Writer:	Lynnie Greene, Richard Levine
Director:	David Nutter
Star:	Julian McMahon (Christian Troy),  Bruno Campos (Dr. Quentin Costa (Season 3+, recurring previously)),  Roma Maffia (Liz Cruz (Season 2+, recurring previously)),  Kelly Carlson (Kimber Henry (Season 3+, recurring previously)),  Joely Richardson (Julia McNamara),  Dylan Walsh (Sean McNamara)
Recurring Role:	Linda Klein (Nurse Linda)
Guest Star:	Louis Mustillo (Sal Perry),  Ty Miller (Pilot),  Gwen Holloway (Nurse #4),  Olivia Fox (Burned Woman),  Mary Mara (Natalie Holden),  Sandy Martin (Helen Holden),  Naja Hill (Pregnant Woman),  Bergen Williams (Nurse #1),  Mitch Pileggi (Dr. Russel Marcus),  Kate Fuglei (Nurse #3),  Cheryl Carter (Nurse #2),  Vanessa Redgrave (Dr. Erica Noughton),  Ingrid Beer (Injured Woman)

Vanessa Redgrave is credited as a Special Guest Star
(edit) John Hensley who stars as Matt McNamara does not appear in this episode. (edit)

Erica: Ericsson defines love as "that which promotes another's growth"
Julia: Oh! You want to see me grow mother? Get the hell out of my life! (edit) (Julia goes back to her apartment and finds Erica sitting on the sofa, waiting for her)
Erica: Oh, sweetheart. I've been waiting for you all night. I couldn't leave the way things are between us. Did you hear the news? That earlier flight you wanted me on crashed. (edit) Quentin: About yesterday... sometimes people misinterpret me until they get to know me.
Julia: I know you. I know you're someone who can only be big by making others feel small. I know I don't need people like you in my life anymore. And I know you're fired. (edit) Sean: You're a remarkable person, Jules. Every time I look at you in there, so capable, strong, not afraid of any of it. You'd have made a much better doctor than I am. I always thought I was the one who could handle anything. Who wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty, could deal with all the shit that's just part of life. I never wanted to know about Matt cos I couldn't live with the truth. I never asked about you and Christian. I couldn't deal with all the questions I'd have to ask about us.
Julia: You shouldn't be so hard on yourself.
Sean: There's a reason I'm a plastic surgeon. If something's ugly, I fix it. What's imperfect, I make perfect, wipe away the mess, make it all nice. I couldn't do what these guys do. Life and death. Losing more than you save and moving on to the next, just one after the other. You could. All these years, all through our marriage, I left you to deal with it all. The mess of raising two kids. An unfaithful husband. You could hold it all, the good and the bad, all the greys in between. I'm not the man I thought I was. (edit) Julia: (talking to the body identified as Erica) Mother, it's Julia. What I said at the spa, it was only the anger talking. You know that, right? Do you remember... how old was I? About five or six... and you and Daddy had had this big fight and you took me by the hand and you said 'let's go Julia, we're leaving' and we went outside and we just walked for a long time in silence, holding hands. We went to the park... you showed me how to put a blade of grass in between my thumbs and blow on it to make a noise. I laughed and you took my face in your hands and you said 'I love you, little girl' And I squeezed you so tight and I said 'I love you too, Mommy.' And we both knew it was true. Do you remember? Then one day it wasn't true anymore. But I forgive you for not loving me. It's OK. I didn't love you either. I just craved... your approval like it was somehow possible to get. I saved a life tonight, Mother. Well, two lives actually. A stranger's and my own. So it's OK. You can leave now. I don't need you to tell me who I am any more. (edit)

One of the few episodes where there's no consult at McNamara/Troy. (edit) This is the second time in Nip/Tuck history that Julia is a "surgeon". Interestingly, it was also in episode 12 last season that she was given a chance to "operate" . (edit) Quentin is now unemployed, having been fired by Julia, and having left McNamara/Troy last episode. (edit) When looking at a patient, Christian imagines seeing Kimber. (edit)

Dr. Marcus (Mitch Pileggi) asks Sean to transfer skin from the recently deceased Mrs. Holden, to which Sean replys, "You want me to skin her?" This is a play on the name of Pileggi's character, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, from "The X-Files". (edit)