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Dexter · Season 4, Episode 12

“The Getaway” quotes from Dexter

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“The Getaway” · Season 4, Episode 12

In this episode: Dexter Morgan (7), Debra Morgan (1), Rita Bennett (1), Arthur Mitchell (1)

[Arthur Mitchell wakes up in Dexter's kill room, seemingly shocked by his surroundings]

Guess you were picturing a different scenario.

I was following my path.

So was I.

God led you to me.

Hardly.

[Dexter cuts Arthur's cheek and creates a blood slide trophy; Arthur groans in pain]

Is this who you are?

Ta-da!

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

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

I gave them everything!

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

No!

...because of you.

She was weak!

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

You think you're better than I am?

No. But I want to be.

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

Did you ever actually try?

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

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

It worked, didn't it?

[They both look around at the kill room]

Case in point.

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

No. You'll still be you.

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

[Laughs] You're like a child.

A child with a big knife.

You dream of a heaven you'll never see.

I don't believe in heaven.

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

I accept nothing. Nothing is inevitable.

It's already over.

[Dexter looks confused and somewhat taken aback]

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

[Dexter turns on the train set and record player]

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

[Dexter puts on his headgear and picks up a framing hammer, which he holds over Arthur]

Now it's over.

[He flips the hammer so the sharp points are now facing down, then swings it towards Arthur.]

[voiceover] I wonder if Rita is looking at this same moon, at this same moment. I like that. Connected by light. The Dark Passenger has been fighting against it, to keep me all to himself. But it is my turn now, to get what I want. To embrace my family. And maybe one day not so long from now, I'll be rid of the Dark Passenger. It all begins with a getaway. Time away from the old me. Life doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be lived

[Dexter has just discovered Rita's dead body, with Harrison lying in a pool of her blood]

[voiceover] Born in blood. Both of us. Harry was right. I thought I could change what I am, keep my family safe. But it doesn't matter what I do, what I choose... I'm what's wrong. This is fate.

[Voiceover] He knows my name, occupation. He can find out about my family. My family... what the hell have I done?

[Voiceover] He's right, I screwed up. I let it come to this. But no more. No fucking more.

What’s upsetting me is the idea of losing you. You have your demons, I accept that, because I know that you don’t have to be a slave to them.

I wish that were true.

It is. I know you, better than you know yourself. You can conquer whatever darkness there is in you, I know you can.

I want to be that man.

You already are.

Please. Please fly to the keys tomorrow morning. I wanna meet you. Truly, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.

I have something to tell you. And maybe I shouldn't. I don't know.

OK.

I found another CI Dad was sleeping with. A woman named named Laura Moser.

[Voiceover] Harry was right. This is it.

Does that name mean anything to you?

Should it?

It doesn't? Look, she died, but she left behind two little boys. And one of those little boys was you. Laura Moser is your biological mother.

[Voiceover] Don't say the rest. Don't know it.

The other little boy, your brother, was named Brian. Brian Moser - the Ice Truck Killer.

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