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Dexter, season 1
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Dexter [1.01]
[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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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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[voiceover, about the doll parts in his freezer] I suppose I should be upset, even feel violated, but I'm not. No, in fact, I think this is a friendly message, kinda like "Hey, wanna play?" And yes, I want to play. I…
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Debra: Watching ice melt. This is fun.
Vince: Stand a little closer, Morgan, and I'll melt your heart.
Angel: I think he's got a crush on you, Dex.
Dexter: Huh?…
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Dexter: [voiceover] Most people have a hard time dealing with death, but I'm not most people. It's the grief that makes me uncomfortable. Not because I'm a killer. Really, I just don't understand all that emotion, which…
Read the full quoteLet's Give the Boy a Hand [1.04]
[voiceover] I find people around me are all making some kind of connection, like friendship or romance, but human bonds always lead to messy complications. Commitment. Sharing. Driving people to the airport.
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Dexter: [voiceover] 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.
Doakes: Stop…
Read the full quoteReturn to Sender [1.06]
Harry Morgan: Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.
Angel: Sounds like she got exactly what she had coming to her. Personally I'd…
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Dexter: [voiceover] The FBI estimates that there are less that 50 serial killers active in the United States today. We don't get together at conventions, share trade secrets, or exchange Christmas cards... but sometimes…
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Dexter: [at a crime scene] What are we looking at here?
Angel: I'm thinking two circus clowns dancing. You?
Dexter: Nah, looks like a lobster. See the claws?
Angel: Why do bloodstains always look like crustaceans to you?…
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Dexter: [voiceover] I know the truth, because Harry always told me the truth. He had to. He was teaching me principles. A code. He knew what I would become without it.
Vince: Masuka.
Dexter: Hey, it's Dexter Morgan.…
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Debra: [eating cake] Hey, you want some? It's Kirk Wylocks' cake.
Doakes: I had some, at Kirk's birthday. 10 days ago. See, you have lunch every day with your boyfriend, you miss a thing or two around here.
Debra: Cake's…
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Dexter: [voiceover] I've never had much use for the concept of Hell, but if Hell exists, I'm in it. The same images running through my head over and over. I was there. I saw my mother's death. A buried memory forgotten…
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[voiceover] I've lived in darkness a long time. Over the years my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.
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Doakes: Surprise, motherfucker!
Dexter: Are you following me now?
Doakes: You better have a hell of a reason for being here.
Dexter: I'm looking for my sister.…
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[voiceover] Sometimes I wonder what it would be like for everything inside me that's denied and unknown to be revealed. But I'll never know. I live my life in hiding. My survival depends on it.
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[voiceover] Doakes always sensed something was wrong with me, but now he knows. My devil danced with his demon, and the fiddler's tune is far from over.
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