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D E X T E REpisode 112"Born Free"(formerly "Black Heart Optional")Written ByDaniel Cerone and Melissa RosenbergDirected By Michael

DEXTERAmbien.LaGuerta looks around the messy apartment.LAGUERTAWhat happened here, Dexter?DEXTERI was looking for the remote.DOAKESWhere’s your sister

LAGUERTAWhose was it?DEXTER(shit)Rudy’s.Hearing that, Doakes angrily takes a step toward Dexter --DOAKESMother ---- but LaGuerta immediately stops him

Doakes angrily exits. LaGuerta puts a hand on Dexter.LAGUERTACall us if you hear anything.Dexter walks her to the front door. HOLD on Dexter, who wa

RITAApparently not.PAULI was clean! Swear on my kids’ lives. And it's been driving me crazy, how I got from your house one minute, to my motel

LAGUERTA She was last seen sixteen hours ago driving to meet him at the Miami Beach Marina. We need to canvass the entire area, check boat rentals, y

LAGUERTAMaria LaGuerta. We have an officer missing, so we need to move fast --LT. PASCALI thought Sgt. Doakes was running the investigation. LAGUERT

EXT. OUTSIDE THE SHIPPING YARDS - DAY 2 (MORNING)11 11OVERHEAD SHOT - cargo cranes loom like abandoned Star Wars props, overlooking acres of metal car

ASTORIs he almost here?CODYI want chocolate chip pancakes!She shushes them and they run off.RITAOkay, well... I guess I’ll take them. This is so unli

DEXTER (V.O.) I don’t like this place. Something nameless was born here. Something that lives in the darkest hidey-holeof the thing called Dexter.

-- and pulls it open. What he sees shocks him.DEXTER’S POV - INSIDE THE CONTAINERIt's stacked to the ceiling with BANANAS. BACK ON DEXTERHis fa

DEXTER“Born Free”BLACKNESS. 1 1Slowly the blackness FADES. Something undulates beneath us. Rippling black oil. Shimmering lights. We don’t know w

There’s no lieutenant here to save your ass. It’s just you and me, Morgan. So don’t fuck with me.DEXTEROkay, you got me. I ordered furniture from T

After a beat, muffled SHOUTING interrupts the lovely music, then escalates to SCREAMING, all but drowning out Bach. With a frown, Rudy calmly pulls t

DEXTER (V.O.)His happy place. Where he kills more than time. This is where he’d leave me a clue.Across the room, a forensics guy wearing an Eskimo p

MASUKACheck this out. It’s where he plays with his meat.Masuka pushes a button to TILT UP the table.MASUKAI can think of a hundred and one uses for t

RITACan I help you?BOB HICKSGuess Paul never mentioned me. I’m his Narcotics Anonymous sponsor.Rita flushes with anger. Rises.RITAHaving your sponsor

Rita just shakes her head, disgusted. Starts for the front door. Bob follows.BOB HICKS Look, if Paul was attacked -- the way it happened? That take

DEXTERDid he leave anything that might help us find him? A personal signature? A psychological marker? A handwritten note with his GPS coordinates?

DEXTEROther than the obvious? Lots of trace blood stains. That’s probably where he killed them all, but I’d like to check the rest of the apartment

TECHThink the Barbie means something?DEXTERClearly. He wasn’t breast fed.TECH(deadpan)That’s funny.Dexter hands the Barbie back to the Tech, trying t

DEXTER (V.O.)Laura Moser. Addict. Dealer. Mom.He scrolls down.DEXTER (V.O.)Arrested in ‘69, again in ‘71. Same address listed both times.(as he wr

How she came to be here. Tears of humiliation, shame and, of course, terror spring to her eyes. Struggling against her bonds, she looks around for a

DEXTERYes, actually. Very serious. But I just -- can’t worry about you, too, right now. She sees the panic in his eyes. As Dexter turns to go --RIT

LT. PASCALThe suspect was operating under the alias “Rudy Cooper.” His fingerprints aren’t in our criminal data base, so we still don’t know his real

EXT. BUNGALOW - DAY 225 25Dexter pulls his car to a stop in front of a classic 1930sFlorida bungalow, two bedrooms, simple but nostalgic. No other ve

LITTLE BRIAN, a beautiful 5-year-old, stands up behind the bush.LITTLE BRIANYou’re not supposed to tell her!Little Brian chases Little Dexter, who let

RESUME Dexter, realizing --DEXTERYou were there, too.BRIANTwo days sitting in blood before they found us. You were young enough to block it out. I w

-- and charges into the master bedroom. STAY with Brian in the hallway.BRIANDexter, this really isn’t how I envisioned our family reunion.A beat late

Before Dexter can react, Brian steps up behind him and plunges a SYRINGE into his neck. The boys, along with everything else in the room, VANISH. Th

