Dexter Page #2

Season #1 Episode #1
Synopsis: Dexter Morgan, Miami Metro Police Department blood spatter analyst, has a double life. When he's not helping the Homicide division solving murders, he spends his time hunting and killing bad guys that slip through the justice system. He spends his sun-drenched days solving crimes - and moonlit nights committing them. But not to worry, our cool-blooded Dexter doesn't kill just anyone. He reserves his homicidal hobbies to taking only the lives of other killers.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Michael Cuesta
  Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 49 wins & 191 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.7
TV-MA
Year:
2006
53 min
10,866 Views


DEXTER:

It's horrible, isn't it? Isn't it?

But Donovan SLAMS his eyes shut even tighter.

DONOVAN:

(pleading)

Please.

Dexter GRABS the back of Donovan's neck, SPINS him around,

SLAMS his face into a wall, then grabs his hair and pulls

Donovan's head back.

DEXTER:

OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT WHAT YOU

DID -- LOOK OR I'LL CUT YOUR EYELIDS

RIGHT OFF OF YOUR FACE.

Donovan's eyes pop open wide, and we finally SEE --

THREE SMALL BODIES

Three little dead BOYS laid out on plastic sheets and spread

out in a semi-circle before them.

DEXTER (CONT'D)

It took me a long time to get all

these little boys clean -- one of them

had been in the ground so long he was

falling apart -- Pulled him out in

bits and pieces.

DONOVAN:

NO.

And then in a deeply heartfelt voice Donovan starts mumbling

in a mantra-like way -

DONOVAN (CONT'D)

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord...

DEXTER:

(furious)

STOP! That never helped anyone.

DONOVAN:

Please.

DEXTER:

It's time for the truth.

6.

DONOVAN:

(pleading again)

Please...You can have anything -

DEXTER:

That's good. Beg. Did these little

boys beg?

Donovan SCREAMS and Dexter lets go. Donovan falls forward and

lands on his face sobbing, sniveling.

DONOVAN:

I couldn't help myself, I just

couldn't...Please, you have to

understand.

Dexter looks down at him --

DEXTER:

Trust me, I definitely understand.

Then Dexter grabs him, lifts him up, stares into his eyes.

DEXTER (CONT'D)

See, I can't help myself either.

(w/disgust)

But children. I could never do that.

Not like you. Never, ever kids.

DONOVAN:

(rhetorical, plaintive)

Why?

DEXTER:

I have standards.

And then in a flash, Dexter pulls a syringe out of his

pocket, PLUNGES the needle deep into Donovan's neck. His eyes

instantly roll up and into the back of his head and when we

see nothing but white, he collapses onto the floor.

Dexter leans down, picks him up by his collar, drags him up

the stairs.

CUT TO:

INT. SECOND FLOOR, OLD HOUSE - OUTSKIRTS MIAMI, FL - LATER

Flood lamps illuminate the clean, white, freshly painted

room.

The windows are sealed with thick plastic sheets and on the

table in the middle of the room -

7.

Donovan lies naked, but his arms and legs are strapped down

with duct tape. His eyes wide open and his mouth is stuffed

with thick wads of white gauze.

Placed strategically around the room are boxes lined with

white garbage bags and on a smaller table next to the Choir

Master are bottles of chemicals, small saws, drills, scalpels

and knives of every shape and size. It's an unseemly display

of gleaming metallic, sterile utensils.

Dexter, now wearing a clean set of pressed surgical blues and

a pair of surgical gloves, looks down at Donovan.

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James Manos, Jr.

James Manos, Jr. is an American film and television writer and producer. Manos worked as a co-producer and writer on the first season of The Sopranos. more…

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