- [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!
- 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.
- Harry Morgan: That you, Dex?
- Teenage Dexter: Yeah, sorry I'm late.
- Harry Morgan: It's okay, son. Must have been having fun.
- Teenage Dexter: No, I pretended to.
- Harry Morgan: That's good, Dexter.
- Teenage Dexter: Dad, do you think that maybe one day I'll, you know, feel it for real?
- Harry Morgan: I hope so, son. I really do.
- 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.
- Harry Morgan: It's important that you seem normal.
- Teenage Dexter: Even though I'm not?
- Harry Morgan: Because you're not.
- 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?
- Tony Tucci: Hey pretty boy. You're stealing my thunder. And I got a hottie waitin' on me, so...
- Rudy Cooper: [He glances at Debra and understands] I don't know. I just might have to fight you for this one.
- 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.