We pick up the day after Dexter and Miguel killed Billy Fleeter. Before he leaves for work, Syl shows up at his house asking if he'd been out with Miguel the night before. He had -- only Miguel had gotten home just an hour earlier, while Dexter got home around midnight. Dexter catches up with Miguel to see where he was and he says that he went to a bar to unwind (until 5am), only Dexter happened to have nabbed a guy at that bar last year and knows that it closes at 2 am. So, he's already suspecting him of lying. He gets to the station and hears that Maria has been trying to reach Ellen unsuccessfully and knows that something is up.

Practically the whole department descends upon Anton's apartment to try to figure out what happened to him. It looks like he was kidnapped while taking out the trash. We see that George Washington King is indeed The Skinner and is killing people connected to Freebo. He owed him money but now it's more of a respect thing. Anton, of course, knows nothing about Freebo's whereabouts so he loses a fair amount of skin on his back before King leaves for work. He gets picked up by Quinn and Deb and brought in for questioning. Dexter sees him and tells Deb that he's sure that he's The Skinner.

Dexter breaks into Ellen's home and finds traces of blood on the floor. All the while, his vision of Harry is all "I Told You So." He reckons that Miguel would try to dispose of a body in a freshly dug grave (that's how he told him he got rid of Freebo), so he goes to the graveyard to check -- and he finds Ellen. He confronts Miguel and says that he isn't supposed to be taking on any solo missions -- and that they'd decided Ellen was innocent. Miguel responds that they have a different idea of what an innocent person is. Dex explains how he only killed Ellen for standing in his way and Miguel tells him that he's a very wise person. Later, Miguel bumps into Rita on his way to apologize to Syl. She tells him that he is being an idiot for the way he is treating Syl and he tells her that she's a very wise person. She repeats this to Dexter and he starts to realize that Miguel is a total bullshitter.

Deb goes completely ape shit on King, who won't say anything. Quinn pulls her back several times -- including once when she throws the dude on the ground and looks like she's about to spit in his mouth. Mario, his assistant tree trimmer, is too frightened to say anything about King. Even Miguel tries to get some info out of him (he turns the video camera off in the interview room) to no avail, so they have to set King loose. Deb has the trees trimmed at Mario's house and drops him off. When he sees the trimmed trees, he freaks out and says that Deb must have told King that he ratted on him. He says that King works at a building under the highway that he rents with cash, so she and Quinn speed there. King runs off before getting caught, but they find Anton!

Knowing that he's a liar, Dexter decides to check the blood on the shirt that Miguel gave him as collateral for his knowledge about Freebo. It's not Freebo's blood. It's cow blood. He has a vision where he freaks the fuck OUT. Then, he says that Miguel was just responsible for his first real feeling. And, it's still murderous. This is getting good. And, practically zero wedding talk!! Except they're going with a hazelnut chocolate cake.