Rui-Long Monico - Geneva // USA Conexion

Tell us what you don't like about yourself...

Mmmm, I gotta admit, this episode disappointed me a lot, I had a good time watching it but it's definitively not Nip/Tuck material.

First of all, I didn't like how the whole episode revolved around Christian, leaving the other characters in the shadows. Secondly, Kit's part was poorly written. And finally, the reunion between Christian and his mom was ridiculously short.

It's regrettable that this season focuses more on the main characters instead of the clinic's customers. Their colorful weirdness added a lot to the show. For example, the side story about Granville Trapp, a gay guy dying from AIDS, had probably five minutes of screen time max. It’s too bad because the subject had potential controversy. It's kinda creepy how Granville Trapp wants to fix his face up so people won't notice that he has AIDS, Sean sorta opposes it and I stand with with on this issue. Again, it would have been interesting if the story had a little twist to it or something but unfortunately the script decided not to highlight this person.

Ok, back to Christian. When the show opens up we see Rhea Reynolds, her throat slit, lying dead on her bed. The word FRAUD is spelled with blood on the wall. Kit McGraw, the detective in charge of the case, points out that the Carver made a couple changes from his previous attacks: he never killed and he never attacked the same person twice (which is fallacious since Rhea Reynolds was a fake victim the first time). Couple scenes later, she arrests Christian for this murder.

It is so obvious that Kit’s arrest of Christian was a revenge for being dumped by him. Most of the evidences against Christian are so flawed that she keeps on pressuring him to confess. Pointing that he, as a 12 years old kid, used to play the surgeon with dead cats, dissecting them and all, was ridiculous but quite funny. Or her assumptions about the bondage porn or the tranquilizer that she founds in his apartment are indefensible in court. Kit even go as far as provoking Kim to slap her so she can get arrested for assaulting an officer. The only proof that Christian was the real Carver is the condom full of his sperm that she found next to the victim. I also have a theory about how Christian’s reappearing mom is just an undercover cop trying to push Christian into confession. Her story about her being rape when she was 14 and abandoning him is just too much.

At least the ending was great. In a great strategy, Christian calls the media about him being arrested. The real Carver all pissed off that someone else is taking credit for his work; go cut someone to prove the media wrong. With the real Carver still in activity, the cops have no choice but to release him from jail. Once back at work, Liz (the anesthetist) tells him that the new victim from the Carver is in his office. There, Kit McGraw lays with the most pitiful look on her face…