Episode list for
"Nip/Tuck" (2003)

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Staffel 1

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Staffel 1, Folge 1: Pilot - McNamara/Troy

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Juli 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 2: Mandi/Randi

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Juli 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 3: Nanette Babcock

Erstausstrahlung: 5. August 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 4: Sofia Lopez

Erstausstrahlung: 12. August 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 5: Kurt Dempsey

Erstausstrahlung: 19. August 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 6: Megan O'Hara

Erstausstrahlung: 2. September 2003

Staffel 1, Folge 7: Cliff Mantegna

Erstausstrahlung: 9. September 2003

Staffel 1, Folge 8: Cara Fitzgerald

Erstausstrahlung: 16. September 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 9: Sofia Lopez: Part 2

Erstausstrahlung: 23. September 2003
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...

Staffel 1, Folge 10: Adelle Coffin

Erstausstrahlung: 30. September 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 11: Montana/Sassy/Justice

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Oktober 2003
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 ...

Staffel 1, Folge 12: Antonia Ramos

Erstausstrahlung: 14. Oktober 2003
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 13: Escobar Gallardo

Erstausstrahlung: 21. Oktober 2003
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.

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Staffel 2

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Staffel 2, Folge 1: Erica Noughton

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Juni 2004
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.

Staffel 2, Folge 2: Christian Troy

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Juni 2004
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.

Staffel 2, Folge 3: Manya Mabika

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Juli 2004
Manya Mabika, a Somalian model, wants the surgeons to give her an orgasm by reverting her traditional female circumcision as a girl, even if the experimental technique for an artificial clitoris is highly unreliable. Macho Christian proves a far better 'parent' for Wilbur then his nymphomaniac mother Gina; when he refuses to have a baby with her, she uses Wilbur as blackmail leverage. Sean and Julia have good sex, but he cannot accept she doesn't get an orgasm. Patient Elias Perri has absolutely no body-hair, and is pushed by his life-coach, Ava Moore, to try a donor-hair transplant to erogenous zones. Sean makes an appointment for Julia with Ava, who gets into a row on the value of therapy with Julia's mother, Dr. Erica Noughton. Once she has her fake clitoris, Maniya asks Dr. Troy to be her 'true healer' in bed- when she gets no orgasm, he insists with Sean to revise her clitoris, but all it really takes is a lesson in female self-pleasing by Liz. Christian is shocked to find Gina has Sexaholics lined up for 'hetero-insemination' to give Wilbur a sibling.

Staffel 2, Folge 4: Mrs. Grubman

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Juli 2004
As Julia and Sean's daughter, Annie, faces puberty, they must both face the harsh realization of maturity and deal with their own issues about getting older. When Gina tells Christian he can no longer be involved in Wilbur's life, Christian is forced to reach out to an old flame in order to build a case to gain sole custody of Wilbur.

Staffel 2, Folge 5: Joel Gideon

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Juli 2004
Now both biological parents have teamed up to demand the court full and exclusive custody over 'his' baby, Christian Troy is ready to throw in the towel- but for once worst-mother-ever Gina Russo motivates him positively, so they still engage the probably hopeless legal fight. While holding and talking on his cell phone while he is driving at the same time, Sean McNamara causes a serious car accident, but without serious harm, except that his attitude towards life is shocked. He now wants to taste life to the full, and first accepts an offer to earn a luxury car by advising crash dummy tests with a corps; next he seeks adventure, but when he goes as far as to encourage Matt, who shows still to love him as his daddy, to eat a potentially lethal sushi in a Japanese restaurant, Julia walks out with his offspring. Joel Gideon is a patient whose love of danger in mountain-climbing caused him to get such bad frost bite that a facial zone including his nose is now dead tissue, and is determined to return to the same mountain after his reconstructive surgery.

