Charlotte Rampling credited as playing...
Dr. Evelyn Vogel
- [last lines]
- [Dexter sits on Maria LaGuerta's Memorial Bench. Across, a kite is stuck in the bushes. A large ball, discarded food trays and disposable plates, a beer bottle, a hat, some newspapers, a Coke can atop a small sand castle, a plastic milk crate. Dr. Vogel approaches]
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Dexter?
- Dexter Morgan: This isn't a good time.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: [softly] I was hoping to share something with you.
- Dexter Morgan: [sighs] I told you, I'm not in the mood for this.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Well, then maybe I can just leave this with you.
- [Dr. Vogel hands Dexter a manilla envelope and walks away. Dexter opens it and finds, inside, childlike crayon drawings of a family with a boy standing apart from the rest in darkness; a boy with bloody hands, knife, and animal; a body with cut and torn clothes and flesh with a knife in the chest; a name in the corner of one written in red: "Dexter". Dexter chases after Vogel and shoves her against a steel door facing him]
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Dexter, please.
- Dexter Morgan: What is it you want?
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Please, let go.
- [Dexter pushes her back against the door]
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: You can't kill me.
- Dexter Morgan: Why?
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Because I don't fit Harry's Code.
- [Dr. Vogel walks away, leaving a stunned Dexter behind]
- Dexter Morgan: The victim led a quiet life. No enemies.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Serial killers don't have enemies. Everyone's a potential victim.
- Dexter Morgan: Well, if you need anything else, just pick up the phone. Anybody at the lab can help you.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: I was interested to have your take on this case.
- Dexter Morgan: Me? Why? I'm the blood guy.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: "The blood guy." How did you end up here?
- Dexter Morgan: My dad was a cop. He kinda steered me away from that. This seemed like a better fit.
- [Dexter steals a glance at the autopsy instruments]
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: I was drawn to forensics, too, but chose to focus on neuroscience. Psychopaths. We both chose murder. Maybe we're both a little crazy.
- Dexter Morgan: Maybe.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Mad scientists, trained to look at this as a biological mass, a body part. Yet, somehow, from all those firings of neurons, something... intangible emerges. Emotions. Trust, morality, love. Unless you're a psychopath. But even then, belief systems emerge... as with the... Bay Harbor Butcher. What was he like?
- Dexter Morgan: [exhales] Who?
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: The Bay Harbor Butcher. James Doakes. I- if I'm not mistaken, he worked with you here in Miami Metro.
- Dexter Morgan: He was angry. Had a short fuse.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Well, that doesn't sound right to me. As a psychopath, he would be disassociated with his feelings, not quick to anger.
- Dexter Morgan: Maybe he wasn't a psychopath.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Oh, yes, the Bay Harbor Butcher was definitely a psychopath. He'd have to be to masquerade the way he did. But he was an odd one, that's for sure.
- Dexter Morgan: You're the expert.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Just the way he picked his victims - persons who, on the whole, had some sort of criminal background - speaks to a... strong belief system, almost as if he operated with some sort of... moral guidelines.
- Dexter Morgan: "Guidelines".
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Yeah, clearly it wasn't a moral choice, as psychopaths have no conscience. So, why else would he kill that way?
- Dexter Morgan: So he could...
- [exhales]
- Dexter Morgan: get away with it as long as he did? People are less likely to miss criminals when they disappear. Doakes was Special Ops; maybe he picked it up from there.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: Maybe he did. Makes an interesting case study. I wish I could have interviewed him.
- Dexter Morgan: Sorry.
- Dr. Evelyn Vogel: I look forward to working with you, Dexter Morgan.