Are you gonna tell me how you're doing?
I'm fine.
C'mon, Dex. Open up.
I'm very fine?
S2 E4See-Through
What's going on inside your head? What are you thinking?
I'm afraid we're done – you and I.
Serious? You're breaking up with me?
Actually, I don't think I wanna answer any more questions.
[Dexter stands outside the morgue]
[thoughts] There it is. Like a gigantic white whale. My Moby Dick.
Man, this heat. I can't take it. I've gotta get in my car before I fucking melt.
[thoughts] Which is exactly what needs to happen to my dearly departed friends.
I think you should give me another chance.
There's nothing you can do to help me. It's not even you. It's me. I am who I am, and nobody's gonna change that.
Whatever you think you are – you don't have to be that.
That's where you're wrong.
Stop judging yourself! There are no absolutes. No one's all good, or evil.
You're just gonna have to trust me on this.
Jesus, Dexter, what are you so fucking scared of!? You make yourself into a monster so you no longer bear responsibility for what you do! "Ah, I can't help it, I'm a monster," or, "Of course I was gonna do that – I'm a monster." It's sad! And it's pathetic! And it breaks my heart.
You don't think there are monsters in this world? You don't believe that people are evil?
[Lila shakes her head]
I'll show you evil.
[Lila looks at some of the Bay Harbor Butcher's victims]
It's ... incredible.
But the person who did this –
Is a person just like me. Like you. We're all good, Dexter. And we're all evil.
[thoughts] I thought I closed the door for anybody ever seeing me for who I am. But, this woman sees me. She doesn't know it, but she's looking behind the mask, and she's not turning away.
[Dexter spins Cody around]
He's good for you.
I know. I got lucky.
Quite an actor. He's hiding something. I'm sure of it.
For the first time, I feel that the future might hold something different for me. It's possible I'm just fooling myself, but I'm willing to take the risk.
It's an odd sensation to be experiencing what might be called "hope" for the first time in my life. At the same time, I find myself weighing the benefits between electrocution versus lethal injection. But here I am.
[voiceover: "Who is the Bay Harbor Butcher?" This obsession with him is relentless. Just like Deb and that damn treadmill.] Deb, do you ever stop!?
[Barges in on Deb having sex]
Dexter! You're supposed to be at Rita's!
Ah! Sorry! [hurriedly leaves]
Fuck.
S2 E5The Dark Defender
[drinks coffee] Oh sweet Mary mother of fuck, that's good.
Think you might have broken a commandment somewhere in there.
If dad taught us one thing, it's the value of human life.
[voiceover] Yeah, but I think we had different homework assignments.
My little sister, the cuddler.
I have a scalding hot beverage here, Dex, don't make me use it.
I never really got the whole superhero thing. But lately, it does seem we have a lot in common – tragic beginnings ... secret identities ... part human, part mutant ... [looking over at Doakes] archenemies.
[voiceover] "The Dark Defender." No, Miami's too hot for all that leather.
Where did you drift off to, anyway?
I was having this bizarre dream about my mother.
Say no more. Oedipus complex, explains a lot.
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