Staffel 2, Folge 6: Bobbi Broderick

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Juli 2004
Roberta 'Bobbi' Broderick, a ripe lady, wants plastic surgery to compete with younger women for her dream job, selling clothes. Julia sends Matt for therapy to life coach Ava Moore, but she abuses trust games to seduce the teenager; uncle Christian must bail him out after jerking off outside her window; she won't be told off, threatens to disclose he's the biological father and demands free botox. Allegra Calderello has her burned lips replaced by skin from the homonymous part of her vagina, provided her old-fashioned Sicilian husband thinks it's from another organ.

Staffel 2, Folge 7: Naomi Gaines

Erstausstrahlung: 3. August 2004
Dissatisfied ex-liposuction-patient Bobbi Broderick scares others away even right in the doctors's waiting room, demanding a public admission on TV, or she'll sue them. Life coach Ava Moore 'professionally motivates' Matt between the sheets, to the anger of her own, allegedly jealous, also 16-year old son Adrian, who she regrets not to have aborted. Sean and Julia are not amused when Matt sets off the brand new alarm, sneaking in at night after 'studying together with Adrian' they didn't even know existed. Serial raper-mutilator 'the Carver' sends the doctors both patients, now model Naomi Gaines, and scary packages. Christian decides to offer his alternative pro-bono story to bitch Bobbi's journalist, Andrea Hall, who happily lands in his bed before she even knows his professionally relevant name and succeeds. When the McNamaras invite the Moores for dinner, Adrian sort of hints at the truth and kisses startled Matt in the kitchen, then blurts it out after Ava lies never to have denied him anything; Julia throws the child-rapist out. Bobbi now promises a class-action law-suit, but after Naomi sides with the doctors admits she herself did everything wrong, even missed her job interview on purpose. When Matt goes break up with Ava, she tells him about Julia's infidelity; finding ma searching his room 'you'll have to earn your privacy now' he makes her confess Christian sired him, but when Sean walks in doesn't tell but falls in daddy's arms after confessing his just ended relationship with Ava.

Staffel 2, Folge 8: Agatha Ripp

Erstausstrahlung: 10. August 2004
The doctors accept to operate pro bono the whore Agatha Ripp, who claims her greatest sin was to have inflicted stigmata to herself and asks them to convince St. Olav shelter and the parish they are fake. The surgeons must reassure pregnant Liz and Julia, who even gets psychosomatic shingles. When the news lands them with a baby's congenital caudal appendix, also pro bono, Sean fails to convince the archdiocese's Father Maley Agatha can't have miraculous stigmata. While still recovering from the operation, Agatha gets unexplained new ones, now claiming they're real but she doesn't want them and the blood is not hers. When Julia tells him Christian is Matt's father, Sean is shattered, furious, throws her out and attacks his partner. Liz also has shattering news for Christian. Then Agatha comes clean to Sean...

Staffel 2, Folge 9: Rose and Raven Rosenberg

Erstausstrahlung: 17. August 2004
After finding out Christian and Julia are Matt's biological parents, Sean is hell-bent to dissolve his partnerships with both, despite professional advice it would be utter disaster for the surgery. Matt and Sean remain tight as son and dad. The doctors still fly together for what is now likely to be their last case, a historical pro bono multi-disciplinary operation: the oldest Siamese twins ever separated, teenage sisters Rose and Raven Rosenberg, who are joined at the forehead. Neither dreamed of being alone, but it's necessary to give one sister chemotherapy. Having to share a dorm room makes the partners reminisce their past and complementarity. Julia's "I gave everything up for you" routine has lost all effect on Matt, who feels no connection with her and even returns to Ava, so she calls the 'fathers', but neither wants to make sonny study hard now. The operation kills Raven, Rose seems to have lost the will to live and dies too. Sean hits the Scotch and pays prostitute Renée for a threesome with 'Julia' and Christian, the one thing they never quite shared. Only now, mother Rosenberg admits neither girl wanted to survive alone; the sisters are re-joined posthumously. The sole survivor is- the surgeons' partnership, Sean has come to his senses.

