Previously on Dexter ... the whole last episode, pretty much. Here are the salient points: Dexter wasn't getting any sleep because new baby + real job + killing job = poppers and coffee where your pillow used to be. He screwed up a court case and thus tracked the perp, Benito Gomez, dragged him to an abandoned boxing ring and killed him. But he was too busy/exhausted to properly dispose of the remains, and then on the drive home he ran off the road and flipped his car.

Dexter wakes up from what has to be described as a brief and not at all restful sleep to find himself upside down in his minivan. The rescue crew drags him out and puts him on a stretcher. While the EMTs question him to determine if he's still with it, Dexter can only remember the crash -- and the bags full of body parts he hadn't yet disposed of. He keeps spacily repeating "Benny..." and trying to get to his car. A strapping young police officer makes his way to the ambulance as Dex starts shitting a brick. "We found something in your car," he says. "A bag." Dexter keeps trying to rise from the gurney like a zombie, but the paramedics keep him down. Lucky for him, then, that this bag is merely the prescription he picked up for Harrison. No body parts in there! Probably. He asks the EMT where his van is going, but she doesn't know. Dexter's VO continues to panic over what happens when they find what's in the trunk.

At the hospital, the doctor checks Dexter's pupils and asks the usual questions. He's got a concussion, doc says. Dex can't remember the accident or even getting in the car. And as much as Dexter lies about everything, this appears to be true. Dexter says he just needs a good night's sleep (another truth!) but naturally, because it's a concussion, the doctor says he needs to stay awake for at least 12 hours. He also wants to keep Dexter in the hospital overnight for observation, but Dex nixes that idea immediately, lying that his wife is a nurse. The doctor won't take that for an answer, but when Rita shows up all shaken and worried, Dexter hightails it out of there.

Back at home, Dexter's VO stresses that no matter what it takes, he can't fall asleep. Not because of the concussion, see, but because if anybody finds Gomez's remains, it's lethal injection time. He deflects Rita's suggestion that he take a personal day, then flinches like crazy when Cody comes crashing into him for a hug. Still sore, though he brushes the crash off as a mere fender-bender. As he heads out the door for work, his voice-over begs for a slow day at work where nobody gets killed and he has plenty of time to look for the criminal he cut into many pieces last night.