Dexter (TV Series)

A Beautiful Day (2013)

Charlotte Rampling: Dr. Evelyn Vogel

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• [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.