dexter

Chosen to kill innocent people?

Travis

No one is innocent.

Dexter

My son is. You tried to kill him.

Travis

God allowed his son to die.

Dexter

How could you believe in that?

Travis

Because I walk the path of the righteous.

Dexter

I've known people who believed in God. They would never use their faith as a convenient excuse to kill 10 people. You used God. It's not the other way around.

Travis

You... You are a shining example of how putrid man has become.

Dexter

I am a father, a son, a serial killer.

Travis

You're going to burn in hell.

Dexter

No, I think I belong right here. Because maybe there is a place for me in this world - just as I am. Light cannot exist without darkness. Each has its purpose. And if there is a purpose to my darkness, maybe it's to bring some...balance to this world. Because, let's face it, the world is going to be a better place without you.

Travis

The world is going to end. And when it does, I will be by God's side.

Dexter

You sure?

Travis

Yes.

Dexter

Good for you.

Travis

You're mocking me.

Dexter

No, I almost envy you. It must be nice to be so certain.

Travis

You're wrong about everything because you don't believe in God, but I have faith. I trust in God's plan.

Dexter

Really? Then it must be God's plan that you're on my table. Do you think it's God's will that I'm about to kill you? God has nothing to do with this! You are wrapped in plastic because I want to kill you.

Travis

This is not how it's supposed to be!

Dexter

Maybe this is exactly how it's supposed to be. Maybe everything is exactly as it should be.

Debra

I had this weird flashback of being on Rudy's table...Brian's tab...whatever the fuck you wanna call him - your brother's table.

Dexter

Sorry, that must have felt...not good for you.

Debra

It didn't. But what bothers me is that I was set up on that table the same way Travis Marshall was set up on the altar.

Dexter

Deb...

Debra

I mean how do you explain that?

Debra

Did you kill all these people?

Dexter

I did.

Debra

Are you...? Are you a serial killer?

Dexter

Yes.

Debra

You make it sound like its OK - like you're the victim here. The people in that box, Dexter, they're the victims.

Dexter

Victims? A choir director who raped and murdered little boys? A married couple smuggling refugees who killed the ones who couldn't pay? A psychiatrist who manipulated women into taking their own lives?

Dexter

Sometimes the system doesn't work. Killers fall through the cracks.

Debra

Don't I fucking know it? I'm talking to one right now.