Hannah asks if Dexter ever thought about what it would be like not to have all these rules, and they are getting worked up to the point where a single fake snowflake would have them ripping each other's clothes off right here, but Dexter assures her he can get Price to back off for good. She warns him that she's used to dealing with things on her own, but he asks her to think of him taking care of the situation as a goodbye present. She agrees, but soberly adds that they're going for a record for "how many times we can say goodbye for good." Dexter leaves, and when he does, Hannah looks conflicted, unaware that Dexter is too as he turns back to regard her. DVO notes that she's not drawn to his darkness like Lila (ew) was, nor blind to it like Rita, nor does she need it like Lumen. God, when you line them up like that, your taste in women has been pretty shitty, Dexter. Just another way this season is an upswing. DVO goes on to wonder why, since Hannah accepts both sides of him, he's walking away from this, and again, if Harrison doesn't even enter his mind, I don't know how he can claim he's not the worst influence in the world, much less a positive one. Instead, we get chemistry yet again: "Because when some chemicals mix, they combust. And explode."

There's a coffin sitting in a lab, so apparently that's a big thumbs-up on the exhumation. Outside the room, we see Deb telling Laurie that she doesn't have to be there, but Laurie declares her intention to wait, so Deb heads in, and the lab guy opens the top half of the coffin, and isn't this episode just the greatest olfactory experience for the participants? Deb is extremely dismayed to see that there's nothing left but bones, and the lab guy informs her that this would happen if the body weren't embalmed. Deb asks if that isn't standard procedure, which reminds me I really need to do a Six Feet Under rewatch at some point, and the lab guy tells her yes - but the next of kin is allowed to specify otherwise. That would probably not be true if the dead person had made his wishes known while he was alive, so nice job, JAKE. Anyway, there's no test to be run, so Deb is faced with the wholly enviable duty of informing Laurie that this whole exercise was for nothing, and she's not having the greatest episode, is she? I wish I could tell her it's going to get better...