- 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.
- Jurg Yeliashkevych: [Giving Hannah a TV remote] Find something for us to watch. And none of the American reality shit.
- 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.
- Jurg Yeliashkevych: It would be a shame to have to kill you after such a lovely meal.
- Hannah McKay: Well, let's hope that doesn't have to happen. In case you want some more...
- Jurg Yeliashkevych: [starts gagging] Water!
- Hannah McKay: I'm sorry, Grams always went heavy on the pepper.
- [reaches for a water carafe and smashes it over his head]
- 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.