Rudy quotes from Dexter

Rudy

I mean, Deb's hot and all, but sprinkle in a little conversation once in a while, you know?

Dexter

Well, she's my sister. I don't know.

[while gift-wrapping dismembered parts] Deck the halls with parts of bodies, fa la la la la, la la la la.

Debra Morgan, will you marry me?

Debra

I knew it, I fucking knew it!

Is that your version of a yes?

You know the one thing I've been dying to ask you? How did you not know who I was? You're a cop.

Debra

This isn't funny.

I think a real cop would at least have a sense she was in the presence of the person she was hunting.

Debra

[sobbing] This isn't you.

Pretty sure it is.

Debra

No, no there's more. I've seen it.

I never wanted to hurt you.

Debra

I know. I know.

[pause] Does this make it easier for you? Because I can keep going.

I just wanted to have a beer with you before we got started. Made that kind of difficult.

Dexter

Sorry.

You don't ever have to apologize to me, Dexter. Not for who you are, or anything you do.

Looks just like it used to, doesn't it?

Dexter

Who does it belong to?

Me. I got it for you, actually.

Dexter

I'm really more an apartment person.

Your victims. Are they all killers?

Dexter

Yes.

Harry teach you that?

Dexter

He taught me a code. To survive.

Like an ... absurd avenger?

Dexter

That's not why I kill.

You can be yourself around me. Who. Am. I?

Dexter

A killer. Without reason or regret. Free.

You can be that way too.

Dexter

But the code ...

[laughs] Dex! You don't have a code. Harry did. Now he's been dead ten years. You can't keep – keep him sitting on your shoulder like Jiminy Fucking Cricket! You need to embrace who you are now.

Dexter

I don't know who I am.

'Course you don't. You've been away from your family since you were three. But I'm here now. I can help you. We can take this journey together.

Dexter

I can't. Not Deb ...

No – no, don't say that.

Dexter

I'm very ... fond of her.

You can't be a killer and a hero. It doesn't work that way!