Staffel 2, Folge 10: Kimber Henry

Erstausstrahlung: 24. August 2004
Ike Connors is a unique client: he is an author who writes books about extreme experiences, and his newest book contract is for the experience of having breasts, which the plastic surgeons must create, just like his wife's, whose mastectomy made them aware how important boobs are for the female (self-) image. Sean is ready to continue working with Christian as they need each-other business-wise, but won't consider forgiving or understanding Julia to any degree, so he doesn't want her to disturb daughter Annie's routine. Christian's ex, actress Kimber Henry, has finally become a porno starlet and consults the doctors to correct the vagina on a sex doll after her image which should be a financial goldmine; Sean takes the prototype home and has sex with both the silicon - and the natural versions. After his operation was a success, Ike changes his mind because of the pain and as it feels lesbian, to his wife's fury. Julia picks up a non-local businessman Roger in a bar, but he is a masochist who took her for a hooker; now Sean rescues her but returns straight to Kimber's doll.

Staffel 2, Folge 11: Natasha Charles

Erstausstrahlung: 31. August 2004
Natasha Charles is an unusual patient- her whole body is attractive, but since birth her eyes are blind, covered with a 'scary' white-blue membrane, as Christian puts it when she asks him to make her attractive to him, so the doctors operate to implant artificial eyes from an expert. Afterward Christian follows her when he hears she has an Internet date, finds out that's a blind man who still asks him whether she's attractive and even dumps her when he lies she's much older; so he's happy to fill in and enjoys sex with a woman who can't be after his gorgeous body. Meanwhile Sean remains merciless on Julia, who has her breasts enlarged by a female surgeon and gets unwanted visitors- lice on Annie's head from some classmate and her own mother Erica, who tries in vain to make Sean and Christian do an intervention with Julia and rushes off again to another lecture; when Sean is unmoved by her improved balcony she overdoes her painkillers and has a bad fall trough a glass wall...

Staffel 2, Folge 12: Julia McNamara

Erstausstrahlung: 7. September 2004
Now Julia McNamara has crashed trough a glass wall after having OD'ed out of frustration with her shattered family since Sean knows Matt isn't his biological son, she is dreaming an alternative reality, where just about everything is different and everyone plays an amended part, e.g. Christian Troy is a loyal husband- and still it is far from perfect for her.

Staffel 2, Folge 13: Oona Wentworth

Erstausstrahlung: 14. September 2004
Christian and Sean discover a maid's horribly mutilated forehead is the result of the systematical sale of 'Bobotox', a scandalous 'cheap Botox', by their former associate Dr. Merril Bobolit, who is now a drug addict; Christian gets him into addicts anonymous, where he falls in love but is rejected as a loser. Matt sees how Adrian Moore helps himself to lots of opiates from his mother Ava's stock, to sell to school kids, hiding it in his jacket; the boys fight, and the bitter old lady principal won't budge for Ava's threats or Christian's offer to donate to the school, but accepts plastic surgery. Shortly after, Adrian urinates in a soap dispenser at school just before Matt will use it, but innocent school mate Trevor Hayes suffers the same fate- his parents demand punishment, and since Matt doesn't rat, Sean, who has claimed his parental role back from Christian, makes him come straight from school to his office 'for meaningless chores'. Ava punishes Adrian by giving all his clothes to her Salvadorian new toy-boy, Alfonso Tehon Jr. Now Bobolit and his lay partner, a massage parlor owner gone bust, even operate, but the patient dies; they plan to dispose of the cut-up corpse; Christian accidentally finds out and is knocked out and strapped down, about to have his face 'stolen' by the madman, who fortunately passes out trying to operate on himself simultaneously. Matt uses his surgery chores to make up with Sean. Adrian and Ava make up and pass straight to incestuous kissing.