LT. PASCAL (O.C.)Listen up!Lt. Pascal enters the busy bullpen. Everyone gives her their attention.LT. PASCAL We’ve triangulated Officer Morgan's

BATISTAI’m tired of that place.(re: Pascal)You tired too or you just lose your nerve?LAGUERTA Not a chance. (to a COP)Get this man back to the hospita

LT. PASCALBut he hired me with the directive not to make your life easy. LaGuerta shakes her head, knows what this means.LAGUERTASo you’re going to i

She sees a shred of humanity in him, recognizes the man she fell in love with. Clings to it.DEBRAYou don’t have to do this. I know part of you doesn

DEXTERI’m really more an apartment person.BRIAN(smiles)You’re trapped in a lie, little brother. The same lie they tried forcing me into.DEXTERThey?BR

DEXTER(also with emotion)I don’t have to imagine.Brian looks at his brother. It’s a shared moment, honest, real. Brian nods. Then he picks up the k

EXT. BUNGALOW - NIGHT 233 33Dexter follows Brian, still carrying the knife, around the back of the house to the DETACHED GARAGE. Brian produces a set

DEXTERThat’s not why I kill.BRIANOf course not. You kill because you have a craving. A need. But Harry had to rationalize your need -- make it nice

He means it. And it’s shocking even to Dexter. Brian takes Dexter’s trembling hands and presses the knife into them.BRIANThe first step starts now.

Dexter yells to draw attention to their location --DEXTERIn the garage!FOOTSTEPS and MUFFLED SHOUTS approach. Shooting Dexter a loaded look, Brian ra

DOAKESMotherfuck!As the sound of a HELICOPTER rises --EXT. BUNGALOW - NIGHT 236 36Overhead, a HELICOPTER passes by, its SEARCHLIGHT probing the woods.

DEBRA (O.C.)You’re going to what?They turn to see Debra, swimming in her large jacket, clutching it around her shoulders, standing behind them.DOAKESM

DEXTERYep. DEBRAAnd he didn’t get what he wanted. DEXTERNope.DEBRAThink he’ll try again?DEXTERMaybe. I'll talk to Captain Matthews about puttin

DEXTERI know.DEBRAThank you... thank God for you...(then)Dad would’ve been so proud... Off Dexter, wondering if that’s true --EXT. RITA'S HOUSE

RUDY(grins excitedly)All part of the plan. Hard to believe it’s about to come to fruition. Lottayears on this one. Only hours away now. DEBRA What

She wasn’t expecting that. Takes a deep breath.RITAWhy are you doing this? So I’ll be alone and miserable like you? Is that what you want?PAULAll I

DEXTER (V.O.)What did I just do? I drove away a brother who accepts me... sees me. For an adopted sister who’d reject me if she knew, and a foster f

DEXTERDon’t worry, the sheets are clean. We aim to please at Chez Dex. I’ll be sleeping on the couch with a spring poking in my side, just to make s

INT. DEXTER’S APARTMENT - BEDROOM - NIGHT 2 (CONTINUOUS)49 49Brian sees Debra still asleep, her naked leg and arm still protruding from under the shee

DEXTERSorry. The police recorded all your knives as evidence. It took a while to find your dinner flatware.BRIANGold-plated. I keep it for special

You’ll never be what you’re pretending to -- Dexter abruptly SLICES HIS THROAT along the garrotte line. Brian, shocked by the suddenness, gasps for b

MASUKAI don’t care why he did it, I’m just glad he did. Guy was a dick.LAGUERTAIt’s been a long haul.MASUKAAnd a lot of blood. I’ll call in Dexter.I

I could use a little time with you. And the kids.RITAWe could use that, too.Dexter knows he hasn’t been the greatest boyfriend lately.DEXTERI’m sorry

My devil danced with his demon, and the fiddler’s tune is far from over.Dexter starts the car and drives OUT OF FRAME.OMITTEDA56 A56EXT. RITA’S HOUSE

When she reaches Dexter’s side, they wordlessly fall in step and head toward the entrance of the loft.DEXTER (V.O.)My tragedy is that I killed the one

DEXTER (V.O.)Seems I have a new screen saver. I knew he wouldn’t leave me stranded. But “Born Free”?Dexter picks up a CRIME SCENE PHOTO of the hotel

DEXTER (V.O.)This is what it must feel like to walk in full sunlight. My darkness revealed. My shadow self embraced.As they move down the gauntlet,

RUDY Whatever that means. Saw it in a movie once. Wait -- didn’t we watch that together?He looks down at DEBRA, sitting in the Zodiac, still bound.

Batista indicates the crazy man the next bed over. BATISTA All fucking night with that. Stuck in a ward with a nutbag. So much for our goddamn polic

DOAKESShe’s been AWOL since heading out last night to see him. She was supposed to come back and help me canvass. LAGUERTAThat’s not like her. Ange