Nip/Tuck

While the money and women continue satisfying Christian's needs, years of selling a phony image have taken their toll on Sean and distanced him from his wife, Julia (series star JOELY RICHARDSON), and children, Matt (series star JOHN HENSLEY) and Annie (recurring guest star KELSEY LYNN BATELAAN). Exasperated with Christian's questionable professional behavior, Sean strongly considers dissolving...

At Sean's insistence, Christian agrees to hire a staff psychologist. However, the male candidate they choose is no more ethical than Christian. As Sean and Julia continue having trouble in their marriage, teenager Matt asks Christian for help getting a circumcision to please Matt's girlfriend. Sean and Christian meet gorgeous identical twins who want to change their features in order to establi...

Christian becomes furious when Sean agrees with Grace, who is now the practice's in-house psychologist, regarding a woman's desire for extensive surgery in order to look beautiful for her high school reunion. However, Christian later realizes that Grace may have been right about the patient's mental stability. Meanwhile, after finding Matt dazed and bleeding from attempting a self-circumcision,...

Christian tries to persuade Sean to go into business with a very successful pornography production company whose performers need cosmetic surgery. However, the new arrangement causes problems when the practice's more upscale clients become uncomfortable with the office atmosphere. Christian brings Matt to a consultation at a porn production, but Matt's subsequent encounter with a young starlet ...

Sean and Christian interview a potential patient, a Caucasian man who wants his eyes to look Asian so he can be accepted by his fiancée's family. Meanwhile, Sean suspects domestic abuse when he notices old scar tissue on a patient while performing a nose job. And Julia must choose between medical school and motherhood again when she discovers that she is pregnant.

When Christian's prized possessions are vandalized, he tries to contact the women he has wronged in the past to find the culprit. In the process, he continues to ponder his behavior towards women in general. Meanwhile, Sean is invigorated after an encounter with a patient, Megan O'Hara (recurring guest star JULIE WARNER), a chiropractor going through a divorce. And Matt's ex-girlfriend, Vanessa...

When Julia surprises Matt having sex with both Vanessa Bartholomew (recurring guest star KATE MARA) and Ridley Lange (recurring guest star SOPHIA BUSH), she humiliates him by demanding an intervention with Ridley's nonplussed mother and Vanessa's outraged parents, who didn't even know that Vanessa is a lesbian. Julia also clashes with Sean regarding how to parent Matt, but Matt appreciates his ...

While driving his friend Henry (recurring guest star ANDREW LEEDS) home, Matt looks away from the road and strikes a shy girl, Cara Fitzgerald, throwing her out of sight into a ditch. Disoriented and worried because there is marijuana in the car, the boys don't realize that they've hit a pedestrian and leave the deserted area. But later, Matt learns that Cara is hospitalized in a coma. Guilt-st...

Christian accompanies his sexy girlfriend, Kimber Henry (recurring guest star KELLY CARLSON), to a spa where they encounter rival plastic surgeon Merrill Bobolit (recurring guest star JOEY SLOTNICK). Eager to break up with the clingy Kimber, Christian agrees to a hideous deal, "trading" her for Bobolit's Lamborghini sports car. The men concoct a manipulative scheme to bring Kimber and Bobolit t...

An error during surgery causes Christian to lose his confidence immediately before he and Sean must take a surgical test for recertification by the medical board. Christian's situation worsens when he finds out that he has received a difficult assignment for the examination: to perform cosmetic surgery on the cadaver head of a midget. He persuades a morgue worker to let him practice on a small ...

After operating on a woman, Montana Caine (CHERYL WHITE), for varicose veins, Sean and Grace are astounded to discover that Montana has multiple personality disorder. Montana's alter ego Sassy is an impetuous child who now wants her breasts reduced. Although Montana's therapist warns that if Sassy, a sort of gatekeeper personality, is not appeased, other personalities may be unleashed, Sean ref...

Christian and Sean operate on a South American woman with grotesquely huge breasts and discover that she is being used to carry liquid heroin into the U.S. in her implants. Ruthless Colombian drug lord Escobar Gallardo (recurring guest star ROBERT LaSARDO), whom the doctors previously encountered when they created a new face for one of his former henchmen, blackmails them into removing the impl...

Drug lord Escobar Gallardo's demands that Sean and Christian perform free breast implant removal operations on women Escobar uses to smuggle liquid heroin into the United States nearly force McNamara/Troy into financial ruin.