Staffel 2, Folge 14: Trudy Nye

Erstausstrahlung: 21. September 2004
Because of the loud music Christian's blind girl friend Natasha Charles notices nothing when two brats first moon her and then steal half of his sports car while she's waiting in it for him to return from the video store. Ava Moore continues to exasperate Adrian. Kimber Henry believes a palm reader that prolonging her hand lines can improve her faith and is angrily embarrassed when Julia and her date Kevin Hodgekiss greet Sean and her in the restaurant where the then couple celebrated Valentines day last year; in bed Sean promises her the absurd operation. Trudy Nye has the doctors repair her nose, broken 13 years ago by her about to be released from jail abusive husband Stan, who semi-accidentally killed their five-year old son Tyler for leaving toys all over the house; when the reconciled couple returns to have his face made unrecognizable, Christian refuses any form of complicity. Christian stands in for Sean to operate Kimber, and gets her to have sex there, so Sean can walk in on them end break up with her as he wanted. When Sean and Julia confront Ava about her incest while doing it with Matt, she says Adrian was given up for adoption because of a mental handicap; he runs away. Christian dumps Natasha after she forgave him 'too nobly' for fucking Kimber. Trudy returns to have her newly broken nose fixed, pregnant but denying Stans guilt.

Staffel 2, Folge 15: Sean McNamara

Erstausstrahlung: 28. September 2004
Christians hedonistic world comes crashing down when his crazy sex-addicted ex Gina calls him because she has tested positive for HIV, so he fears to be positive too. After confiding into Sean, he gathers the courage to inform his numerous sexual contacts who need to be tested too, including baby Wilbur and his father. Kimber is surprisingly understanding, even tells him he won't be alone and abandoned by everyone. Sean is attacked by a masked unknown, drugged and slashed in the face. Julia helps nurse him but stays with Kevin. It's probably the doing of the madman who attacked a girl at Matts school, and her parents asks him to help personally, which doubtlessly would arouse his utter anger; yet he operates her. Christian visits Gina in a crappy clinic, and finds she's not on the necessary cocktail, lacking health insurance; he can now tell her to have tested negative himself.

Staffel 2, Folge 16: Joan Rivers

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Oktober 2004
Joan Alexandra Molinsky asks the surgeons to undo all the plastic surgery she ever had as actress Joan Rivers, being ashamed she started the fashion of plastic surgery, especially to her lovely loving grandson Cooper, and pointing out it's a superb publicity stunt for her and the surgery firm. Ava says even besides Matt in bed, she'll never be happy again as long as people judge her; he proposes to start again in Paris and promises her anti-depression drugs- Christian surprises him stealing and sees trough his pretense it's for him; when he confronts her, she dares him into sexual power play, but he suddenly walks out during a fuck and tells Sean Ava is a male transsexual, which explains his shopping list for Matt who risks irreparable psychological damage if he finds out. The serial slasher's victims seem butchered even worse; it gives Sean nightmare hallucinations, as if talking to Colombian drug mafioso Escobar Gallardo who says he must kill the slasher, so he gets a better security firm. Adrian buys a gutting knife. The surgeons fly to Cara Nelson in Baltimore, searching the only surgeon who could have done a perfect sex change on Ava 17 years ago, pretending she's their patient, and learn her file was passed on to a colleague, retired Dr. Barett Moore, who now breads orchids and tells them Avery Tanner was a pretty gay boy who actually lusted him enough to choose a sex change, but the following marriage was a lie despite Adrian's birth. Julia tries threatening Ava to back off, and learns her price is the finishing touch-vaginal operation, which the doctors give her- with Barett, to her delighted surprise. Afterwards she tells Matt he's a hopeless boy needing a mother and refuses to go to Paris with him. Joan doesn't even like the idea of seeing what her inverse operations idea would make her look like, the computer simulation makes her change her mind- to another face-lift. While Ava is packing to leave alone, Adrian turns up; she fails talking and kissing him into joining her to Paris: being lied to too often, he stabs- himself to death. Matt is welcomed back home, Sean sleeps with a loaded revolver in hand, but the slasher surprises Christian...

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Staffel 3

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Staffel 3, Folge 1: Momma Boone

Erstausstrahlung: 20. September 2005
After Christian's Carver attack, Sean must look for a new partner to keep the practice going. Sean has to surgically separate on a 600-pound, super-obese woman from a couch she has spent the past three years on. Meanwhile, Julia realizes that she has to make a decision about the future of her marriage.

