Nip/Tuck Season One

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Pilot - McNamara/Troy
Old friends Sean and Christian are partners in a plastic surgery office. Their relationship is under fire after Christian operates on a Colombian drug lord who pays him in drug money. Sean's family life is also in upheaval, and he is headed for a mid-life crisis.
Mandi/Randi
Twin sisters want plastic surgery done to look different from each other. Meanwhile, Sean moves out so he can experience life as a single man. Matt decides to try and perform a circumcision on himself after his girlfriend sees his penis. Also, Christian is plagued with romantic thoughts of Julia.
Nanette Babcock
Sean and Julia discover Matt has tried to circumcise himself and try to stage an intervention to his personal situation. The business is sued by a faithful client, the plastic surgery-addict Ms. Gruber, after Sean accidentally leaves a surgical tool inside of her body. Meanwhile, Christian and Grace struggle with a mentally unstable patient.
Sofia Lopez
Wallis Forsythe is a pornography mogul who meets Christian at a party and agrees to send some business his way. Merrill Bobolit is a hack surgeon who's more successful than Sean and Christian because of his willingness to take on any client. Both team up for Sean and Christian's practice for Forsythe's easy money and Bobolit's sleazy competition to inject a dose of conflict into Sean and Christian's partnership.
Kurt Dempsey
An ex-lover returns and leads Christian to a sexaholics meeting while Sean and Julia deal with an unexpected pregnancy.
Megan O'Hara
Someone is vandalizing Christian's possessions, and he attempts to find the culprit. A chemotherapy patient who is considering breast implants brings excitement to Sean's life, and Matt finds himself in a threesome with Vanessa and Ridley.
Cliff Mantegna
Christian's difficulties with Kristin are exacerbated when his feelings for Julia are revealed. Jude is hired as an intern, to sexy and disastrous results. Matt is caught mid-threesome by Julia.

