"The puppy dog eyes should work They always do!"

"Do I see sheets of plastic in your future? There are a few of us here ya know!"

"We have a code here to and unfortunately giving "hints" or "tidbits" are not part of it. My poor young Dexters out there, do I see a knife running across your cheek in the near future? You know what the code is, if anyone goes against it...........well, you know. "

"I would suggest that even though Dexter cannot experience natural feelings of resonance or empathy, what he can realize is the value he places on innocence, which up until this point, is what Rita has in abundance. If Rita were suddenly to become less than innocent, she would be lessened in his eyes, which would start the process of devaluation. This is the reason children are such sympathetic creatures to Dexter - they are totally innocent. What Rita represents, i.e., normalcy, is grounding to Dexter's narcissism. With Rita, he appears completely normal.

I've seen on other threads that the writers peruse these threads for ideas. If that is so, I would like to throw out Dexter being confronted by a totally evil child - a Damien - Satan's Spawn - a child so evil that, well, it certainly would be a conundrum. Dexter did have a situation with a teenager, and he let him go because the boy had been twisted by circumstance and Dexter felt empathy for him in that situation. The teenager went on to kill himself. Anyway, that's my two cents for today - haha!"