[voiceover] It's said that everything is connected to everything. The butterfly effect. You drop a pebble into a pond and the ripples radiate outward, affecting everything. Until finally a fish grows arms and legs and crawls out of the water, and picks up a rock and smashes the next two fish over the head, and we have the first serial killer.
“The Damage a Man Can Do” · Season 3, Episode 8
In this episode: Dexter Morgan (5), Debra Morgan (1), Rita Bennett (1), Harry Morgan (1), Joey Quinn (1), Miguel Prado (1), Sylvia Prado (1)
Hey, you know anything about wedding bands?
Yeah, wedding rings and nuclear fission are my secret specialties.
Thanks. [leaves]
Your brother's kind of a dweeb, huh?
You say anything more about my brother and I will kick your fucking nuts down your throat.
[laughs] That doesn't even make any sense.
You ever drop a quart of milk? Watch it spread over the whole kitchen floor? The mess it makes?
Yeah.
There's six quarts of blood in the human body. This isn't going to be pretty. There's no shame in backing out.
Dex, after 14 years of filing briefs, trying cases, and dealing with bullshit, this is all going to look nice and neat in comparison.
[voiceover] I tell Miguel to be inconspicuous, and what does he do? He shows up looking like the Unabomber. I've got my work cut out for me.
I asked him for menu suggestions - do you know what he says?
I don't know.
Steak. He says steak. Yeah, that's great, Dexter. That's really great. We'll start with a steak appetizer, followed by steak salad, followed, of course, by a steak. And then, of course, it'll all be topped off by a steak fucking cake.
You were wrong. It went well.
Maybe. Who knows?
You can't admit it. He did good.
That was never the issue, Dex - I was only thinking about you.
Of course.
You've set something in motion here. Everything Miguel does from now on is connected to you. It's a lot of responsibility, teaching him what you just did. A heavy burden... It was too much for me to bear. I hope you're a stronger man.
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