Nip/Tuck: Who is the Carver? (spoilers)
Analysis
Sean is the only victim of The Carver who was not raped. His slashing
missed major facial nerves, damage that had made the other attacks
hard to repair.
It's established that Sean frequently hallucinates. Last season he
argued with a dead woman's head during his recertification. This
year, his Kimber "real doll" came to life as he explored its three
orifices. In the Finale, he engaged in fantasy involving knives, guns
and his drug lord nemesis Eduardo Escobar.
Was he also hallucinating in the Finale when we "saw" him get into
bed, handgun at the ready, awaiting The Carver?
We've seen split, multiple personalities on the show before. Sean
even asked one patient's child split-personality "Sassy" how to
develop his *own* split personality, and hide beneath it!
Did you notice that Sean persuaded the police, who had been sitting
vigil inside his home, to wire up cameras and vacate the premises --
purportedly so he could "trap" The Carver?
Convenient, if he's The Carver! It enabled him to slip out that night
to attack Christian. (The field of view of the cameras was obviously
limited, and Sean knew where each had been placed).
Imagine. Sean is on the local TV news playing the brave hero,
standing up to The Carver, when he is The Carver himself. Brilliant
-- and mad.
Sean has probably suffered a severe breakdown, between his
shattering-in-slow-motion marriage to Julia, the loss of his beloved
Megan, Eduardo Escobar, his non-parentage of Matt, and Matt's affair
with an (oh-so) surgically enhanced middle-aged "woman" Eva.
"Beauty is a curse on the world".
Plastic surgery -- and "beauty" -- are at the center of Sean's life
woes.
As a plastic surgeon, he never had the respect of his wife, whose
opinion matters to him the most. Plastic surgery reinvigorated
Megan's cancer and killed her. It brought the rapist of Escobar's
daughter to their doorstep. At Sean's hands, plastic surgery
brutalizing Escobar's Colombian girls.
Christian's "beauty" attracted Julia -- and the resulting pregancy set
Sean's life on its course, and enshrouded it with deception. Eva's
"beauty" -- discovered to be even more unnatural than even Sean had
suspected -- took Matt away from him in ways not even the truth of his
parentage could.
If Sean is The Carver, look at how far he had to go, just to get Julia
to tell him -- for the first time in her life -- that she admires him
and his work! That Julia ... she's a piece of work.
Was attacking Christian the culmination of all of this -- with the
most ironclad alibi imaginable? Destroying Christian's "beauty"
without even *Christian* (let alone the police) able to conceive that
he'd done it?
I don't believe Sean is conscious of what he's doing. Not yet. Will
Sean figure this out on his own?
It's more likely that Christian will realize that Sean is The Carver.
Christian might even escape injury, somehow, in the cliffhanger, and
unveil Sean.
Will Christian convince Sean to seek treatment and *keep* *quiet*
about what he's done? Christian would be saving his *own* behind, of
course, along with his friend's.
Whatever happens, can you think of a more profound deepening of the
relationship between Sean and Christian -- known to be the focal point
of the entire show -- than such a conspiracy of silence?
Jana Peterson
ashes and reinventing themselves. There seems to be alot of inside jokes
on TV lately.
(I hate it when people mention something like this and I'm not 'in' so
I'll mention the actress is the Jean Gray from Xmen that presumably will
turn into the Phoenix in the next movie)
Tirya
I love it. =D
Tirya
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SeaShel
> Whatever happens, can you think of a more profound deepening of the
> relationship between Sean and Christian -- known to be the focal point
> of the entire show -- than such a conspiracy of silence?
Great thoughts there. My husband and I have been going through the entire
cast list in our heads to try and see who would fit as the Carver. The
trouble with speculation and spoilers is that it is almost always a letdown
when the truth somes out later. :) For that reason I hope it is who you
say, I'd love to see how it resolves.
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Robert Underhill
"SeaShel" <sea...@boxofwsfish.com> wrote:
During the scene between Ava and Julia I was fascinated by the masks on
the shelf in the background. Sometimes the shot even seemed to be set
up to contrast Ava in one half of the frame and the masks in the other.
The masks seemed to be a suggestion that the Carver lived in Ava's house
(giving two possibilities). But Adrian is dead and Ava is on a plane,
leaving no one to carve up Christian.
Allyson Robinson
You're so right, and I didn't even pick up on it. How funny.
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Mike Harrison
To me there are only 2 possibilites for the Carver: either Julia or
Matt. My money's on Julia. I think she's pretty screwed up these
days. Rapes could have been done with a strap on dildo.
Mike Harrison
Yeah that sounded like an X-men reference, pointing to Famke Janssen's
likely next role.
TV Girlie
> Sean has probably suffered a severe breakdown, between his
> shattering-in-slow-motion marriage to Julia, the loss of his beloved
> Megan, Eduardo Escobar, his non-parentage of Matt, and Matt's affair
> with an (oh-so) surgically enhanced middle-aged "woman" Eva.
>
I enjoy your enthusiasm for arguing that it might be Sean who is the
Carver. And I see your points...
but....
let me just point out one very nit-picky thing: at the time The Carver
started his work, it was not known by anyone that Ava was anything
other than a real woman. No one knew that she was once a he.
So, as far as Sean would be concerned, Ava was only the woman who was
sleeping with Matt. _Sleeping with_.
TV Girlie <-- I think this theory is too far-fetched. Though creative
:-)
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Kim
I think it's Liz, the lesbian nurse/anesthesiologist. She seemed to
have some issues with beauty that came about when she was pregnant
with Christian's baby, then had it aborted when it tested positive for
birth defects. She would also have access to the paralyzing drug in
the hypodermic used by the carver.