Dexter, season 1

[voiceover] Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again and again. Has to happen. Nice night. Miami is a great town. I love the Cuban food -- pork sandwiches are my favorite. But I'm hungry for something different now.

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Mike Donovan: I couldn't help myself. I couldn't, I... Please, you have to understand! Dexter: Trust me, I definitely understand. See, I can't help myself either. But children? I could never do that. Not like you. Never. Ever. Kids. Mike Donovan: Why? Dexter: I have standards.

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[voiceover] My name is Dexter. Dexter Morgan. I don't know what made me the way I am, but whatever it was left a hollow place inside. People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all and I fake them very well. And that's my burden, I guess. But I don't blame my foster parents for that, Harry and Doris Morgan did a wonderful job raising me. But they're both dead now. I didn't kill them. Honest.

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[voiceover] Harry was a great cop here in Miami. He taught me how to think like one; taught me how to cover my tracks. I'm a very neat monster.

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[voiceover] There's something strange and disarming about looking at a homicide scene in the daylight of Miami. It makes the most grotesque killings look staged, like you're in a new and daring section of Disney World: Dahmerland!

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[voiceover] Animals don't like me, especially dogs. I don't think they approve of what I sometimes do to their masters.

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