Staffel 3, Folge 2: KiKi

Erstausstrahlung: 27. September 2005
Christian and Liz operate on a female gorilla who must have a facial scar removed before she mates, whilst Sean operates on a former thug who wants to go straight. Meanwhile, Matt discovers the truth about Ava and releases his inner anger on a transsexual he picks up at a bar.

Staffel 3, Folge 3: Derek, Alex, and Gary

Erstausstrahlung: 4. Oktober 2005
Christian and Quentin operate on a group of frat guys, two of which have had their faces stuck to the butt of another. Meanwhile, Sean, Julia and Christian come to blows over what to do with Matt, and Christian has trouble in his three-way relationship with Kit and Kimber.

Staffel 3, Folge 4: Rhea Reynolds

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Oktober 2005
Christian and Quentin treat the latest Carver victim, but Christian has suspicions. Matt gets a restraining order against Sean, and social services become involved. Sean operates on an elderly woman who wants to look young again, in order to help her Alzheimer's-affected husband remember her.

Staffel 3, Folge 5: Granville Trapp

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Oktober 2005
After another woman is attacked by "The Carver", Christian is suspected to be the serial killer himself. His ex-lover Kit suspects him of killing all these women and making up the story that he has ever been attacked himself. She has also found crucial evidence that he in fact could be the killer. When being suspected Christian finally meets his biological mother for the first time. While suffering from the accusation of his partner and not knowing what to believe, Sean has do surgery on a man who has aids.

Staffel 3, Folge 6: Frankenlaura

Erstausstrahlung: 25. Oktober 2005
Faced with a lack of clients following the Carver controversy, Sean and Christian agree to pro bono work taking apart a Frankenstein-like woman assembled by a dangerous necrophiliac. Meanwhile, Gina returns and proposes a business venture with Julia.

Staffel 3, Folge 7: Ben White

Erstausstrahlung: 1. November 2005
Christian faces a question of ethics over a man who wants his leg amputated for personal reasons. Sean joins the FBI to perform procedures on people in the witness protection program, and meets a woman on the run with her son. In order to gain publicity for Spa De La Mer, Julia, Gina and Liz market a face cream to Joan Rivers made of semen. Christian makes a bold move in his relationship with Kimber.

Staffel 3, Folge 8: Tommy Bolton

Erstausstrahlung: 8. November 2005
After helping a Woman and her son change their appearance through surgery, Sean lets the two of them stay at his house for awhile until they can settle somewhere else. He becomes very comfortable with the idea of having a family again, however he soon discovers the truth about them. Chritian helps a boy with down-syndrome look more like his family. Christian also met up with his biological mother, who still is having second thoughts on having a real relationship with him. While business is sky rocketing for Julia, Quentin finally decided the "McNamara and Troy" join with Julia's business. Quetin and Julia also start to have feelings for one another.

Staffel 3, Folge 9: Hannah Tedesco

Erstausstrahlung: 15. November 2005
After finding out that Nicole isn't exactly what she said she was Sean isn't sure what to think, but Nicole convinces him otherwise.Sean is also having thoughts of giving up his life for Nicole, by making a new identity. Christin and Qentin are getting ready to operate on a girl who is getting a face transplant, a very hard but credible procedure. Which is exactly what their business needs. The only problem is that Christian found out that Qentin is a cocaine addict and is not ready enough for the surgery. So Christian thought to bring in Sean for extra help, but Sean is still thinking if he should come back to the business or not. Christin also meets a patient who wants to look like his Fiance Kimber.

Staffel 3, Folge 10: Madison Berg

Erstausstrahlung: 22. November 2005
Matt meets a girl who is completely against plastic surgery, but in a very prejudice way. Christian and Kimber are getting ready for their wedding and Christian decides to make Matt and Sean his best men, which causes problems to their already strained relationship. Kimber is beginning to have doubts for her wedding. The stress of the wedding and thinking that Christian may still have feelings for Julia are bothering her. Sean finally decides to come back to the practice with Christian.

