Dexter (TV Series)

Love American Style (2006)

Michael C. Hall: Dexter Morgan

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• [Dexter is daydreaming at a crime scene; soft piano music is playing] 

  Dexter Morgan : [v.o]  I like to pretend I'm alone. Completely alone. Maybe post-apocalypse or plague... Whatever. No-one left to act normal for. No need to hide who I really am. It would be... freeing.

  Sergeant Doakes : [Doakes seemingly walks up out of nowhere]  Stop grinning like a fucking psycho and get back to work!

• Angel Batista : [hungover]  I guess I had one too many, huh?

  Dexter Morgan : And then about 10 more.

• Dexter Morgan : Maybe if I don't blink, my eyes will tear up.

• Dexter Morgan : Do you have a dream for your life? Your future? Yes?

  Rita Bennett : Of course. Do you?

  Dexter Morgan : It might sound weird. I want to someday be content. Just feel comfortable, like everyone else. I want...

  Rita Bennett : ...a normal life?

  Dexter Morgan : Yeah, a normal life.

  Rita Bennett : That's all I want. Just that.

  Dexter Morgan : No fame and fortune? Excitement at every turn?

  Rita Bennett : No, I've had enough excitement, thank you. I'll take boring.

  Dexter Morgan : Average.

  Rita Bennett : Ordinary.

  Dexter Morgan : That's weird, huh?

  Rita Bennett : Yeah.

• Dexter Morgan : [voice-over]  She wants something from me. Ever since the blow-job, she assumes we've taken it to the next level. She doesn't know yet: I don't have a next level.

• Dexter Morgan : [narrating]  I don't understand America's obsession with cars. I can just imagine squeezing Rita and the kids into this thing. Hitting the open road, cramped quarters, public bathrooms, hours of nothing but conversation. Someone's American dream, my nightmare.

• Dexter Morgan : [voice-over]  It always comes to this, once sex is introduced. Small talk no longer cuts it. Eventually, she'll call me a science project and slam the door in my face.

• Officer Gerard : Believe me, your maid is not the first one to get screwed.

  Dexter Morgan : No, she's *a* maid, she's not *my* maid. So, have you heard of any other Cuban immigrants disappearing?

  Officer Gerard : A few. The poor bastards. Spend their life's savings to get stuffed into a fish-hole. Puke the whole 90 miles to Miami. Then they get here thinking: I'm an American! I'm free! Except the damn coyote, he won't let 'em go till his family comes up for the surprise release fee. If they can't pay...

  Dexter Morgan : They disappear.

  Officer Gerard : Freedom's just another word for one more way to get fucked.

• Dexter Morgan : She has no clue who she's with. Maybe that's the key to a successful relationship.

• Officer Gerard : Look, buddy. I know you want to help out your maid. But there ain't a hell of a lot you can do.

  Dexter Morgan : [thinks to himself]  You'd be surprised.

• Jorge Castillo : I love you.

  Valerie Castillo : I love you so much.

  Dexter Morgan : I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to answer me honestly, understand? No more bullshit. How long have you been married?

  Valerie Castillo : Twelve years.

  Dexter Morgan : How do you love each other? You're like me, you make it work. How?

  Jorge Castillo : We want the same life.

  Valerie Castillo : We want the same thing

  Dexter Morgan : You share the same dream?

  Valerie Castillo , Jorge Castillo : Yes that's it.

  Dexter Morgan : That's, uh, helpful. Thank you.

  [stuffs cotton in their mouths and prepares to kill them] 

• Dexter Morgan : [voice-over]  Deviating from the plan may have been ill-advised. But, sometimes, you just have to take a risk. After all, isn't that what relationships are all about?

• Angel Batista : You're kind of neat, aren't you?

  Dexter Morgan : Bad habit instilled by mom.

• Vince Masuka : [pointing to the gurney on which Tony Tucci had lain and had bled]  Hey, Dexter, you, uh, you get all this blood on camera yet?

  Dexter Morgan : Let's start shooting it, Jackson Pollock.