- Dexter Morgan: I'm going to tell you something that I've never told anyone before.
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: Okay.
- Dexter Morgan: I'm a serial killer.
- [pause]
- Dexter Morgan: Oh God. That feels... so amazing to say out loud
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: Well, you must be letting go, 'cause I've never heard you make a joke before.
- Dexter Morgan: I'm not joking; I kill people. Whoo. There it is again.
- [pause]
- Dexter Morgan: You should try it.
- Sergeant James Doakes: Morgan, what took you so long?
- Vince Masuka: Playing "hide the salami" with Mr. Prosthetics?
- Debra Morgan: I don't fuck and tell.
- Vince Masuka: Since when?
- Debra Morgan: Can we go inside? I'm kind of wet.
- Vince Masuka: [going to say something witty]
- Debra Morgan: Don't!
- Dexter Morgan: What are we looking at here?
- Angel Batista: I'm thinking two circus clowns dancing. You?
- Dexter Morgan: Nah, looks like a lobster. See the claws?
- Angel Batista: Why do bloodstains always look like crustaceans to you?
- Dexter Morgan: I like seafood
- Angel Batista: Rorschach would say you have a hard time relating to others
- Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] My therapist wants me to accept the things that are out of my hands. Tragically for him, he's not out of my hands.
- Dexter Morgan: [the psychiatrist turns off the lights in the room] What are you doing?
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: I'd like to talk you through a deep relaxation technique. It might bring some things to the surface.
- Dexter Morgan: What kinds of things?
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: Well, there must have been a time in your life when you felt powerless, right? Foster-child, no control over your destiny. If we can bring some of those memories to the surface, we might find the root of your "control issues". First I want you to close your eyes and focus on your breathing. I want you to count each breath, okay? In: one, and out: two. Just give it a try.
- Dexter Morgan: [in voiceover] This is ridiculous. I could be killing him right now.
- Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] I can't have sex with Rita. Every time I sleep with a woman, she sees me for what I really am. Empty. Then she's gone. But I don't want Rita to go, which means I have to deal with this.
- [pause]
- Dexter Morgan: I can't kill Meridian yet - I need another therapy session.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: We both want the same thing.
- Neil Perry: Uh, ten minutes alone with Angelina?
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: To see you convicted.
- Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] This is a disaster. I chose Rita because she was damaged. If she gets better I'll lose her for sure.
- Dexter Morgan: What can I do for you?
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: So many things. I need the blood spatter report on Vanessa Gale.
- Dexter Morgan: Blood spatter's inconclusive. All I can tell is she was shot at close range. I wish I had more for you.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: Mm. Me, too.
- [Captain Matthews appears in the doorway and shouts at Maria]
- Captain Tom Matthews: Maria! The D.A. needs the work-sheet for the Ice Truck Killer case.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: I'm working on it.
- [puzzled]
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: When did you talk to the D.A.?
- Captain Tom Matthews: Oh, we had dinner last night. Mayor Allen took us out to celebrate Neil Perry's arrest. Hell of a good time.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: [She gives him a fake smile as he leaves and murmurs something including the word "puta."] I'm the one who get Perry to confess, and he's got the Mayor kissing his ass.
- Dexter Morgan: I wouldn't be too upset. Matthews will be the one with the egg on his face soon enough.
- Lt. Maria Laguerta: [softly] You still believe we got the wrong guy?
- Dexter Morgan: Perry's a pretender to the throne. The real king is still out there, and he'll kill again. It's just a matter of time.
- [Still using the name "Sean", Dexter has returned to see Dr. Meridian as a patient, hoping for clues that Meridian has helped his rich women patients to suicide]
- Dexter Morgan: She was sitting on top of me, basically naked.
- [He sighs heavily]
- Dexter Morgan: Asking me to spend the night. And I didn't know what to do.
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: It's okay, Sean. Don't beat yourself up. Your girlfriend really means something to you. I know that.
- Dexter Morgan: Well, if she means something, why did I run away from her?
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: For the same reason that you work so hard to shut everybody else out. 'Cause you're afraid they won't like what they see.
- Dexter Morgan: Yeah, I think you're right. How can I change that?
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: Well, for starters, you accept the fact that we all have a big bad wolf hiding inside of us. The darkness we don't want anyone else to see.
- Dexter Morgan: [sensing a clue] Do you?
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: Of course I do.
- Dexter Morgan: [Dexter puts his fingers close to his mouth, almost as though he wants to bite his nails] Really?
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: [Nodding] Mm-hmm.
- Dexter Morgan: Well, how do you deal with your own wolf?
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: Well, first of all, I accepted that it was there. I made friends with it. And I just let it out for a big meal, once in a while.
- Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] At least three times, that we know about.
- Dr. Meridian's Patient: [about Dr. Meridian] How about you? Finding him helpful?
- Dexter Morgan: Nah. I'm a sociopath. There's not much he can do for me.
- Dexter Morgan: [voice-over] The three suicide sisters shared the same therapist. Dr. Emmett Meridian. He must be terrible at his job.
- [Debra knocks on the open door of the office where Rudy is working and shows her grinning face]
- Rudy Cooper: [He holds up a prosthetic hand] Stay where you are! I'm armed.
- Debra Morgan: [laughing] Bad puns?
- [They share a passionate greeting kiss]
- Debra Morgan: You said you needed a favor. What's up?
- [She slides her hands inside his white coat to caress his torso]
- Rudy Cooper: Take off your pants.
- Debra Morgan: Oh, I should've known it was that kind of favor. You never ask me to come by before work.
- Rudy Cooper: Mm, no, but I like the way you think. I have a patient who lost both her legs in a car accident. Really brutal.
- Debra Morgan: Like your mom?
- Rudy Cooper: [He nods] Which is why I want to do something special for her. I want to give her a new smokin' pair of legs. Yours.
- Debra Morgan: No-ho!
- Rudy Cooper: Let me just take a cast.
- Debra Morgan: No way, no!
- Rudy Cooper: It'll take twenty minutes, tops.
- Debra Morgan: I don't want...
- Rudy Cooper: Come on. Please? Stop being such a chick!
- [He pulls her pants down, leaving her underwear alone]
- Rudy Cooper: Sit down.
- [Dexter has spent the night in Rita's bed and sits up at dawn, his back to her]
- Rita Bennett: [drowsily] Next time we'll figure out what to tell the kids. So you don't have to sneak out like this.
- Dexter Morgan: You want there to be a next time?
- Rita Bennett: And a time after that!
- [Still sleepy, but smiling, she rises enough to prop herself on one elbow]
- Rita Bennett: Don't you?
- Dexter Morgan: [the look on his face is both harsh and confused] No. I mean, yeah. I just -
- [He turns to face her]
- Dexter Morgan: I didn't freak you out?
- Rita Bennett: Why would you think that?
- [She reaches over to touch his arm]
- Rita Bennett: Dexter, there's nothing you could ever do that would scare me away.
- Sergeant James Doakes: Maria, we talked about this when it happened. It would fuck up your rep and make me look like a whiny bitch.
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: So what do you want to talk about?
- Dexter Morgan: Fakes. People who pass themselves off as something they're not.
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: Like a pre-owned car salesman?
- Dexter Morgan: A brave politician.
- Dr. Emmett Meridian: A Jew for Jesus.
- Dexter Morgan: A wolf in sheep's clothing.