Dexter (TV Series)

The Getaway (2009)

Michael C. Hall: Dexter Morgan

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• [last lines] 

  Dexter Morgan : [voice-over]  Born in blood, both of us, Harry was right. I thought I could change what I am, keep my family safe. But it doesn't matter what I do, what I choose. I'm what's wrong. This is fate.

• Dexter Morgan : It's okay. Life doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be lived.

• Arthur Mitchell : [after being captured by Dexter]  Look at you. I never took pride in what I did.

  Dexter Morgan : No, you're a very special kind of monster. You destroyed your own family.

  Arthur Mitchell : I gave them everything!

  Dexter Morgan : No, you took everything. Their future, their dignity, their hope. Christina... even killed herself.

  Arthur Mitchell : [shocked]  No!

  Dexter Morgan : Because of you.

  Arthur Mitchell : S-she was weak!

  Dexter Morgan : I can't believe there was a time when I actually thought I could learn something from you.

  Arthur Mitchell : You think you're better than I am?

  Dexter Morgan : No... but I want to be.

  Arthur Mitchell : You can't control the demon inside of you any more than I can control mine.

  Dexter Morgan : Did you ever actually try?

  Arthur Mitchell : Oh, my God, yes. I prayed to be changed, to be made different.

  Dexter Morgan : That's not trying. That's waiting to be stopped.

  Arthur Mitchell : It worked, didn't it? Case in point.

  Dexter Morgan : So what's the alternative, Arthur? Leave? Disappear? Fake my own death and start over again?

  Arthur Mitchell : No. You'll still be you.

  Dexter Morgan : I have a family, too, Arthur. I'm good for them.

  Arthur Mitchell : [chuckles]  You're like a child.

  Dexter Morgan : A child with a big knife.

  Arthur Mitchell : You dream of a heaven you'll never see.

  Dexter Morgan : I don't believe in heaven.

  Arthur Mitchell : Oh, but you do. This isn't your doing. This is God's plan. I accept that now. You have to do the same.

  Dexter Morgan : I accept nothing. Nothing is inevitable.

  Arthur Mitchell : It's already over.

  [Dexter looks quizzically at him] 

  Arthur Mitchell : It's already over.

• Dexter Morgan : I wonder if Rita is looking at this same moon at this same moment. I like that - connected by light. The dark passenger has been fighting against it, trying to keep me all to himself. But it's my turn now, to get what I want. To embrace my family. And maybe one day not so long from now, I'll be rid of the dark passenger.

• Dexter Morgan : [narrating]  How is it I can kill people and feel no regret, but disappointing Rita makes me feel like the scum of the earth?

• Dexter Morgan : Hello, Arthur Mitchell.

• Arthur Mitchell : God led you to me.

  Dexter Morgan : Hardly...

• [first lines] 

  Dexter Morgan : He knows my name, occupation. He can find out about my family. My family. What the hell have I done?

• Dexter Morgan : [to Dexter]  If you hadn't been in my life, I wouldn't be who I am. You've given me confidence. And support. You've been the one constant - the one constantly good thing in my life.