- [last lines]
- Rita Bennett: Shit.
- Dexter Morgan: What?
- Rita Bennett: I've done this before.
- Dexter Morgan: What do you mean?
- Rita Bennett: I'm pregnant...
- Dexter Morgan: [answers phone] Dexter Morgan
- [pause]
- Dexter Morgan: Yes I'm happy with my long distance provider
- [first lines]
- Dexter Morgan: [narrating] Ah, life. Life is ritual, routine, control. And an essential part of that routine,
- [approaching hypodermic needle]
- Dexter Morgan: regular oral hygiene.
- [opens wide for the dentist]
- Dexter Morgan: [narrating] My sister still lives her life trying to please our father. Me? I'm following the lead of an 8-year-old kid. I'm moving on.
- Miguel Prado: Do you have a brother?
- Dexter Morgan: [long pause as cell phone buzzes] Just the one loud sister.
- Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] Most normal people enjoy a sacred pact with society. Live a good life and society will take care of you. But if society drops the ball then someone else has to pick up the slack. That's where I come in.
- Miguel Prado: You have a brother Dexter?
- Dexter Morgan: [cell phone buzzes] Just the one loud sister.
- Miguel Prado: What she said back at the station, it's okay. I know my brother was a good man. But I can't say he suffered from the tragedy of perfection.
- Dexter Morgan: Who does?
- Miguel Prado: Who indeed?
- Dexter Morgan: [thinking] You attack me with a knife in a dope dealer's house. No Oscar, you certainly did not suffer from "the tragedy of perfection".