- Viktor Baskov: Is there anything I can say to keep you from killing me?
- Dexter Morgan: No.
- Viktor Baskov: Then get it over with!
- Dexter Morgan: Normally I don't take orders. But in this case...
- [bludgeons him with a fire extinguisher]
- [last lines]
- Lt. Debra Morgan: [having searched his apartment] Did you kill all these people?
- Dexter Morgan: [long pause] I did.
- Lt. Debra Morgan: Are... are you a serial killer?
- Dexter Morgan: [in a whisper] Yes.
- [first lines]
- Dexter Morgan: [narrating] It's simple human nature to keep little secrets about ourselves. We all do it. I dye my hair. I watch Internet pornography. But what if your whole life is a secret. A lie.