Harry Morgan: You've had a personal tragedy. Unlike everyone else, you look better than you did twenty years ago and you've got a cool job. Put all that together, and it makes you...
Dexter: Popular.
Harry Morgan: How's it feel?
Dexter: I hate it.
Harry Morgan: C'mon, it's great. Most of the people here would love to be popular.
Dexter: Most people don't have two rolls of duct tape, eighty yards of plastic sheeting and a surgical saw in their trunk.

Harry: He spent his life killing innocent people but he can't kill Bambi?

Harry: What's your plan here? Nurse her back to health so she can go to the police? If she gives the cops enough to track you down then everything falls apart. Harrison grows up visiting you on death row.

Jordan Chase: [during a seminar] We've lost touch with our instincts, with what we are. We have fallen from nature's grace. But WE SHALL BE DELIVERED! [The crowd cheers] It's time to tap into your primal selves and seize the power of instinct. We're gonna cut off those shackles that bind us to jobs we hate, people we don't love, lives that aren't worth living. We are going to [in unison with crowd] TAKE IT!
Dexter: [voiceover] I've never been around so many people that make me feel normal.
Crowd member: [to Jordan Chase] Yeah! [turns to Dexter] YEAH!
Dexter: [voiceover] Really normal.

Jordan Chase: I have some bad news for everyone, you're all going to die.
Dexter: [voiceover as he looks at Cole] Some of us sooner than others.
Jordan Chase: Some of us sooner than others.

Jordan Chase: I was hoping we'd have a chance to speak again.
Dexter: We don't have anything to talk about.
Jordan Chase: Oh I beg to differ, I think we have a lot to discuss. After all, you are a client.
Dexter: Former. Your program didn't work for me.
Jordan Chase: Regardless, when I see someone on a self-destructive path I can't just stay silent. Often people get involved with someone who is toxic to them, unstable and dangerous, bad things happen.
Dexter: Open. [Chase opens his mouth, and Dexter takes a DNA sample]
Jordan Chase: You're just now putting your life back together after a terrible tragedy. I implore you, don't invite another one. For yourself or for what's left of your family.
Dexter: [After an intense silence] You know, I'm glad that you didn't touch any of them.
Jordan Chase: Really? Why is that?
Dexter: Because this DNA test will clear you. Leaving you all to me, and to her. Your time is up.

Jordan: Now you know my secret, you ready to tell me yours?
Dexter: [voiceover] Over your dead body!

LaGuerta: Do you have any back-up?
Doakes: Oh, yeah. All kinds of back-up. Helicopters and shit.

LaGuerta: New car?
Dexter: Yeah.
LaGuerta: You get married?
Dexter: Not that I know of.

LaGuerta: Now, James, you should do whatever you can to get on Lundy's task force. It's a career maker.
Angel: Hey. Just visualise that door of opportunity just opening up wide for you, and just ... walk right through it.
Doakes: Angel, you keep up with this woo-woo shit, I'ma walk right through you.

LaGuerta: What are you saying?
Doakes: I'm saying � asshole special ops. No doubt about it.
Dexter: Huh. They're generally known for settling their arguments peacefully.
Doakes: Don't get smug with me.
LaGuerta: Sounds like we're in your world, James.
Doakes: Yeah, I'll take lead on this one.

Lila: [to Dexter, after a bout of semi-rough sex] I guess we found a way to quiet the voices in your head.

Lila: Are you gonna tell me how you're doing?
Dexter: I'm fine.
Lila: C'mon, Dex. Open up.
Dexter: I'm very fine?

Lila: Do you like the heat?
Dexter: Um, not really. I'm partial to air conditioning.
Lila: Ah, I love it. Makes me feel like the whole world could explode at any moment.
Dexter: That's a pleasant thought.

Lila: I think you should give me another chance.
Dexter: There's nothing you can do to help me. It's not even you. It's me. I am who I am, and nobody's gonna change that.
Lila: Whatever you think you are � you don't have to be that.
Dexter: That's where you're wrong.
Lila: Stop judging yourself! There are no absolutes. No one's all good, or evil.
Dexter: You're just gonna have to trust me on this.
Lila: Jesus, Dexter, what are you so fucking scared of!? You make yourself into a monster so you no longer bear responsibility for what you do! "Ah, I can't help it, I'm a monster," or, "Of course I was gonna do that � I'm a monster." It's sad! And it's pathetic! And it breaks my heart.
Dexter: You don't think there are monsters in this world? You don't believe that people are evil?
[Lila shakes her head]
Dexter: I'll show you evil.