This is meant to draw some suspicion that Quentin could be The Carver. But the one moment that will stay with viewers is his odd comments about working in Africa and blood oaths.

We still get some good moments, as Christian brushed off Quentin’s complimenting Liz as coming on to her. Therefore, the impact of Kiki’s death, and the added affect that Christian isn’t forgetting The Carver that easily, isn’t as strong as they were hoping.Ĭhristian’s reduced presence in this episode also hurts the ongoing resentment he has towards new partner Quentin Costa. He claims that working on Kiki has made him forget about The Carver (which is probably a lie), but it isn’t given enough time to convince the audience of either argument. Christian’s arc, including why he became so invested in Kiki after initially blowing it off, is not explored enough. It isn’t vanity to win a dog show, that’s for sure.Īlthough Kiki is the title character, most of the scenes were likely cut because Matt’s downward spiral is the biggest part of this episode. However, the circumstances are certainly different. This isn’t the first time someone came to them asking to fix an animal, as we remember from “Escobar Gallardo”. If the male mate found this, he would likely attack and kill her. The problem is that when they found Kiki, poachers had slashed her face while they killed her mother. The title gorilla has been studied to see how animals understand language, and the researcher hopes to breed her to see if Kiki can pass down her skills to her offspring. It begins with researcher asking the doctors to operate on a gorilla. Though the title patient storyline is underdeveloped, the rest of the story is potent. This is easily one of Nip/Tuck’s more unsettling episodes, largely because of Matt’s further descent into violent self loathing following the life changing revelation about Ava’s past.

Nip/Tuck explores this issue to its most extreme and disturbing. However, often the reality is that no matter how much we change our looks, we can never get away from what we are inside. We’ve all wanted to change something about our appearance to get something we desired, whether it is love, money, status or freedom.

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