Nip/Tuck
Season 1
13 listed hours · 2003–2010 · FX
From the desk
How this season is filed
Tell me what you don't like about yourself, then watch two Miami surgeons chase perfection into ethical freefall. Ryan Murphy's early FX provocation is glossy body-horror soap: scalpel camp, sex as plot, and a bromance that treats beauty like a contact sport.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Nip/Tuck (2003–2010) on FX as the first listed season of 6 — 13 listed hours, 2003-07-22–2003-10-21 from “Pilot” (S01E01) to “Escobar Gallardo” (S01E13). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Pilot
Pilot asks the catchphrase on arrival: two Miami surgeons, Ryan Murphy's early FX provocation, glossy body-horror soap with sex as plot.
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S01E01 Pilot
The doctors operate on a man they suspect is a drug dealer trying to alter his appearance.
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S01E02 Mandi/Randi
Christian and Sean operate on identical twins who want to look different from each other. In other events, Sean leaves Julia; Frisky's fate is discovered by a plumber; Christian experiences sexual dysfunction; and Matt researches circumcision.
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S01E03 Nanette Babcock
Sean leaves an instrument inside a patient, and Christian must clean up the mess. Matt resorts to desperate measures to get the circumcision he wants, and Julia has to go to anger-management class for flushing her daughter's gerbil.
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S01E04 Sofia Lopez
Christian meets a porn mogul who agrees to send the surgeons some business, much to Sean's chagrin. Also, a hack rival causes problems for the doctors.
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S01E05 Kurt Dempsey
Running into an ex-lover leads Christian to a sexaholics meeting, while Sean and Julia deal with an unexpected pregnancy.
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S01E06 Megan O'Hara
A woman who has lost 143 lbs. wants excess skin removed; Matt finds a way to woo Vanessa; Christian rethinks his womanizing ways; and a double-mastectomy patient considers reconstructive breast surgery.
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S01E07 Cliff Mantegna
Matt's relationship with Ridley and Vanessa has unimaginable consequences. Julia's friend Jude is hired by Sean and Christian as an intern.
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S01E08 Cara Fitzgerald
Matt is involved in a hit-and-run accident that injures a schoolmate; and the doctors face a crisis of ethics after removing a birthmark from a patient who isn't what he claims to be.
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S01E09 Sofia Lopez II
Dr. Bobolit makes Christian an offer he can't refuse, and Christian reevaluates his relationship with Kimber. Also: Julia and Jude get personal, as do Sean and Megan.
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S01E10 Adelle Coffin
Sean and Christian are forced to go through recertification. Also: Megan O'Hara's health takes a turn for the worse.
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S01E11 Montana/Sassy/Justice
The doctors treat a patient who has multiple-personality disorder, Matt and Henry befriend Cara Fitzgerald and Christian gets some unexpected news from an ex-lover.
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S01E12 Antonia Ramos
The doctors remove a woman's breast implants only to find that they contain a drug smuggler's stash. Also: Sofia Lopez joins Julia's pilates group.
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S01E13 Escobar Gallardo
In the season finale, the doctors are desperate for a way out from under the thumb of drug runner Gallardo, and Bobolit takes on a patient turned away by Sean and Christian.
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