Dexter: [voiceover] Today I wake up, kiss the wife-to-be, feed the step-kids-to-be, dress myself in the usual pants, shirt ... and pretense.

Dexter: [voiceover] Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again and again. It has to happen.

Dexter: [voiceover] We all have secrets. In that way, I'm just like everyone else � sorta.

Dexter: [voiceover] We all have something to hide, some dark place inside us we don't want the world to see. So we pretend that everything's okay, wrapping ourselves in rainbows. That's all for the best, because some of these places are darker than others.

Dexter: [voiceover] We all have the public life, the private life...
Harry: ...And the secret life. The one that defines you.

Dexter: [voiceover] We all want life to have some kind of meaning. Seems the older we get, the harder we look for it. And the harder it is to find. And some of us just look in the wrong place. But if our lives don't have meaning, what can we leave behind for those we care about?

Dexter: [voiceover] When the Feds receive these kill tools with their suspect's prints on them, the only threat to me will be the inane rants of a murderous madman. So close I can feel it. This tragic tale might still end in Doakes' demise, but not by my hands. Harry's legacy will remain intact.

Dexter: A father, a son, a serial killer.
(Debra see Dexter kill Travis)

Dexter: Anything I can do to overburden Masuka is to my advantage. Trust me, I'm not above sending pizzas and hooker to his house in the middle of the night.

Dexter: Are you hoping they'll talk to you?
Lundy: The one's with heads anyway. They always speak, eventually. Just gotta ask the right question.
Dexter: Which is?
Lundy: Why were they chosen?
Dexter: You looking for a pattern?
Lundy: One doesn't kill this many people in this careful, methodical way without a reason. Some ... twisted set of principles.
Dexter: They would have to be twisted, wouldn't they?
Lundy: The worst killers in history are usually the one's who think the murders were somehow ... just. Even deserved. Leaders have slaughtered whole populations for the same warped reason.
Dexter: But there's never any justification for killing.
Lundy: No. Well, one, of course. To save an innocent life.
Dexter: To save an innocent life.

Dexter: Are you okay?
Lumen: [Panting, but certain] Yes.

Dexter: Astor showed up drunk on my doorstep with a friend.
Masuka: How old's the friend? [long pause] Just kidding.

Dexter: Come on, don't get the shakes now. This is no time for performance anxiety.

Dexter: Cops, another community I'm not part of.

Dexter: Deb, Doakes is a lot of things, but he's not an idiot. He won't come out of the shadows because of a grudge.
Debra: Right. 'Cause serial killers are so practical.
Dexter: Actually, they are.