Harry Morgan quotes from Dexter

Harry

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

Dexter

All of them.

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.

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.

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.

Harry Morgan

You've had a personal tragedy. Unlike everyone else, you look better than you did twenty years ago and you've got a cool job. Put all that together, and it makes you...

Dexter

Popular.

Harry Morgan

How's it feel?

Dexter

I hate it.

Harry Morgan

C'mon, it's great. Most of the people here would love to be popular.

Dexter

Most people don't have two rolls of duct tape, eighty yards of plastic sheeting and a surgical saw in their trunk.

Dexter

That's it. Brother Sam is gone.

Harry

Will you honor his dying wish?

Dexter

Forgive Nick? I want to.

Harry

What did Brother Sam say? Just let it go. Let go of the darkness this one time, and show Nick the light.

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.

Harry

Dexter, are you sure about this?

Dexter

Yes.

Harry

I never thought this day would come. You don't need me anymore.