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The episode opens with Sean cleansing his home as he packs up with Christian’s help. There are two people burning sagey stuff trying to get rid of the bad vibes in the home. Christian, in the Christian way, points them toward the nursery…because of Julia and Marlowe. Sean mentions he’s off to LA for an interview – the plastic surgery capital of the world. Christian hands Sean a check – he is officially bought out. The cleansers came out and said they’d be back in an hour to finish – the handyman said they were disturbing him. Sean and Christian didn’t have a handyman in the bedroom – they run, and there, on the bed, is Escobar Gallardo. He needs them.

Christian, Michelle and Wilbur are at the park playing with him on the swings. Christian tells Michelle that she is a natural mom. He tells her that he starts proceedings to adopt him legally, and wants her to be his mother. She tells him she needs to think about it – she needs to be sure. Christian, in this weird alternate world character development is super considerate and understand. Little do they know though that James is spying on them at the park, and puts in a phone call to her bosses asking if they want children’s kidneys. What a sick and wonderfully twisted way to start an episode, right?

This episode of Nip/Tuck opens with Sean and Matt in a jewelry store buying a necklace for Annie for Christmas. Her and Conor are coming to Miami to spend the holidays with Sean, and he couldn’t be happier. While they are picking out the gift, his cell phone rings – it’s Julia telling him that Annie and Conor won’t be coming because Annie has strep. Sean is clearly upset, but he has Matt so he’s ok. But then Matt tells him that he and Kimber are going on a Scientology cruise and won’t be around for the holidays either. This sends him straight to the bar where he starts drinking by himself.

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday and some TiVo issues, this week’s Nip/Tuck summary is late as you have probably figure out. I just wanted to write a quick blurb about two huge plot developments that came into play in this past Tuesday’s episode, “Diana Lubey.”

First, Christian and Michelle are engaged. He proposed to her over a romantic dinner and she, being the smart one that she is, suggested they live together first seeing as how they were technically a fairly new couple. She insisted Christian put his beloved apartment on the market – there were ghosts of too many women haunting the Miami beachfront condo. Christian is having doubts about his decision – everywhere he looks in the apartment he sees the past women in his life, and they are all telling him how he will never make marriage material. He is determined though, sells his apartment, and starts the beginning of his life with Michelle.

This episode is a blend of present day and flashback memories – however, present day is considered to be in 2026 and the flashback is considered to be 2006. The episode starts with Conor McNamara, age 20, sitting in his therapist’s office talking about his upcoming hand surgery. He’s decided, finally, to have the surgery done on his right hand because he wants to be a surgeon someday like his father. He says that his mother always told him that he should accept his disability, and that people would love him for being him – but he never has accepted the disability and wants to just shake someone’s hand like everyone else. This conversation with the therapist reveals that his parents are no longer together – which, we all feared might be what was happening with this episode since Joely Fisher announced she was leaving the show. Conor wants to know the real reason for his parents split – it just doesn’t make sense to him why two people who had been together for so long would choose to separate with an infant son. The therapist asks if Conor had any memories of the split – he didn’t, but tried to extract what he could from his siblings. Matt wasn’t around so much, but Annie told him what she remembered.

Matt, Sean/Christian’s (Dr. Macnamara / Dr. Troy) son, is sitting in their office with Kimber, Christian’s former girlfriend who Sean has also slept with. Matt and Kimber have been in a relationship recently, and are telling Sean and Christian that they got married. Sean and Christian are obviously taken aback, and Kimber hands them some photos from the wedding day – snidely – saying she feels badly they couldn’t be at the wedding. Sean and Christian are not impressed with her olive branch, and tell the two not only is this abrupt but also a terrible idea. Christian and Sean do not hide their negative feelings toward Kimber, flat out saying that she’s most likely up to no good. Matt tells them that since he and Kimber have been involved in the Church of Scientology, he’s grown a lot and forsees lots of opportunity for himself and the two men are just jealous because he is finally doing so well. Christian and Sean beg to differ, and when tensions in the room start getting too much, Kimber tells them that they are not only there to tell them the news – she is also there for a consult because she wants some work done…for free. Christian has no intention of doing this, but Kimber tells the two men it’s in their best interest – she wants her implants removed so she can breast feed – she and Matt are having a baby.

Episode starts with Liz Cruz, McNamara/Troy's resident anesthesiologist, sitting in Christian and Sean's office getting a plastic surgery consultation. Christian and Sean, knowing that Liz was always a critic of those who opted for plastic surgery, ask her why she's having a change of heart. Liz says that after she had her kidney stolen and almost died, she basically wants to live life to the fullest and that includes looking good while doing it. She also mentions that she thinks her new girlfriend, Poppy (Alanis Morissette) will like the improvements, too. The boys are surprised because they didn't know Liz had a girlfriend, and also advice her not to go through with the surgery because of the health risks involved after the trauma she'd recently been through. She threatens to leave McNamara/Troy and go to a rival practice if they won't perform the surgery on her.

This episode starts with the return of Mrs. Grubman, Christian’s long time patient who suffered from a stroke during surgery two years prior. She has returned with her caretaker, Yvetta, after two years of constant rehabilitation and total isolation. Mrs. Grubman tells Christian that, even though her rehabilitation has been a long and hard-yet-successful struggle, she now has stage 4 lung cancer that has metastasized to nearly every part of her body and is living on borrowed time. She tells Christian that since she is dying, she wants to die looking beautiful and wants more plastic surgery so she can have a “coming out” party to celebrate her successful rehab. When Christian tells her he cannot perform any surgery on her under these circumstances, she says then she wants him to perform the surgery on her posthumously so that she looks fabulous at her funeral.

Cast: Dr. Christian Troy
Julian McMahon is Dr. Christian Troy, a charismatic, attractive, and unchaste surgeon/founding partner at McNamara/Troy, South Beach’s most successful plastic surgery practice. He started the practice with his best friend, Dr. Sean McNamara and the word is still out on whether going into business with his best friend was a good idea. Remarkably, their friendship was still strong even after it was revealed that Sean’s son, Matt, was actually Christian’s biological child – the result of a one night stand Christian had with Sean’s now wife, Julia, during their engagement. Their friendship did become strained, however, once it became known that Matt was involved romantically with a transsexual and after a psychiatrist suggested that Christian might in fact be in love with Sean. Of course, seeing as how the promiscuous Christian has slept with practically every gorgeous woman in Miami, one of them for certain would disagree with the suggestion that he might be gay. It is implied that Christian’s wanton sexual behavior might be the psychological ramifications of sexual abuse he endured as a child at the hands of his foster parents; or, possibly, because of his father who raped his mother resulting in Christian’s conception. Christian, however, falls for Kimber Henry and proposes to her, making it seem like he is ready to give up his Casanova ways. He was unfortunately proverbially “left at the altar” when she was kidnapped and attacked by “The Carver,” the serial rapist who tortures his victims via inhumane “plastic surgery” procedures. Christian still wanted to be with Kimber after the ordeal, but the feeling did not remain mutual. This season it seems Christian will be faced with a new slew of psychological challenges, go face to face with some new femmes fatales and one unexpected shower encounter with a hunky male.