Dexter (TV Series)

Father Knows Best (2006)

Michael C. Hall: Dexter Morgan

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Quotes 

• Dexter Morgan : Thank God for showers. Private time to think. Harder to come by now that I'm in a real relationship.

• Dexter Morgan : Blood never lies.

• Dexter Morgan : I built my life on Harry's code. I lived by it. But Harry lied. Why would he do that? What else don't I know? My concrete foundation is turning to shifting sand. Maybe Rudy was right. You never can truly know anyone.

• [Dexter is getting up out of bed in the house that Driscoll bequeathed to him, leaving Rita sleeping, and getting dressed. He remembers that Debra and Rudy had invited themselves over, when he didn't want anyone there except himself] 

  Dexter Morgan : [voice-over]  How did a death turn into a couples' weekend?

  [He closes the bedroom door quietly] 

  Dexter Morgan : [voice-over]  Luckily, I get up earlier than normal people.

  [Dexter heads for the kitchen, where Rudy is pouring coffee] 

  Rudy Cooper : Coffee?

• Sgt. James Doakes : I saw a gun in the suspect's waistband. I went to question him, and he took off running when he saw me.

  Lt. Maria LaGuerta : Angel, you saw all this?

  [Angel looks at Doakes almost hesitantly] 

  Angel Batista : Yeah, I saw

  [Bayarde?] 

  Angel Batista : bolt, and I turned the car around in pursuit.

  Lt. Maria LaGuerta : All right, then when you went under the Causeway?

  [Dexter approaches them] 

  Sgt. James Doakes : He took a shot at me. I took cover and returned fire from that corner.

  Dexter Morgan : No, not from there.

  Sgt. James Doakes : Yeah, from fuckin' right there!

  [Angel and LaGuerta look at Doakes, then at Dexter] 

  Dexter Morgan : Look, if you shot him from there, the blood splatter would go in that direction, but look at the patterns.

  Sgt. James Doakes : [angry]  You questionin' me? 'Cause I got a lot of questions for you!

  Angel Batista : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, the man's just doing what he's supposed to do.

  Sgt. James Doakes : The man is a fuckin' creep job!

  Lt. Maria LaGuerta : [placatingly]  James, just focus on the facts, okay? Now, the D.A.'s Team is ready for you. Are you good?

  Sgt. James Doakes : I'm good.

  Lt. Maria LaGuerta : Yeah. You're up next.

  Dexter Morgan : [amused, to Angel]  Sorry, but I didn't invent physics.

• [Continuing the conversation with Dexter] 

  Dr. Pittman : Who knows what caused it? Stress, inactivity, French fries?

  [as Dexter looks down on the tattoo again, he hears, drowning out the voice of Dr. Pittman, a song begin: It's Creedence Clearwater Revival, singing "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" - and he is flashing back to when he was a small child. And he sees an arm stretched with the same webbed tattoo that he saw on Driscoll's arm. Dexter begins hearing Dr. Pittman again:] 

  Dr. Pittman : ...It's hard to accept so many unanswered questions, but sometimes...

  [Dexter raises his hands to his face] 

  Dexter Morgan : No, you're right. Dr. Pittman. Man. This is really hard. Do you mind if I just take a minute alone? With... Dad?

  Dr. Pittman : [smiles]  I'll be next door in my office.

• [At the morgue, Dexter meets Dr. Pittman. Dexter is not at all impressed by Dr. Pittman's inflated opinion of himself; and Dexter trusts less and less in the doctor's abilities as an observer as the scene goes on] 

  Dr. Pittman : I gave Joe a physical once a year, like clockworks, and no history of heart disease, but it happens.

  Dexter Morgan : Mm-hm, it appears so.

  Dr. Pittman : About to send him to the Crematorium when we found you. We thought his son should have his chance to pay his last respects.

  Dexter Morgan : I'm not his son.

  Dr. Pittman : [taking this in the wrong way]  An estrangement in a family is a shame, but Death is the great unifier.

  [He wheels the corpse out on a gurney. Dexter nods. The doctor pulls the sheet back. Dexter leans down close to look at the corpse's face. Then he goes around to the other side of the body and kneels to examine a tattoo covering the left elbow and much of the arm] 

  Dexter Morgan : Oh. It's an interesting tattoo.

  Dr. Pittman : [affectionately]  Joe said he'd picked that up in Nam. You can be proud he was a patriot!

  Dexter Morgan : Mm, perhaps. He was also an ex-convict.

  Dr. Pittman : Excuse me?

  Dexter Morgan : It's a prison tattoo.

• Dexter Morgan : How did you determine cardiac arrest was the damage to the coronary artery?

  [Dr. Pittman glares at him] 

  Dexter Morgan : Sir, it's out of professional curiosity. I work in Forensics, down in Miami.

  Dr. Pittman : I see. Well, um, I found micro-aneurysims in the retinas. They're common, with seizures, during a heart attack.

  Dexter Morgan : And it's also a sign of diabetic retinopathy.

  Dr. Pittman : [condescendingly]  Son, I may be a small-town doctor, but I know a heart attack when I see one.