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The Carver strikes at a sorority house. His identity is revealed. Ariel's dad kidnaps Matt and Cherry. Ariel's dad forces Matt to make a life threatening decision, while the carver tries desperately to get his last minute revenge. Julia discovers that there might be something wrong with her baby.
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Director:
Ryan Murphy
Writer:
Ryan Murphy
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Broadcast: 2005-12-20
Production No.: 2T5965
Episode Overall No.: 44
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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Other Music:
"Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)" by Gotan Project |
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Episode Notes -  |
Season Finale
Jessalyn Gilsig is credited in the opening credits, therefore in the main cast.
Kelly Carlson does not appear in this episode.
Quotes:
Matt: Do you mind if I crash your party?
Sean: It's just a boring family dinner.
Matt: I could use a little boring right now.
(as Gina goes into surgery to have her Carver smile repaired)
Gina: (to Christian) Don't screw this up, asshole. I'm planning to get a book-deal out of this and I don't want to look like the Joker on my dust-jacket.
Christian: You won't get away with it, Quentin. Now we know who you are.
Quentin: Understood. But revealing my identity to you was the only way that I could assure that my message would be taken seriously. Who's going to listen to the ramblings of some psychotic? But the well-thought out philosophy of a highly-trained highly-skilled plastic surgeon? Now, those quotes end up on the front page of the Times. My greatest fear is being relegated to the lunatic fringe. That's why I couldn't let you take all the credit for this, Christian. I am neither a psychotic nor a shallow, mediocre surgeon. I'm an artist.
Quentin: If you want to free someone from the prison of their reflection, you need to destroy them physically and sexually. I'm not a Dahmer or Bundy, I don't rape to possess. I rape to enlighten.
Christian: Like you 'enlightened' Kimber?
Quentin: Kimber moved me. I had to save her. You turned her into a monster. I fixed her, released her from your gilded cage.
Quentin: (to Sean) Tell me what you don't like about yourself. You two are the most irritating stubborn couple of assholes I've ever met. A year ago, I get down to Miami, the Sodom of the south, to make a little statement with the Naomi Gaines girl, and you two had to pull a John Wayne and destroy my beautiful work.
(Mr Alderman picks up a pair of garden shears)
Cherry: Oh, God.
Mr Alderman:: Would you stop your snivelling. I'm not going to use these on you. That would be barbaric. No, I just wanted to see if they had any rust on them before I trim the privet tomorrow.
Kit: Psychologically speaking, you're no different from the Carver.
Liz: I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!
Kit: You have a history of standing up to social norms, you have a clear need to exercise power over those around you and you had an access to the medical tools needed to carry out your plan. Tell me, now that I've had my face repaired... don't you just wish you could carve it again?
Kit: Yes, Wendy. We spoke to her this afternoon. Cute girl. Bit young for you though. Went back to her husband in case you hadn't heard. Turns out she was straight.
Liz: Nobody's perfect.
Kit: That's not the real reason she left you, though, is it, Liz? She told us you used to get a bit carried away in your lovemaking. What was the word she used?... (gets very close to Liz's ear) vigorous. Had a bit of a power issue, did we?
Liz: Yeah, well, someone in this room has a power issue, that's for sure.
(during the interrogation, Kit brings up about Liz's frequent visits to sperm banks)
Liz: Look, I know this sounds weird, but we were using all of this as an ingredient in a face cream.
Kit: That's so stupefyingly bizarre it's almost worth entertaining the thought.
Kit: I just want to know what it's like for someone like you. An out lesbian working in a male-dominated field helping women stuff their bodies with silicone? Holding strong to those feminist beliefs must be awfully frustrating at times.
Liz: Let me save you the trouble, OK? I am not some bitter femmy Nazi trying to get back at the world. And I certainly didn't carve my bosses as payback for who they are. And beauty is not a curse, it's a commodity. And I've never had any illusions about what I do.
Quentin: So if I told you that I was born without a penis, that would have made everything OK, right?
Christian: You mean some twink didn't bite it off during a lover's spat?
(whilst investigating the sorority house where the Carver attacked nine girls in one night)
Kit: Serial criminals like the Carver are creatures of habit. They're obsessive-compulsive. When they break protocol like this, it means they're getting desperate. That's when we catch them. It's always darkest before the dawn.
Kit: (to Sean and Christian) No child who's experienced what Quentin experienced can be expected to grow up sane. The physical deformities he endured, abandoned by his parents, placed in a convent.
Quentin: I would say I was downright magnanimous with you Sean in your bathroom. If you had just listened to me, I might not have had the need to escalate things, and pop Christian's cherry.
Christian: Bullshit. You're just a freaking eunuch who needs to rape people with a strap-on to make yourself feel like a man!
Quentin: What do you call a plastic surgeon with no thumbs? Homeless.
Quentin: A Doctor's work is never done.
Sean: How can you do this to people, Quentin? You're a Physician.
Quentin: Exactly. And I came to this city of flesh to heal it. To free it from the tyranny of beauty. To save it, body and soul, from the grotesque unnecessary face-lifts, and ridiculous calf implants. You two wouldn't let me be. I have to admit, I took it very personally.
Christian: You should have taken it personally, you sack of shit! Do you think we were going to let people walk around scarred for the rest of their lives?
Mr. Alderman: (to Matt and Cherry) See, I just can't figure out which one the girl is in this relationship and which one is the man. Or do you take turns?
Quentin: (to Christian) How manly did you feel when I was boning your tight, white ass, pretty boy?
Trivia:
It also drew 3.9 million viewers in the 18-49 age demographic. This made it the highest watched cable series for 2005
Julia hides something about her baby. Maybe the baby's health isn't the best? Next season will show!
Though Quentin does cut off Sean's pinkie, Sean does have it reattached by the "best micro surgeon in the state."
Liz is arrested and taken in for questioning.
This is the second time Sean is "attacked" by The Carver. Interestingly, it was episode 15 last season as well.
Sean looses a finger at the hands of The Carver / Quentin Costa.
Julia has Sean's name added to the property deed for the house and agrees to move back in with him.
Quentin and Kit move to Spain at the end of this episode. Quentin continues being the carver, because "a doctor's work is never done".
Mr. Alderman makes Matt cut off Cherry's penis. Later Cherry kills Mr. Alderman.
Gina is the carver's last victim.
It is revealed that Quentin is the Carver. His accomplice is his sister Katherine (none other than Kit McGraw).
Allusions:
Julia's dream is a direct reference to the ending of Roman Polanski's classic horror movie, Rosemary's Baby, in which Rosemary finds out that her child is the antichrist. Similarities include the black veil over the baby's crib and Julia walking in with a knife in her hand, screaming when seeing her child, and asking "What did you do to my baby? |
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