James Doakes quotes from Dexter

Angel

You want me to knock on some doors?

Doakes

Or maybe some heads?

Doakes

Excuse me, sir, do you have a minute?

Lundy

Or three. Good tea takes time.

Dexter

Hold the elevator!

Dexter

Thanks.

Doakes

Nice dodge last night, flooring it through that yellow light.

Dexter

Oh. Were you behind me?

Doakes

See you tonight.

Doakes

Mini-van's that way.

Dexter

Field morgue's this way.

Doakes

I'll wait.

Dexter

You should take the night off, Sergeant.

Doakes

On pizza night? No way.

Doakes

What does that girlfriend of yours see in a freak show like you anyway?

Dexter

You'll have to ask her.

Doakes

Maybe I will.

What are you saying?

Doakes

I'm saying – asshole special ops. No doubt about it.

Dexter

Huh. They're generally known for settling their arguments peacefully.

Doakes

Don't get smug with me.

Sounds like we're in your world, James.

Doakes

Yeah, I'll take lead on this one.

Do you have any back-up?

Doakes

Oh, yeah. All kinds of back-up. Helicopters and shit.

Doakes

You got it wrong, man. I left her.

And why was that?

Doakes

Because I was afraid that if I didn't, I'd kill her.

Doakes

You finally decided to fight back. I've been waiting.

Dexter

I hope you don't expect me to comment on that so you can record it on your hidden tape recorder. I wasn't born yesterday.

Doakes

You might have been, for hell I know. Your past is a bigger mystery than fucking Jimmy Hoffa. I tried every avenue, legal and otherwise, but there ain't no paper trail on the early years of Dexter Morgan.

Dexter

I guess there's no recorder running after all.

Doakes

No, man. Unlike you, I do everything out in the open.

Dexter

Well, in that case, sergeant, let me put this in the open for you. No matter what you try, no matter when, no matter how hard you work, I always be a step ahead of you for one simple reason.

Doakes

And what's that?

Dexter

I own you.

Goddammit James, I'm not joking.

Doakes

Do I look like I'm laughing?

No, you don't. I wish you would. You used to.

Doakes

Bullshit. I never laughed.

Doakes

Jesus Christ, Morgan. Jesus fucking Christ. You're the Bay Harbor Butcher.

Dexter

I really hate that name.

Doakes

Shut the fuck up. Let's get this over with. [tosses handcuffs] Put 'em on.

Doakes

Morgan, you're done. Give it up.

Dexter

Would you, in my position?

Doakes

I wouldn't be in your position, you sick fuck.

Dexter

You sure about that? You might want to check with Lundy.

Dexter

Why couldn't you just leave me to do my work in peace? Why'd you have to go and ruin everything?

Doakes

You're a killer. I catch killers.

Dexter

So do I. I caught you.

Doakes

I'm not a killer.

Dexter

[chuckles] You are. That's why you've always known what I am. That's why you have more officer-related shootings than anybody else. Only I don't fuck with you when you shoot somebody. Why couldn't you pay me the same professional courtesy?

Doakes

There's nothing professional about what you do. I kill when I have to, on the job.

Dexter

Oh, so it's okay to take a life as long as you get a paycheck for it?

Dexter

Regardless of how we got here, one of the two killers in this cabin has to go away.

Doakes

I am not a killer.

Dexter

Right. In terms of who goes, it boiled down to a philosophical question: which one of us has more inherent worth?

Doakes

I know you're fucking kidding me.

Dexter

First I considered our value to the community. That was a wash. We're both loyal civil servants, we work hard to keep the city clean.

Doakes

... You cut people up into little pieces ...

Dexter

Then I looked at our personal lives, and ... well, it's where the differences became clearer. Strange as it may seem, I have people who depend on me. They would be devastated if they found out what I do. You, Sergeant, you're more of a lone wolf. Easier to put down, no one in the pack to miss you.

Doakes

Fuck you. Fuck you, Morgan, I have a family. I have my mother, my sisters.

Dexter

Who you never visit. Puts a pit in my stomach, that I can only interpret as ... sadness. If you had a personal life, you might not have made me your obsession, and we might not be here right now.

Dexter

Don't test me, Sergeant. I could have killed you. I didn't.

Doakes

You didn't because you can't. I've had time to think about this, Morgan. I don't fit that code you were talking about, do I? At first I thought the Butcher only went after criminals because nobody gives a God damn what happens to them. But now ... now I think you got a conscience.

Dexter

Of course I have a conscience. I left you a place to shit, didn't I? It's a small conscience.