Cara Fitzgerald

Matt and his Jewish schoolmate enjoy training him how to live as devout Jew without truly believing and use heroine, but accidentally hit a 16-year old girl which was tying her shoelaces and just stood up unnoticed while Matt was driving. They thought it was just an animal and left, but Sean reads in the paper about the Cara Fitzgerald case. Miss Devon Greco wants her nose changed because it reminds her of her abusive real father, Christian refuses the case as unrealistic expectations. Michael Shannon insists Dr. Troy (literally) handles the embarrassing birthmark-removal from his ball-sack 'in time for his expensive honeymoon' within two weeks. The boys learn Cara is a model student; Matt visits her in hospital, as coma patient, where he meets her mother Kate, pretending to be a member of the prayer club she founded and learns her family are Christian Scientists, hence refuse drugs. Seans lover Megan O'Hara insists on breast implants after cancer and a divorce. Psychiatrist Grace Santiago's indiscretion makes both partners want to fire her, and find out about each-others unprofessional relationships. Matt tells Sean only that he cares for Cara ands asks him to do her plastic surgery. Christian is shocked to hear on TV his 'about to marry' patient Michael Shannon is a Catholic priest who just escaped trial for sexual abuse of several young boys and realizes they helped the monster hiding his intimate identity. Henry wants to confess for religious reasons, Sean tries to convince Cara's mother not to refuse 'sinfully unnatural' plastic surgery and gets a court order so he and Troy can do an urgent operation to save her eyesight. Christian changes his mind about florist Devon Greco who admits she lacked the courage to press charges till her abusive father became terminal. Seeing father Shannon still seems to crave boys Christian goes to confession with him for the first time in 22 years, only to insist he confesses to the police under threat of scalpel and photos- it works. Now he tells Sean about his own abusive foster father Mr. Troy who bribed him to 'sell his body' as a boy.
Sofia Lopez: Part 2
However hard sexy Kimber Henry tries to please Dr. Christian Troy, she's not the unborn woman who can hold on to his lust, let alone love, while Dr. Merril Bobolit has no hotter dream then a girl that beautiful and dumb, so they plan to 'trade' her for his Lamborghini and do a good job breaking him and her up, only even she can't love buffoon Merril for his money. Sean still has a hot affair with Megan O'Hara, but promises to dump her after accidentally confessing to Matt, thinking to be caught while the boy actually came to discuss whether Gods omniscience is enough reason to confess about Cara. Julia is made to believe by their jealous fellow college med-student Suzanne that her lover Jude, also her personal trainer, only does that work to find clients as call-boy; when she tells him to confess, he comes clean his British accent is fake, but she doesn't believe that's his only pretense. Patient Sophia Lopez is preparing for his/her final trans-sexuality operation, but the supportive lesbian nurse Linda confuses him so much in the last night before that he decides at the last minute to cancel the surgery till further notice. Kimber turns up at Christians place offering to have sex, apparently flattered she was traded for such an expensive sports car, but once she has him in cuffs...
Adelle Coffin
Sean is shocked Christian, who operates a patient with hospital phobia whose fingers got severed, switched middle- and index finger and didn't even admit it when Liz pointed the error out; Christian now completely loses his professional self-respect. Megan's doctor warns her the benefits of treatments no longer outweigh the contras; tired of fighting she decides after throwing up in a fancy restaurant she wants euthanasia. Sumner Charles asks a scrotum lift, his fiancée Mrs. Grubman a vaginal rejuvenation, and demands both under her free deal but Sean must do her. Both surgeons and Merril Bobolit must take an official 10-yearly test, on cadaver heads; Troy fears he'll fail because his, an old lady, is too small, so Sean suggests he practices- hearing about a similar woman's recent accident, he goes to the morgue for the Jane Doe- the night clerk allows it in exchange for a chin job. Sean imagines his cadaver head starts talking to him about Megan and Julia, which convinces him to help Megan commit suicide pain-free by OD, but then guilt ruins his concentration so he walks out at the exam: fighter Christian passes, he the perfectionist fails. After Megans memorial service, Sean confirms Julias suspicions they had an affair- she says she couldn't actually commit her intended infidelity, and is too heart-broken to take him back.
Montana/Sassy/Justice
Patience Miss Montana Caine?Keane wants her 'tankls' fixed, a contraction for 'tank-ankles', alias piano legs or suspension bridges, and her visible veins. Her irrational tantrums while being prepared for the OR lead to consultation of her shrink Dr. Reed, who explains she had over 20 personalities, of which only Montana and Sassy, the gate-keeper who controls the appearance of all others, remain 'in harmony'. Grace Santiago is angry not to have been consulted earlier, Sean reminds her she has no equal position, and neither he nor Dr. Troy had feelings for her while having sex. When she tells Montana operating is only the last option, Sassy attacks her and an aggressive third personality reappears, Justice, who threatens to raise numerous 'us'. Christian gets a visits from his nymphomaniac ex Gina Russo, who announces she's pregnant- from him; she demands his support, threatening with an abortion otherwise after a week; at AA he accepts to pay, but is a day late, so she calls him heartless and an unfit father, apparently having had an abortion. Christian gets paternal, even complaining Sean, who must morn Megan in silence now Julia and Matt know, didn't invite him to his godchild Annie's eight birthday party; he brings Julia a present for Annie, a caged bird; Julia considers shutting him out altogether, while doubting if she wants to stay with Sean, who must wait for his venereal tests; he's negative, but she still can't bear his intimate touch. Matt meets Cara, recovered with some scars, who explains she has almost total amnesia and invites him to her next prayer group meeting; only he and his Jewish-born mate Henry turn up, who announces he doubts his Jewish faith and intends to ask Cara for the prom, but she asks Matt. Julia returns the bird to Christian because it doesn't fit in with Annie's present pet Frisky and asks him about Megan; she steals his hairbrush for a DNA test without telling him about is, and brings it and Sean's razor the lab, which announces a margin of error just under 1%. At a new visit, Russo tells Christian she's not aborted - they intend to come to 'realistic' terms. Henry is hyper-stressed, confused and preparing to tells Cara the truth, to Matt's horror. Julia comes tell Christian the test result, but Gina is still there and blurts out her arrangement, so she doesn't tell him, yet hopes he'll be a good father ...

Antonia Ramos

The plastic surgeons operate a Latino woman with bad breast implants, but find out these are just a customs deception devised to turn would-be immigrants into couriers by their spooky acquaintance, Colombian drug baron Eduardo Escobar, who forces them to 'harvest' more of those cocaine packages, in addition to paying him a fortune they can't raise so fast, even selling precious assets. At the same time nymphomaniac Gina Russo bleeds Christian financially and emotionally in the name for her/their baby. Meanwhile Julia is the only member of her Pilates class that doesn't blackball Sophia, the transsexual.
Escobar Gallardo
The surgeons are still forced to harvest drugs from breast implants for Colombian cartel monster Escobar Gallardo. Christian gets a cold reception from bride Kimber when he visits Dr. Merril Bobolit's place to demand he retracts an advert showing her, Troy's masterpiece, off as his work. Julia coaches mother-to-be Gina and defends Christian's father potential. Mr. Parks wants tail hair of his show dog transplanted to Sir Winston's head; $150,000 is more then they can afford to refuse, yet Sean's ethical objections prevail- Merril gets the patient but kills him. Julia offers Sean her wedding ring for sale even though their marriage will never be fine again. Gina gets Christian to have sex with her to speed up her painful pregnancy; shortly after he delivers her, but gets a rude shock: the baby is colored, yet he still considers him his son. Escobar demands the docs help him branch out to organ harvesting; when Sean refuses, he shoots nurse Liz in the leg. Sean buys a gun, but is unable to shoot Escobar, who offers him one way out: operate him a whole new identity. Mr. Parks' damage lawsuit puts Bobolit out of business, the partners back on the map. Escobar is surgically transformed into Mr. Armand Otiz; four months later he finds out the face is that of a real wanted criminal, Jorge Barco, when the FBI arrests him.