This man is a knight in shining armor. You should be polishing his lance. [awkward pause] I meant that metaphorically - not how it sounded.
S5 E3Practically Perfect
I'm just not used to checking the fridge for notes. [voiceover]... just notes from other serial killers.
I'm just trying to get the truth. However long that takes is up to you.
GGirl
I'm telling you the truth. I'm not lying.
First you said you didn't do drugs, and then you said you did.
GGirl
I said I might have tried some at a Tri Delt party once.
You might have? What the fuck does that even mean? You did or you didn't. You can't kind of do blow.
GGirl
But that was six years ago in college.
And I'm supposed to believe you're not on anything now?
GGirl
I'm totally clean.
Then why are you so nervous?
GGirl
Because I wasn't expecting on getting these kind of questions. I mean, you sound like a cop.
I am a cop. I work for Miami Metro Homicide.
GGirl
Look, I don't know what's going on here. I came for a nanny job. I'm not like, planning to kill the president.
[Voiceover: Harrison needs a nanny and Deb insisted on running point. The way it's going, only Mary Poppins would make the cut.]
You didn't answer your cell.
SSonia
Well, I had my hands full. Oh, I left a note on the fridge. Oh, I didn't mean to worry you.
No, it's fine. I'm just... I'm not used to checking the fridge for notes. [Voiceover: Just messages from other serial killers.]
When you lose someone close, routine can be a ladder that can help you climb back into some kind of normalcy.
Where'd you hear that?
I am capable of independent thought, Dexter. Oprah.
BBoyd
Let me the fuck out of here.
I bet you've heard that before, "let me out of here", from all the women you've killed. I wish you could see the room I set up for you. But you fucked everything up, Boyd. All those pictures I took of the woman you killed - it's a shame you'll never get to see them. I'll just have to paint a word-picture for you instead. They were young, just starting their lives... Now they're floating in formaldehyde and stuffed into barrels strewn around a swamp.
BBoyd
Who the hell are you?
Just a fellow traveler, who also likes to pick up dead animals.
BBoyd
I did them a favor. They were all suffering and I put them out of their misery.
Yeah, you'll be doing one more favor tonight.
BBoyd
What are you talking about?
I've recently suffered a loss. My wife...was murdered by someone like you. Someone like me... It turned my life upside down.
BBoyd
Why is that my problem?
Because you're the start of my healing process.
BBoyd
I knew you were fucked up the minute I laid eyes on you.
I was fucked up long before that.
S5 E4Beauty and the Beast
He's got daddy's eyes.
... and your penis size.
What's your plan here? Nurse her back to health so she can go to the police? If she gives the cops enough to track you down then everything falls apart. Harrison grows up visiting you on death row.
If I can get the crotchety, judgemental babysitter from Ireland to trust me, why not you?
[voiceover] The babysitter doesn't trust me because of the lies; Lumen doesn't trust me because of the truth. There must be a name for that. Oh, right, Dexter Morgan.
I'm not liking the trend here. You rip a man apart in a public bathroom...
No one saw.
You nearly botch Boyd's kill.
He's dead, isn't he?
Yeah. And now you've got her. What's the first rule of the code?
Never kill an innocent.
Don't get caught. So what's your plan here? Nurse her back to health so she can go to the police? She gives the cops enough to track you down...then everything falls apart. Harrison grows up visiting you on death row.
I think my wife; his mom...might have left her luggage here, Lumen Pierce.
MWMotel woman
Let's have a look-see. Can you spell that, please?
Yeah, it's P-I-E-R-C-E.
MWMotel woman
The other name - the weird one. No offence.
[To Harrison] Ten months old and you've had your first cigarette. Sorry about that.
I tell you to leave Trinity's family alone, and instead, you go behind my back. And based on what? This? A cut-and-paste sketch you think resembles Dexter Morgan?
The kid recognized him.
He identified Dexter as Kyle Butler?
He didn't get a chance, but I could tell.
Oh, you could tell. And did Jonah convey this ID to the FBI?
No.
Right. Because it's bullshit! You have your suspicions, you come to me.
I tried.
And when I say, no, Quinn, it's over! You're on unpaid suspension until further notice.
Suspension?
Just tell everyone you're taking a few vacation days.
You kidding?
Am I fucking kidding? You're lucky I don't terminate your ass. And you know the one reason I don't? Because there'd be a mandatory hearing, and this whole embarrasment would become a matter of record. No one needs to hear about your stupid theories. It would tear this department apart. Understood?.
Sure.
He just lost his wife, for Christ's sake!
Is that true...what you said about your wife?
Yes.
How did it happen?
Knife...painful and cruel.
I'm sorry that I cut you. I thought you were a monster, like Boyd. I thought you were going to kill me...or worse. I was locked up. I don't know where, or for how long. All I know is that it was horrible. And I thought...it would never stop.
But it has stopped. He's dead. It's over. You can go home.
I don't think so.
You can. I read your letter. I know you have a family who loves you. You should go home to them.
It's not that simple.
It is. It really is.
Boyd wasn't the only one who did this to me. There were others. It's not over.
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