Dexter quotes

Debra

[sobbing] This isn't you.

Pretty sure it is.

Debra

No, no there's more. I've seen it.

I never wanted to hurt you.

Debra

I know. I know.

[pause] Does this make it easier for you? Because I can keep going.

Dexter

[breaking into shipping yard, voiceover] No cameras, no patrols, no dogs. With billions spent on homeland security, it can't be easy as a couple of snips. [cuts padlocked chain and walks in] So much for the War on Terror.

Dexter

[voiceover] Finding a needle in a haystack isn't hard when every straw is computerized.

Dexter

[at the shipping yard, voiceover] I don't like this place. Something nameless was born here, something that lives in the deepest darkest hole of the thing called Dexter.

I just wanted to have a beer with you before we got started. Made that kind of difficult.

Dexter

Sorry.

You don't ever have to apologize to me, Dexter. Not for who you are, or anything you do.

Looks just like it used to, doesn't it?

Dexter

Who does it belong to?

Me. I got it for you, actually.

Dexter

I'm really more an apartment person.

Your victims. Are they all killers?

Dexter

Yes.

Harry teach you that?

Dexter

He taught me a code. To survive.

Like an ... absurd avenger?

Dexter

That's not why I kill.

You can be yourself around me. Who. Am. I?

Dexter

A killer. Without reason or regret. Free.

You can be that way too.

Dexter

But the code ...

[laughs] Dex! You don't have a code. Harry did. Now he's been dead ten years. You can't keep – keep him sitting on your shoulder like Jiminy Fucking Cricket! You need to embrace who you are now.

Dexter

I don't know who I am.

'Course you don't. You've been away from your family since you were three. But I'm here now. I can help you. We can take this journey together.

Dexter

I can't. Not Deb ...

No – no, don't say that.

Dexter

I'm very ... fond of her.

You can't be a killer and a hero. It doesn't work that way!

Rita

Deb must be a mess. I mean, falling for a serial killer?

Dexter

What are the odds?

Rita

You might even find I can handle the truth.

Dexter

[voiceover] I wish that was the case.

Dexter

[voiceover] Sometimes I wonder what it would be like for everything inside me that's denied and unknown to be revealed. But I'll never know. I live my life in hiding. My survival depends on it.

Doakes

Surprise, motherfucker!

Dexter

Are you following me now?

Doakes

You better have a hell of a reason for being here.

Dexter

I'm looking for my sister.

Doakes

In a cargo box?

Dexter

Yeah. I'm kinda working on a theory.

Doakes

You forget your work for the fucking cops!? We love theories! Come on! Spin me a story, asshole!

Dexter

[voiceover] Doakes always sensed something was wrong with me, but now he knows. My devil danced with his demon, and the fiddler's tune is far from over.

Dexter

Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again, and again. It has to happen. It's not what I want. But what I want doesn't matter. This is the only way I know how to survive. I'm coiled and ready to strike.

Dexter

Although a spare will do.

Masuka

Keep your mind limber.

Dexter

I'm doing mental jumping jacks.

Dexter

I'm on edge. Thirty-eight days, sixteen hours, and twelve minutes have passed since I killed my brother. In that entire time, I haven't had a single night to myself. Sergeant Doakes makes sure of that. He follows me everywhere now. A human bloodhound incited by the scent of darkness. My best hope of losing him is to act relentlessly normal. Dull. So I bowl. What's really disturbing is that I'm good at it.