- Dexter Morgan: People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That's my burden, I guess.
- Sergeant Doakes: Fuck you!
- Dexter Morgan: Okay. Uh, is there something I can...
- Sergeant Doakes: Yeah, you can get me your fucking analysis on the blood spatter on these killings! You think I'm here to invite you to my nephew's briss?
- Dexter Morgan: [sarcastic] I didn't know you were Jewish!
- Sergeant Doakes: Shut the fuck up and write your report already!
- Dexter Morgan: Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen, again and again. It has to happen. Nice night. Miami is a great town. I love the Cuban food. Pork sandwiches. My favorite. But I'm hungry for something different now.
- Dexter Morgan: The only real question I have is why in a building full of cops, all supposedly with a keen insight to the human soul, is Doakes the only one who gets the creep from me.
- Dexter Morgan: She's the only person in the world who loves me. I think that's nice. I don't have feeling about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I'd have them for Deb.
- Mike Donovan: [about killing the boys] I couldn't help myself. I couldn't. Please, you have to understand.
- Dexter Morgan: Trust me, I definitely understand. See, I can't help myself either. But children - I could never do that. Not like you. Never, ever kids.
- Mike Donovan: Why?
- Dexter Morgan: I have standards.
- Dexter Morgan: Blood. Sometimes it sets my teeth on edge, other times it helps me control the chaos.
- Dexter Morgan: Needless to say I have some unusual habits, yet all these socially acceptable people can't wait to pick up hammers and smash their food to bits. Normal people are so hostile.
- Dexter Morgan: Harry and Dorris Morgan did a wonderful job raising me. But they're both dead now. I didn't kill them. Honest.
- Dexter Morgan: Rita's ex-hubby, the crack addict, repeatedly raped her, knocked her around. Ever since then she's been completely uninterested in sex. That works for me!
- Sergeant Doakes: You give me the fucking creeps, you know that Dexter?
- Dexter Morgan: Yeah, I know, sorry about that.
- Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] The problem with eating and driving, which I love to do, is not being able to have my hands on the wheel at the 10 and 2 position. It's a matter of public safety.
- Mike Donovan: Hail Mary, full of grace, the lord...
- Dexter Morgan: [Slaps him] Stop, that never helped anybody.
- Dexter Morgan: [narrating] With the solve rate for murders at about twenty percent, Miami is a great place for me. A great place for me to hone my craft. Viva Miami.
- Officer Oliver: [Dexter, at a bloody crime scene, has just explained that they should be looking for someone who is really good with a knife] So, we are looking for a sushi chef?
- Dexter Morgan: [deadpan] Yeah... Sushi chef is possible. It wouldn't be my first choice but hey... You never know.
- Officer Oliver: Now what?
- Dexter Morgan: [excited and pumps his fist] Now I eat!
- Dexter Morgan: Talk to me about Jane Saunders.
- Jamie Jaworski: Okay, I did her.
- Dexter Morgan: How?
- Jamie Jaworski: In a movie. A snuff film, but I'm not sorry.
- Dexter Morgan: Of course not, and now I'm not sorry either.
- [Dexter swings blade for the kill]
- Dexter Morgan: [last lines of the episode; voiceover about the doll parts in his freezeR] I suppose I should be upset, even feel violated, but I'm not. No, in fact, I think this is a friendly message, like "Hey, wanna play?" and yes, I want to play. I really, really do.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: So then he must have already had the head with him in the front seat. Huh, that's weird. Why would he keep it there?
- Dexter Morgan: I don't know. So he could use a carpool lane
- Harry Morgan: Okay, so we can't stop this. But maybe... we can do something... to channel it. Use it for good.
- Teenage Dexter: How could it ever be good?
- Harry Morgan: Son, there are people out there who do really bad things. Terrible people. And the police can't catch them all. Do you understand what I'm saying?
- Teenage Dexter: You're saying... they deserve it.
- Dexter Morgan: There's something strange and disarming about looking at a homicide scene in the daylight of Miami. It makes the most grotesque killings look staged, like you're in a new and daring section of Disney World: Dahmerland!
- Dexter Morgan: No blood. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood; no blood at all. Why hadn't I thought of that? No blood. What a beautiful idea!
- Dexter Morgan: [as killer adverts his eyes from dead bodies] Look! Or I will cut your eyelids right off your face.
- Dexter Morgan: [to Deb] Keep the sex suit on when you're talking to the Captain, it'll help your cause.
- Dexter Morgan: How does he do it? How does the killer get rid of the blood?
- Det. Angel Batista: It's hard to say. The body's in good shape. She got a nice ass, too. Head is over there if you want to take a look.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: So, all the ice trucks in Miami; bit of a coincidence, don't you think?
- Dexter Morgan: Sure, during business hours. But this time of night, a truck like that sticks out.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: And you followed it.
- Dexter Morgan: That's right.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: And you never saw the driver?
- Dexter Morgan: Just high beams and a flying head.
