Christian performs surgery at his former fraternity house to help cover up a hazing ritual gone awry. Sean, Julia and Christian struggle to find a common solution as Matt spirals out of control. Tensions escalate at McNamara/Troy as Sean and Quentin, against Christian's wishes, remove the tattoos of a gang member who wants to go straight.Īdam Henderson, Aaron Moody and Graham Miller After learning that Ava is a transgender woman, Matt questions his own sexuality and heads down a dark path. The face transplant at first looks like a success, but ends up failing, and the show ends with the surgeons removing the facial tissue.As Christian tries to recover from his attack by The Carver, Sean must forge a new partnership to keep the practice running Sean helps the police remove an obese woman from her couch Julia realizes she needs to make a decision on her marriageĬhristian and Liz perform cosmetic surgery on an extraordinary ape to help her chances of reproducing. She makes the decision for him by leaving while he's away she leaves him a note saying it's better that way.

Sean agonizes over which family to give up: his old family, or the new one he has with his witness protection woman. Kimber agrees to leave the porn business if Christian will agree to give up other women (she allows for threesomes). Sean mistakes a gay man's come-on for surveillance by the mob, and demonstrates his inability to control his rage by knocking the man out.

Sean grows closer to the woman whose face he remade for the witness protection program (played by Anne Heche), and considers joining her in the program.Ĭhristian turns down a woman who wants surgery to look more like his fiancée Kimber Henry.Ĭhristian issues an ultimatum to Kimber: get out of the porn business, or lose him.Ĭhristian is convinced Quentin is high as they remove the face from the donor.

Christian Troy and Quentin Costa get the opportunity to perform a face transplant, which has never been completed successfully before.Ĭhristian grows concerned over Quentin's drug use.

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