At the hospital, Dexter is reciting statistics about children who undergo anesthesia developing learning disabilities. Let's get Harrison out of surgery first before we worry about any long-term complications, Dex. Deb makes the very reasonable suggestion that he stop trolling the Internet for horror stories, and then miraculously remembers that there once were children on the show called "Astor" and "Cody" that might want to know about Harrison's plight. Dexter, however, says he doesn't want to worry them, and then Jamie breaks into a smile and asks Deb if that's her on TV. After seeing her replay with the "fucker" bleeped out, Deb whimpers, "Aw, fuck," and then has to apologize to the kids in the waiting room. Deb, it's not like this show is averse to TV clichés, so why not give the ol' swear jar a try? On your new salary, you might even be able to afford it! Mos Def then enters, and Dexter looks really happy to see him even as he asks what he's doing there; Mos Def, endearingly awkwardly, explains that if the situations were reversed, he's want some "backup," as Deb looks at the two of them like Dexter having a friend is a greater miracle than anything found in the Good Book. After she asks if they're friends and they, embarrassed, hem and haw for a bit, she takes Jamie and heads to the cafeteria in order to leave the two of them alone.

Mos Def gives Dexter some advice that sounds a little preachy but then recoils, saying that he knows if he were Dexter he would not want to hear anything like that right now, and adding that he wasn't always like this. "People used to talk to me about God, and it used to make me want to punch 'em in their face." That's one word for it! He goes on that, like Dexter, he used to believe in his father and after Dexter encourages him to go on, Mos Def tells him that when he was growing up, his father was very popular. Everyone called him "Mister," and he was always working, although Mos Def never really knew what he did. One day, he took Mos Def to see a "friend" of his, and when they got there, his father told him to go up and ring the doorbell. Mos Def complied, and a man answered; before he even had time to ask who Mos Def was, his dad appeared behind him with a pistol in his hand and shot the man in the face. There was blood everywhere, even on Mos Def's Superman shirt, but his dad just picked him up and drove off; later, he told Mos Def that he did a good job. I mean, obvious and clunky parallels to Dexter's own experiences aside, it's a pretty powerful image, and Mos Def sells the hell out of it in his understated way. Dexter looks, for him, fairly stunned, and takes a long moment to offer, "He used you," with some real feeling for what Mos Def went through. Mos Def acknowledges that it effed him up real good until, after he'd been in prison for a few months, he started beating on this braggart of a new guy in the prison chapel when he noticed sunlight coming through the chapel window, and he suddenly saw his life very clearly and didn't want to be the person he was anymore. Dexter skeptically asks if he thinks this was God, but all Mos Def knows is that when he let the guy go, he never had felt as good about anything in his life. Dexter takes a deep breath and gets up to procure some coffee...