Dexter Page #3

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
10,875 Views


DEXTER:

Soon, you'll be packed into a few

neatly wrapped Hefties and my own

small corner of the world will be a

neater, happier place. A better place.

Dexter lifts a very sharp scalpel and an eye dropper off the

table, leans over Donovan and with the scalpel makes a small

precise little incision on the man's forehead.

Blood trickles out and using the eyedropper, Dexter very

carefully, sucks a few blood droplets up and into the small

tube of glass.

DEXTER (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Blood. Sometimes it sets my teeth on

edge.

When he sees the blood, Dexter clearly gets excited -

But after a beat, he controls himself, then very carefully

squeezes the rubber top of the eye dropper over a glass slide

and a few tear drops of blood gently spatter onto the slide,

then he presses a second piece of glass over it, seals the

two slides together --

FREEZE ON THE BLOOD SLIDE

DEXTER (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Other times, it helps me control the

chaos.

BACK TO SCENE:

Dexter slips the glass slide into his shirt pocket, smiles,

then grabs a small surgical saw off the table -- we HEAR the

whirl of its motor running and as Dexter slowly brings the

saw down toward Donovan's crotch --

We fade to -

8.

BLACK.

FADE BACK UP ON:

EXT. BOSTON WHALER - CANALS - MIAMI, FL - 4:30AM

Dexter stands behind the wheel of his little whaler, put-putputtering

past the early morning fishing boats -- a huge

smile on his face.

Dexter eyes a leather-skinned FISHERMEN standing on his

commercial fishing boat -- waves to him.

DEXTER:

Ahoy -- Ahoy there, Captain. Any big

Marlin out there today?

The fisherman smiles, waves back and Dexter smiles wide as he

navigates his boat out of the bay.

DEXTER (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Whatever made me the way I am left me

hollow, empty inside. People fake a

lot of human interactions -- but I

fake it all and I fake it very well.

A couple of speed boats cross dangerously in front of him.

DEXTER (V.O.) (CONT'D)

And that's my plight -- I care about

people as much as I care about lawn

furniture but I can't blame my foster

parents for that. Harry and Doris

Morgan did a wonderful job raising me.

But they're both dead now.

(beat)

I didn't kill them.

(beat)

Honest.

And just then a testosterone injected CIGARETTE BOAT cuts

across his bow causing a large wave to SPLASH over Dexter's

deck and we -

FLASHBACK TO:

EXT. CAMPGROUNDS - CENTRAL FL - LATE AFTERNOON

It's a beautiful, warm Sunday afternoon in the bucolic woods,

overlooking a small, lazy river.

9.

HARRY (50's), Dexter's foster father -- a diamond in the

rough, tough exterior, but soft at heart -- pulls a flask out

of his pants pocket, slowly unscrews the top, downs a slug of

booze, then slips the flask back into his pants.

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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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