hmm…no guesses…this thread has lost steam: Another hint…
“I've always been good with parents. the key is to simply think of them as aliens from a distant universe.”, “you have fibres and threads unknown to us”, “your ancient customs intrigue me”.
Okay, I thought Dexter, but the first quote didn't set it for sure. The second one I KNOW, I even remember him using it when meeting Rita's mom for the first time.
Okay, scratch that. Though for the curious it was Sam Axe speaking to Micheal Westen in the first ep of Burn Notice, and replayed in the credits ever since.
Here's something from another tv show.
“Good cop and bad cop left for the day. I'm a different kind of cop.”