- Dexter Morgan: [narrating] This guy, Jamie Jaworski. Six months ago, I think he fell in love with a pretty brunette, Mrs. Jane Saunders; a sweet mother of two married to a successful banker, all living a pleasant life until she, unfortunately, disappeared. Leaving the kids emotionally devastated forever. The cops arrested my favorite valet, but his lawyer got him off on a faulty search warrant. It's a good thing I don't bother with them.
- Dexter Morgan: Harry was a great cop here in Miami. He taught me how to think like one; he taught me how to cover my tracks. I'm a very neat monster.
- Dexter Morgan: Donut?
- Camilla: You keeping your fingernails clean?
- Dexter Morgan: Never leave home without my rubber gloves.
- Camilla: Good boy.
- Dexter Morgan: So, anything new?
- Camilla: [retreiving a case file] One day, you're gonna tell me.
- Dexter Morgan: I already told you. Blood spatter doesn't take up all my time. I like doing it. Maybe I can help out. It fills my nights.
- Camilla: You have a morbid sense of fun.
- Dexter Morgan: That's probably true.
- Camilla: You should find a pretty girl.
- Dexter Morgan: I found you.
- Camilla: Charming like your father. Just don't get me fired.
- Dexter Morgan: Then who would I bring donuts to?
- Debra Morgan: So how the hell was your date with Rita last night?
- Dexter Morgan: Great. You should try it sometime. You need a life.
- Debra Morgan: Well, find me a guy I can trust. I need a transfer to Homicide, bro, then we'll see about a life.
- Dexter Morgan: I understand that. And it certainly would sound better for the kids to say "Mommy's on a homcide".
- Debra Morgan: Don't make me hit you.
- Det. Angel Batista: What are you doing here?
- Dexter Morgan: I was in the neighborhood. I'm on a date.
- Det. Angel Batista: A date? Nice.
- Dexter Morgan: Same guy, same pattern.
- Det. Angel Batista: Bone dry. No blood again. Pero mira esto. There's some small differences in the cuts this time. Over here, rough; almost emotion. Then over here, not so much. And then over here, clean.
- Dexter Morgan: Muy bien.
- Det. Angel Batista: Yeah, nice. But look at this. All bone. The killer flayed the skin, the flesh, completely off. Now, why would he do that?
- Dexter Morgan: He's experimenting. He's trying to find the right way.
- Det. Angel Batista: Is he experimenting with the head, too?
- Dexter Morgan: What do you mean?
- Det. Angel Batista: I mean la bestia left her tits and took her fucking head. I don't find anyone around here. And god only knows what he's doing with it.
- Dexter Morgan: [narrating] He's certainly raising the bar. Damn. This guy is good.
- Sergeant Doakes: Where the hell you been?
- Dexter Morgan: Crime scene.
- Sergeant Doakes: What about these, the hotel cokehead murders, this dealer and the girl?
- Dexter Morgan: [looking at crime scene photos] Oh. Well, this Hallmark-looking couple didn't die by the hands of a professional. No, this is child's play. Messy work; all that blood on the walls, looks like a finger painting.
- Dexter Morgan: I like your other outfit better.
- Debra Morgan: [sarcastic laugh] You're a sick bastard. Guess what. Sex suit worked. Captain put me on the case. LaGuerta wasn't happy, but she needs to get laid.
- Dexter Morgan: I guess. So, congrats.
- Debra Morgan: So you got any ideas yet?
- Dexter Morgan: Nope.
- Debra Morgan: Well, uh, start working on your mental autopsy, 'cause I could use your theories.
- Dexter Morgan: That's a nice haircut, Masuka.
- Vince Masuka: I saw your sister. Damn, looking hot.
- Dexter Morgan: Yeah, she should. It's hot as hell out here.
- Vince Masuka: So... why are you here?
- Dexter Morgan: It's a crime scene.
- Vince Masuka: Yeah, but you do blood spatter.
- Dexter Morgan: So?
- Vince Masuka: So... there's no blood here.
- Dexter Morgan: What was that?
- Harry Morgan: [talking to young Dexter] Remember this forever, you are my son, you are not alone, and you are loved.
- Debra Morgan: You can't bullshit me, Dex. Help me out. LaGuerta still has me interviewing hookers.
- Dexter Morgan: It's a waste of time. Deb, if he was interrupted, think.
- Debra Morgan: Jesus Christ. Right. Because then how do you have time to wrap all the pieces? She's dumber than the boat people. Throw her a fucking raft.
- Dexter Morgan: But now we have a fourth body, and the cuts were different. And that's telling us a story. The ritual is changing. He's looking for some kind of inspiration and he's not finding it.
- Debra Morgan: So he keeps doing it until he gets it right.
- Dexter Morgan: [first lines]
- Dexter Morgan: Tonight's the night. It's going to happen again and again. Has to happen. Nice night. Miami is a great town. I love the Cuban food and pork sandwhiches, my favorite. But I'm hungry for something different, now.
- Rita Bennett: What am I gonna do?
- Dexter Morgan: Don't worry, I'll figure it out.
- [voice over]
- Dexter Morgan: And I will. I can always see other people's problems more clearly than my own.
- Dexter Morgan: [voice over] I always prided myself on being an outsider... but now... I feel the need to connect with someone.
- Dexter Morgan: People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That's my burden, I guess.
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