Staffel 3, Folge 11: Abby Mays

Erstausstrahlung: 29. November 2005
After being left at the alter, Christian has to move on with his life including the surgeries he has to do. A woman comes in asking to look beautiful. Christian takes his anger out on her and tells her all the other wrong things with her. He also try's to find solace in other ways. A solder from Iraq comes and asks to have his war wounds fixed. Quentin is up for the job, Quentin also seduces the young man and Sean walks in on them. Sean try's to tell Julia about Quentin having an affair with a man, but Julian chooses not to listen. When Quenitin finds out that Sean knew about him and the male patient, Quentin decides to quit his job at McNamara/Troy and to go and work with Julia at her work.

Staffel 3, Folge 12: Sal Perri

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Dezember 2005
When Julia's mom comes to visit and to look at Julia's very popular upcoming business, Julia's mom has nothing supportive to say, which made Julia very angry. Julia explodes at her mom telling her to take the next flight out and to stay out of her life. Later that day Julia hears that the plane that her mother took crashed right when it was taking off. Julia rushed to the air port to go see if her mom was one of the only few survivors, she quickly called Sean to come and help look and to help perform surgeries on the passengers who were trying to live. Julia also got to experience some surgeries.

Staffel 3, Folge 13: Joy Kringle

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Dezember 2005
Its the Christmas season and McNamara/Troy get a couple of very merry patients. A man and woman who's profession is to be Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. They decided that they wanted to give their characters a new thinner image for children to know. When Julia is help putting up Christmas decorations she collapses. Julia goes to Sean to get her blood checked to see if there is anything wrong. She thinks it has to do with the stress of firring Quentin and getting divorced. But Sean discovers later that day, that she is pregnant. While Matt and his girlfriend Ariel are at school they see that their is an African-American nativity scene. Ariel gets very angry and has Matt help her paint the scene white.

Staffel 3, Folge 14: Cherry Peck

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Dezember 2005
When Chrsitian receives a very mysterious package covered in blood, he figures out that his ex-fiancé is being held hostage from "The Carver." Kit comes back to investigate Quentin who is their number one prime suspect at the moment. A transvestite comes to get work done for her mangled face, and wants her surgery free because Sean's son is the one who beat her up and made her face look worse. Seans asks Julia to move back into the house, but Julia declines his offer. When interrogating Quentin, Kit finds a very shocking fact about him.

Staffel 3, Folge 15: Quentin Costa

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Dezember 2005
After nine women are attacked by "The Carver," Kit knew that he was getting very desperate and they had no leads on who the carver could be. Sean and Christian thought it was still Quentin, however he was attacked the same night as the nine women. Matt decides to break up with Ariel, but finds out that she and her dad wanted to mess with him for being friends with a transvestite. In this very shocking and nail biting season finale we find out who "The Carver," really is.

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Staffel 4

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Staffel 4, Folge 1: Cindy Plumb

Erstausstrahlung: 5. September 2006
Burt Landau and his wife are the new owners of McNamara/Troy. Landau also wants surgery on his testicles. Dr. Troy and Dr. McNamara meet a woman named Cindy Plumb, a 50 year old phone sex operator seeking surgery to repair her signature voice.

Staffel 4, Folge 2: Blu Mondae

Erstausstrahlung: 12. September 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 3: Monica Wilder

Erstausstrahlung: 19. September 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 4: Shari Noble

Erstausstrahlung: 26. September 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 5: Dawn Budge

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Oktober 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 6: Faith Wolper, PhD

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Oktober 2006
Sean soon discovers that Monica Wilder doesn't intend to leave him alone. Christian's therapist has an obsessive torment to reveal. And Burt Landau proposes an unusual solution upon learning that Christian and Michelle are having an affair.

Staffel 4, Folge 7: Burt Landau

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Oktober 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 8: Conor McNamara

Erstausstrahlung: 24. Oktober 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 9: Liz Cruz

Erstausstrahlung: 31. Oktober 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 10: Merrill Bobolit

Erstausstrahlung: 7. November 2006
The past haunts Christian and Sean when Merrill Bobolit returns from prison with a request from another inmate.

