Nip Tuck Seasons 1 -4

Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: 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.

Season 1, Episode 2: 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.

Season 1, Episode 3: 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.





Season 1, Episode 4: 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.

Season 1, Episode 5: Kurt Dempsey


Sean and Christian have a patient who wants to marry his girlfriend, who is Japanese. However her parents will not

approve of any boyfriend who isn't Japanese. Kurt wants the approval of her family so he wants surgery on his eyes to

look Japanese. Julia is given a pregnancy scare when she sees the result of her pregnancy test. Sean and Julia begin

talking and she gets upset about how he became successful and she never got to be, and then she tells him that she is

pregnant. Grace recommends that Christian goes to sex addicts anonymous meetings. Christian goes to a meeting and meets

a woman named Gina who is also a sex addict, they later hook-up that night. Julia has so much stress, because she was

beginning to get her life back, but now history is repeating itself, she later miscarries. Sean tells her how she never

really wanted the baby.

Season 1, Episode 6: Megan O'Hara


Someone is vandalizing Christian's possessions, and he attempts to find the culprit. He first blames a girl he has

recently slept with and kicked out of bed, named Gina. Gina says she is not the one who has been doing these things to

him, but Christina still believes otherwise. A chemotherapy patient named Megan O'Hara is considering breast implants

because of the radiation poisoning she is diagnosed with, she cannot have children and would like to get breast implants

for her husband Jim. Sean is very interested in Megan and begins to develop feelings for her. Matt finds himself in a

threesome with Vanessa and Ridley only noticing that he is not wanted.

Season 1, Episode 7: Cliff Mantegna


Christian's difficulties with Kimber are growing when his feelings for Julia are revealed. While Jude and Julia are

studying Jude tells Julia about his dream of wanting to become a plastic surgeon. He is later hired as an intern only to

cause more problems. Julia finds a half naked picture of Jude and decides to keep it for herself. Sean later finds the

picture of Jude and fires him quickly after. Matt is caught mid-threesome by Julia, so Julia sits down with the other

girls parents and secrets come out on what exactly is going on between the three.

Season 1, Episode 8: 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.

Season 1, Episode 9: 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...

Season 1, Episode 10: 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.

Season 1, Episode 11: 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 ...

Season 1, Episode 12: 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.

Season 1, Episode 13: 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 black, 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.


Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Erica Noughton


Julia McNamara gets a surprise visit from her glamorous mother, successful child psychology author Dr. Erica Noughton,

who has various reasons to want plastic surgery and insists that Sean should operate her; that even worsens his worries

about an unsteady hand, and the specialist tells him it's a fashionable psychosomatic condition without a medical cure.

Christian wrestles with his instincts- while resenting Gina Russo emotionally blackmailing him with her baby, he is

determined to become a good father, but swears to keep his mundane (sex-)life, so he looks for a nanny and hires Linda,

the candidate with the sexiest 'fringe-benefits', but finds she's neglecting the child... Meanwhile the doctors operate

on Libby Zucker, whose face is so horrible she'll need at least five major, risky operations and is most uncertain in

her 'steady' relationship with attractive Chad Myers who she knows to have affairs.

Season 2, Episode 2: Christian Troy


Christian was enjoying sex with a young model, but an allergy caused her to sneeze so her butt crushing down broke the

Casanova's killer face's nose, which must be operated. Sean hoped his anxiety was over after mother in law Erica

Noughton's operation, but it suddenly returns during pro bono surgery on Mr. Unger, who nearly gets butchered. Matt is

interrogated after the police arrested his mate Henry in the Cara case; he denies to know anything. After a visit from

Henry's shocked father, Sean suspects the truth, but Matt still denies any part in the car hit. In Dr. Monica Jordan's

waiting room, Christian meets adolescent patient Calvin Murray, who says his third nipple prevents any sex life, agrees

a male doctor is less embarrassing, and is eager for the gorgeous girls in Dr. Troy's waiting room. When Sean finds out

Christian booked another surgeon and attacks him, he gets reminded of his list of grave errors and looses confidence

again, handing the scalpel to Christian for the nipple job. Erica explains to Julia how parents, unable to accept their

own failing, unconsciously transfer their ambition to their children, who thus come under excessive stress, which

probably caused Matt and Henry to go overboard. Then Sean tells her his nervous disaster. Christian cheerfully stripped

for Dr. Jordan who was to check him for melanoma, but was told his love handles need preventive action at age 40; to

re-boost his self-confidence, he demands his next 'ride' to call him sexy, but even Gina finds that too weird and tells

him he's becoming as ugly outside as inside. Henry tells Matt at a prison visit the incessant pressure was what got to

him, he snatched when Cara rejected him and now fears to be raped in jail. Frustrated he operates on his own nose in

front of the mirror- now he realizes and Sean sees what a shaky second can do to a surgeon; terrified Sean must fix the

face of their common future, without general anesthetic so the patient can verbally assist and boost his confidence,

which works.

Season 2, Episode 3: Manya Mabika