Arthur Mitchell quotes from Dexter

Arthur

[to his victim as he kills her] Shhh, shhh. it's already over. It's already over.

Arthur

Hello, Dexter Morgan.

Arthur

You're being purposely vague, Kyle, like one of my tenth-graders trying to explain why he didn't do his homework.

Dexter

[Voiceover] I have a feeling I'm gonna make some tenth-graders very happy.

Dexter

I killed a man.

Arthur

You killed someone?

Dexter

[Voiceover] You, of all people, act appalled. [voiceover ends] By mistake.

Arthur

How? What happened?

Dexter

I thought he was the right... I thought he was an animal.

Arthur

You... You were hunting?

Dexter

Yes, it was a hunting accident. I was so sure. I'm always so careful.

Arthur

This is where it all started.

Dexter

What started here?

Arthur

I was standing here... watching my sister take a shower.

Dexter

You were watching your sister?

Arthur

I was ten. It was innocent. But Vera saw me... in the mirror. I startled her, and she slipped... shattered the shower doors. The glass... sliced her leg. She was dead by the time the ambulance came. So much blood...

Dexter

[Voiceover] Born in blood, both of us.

Arthur

My parents blamed me. My mother became a shell, a ghost. She eventually killed herself.

Dexter

[Voiceover] Jumped to her death.

Arthur

Left me all alone... with him. He was always a drinker... but without mother, it became worse. So did the beatings. "Little fucking pervert, fucking cunt, you killed them."

Dexter

What happened to him?

Arthur

He died.

Dexter

[Voiceover] No, you killed your father. I'm betting hammer.

I saw you that night. Back when I was five. You told me to stay in the car, but I didn't. So I got out and went into that woman's house. And I saw you in the bathtub with her. The water was so red.

Arthur

It was a dream. You were right the first time.

It wasn't. I knew it wasn't when it happened again in the same house 30 years later.

Dexter

Guess you were picturing a different scenario.

Arthur

I was following my path.

Dexter

So was I.

Arthur

God led you to me.

Dexter

Hardly.

Arthur

Is this who you are?

Dexter

Ta-da!

Arthur

Look at you! I never took pride in what I did!

Dexter

No, you were a very special kind of monster. You destroyed your own family.

Arthur

I gave them everything!

Dexter

No, you took everything; their future, their diginity, their hope... Christine even killed herself...

Arthur

No!

Dexter

...because of you.

Arthur

She was weak!

Dexter

I can't believe there was a time when I actually thought I could learn something from you.

Arthur

You think you're better than I am?

Dexter

No. But I want to be.

Arthur

You can't control the demon inside of you any more than I could control mine.

Dexter

Did you ever actually try?

Arthur

Oh, God yes. I prayed to be changed, to be made different.

Dexter

That's not trying, that's waiting to be stopped.

Arthur

It worked, didn't it?

Arthur

Case in point.

Dexter

So what's the alternative, Arthur? Leave? Disappear? Fake my own death and start over again?

Arthur

No. You'll still be you.

Dexter

I have a family too, Arthur. And I'm good for them.

Arthur

[Laughs] You're like a child.

Dexter

A child with a big knife.

Arthur

You dream of a heaven you'll never see.

Dexter

I don't believe in heaven.

Arthur

Oh, but you do! This isn't your doing. This is God's plan. I accept that now. You have to do the same.

Dexter

I accept nothing. Nothing is inevitable.

Arthur

It's already over.

Arthur

It's already over. [Looks at the toy train set in the room] Could you...?

Arthur

Thank you. [singing] "I'll give her all the love I have to give, as long as we both shall live..."

Dexter

Now it's over.