Staffel 4, Folge 11: Conor McNamara, 2026

Erstausstrahlung: 14. November 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 12: Diana Lubey

Erstausstrahlung: 21. November 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 13: Reefer

Erstausstrahlung: 28. November 2006
Sean drinks to a great extent as he spends a depressing Christmas without his family; Christian gets an surprising gift when a 3-year old Wilber comes back into his life; and James pressures Michelle to help as she takes forceful measures to fill her holiday kidney quota.

Staffel 4, Folge 14: Willy Ward

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Dezember 2006

Staffel 4, Folge 15: Gala Gallardo

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Dezember 2006
Sean considers selling his shares of the practice to Christian and Michelle, although Michelle's past starts to threaten her future with Christian. Meanwhile, Escobar's wife needs cosmetic surgery.

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Staffel 5

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Staffel 5, Folge 1: Carly Summers

Erstausstrahlung: 30. Oktober 2007
Sean and Christian have relocated their practice from Miami, Florida to Los Angeles, California. Being new to the city, they find themselves having to start from scratch business wise. What they thought would naturally fall into place turns out to require some foot work. So, Christian and Sean hit the town and the nightclub scene and begin discovering a whole new world.

Staffel 5, Folge 2: Joyce and Sharon Monroe

Erstausstrahlung: 6. November 2007
Christian takes Fiona's advice and poses nude for Playgirl. Sean begins dating Kate Tinsley, the leading actress on Hearts 'n Scalpels, and discovers a secret from her past that forces her into surgery. Julia visits Los Angeles and announces a surprising new development in her love life. The surgeons operate on rival Marilyn Monroe impersonators.

Staffel 5, Folge 3: Everett Poe

Erstausstrahlung: 13. November 2007
Sean is disturbed by Olivia's 18-year-old daughter Eden, who comes to McNamara/Troy for a hymen reconstruction. Matt visits L.A. with baby Jenna and claims he has left Kimber. Liz questions Julia and Olivia's relationship.

Staffel 5, Folge 4: Dawn Budge II

Erstausstrahlung: 20. November 2007
Dawn Budge returns, who seeks recuperative surgery from Sean and Christian over a series of unfortunate events that has included an eagle mauling her face. Meanwhile, Annie and Eden start to form a sisterly bond, which unnerves Sean. When Annie gets expelled from her new school after being caught in a compromising sexual position with a boy student (after Eden's secret encouraging), Sean cannot convince the skeptic Julie or Oliva about the sociopath/evil seductress Eden's true dangerous colors. Meanwhile, Christian continues his secret male escort moonlighting and meets a disturbed woman, named Gwen, who has some unorthodox sexual means, while Christian also questions his faith when a nun shows up at his office for a breast downsizing. Also, a new menacing character is introduced as 'the Stooler' who sexually violates patients by posing as a proctologist.

Staffel 5, Folge 5: Chaz Darling

Erstausstrahlung: 27. November 2007
A patient inspires Sean to take his relationship with Kate in a new direction by having her act out his twisted fantasies. Meanwhile, Eden uses extreme methods of blackmail and intimidation to persuade Christian to perform surgery on a friend of hers. Kimber reaches out to an former business "associate" when she and Matt fall on hard times in order to finance their growing drug habit.

Staffel 5, Folge 6: Damien Sands

Erstausstrahlung: 4. Dezember 2007
Jealous over Sean's new-found fame, Christian convinces Sean to tape a reality show based on their careers as plastic surgeons by hiring Bliss Burger, now a Hollywood TV producer, to assist. But the realty show only brings out the inter-most secrets of Sean, Christian, as well as the people in their lives when Eden returns and reveals the tryst between Christian and Julia, who finds out about Oliva's brief tryst with Liz. Meanwhile, a middle-aged gigolo agrees to participate in Sean and Christian's reality show and to allow a facial without anesthesia using only acupuncture, while Eden also shows up and again comes onto Sean's senses.

