Dexter2006

[first lines]

[acoustic guitar plays What a Wonderful World]

[All action is in slow motion. Harrison throws a kite up into a cloudy sky, rainbow arcing behind a lighthouse. He runs, laughing, to Dexter, holding the line]

Dexter Morgan:
[all in V.O] There's nothing like a crisis to define who you are.

[fade to Dexter hitting a splatter-skull with a baseball bat in the lab]

Dexter Morgan:
A better person would feel bad about LaGuerta's death. But the truth is, it solved all my problems.

[Masuka gives Dexter's splatter pattern a thumbs-up through the observation glass. Fade to Dexter dismembering a victim on his table]

Dexter Morgan:
It's gotten me back on track.

[fade to Harrison playing soccer, people cheering and clapping]

Dexter Morgan:
In the six months since, I've coached Harrison's soccer team to a championship...

[Dexter, in his bowling jersey, grabs his ball-bag and heads out of the apartment]

Dexter Morgan:
gotten the bowling team back together...

[a woman takes her top off in Dexter's bed]

Dexter Morgan:
made some new friends.

[Dexter watches the last bloom fall off the plant by his bed]

Dexter Morgan:
I'm a survivor.