Dexter (TV Series)

Helter Skelter (2012)

Michael C. Hall: Dexter Morgan

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Quotes 

• Isaak Sirko : How is it you can be absolutely fearless in the face of death, and yet so afraid to live?

  Dexter Morgan : I'm not... afraid.

  Isaak Sirko : Then what is it?

  Dexter Morgan : Death has always calmed me. It's soothing. Predictable. Inevitable. With a knife in my hand, I feel it's mine to control.

  Isaak Sirko : It gives you intimacy.

  Dexter Morgan : Yes, but...

  Isaak Sirko : It never lasts. It's over, then you - move on.

• Isaak Sirko : Most men kill for money, some for the sheer brutality, others like me, revenge. But you, Dexter, with everything I've put you through, I get the sense you could walk away without the need to kill me.

  Dexter Morgan : My needs are different.

  Isaak Sirko : Why do you do it? Why are you a killer?

  Dexter Morgan : If anything happens to Hannah, you'll find out.

• Dexter Morgan : [to Dexter]  I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, feeling the sun, and listening to the waves, and for a second, everything was just like it used to be. Steaks and beer, and bad movies on the couch. And then I blinked. And now it's burritos and hired killers and favors, and fucking Xanax to get me to tomorrow morning, so I can have that half-second of peace.

• [first lines] 

  Dexter Morgan : [narrating]  There are no two stronger human emotions than fear and love. In many ways, they're not so different. Both can make you do crazy things - tell your own brother you're in love with him, put your own life at risk to hunt down the man who took away your beloved.

  Hannah McKay : [white knuckled at back of boat]  Could you maybe not do that turny thing?

  Dexter Morgan : How you doing back there?

  Hannah McKay : Oh, you know, I'm fine.

  Dexter Morgan : [narrating]  Or do something that scares you to death because you may be in love.

  Hannah McKay : Oooh! I didn't think it was gonna be this choppy.

• [last lines] 

  Hannah McKay : [in hospital bed]  God, you're shaking.

  Dexter Morgan : When you asked me on my boat if I'd ever been scared like that, I have. Twice. When I was three, seeing my mother murdered. And when I realized these past few days that I might never see you again.

  Hannah McKay : Well, that wasn't so hard, was it?

  Dexter Morgan : [sighing]  I don't know. I'm not sure what this is, exactly. Or what's coming. Maybe that's how it's supposed to be, out of my control. All I know is that when I'm with you, I feel safe.