Still trapped in the cabin, Doakes tries to convince Dexter to turn himself in. They start to form a rapport with one another, and Dexter takes the advice to heart. Hoping to "finally get some sleep," Dexter starts making plans to get his affairs in order before letting Doakes bring him in: he has Deb sign a living trust agreement, and even gives Rita the minivan.
Meanwhile, Lila has decided to go ahead with pressing charges on Angel for the "rape." Luckily, Deb decides to use Lundy"s power in the Bureau to do some research on LMPMT to see if there"s anything wrong with her. Turns out that Tournay isn"t Lila"s real last name, because Deb can"t find anything on her. Angel brings a microwave that Lila used at his place in to the station, and from her fingerprints, Deb is able to ascertain that Lila West is in fact in the country on an expired visa. Deb goes to her loft to tell her to get the fuck out of town, lickety-split, making Lila angry, obviously.
While Dexter"s running around taking care of stuff, Doakes breaks out of his cage at the cabin. He makes his way to a swamp, where two guys in a boat find him. Turns out Doakes is really shit out of luck, because the two guys are friends of Chris Harlow (whom Dexter chopped up last week), and they"re looking for the cocaine cabin. They knock Doakes out and drag him back to where he started, but Dexter returns just in time. He makes eye contact with Doakes, and their unspoken bond helps them overcome the captors. It"s pretty awesome, and I was hoping that the new friendship would result in some other unspoken possibilities (namely, Dexter letting Doakes go, and somehow everything working out), but no. Besides, Dexter"s gone too far in framing Doakes for it to ever really work out, which adds an interesting dynamic. So, Dexter puts Doakes back in his newly reinforced cage, and they share a really great scene where Dexter tells him he"s thinking of turning himself in. Dexter even got Doakes grapes.
LaGuerta goes to Haiti to investigate Doakes"s trail, and she calls Lundy when she finds out that Doakes wanted the slides analyzed. Lundy finds it interesting, because why would Doakes want that?
As Dexter takes Rita and the kids out on the boat, Lila (who"s been trailing them) goes to Dexter"s car and snags his GPS. After Deb confronts her, she heads to an address in the Everglades that she"s not familiar with (i.e. the cabin). I know: not cool.
Dex invites Deb over for some steaks and to tell her who he is and that he"s turning himself in, but when Deb tells him that he"s her rock, and she couldn"t have gotten through the whole ITK debacle without him, his confidence is boosted and he decides to go through with his frame-up of Doakes and not follow through with turning himself in after all.
The episode ends with Lila arriving at the cabin, and Doakes wondering who the fuck this British chick could possibly be. Oh, man, what"s gonna happen? Well, it"s Lila and Doakes, so I see some flames and some "muthafucka"s in our not-so-distant future.