...but this is our cue for a Doakes "flashback" -- I mean the quotes to indicate that we're going back in time, but the footage is new, as Erik King, in his inimitable voice, is like, "Surprise, motherfuckah!" He's talking to Dexter, who's wearing like that exact complete dork-o expression he was sporting on the Season Two poster, which is a detail that is absolutely HILARE enough it may actually factor into my episode grade. Hee.

Doakes asks if Dexter got his report, and the answer is yes; they talk about the latest of three victims of the same killer, who apparently stabbed this most recent prostitute over two dozen times despite the forensic analysis revealing the very first one killed her. Sounds like he's OCD, too. That's a clue! Doakes, who's not showing the same distrust of Dexter early viewers of the show will remember, actually has a suspect, but says he's a slippery one, and he can never get anything on him. Dexter, who even at these best of times is short of conversational topics to share with Doakes, just kind of sits there, but he's spared any further awkwardness by Doakes catching sight of LaGuerta beckoning to him.

Well, I spoke too soon -- without preamble, LaGuerta references "what [they] talked about," and without further ado hands him what can only be a key to his place he'd given her at some point. Looking kind of devastated, he asks if she doesn't at least want to think about it, but she shakes her head. And she might not have had an office back then, but still, right in MM's town square, LaGuerta? Cold. Doakes then realizes that Dexter's sneaked up on him, and calls him invisible...

...but in the present, DVO notes that he's not invisible anymore. Elsewhere, Batista accosts LaGuerta and tells her he's discovered she was behind Estrada's release, and it's true this looks pretty bad on the "she tried to frame Dexter" front. But I admit it's still hard to believe that Batista, who was married to LaGuerta, could think she's obsessed with Dexter for no reason. Sure, Dexter seems harmless, but these are cops! Whenever anyone seems like a nice guy who keeps mostly to himself, they should be running a background check! Batista does get through to LaGuerta how damaging what she's done could be -- she could even lose her job -- but also says that if anyone can damage-control her way out of this, it's she. Looking shaken but determined, she takes his hand and thanks him for the friendly advice...