Nip/Tuck

Set in the sexy world of Miami's South Beach, "Nip/Tuck" cuts beneath the surface of the superficial world of plastic surgery, revealing the complexities and fragile nature of patients.

At Sean's insistence, Christian agrees to hire a staff psychologist. However, the male candidate they choose is no more ethical than Christian.

Christian becomes furious when Sean agrees with Grace, who is the practice's in-house psychologist, regarding a woman's desire for extensive surgery to look beautiful for her school reunion.

Christian tries to persuade Sean to go into business with a very success ful pornography production company whose performers need cosmetic surgery.

Sean and Christian interview a potential patient, a Caucasian man who wa nts his eyes to look Asian so he can be accepted by his fiancée's family.

When Christian's prized possessions are vandalized, he tries to contact the women he has wronged in the past to find the culprit.

When Julia surprises Matt having sex with Vanessa Bartholomew and Ridley Lange, she humiliates him demanding an intervention with Ridley's nonplussed mother and Vanessa's outraged parents.

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.

Christian accompanies his sexy girlfriend, Kimber Henry (recurring guest star KELLY CARLSON), to a spa where they encounter rival plastic surgeon Merrill Bobolit.

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.

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.

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.

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.