Staffel 5, Folge 7: Dr. Joshua Lee

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Dezember 2007
With the help of "Hearts and Scalpels" actor Aidan Stone, Sean tries to regain his youth by pursuing a dangerous relationship with the seductive Eden through drugs and sex. A violent and traumatic event causes Julia to question her relationship with Olivia when they are both abducted by a car-jacker. An elderly scientist comes to Sean and Christian to have a mysterious metal chip in his back removed which he claims that "aliens on Earth" implanted inside him. Also, in an attempt to better her life, Kimber approaches Christian to ask for plastic surgery so she can re-start her modeling/porn career, but must pay the price by dumping Matt, despite knowing it will devastate him.

Staffel 5, Folge 8: Duke Collins

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Dezember 2007
As Christmas approaches, Sean finally discovers the secret romance between Christian and Julia after they decide to come clean about it. Landing in the hospital after a fire, Matt bonds with his horribly burned rehabilitation counselor, Rachel. Sean performs surgery on a man, Duke Collins, who was shot in the face while playing Santa Claus by a disgruntled boy. Meanwhile, Eden suspiciously makes a peace offering with a wary Julia by giving her a gift of a fruitcake. Kimber and Ram reveal their future plans to Julia and Christian. Also, Sean and Christian deal with the presence of a group of overly cheerful Christmas carolers that show up at their practice.

Staffel 5, Folge 9: Rachel Ben Natan

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Januar 2008
As Julia's health worsens (with nobody suspecting that Eden has poisoned her with slow-acting arsenic), Christian falls back into his old habits when he seduces the hot new receptionist. Sean is then forced to hire Gina as the new receptionist at McNamara/Troy in order to get back at Christian for his romance with Julia. Meanwhile, Dawn Budge returns to McNamara/Troy after another unfortunate incident which requires another round of cosmetic surgery in which both Christian and Sean are caught up in it. Also, Matt persuades Rachel to have reconstruction surgery to repair her own badly scarred face in which a twist reveals a piece of tooth lodged in her skull caused by the Arab suicide bomber.

Staffel 5, Folge 10: Magda and Jeff

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Januar 2008
Sean's role on the TV show 'Hearts & Scalpels' is expanded after he takes on an agent: the hyper-tempered Colleen Rose. After Eden seduces Aiden, videotapes it, and shows it to the studio producer Barbara Shapiro, he is fired and Sean lands the lead role himself. Meanwhile, a suspicious Christian questions Gina's motives for moving to Los Angeles and her working at McNamara/Troy and discovers that she's still trying to drive him away from Julia, who continues to grow physically sicker which drives a frustrated Christian further away from her. Also, Magda is an 85-year-old woman who asks for plastic surgery to be done on Jeff, her 40-year-old lover, to make him look even more younger.

Staffel 5, Folge 11: Kyle Ainge

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Januar 2008
Christian attempts to cope in the aftermath of Gina's death and trying to suppress the guilt he has for pushing her off a roof and making it look like a suicide. Christian also deals with Gina's son, Wilbur, and while looking for for the right time to tell him about his mother's death, deals with some surprising allegations made by Wilbur's school teacher. Meanwhile, Colleen feels threatened when another talent agency shows an interest in Sean's acting career, and it's revealed that she will go to great efforts to hold onto Sean... and revealing that Christian isn't the only person who gets away with murder here. Also, Kyle is a young man who wants to have reconstruction surgery done on his arm after he and his wife resorted to cannibalism while stranded in the mountains.

Staffel 5, Folge 12: Lulu Grandiron

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Februar 2008
Eden looks to Sean for help in facial surgery after getting into the porn business with Kimber and Ram. Meanwhile, a group of wealthy socialites hire Christian for all of their cosmetic surgery needs. Also, Sean discovers another side to the possessive and murderous Colleen, as well as discovering her teddy bear fetish.

Staffel 5, Folge 13: August Walden

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Februar 2008

Staffel 5, Folge 14: Candy Richards

Erstausstrahlung: 19. Februar 2008

Staffel 5, Folge 15: Ronnie Chase

Erstausstrahlung: 2008

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