Dexter (TV Series)

Once Upon a Time... (2011)

Michael C. Hall: Dexter Morgan

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• [last lines] 

  Dexter Morgan : [narrating]  Wolves come in many forms. Some have big eyes: the better to see you with. Others huff and puff. While others hide in the plain sight. I should know, because like it or not, I am one too! That's never going to change. And neither is the fact that my little lamb is becoming a little boy. Walking. Talking. Listening. As much as I want Harrison to stay this way forever, from now on, the only wolves in his life have to be the stuff of fairy tales. I can no longer allow him to see the real me. Only the version that's make believe. It's the only way this story gets to have a happy ending.

• [first lines] 

  Dexter Morgan : [narrating]  Until a few days ago I was convinced there was nothing I believed in. But I was wrong. There *is* something I truly believe. Everything's better after a bubble bath.

  [sudsing Harrison in the tub] 

  Dexter Morgan : Rituals are important. Not just for a serial killer, but also for a 2-year-old - if you want him to go to bed on time. Not that I mind. This ritual has become my favorite bedtime. Alone with my son, being myself.

• Dexter Morgan : You must be thinking "why me" right about now. I can't explain it myself. God, the universe, irony... Brother Sam wasn't who I thought he was. But you, this I know all too well. Always the same ending.

  [slits Julio's throat] 

  Dexter Morgan : Because monsters don't' get to live happily ever after.

• Brother Sam : That was a miracle. "Miami Metro?"

  Dexter Morgan : Forensics department. Lab geek.

  [waving his ID] 

  Dexter Morgan : But they didn't need to know that.

  Brother Sam : You don't fight like no lab geek.

• Brother Sam : [in interview room]  Men can change.

  Dexter Morgan : [narrating]  Men, maybe. But what about a monster?

• Brother Sam : Lord have mercy, no car's ever totaled. Yeah, it's like a man's life, like a man's soul. I oughta know that. You know I once killed a man walked-off scot-free? For that I need to pay.

  Dexter Morgan : I'm surprised to hear you say that.

  Brother Sam : Don't be. The Spirit moves me to tell my story and share. I was facing death row, judge presiding over my case suddenly dropped dead.

  Dexter Morgan : Mistrial? Sounds like divine intervention.

  Brother Sam : Yeah. Well, God was playing me all right. I had to go out here and get good and high before He just said, son that's enough. An, uh, I got stopped. Possession charge, and go back to jail. But, hallelujah, praise God, that's how I got saved.

  Dexter Morgan : So that darkness inside is gone?

  Brother Sam : No. It's still there, but I'm fightin' his ass every day. I really don't have much of a choice. I sacrificed that bad part of my soul to make up for some of the pain I caused.