Dexter Page #6

UNIFORMED COP:

So we're looking for a Sushi chef?

FREEZE ON THE COP

DEXTER (V.O.)

Oh God...No wonder Miami suffers a

pitiful twenty percent solve rate.

BACK TO SCENE:

Dexter stares at the Cop, then very tongue in cheek.

DEXTER (CONT'D)

Yeah...Sushi chef is possible...

Wouldn't be my first choice -- but

hey, you never know.

Dexter walks around the room, picks up his camera, focuses on

the cats cradle. Flash, flash...

UNIFORMED COP:

Now what?

Dexter looks at the Cop -

DEXTER:

Now I eat.

CUT TO:

EXT/INT. DEXTER'S CIVIC - STREETS - MIAMI, FL - LATER

Dexter drives down a squalid residential street, surrounded

by low income housing, barbecue joints and crumbling Catholic

Churches. Gang-looking KIDS hang out in front of bodegas,

drinking, smoking -- their boom boxes blasting.

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Eating a juicy Cuban pork sandwich, Dexter pulls into a

parking spot, then puts the sandwich down.

DEXTER (V.O.)

The problem with eating and driving,

which I love to do, is not being able

to employ the ten-two hand position on

the wheel. It's a matter of public

safety.

He picks up the new ÒJAWORSKIÓ file Camillia gave him.

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

But there's always a sacrifice.

Dexter scans a few pages of the Jaworski file.

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

Looks like Jaworski's been busy...

He turns his head, looks across the street and focuses on a

small shitty looking house with a rusty chain link fence

blocking the side alley running along the house.

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

...recently picked up for a peeping

tom episode and flashed a poor soccer

mom.

(beat)

Time to take a little tour.

CUT TO:

INT. JAWORSKI'S HOUSE - MIAMI, FL - DAY

And as soon as Dexter steps inside the front door, we HEAR

the loud, vicious BARKS of massive DOG and Dexter FREEZES.

He then SEES that massive mangy dog, out in the backyard,

BANGING against the glass sliding door trying to get inside

the house.

DEXTER (V.O.)

Animals don't like me. Especially

dogs.

And that monster dog spins around, bangs into the glass door

again -- desperately wanting to take a bite out of Dexter.

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

I don't think they approve of what I

sometimes do to their masters.

(MORE)

30.

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

And that dog recognizes me, as easily

as I can recognize Jaworski...or any

other killer.

Dexter calms down, looks around the house. It's small and

messy, but above all, sordid. There's a paper towel holder

next to the unmade bed. In the middle of the room is a desk

with a computer on it and an expensive looking digital video

camera. Dexter picks it up, eyes it curiously.

He then notices a stack of S&M porn magazines -- picks one up

-- flips through it, stops on the classifieds, reads a few.

Some have been highlighted.

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

Interesting taste in literature. His

needs are evolving -- turning violent.

He's on the fast track.

And as Dexter walks out of the house, closing the door behind

him, we HEAR -

HARRY (O.S.)

It's okay, son, go on.

Then we slowly -

FLASHBACK TO:

EXT. CAMPGROUNDS - CENTRAL FL - LATE AFTERNOON

Harry still has his arm draped over little Dexter's shoulders

-- looks down at his son.

YOUNG DEXTER:

Well...I kinda, you know feel

something, like inside, watching me...

HARRY:

Do you hear voices?

YOUNG DEXTER:

No...it's not really a voice -- it's

something...something different.

And little Dexter looks away.

HARRY:

And this something, it makes you --

kill things?

After a beat, Dexter looks back at his father.

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YOUNG DEXTER:

No, well...it doesn't really make me.

It just makes it seem like a really

good idea.

HARRY:

Have you ever wanted to kill something

else? You know, something bigger than

a dog?

YOUNG DEXTER:

(softly)

Yes.

HARRY:

Like a person?

YOUNG DEXTER:

Yeah, but nobody in particular...

HARRY:

Why didn't you?

Dexter and Harry lock eyes for a beat, then -

YOUNG DEXTER:

I thought you wouldn't like it. You

and mom.

HARRY:

That's why you didn't?

YOUNG DEXTER:

(fumbling)

I, uh...I didn't want you mad at me --

you know, angry or disappointed.

(beat)

Are you, Pop?

And as Harry locks eyes with little Dexter, we -

CUT TO:

EXT. OCEAN AVE - SOUTH BEACH - MIAMI, FL - EVENING

Dexter, looking showered and fresh and wearing another

snappy, new bowling shirt, carries a paper bag filled with

goodies, walks through the extraordinary parade of gorgeous

MEN and WOMEN. Rumba music BLASTING through restaurant

speakers follows him as he goes.

32.

DEXTER (V.O.)

Friday night. Date night in Miami.

Every night is date night in Miami,

and everyone's having sex, but breathe

easy, Dex -- It's okay because for me,

sex never enters into it.

Dexter walks past a good looking COUPLE sitting at a table at

an outdoor cafe, stops -- does a double take...

And sure enough the GUY is sipping a Mojito, while the pretty

young GIRL, smoking a cigarette with one hand, slowly and

casually massages the guy's crotch with the other.

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

I don't understand sex. It's not in my

nature. I don't have anything against

women, and I certainly have an

appropriate sensibility about men, but

when it comes to the actual act of

sex, it just seems so undignified.

More sexy, young hip WOMEN wearing micro short, tight dresses

saunter up and down the boulevard.

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

But I have to play the game and after

years of trying to look normal, I have

finally...

Dexter turns off the boulevard and heads down -

A RESIDENTIAL STREET

DEXTER (V.O.)

...finally met the perfect date...

EXT. FRONT DOOR OF THE HOUSE - MIAMI, FL - SAME

He RINGS the bell. Ding-dong.

DEXTER (V.O.)

...and that's because she is...in her

own way...as damaged as me. Been

seeing her for about a year now --

just after her ex-husband...

And just then the door SWINGS open, Dexter smiles wide.

INT. MODEST HOUSE - MIAMI, FL - SAME

The door closes, Dexter faces the blushing -

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RITA (30's), sweet and delicate but vulnerable and amazingly

attractive in that breezy, skimpy sun dress she's wearing.

RITA:

Be ready in a sec -- just have to talk

to the sitter.

DEXTER:

Oki-doke.

As she smiles -

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

Deb introduced us.

FLASHBACK TO:

INT. SMALL CUBAN RESTAURANT - MIAMI, FL - DAY

Dexter and Deb (now dressed as a uniformed cop) sit in a

booth eating plates of crackling chicken.

DEBRA:

Met a girl last week, Dex...

(chews)

This is the fucken best.

(and then --)

You need a good woman. Met her on a

domestic dispute call.

FLASH TO:

INT. RITA'S HOUSE - MIAMI, FL - DAY

And we see RITA'S EX-HUSBAND flipping the dining room table

over, grabbing a chair then smashing it over Rita's head --

Her two little CHILDREN cower in the corner, and as the ex-

husband continues to pummel Rita -

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