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l . . INT. OFFICE -- DAY 1 Plastic surgeon SEAN McNAMARA, 38, looks directly at us. SEAN Tell me what you don't like about yourself. We PAN around his desk, meet the patient -- SILVIO PEREZ, 40s. His brother, ALEJANDRO, 30, got the good looks in the family. With a slight accent -- ALEJANDRO My brother has always been unhappy about appearance. He sees how effortless it is for me teo go into a disco and pick up a woman, and when he tries this he is rebuffed. (pauses, clears throat) He’'s tried changing his cologne, working out, but the caliber of women he wants are not impressed. He wants a change. ' SEAN Mr. Perez, what exactly are you interested in changing? A ALEJANDRO My brother would like a new nose. (a long pause) He's also interested in a new jawline. He has acne scars as you can see, he would like those removed. He’s also very self- conscious about his hairline, the Rogaine did not work. SEAN I'm sorry...Alejandro is it? I‘m not comfortable having you speak for your brother when he’s the one reguesting such extensive surgery. Mr. Perez, maybe you could talk to me about -- ALEJANDRO My brother does not speak English. SEAN I'm sorry, I don‘t speak Spanish. ALEJANDRO You live in Miami and you don'’'t speak Spanish? Take a Berlitz class, man. Sean pauses, uncomfortable. He smiles, tightly. {CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: SBAN My partner will be here soon. EXT. MIAMI STREET -~ DAY (SIMULTANEOUS) 2 Plastic surgeon CHRISTIAN TROY, 39, walks a few blocks work. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN notice his confident strut and smile at him. He lobs a dashing grin right back. A BLONDE passes. TIGHT ON CHRISTIAN'S EYES. From his POV, .white lines from a grease pencil are drawn around her jaw and nose highlighting imperfections -- things to improve. All her flaws are corrected, instantly and easily, in his mund, A stunning AFRICAN-AMERICAN passes, smiles sexily. Christian zeros in on her chest, she’'s a B CUP. his POV, her breasts suddenly MORPH and inflate into perfect high C’s. Chraistian walks straight at us... MATCH CUT T0: INT. OPERATING ROOM ~- DAY (MINUTES LATER) 3 ...and directly into a prep-ready surgery, his scrubs on. A PRETTY LATINA, 25, is naked and bottem’s up. QUICK CUTS: he slices her buttocks, then holds up what looks to the novice to be two plastic shoe horns. LIZ CRUZ, a smartass lesbian anesthesiologist in her 30s, shakes her head disapprovingly. LIZ Ass implants. What will they think of next? * Chrastian roughly shoves the implants into the laser slits. LIZ Jesus! JIt’'s like stuffing a turkey. CHRISTIAN In that case, then this turkey’s been stuffed twice this week. LI12 reason girls like me beccme dykes. CHRISTIAN If my craftsmanship offends you so much sefiorita, then why are you working here? LIZ Two words, Esai -- life-style. (CONTINUED)

3 CONTINUED: Sean enters, scrubs on. SEAN We need to switch. There's a potential patient in my office I understand. Feel him ocut, see if you suspect BDD. CHRISTIAN Will de, partner. Christian pulls out of the latina’s ass, snaps off his gloves., Sean takes over the operation, He pauses. Then -- SEAN You put these in wrong. CHRISTIAN (turning, at the door) I'm sorry? SEAN These implants, ycu put them in upside down. Chrastian pauses. Charmingly, to cover -- CHRISTIAN You saved my ass again. He exits. LIZ And her‘s. She’'s not amused. Sean reaches in the buttocks, turns the implants around. 4 INT. OFFICE -~ DAY (LATER) Silvic tells his story in Spanigh. The conversation between Silvio, Alejandro and Christian is translated VIA SUBTITLES. SILVIO . Nunca me ha gustado como me vea. Para mi hermano es bien facil conocer chicas in la disco... {ENGLISH) I‘ve always been unhappy about my appearance. I see how effortless it is for my brother to go into a disco... {CONTINUED)

4 CONTINUED: CHRISTIAN Senor Perez, usted vive la avenida Colins cuarenta y cinco veinticinco. Es una vivienda? (ENGLISH) Mr. Perez, you reside at 4525 Collins Avenue. It’‘s a house? SILVIO Yes. CHRISTIAN Senor Perez, mi socic piensa gque usted tiene un desorden morfologico, sin embargo yo no pienso gue usted odia su cuerpo. Yo creo que usted esta huyendo. { ENGLISH) Mr. Perez, my partner thinks you have body dismorphic disorder. I donot. I don’t think you hate your bedy. I think you’re running. Christian and Silvio lock eyes...it’s a staredown. CHRISTIAN (cont'd) Cuarenta y veinticinco de la avenida Colins no es una residencia es el hotel Eden Roc, yo soy ur a las tapas en la hora feliz ahi. Quiere hablar de la verdadera razon por la cual esta agui? {ENGLISH) . 4525 Collins ig not a residence, it’s the Eden Roc Hotel, I'‘m quite fond of the happy hour tapas there. Want to talk about the real reason you breezed into town? Christian smiles, leans forward a little bit. In English: CHRISTIAN (cont’'d) And do me & big favor, Mr. Perez. When you answexr, drop the *noc hablo English” bullshit. It dossn’t add to my confusion about your predicament, it only highlights yours. Your accent and inflection are completely westernized, I'm gueesing from the influence of twenty years of "I Love Lucy’ reruns. (CONTINUED)

é CONTINUED: (2} é Christian rises to feed fish in Sean’'s agquarium behind him. In the reflection, he subtly spies on them -- Alejandro makes a go” gesture, Silvic flashes a nasty glare which silences him. Christian turns, sits down again. Gently -- CHRISTIAN I'm a doctor, what you tell me during a consultation is confidential. Alejandre looks down, nervous. But Silvio pulls ocut a briefcase, pushes it across the table with a confident smile. SILVIO {in perfect I prefer to let my money talk. Twenty thousand dellars. Accoxrding to your website, that's your fee. Chraistian opens the briefcase, sees filled with cash. He pauses, takes a whiff of the money. CHRISTIAN Funny, it? How certain things from Colombia have a pungent aroma that can stink up a room., Coffee, for instance. And then, of course, cartel money. SILVIO I‘m not from Colombia. My brother and I are Argentinean, CHRISTIAN Mr. Perez, if you were from Argentina, I wouldn‘t have to recommend poxcelain veneers. It’s the only South American country with fluoride in the water. Silvio begins to sweat. Christian pushes back the briefcase. SILVIO . I've been to three other surgeons in town. They would not do the operation. : Like your partner, they were suspicious. CHRISTIAN One last time...why are you running? SILVIO (after a long pause) I wasg with the boss' garl. CHRISTIAN Mr. Perez, you gag. (CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: Christian and Silvio share a dark chuckle, but Alejandro laugh. Sean enters, implant operation completed. He quietly sits down. The Silvio/Christian/Alejandro conversation reverts back to Smanish. Sean ig in the dark. CHRISTIAN Senor Perez, la cirugla facial que usted reguiere le cuesta $30,000 dolares. Quiza le parezca carc perc somos los mejores carujancs y estamos mejorando cada vez mas. (ENGLISH) Mr. Perez, a facial rejuvenation in the manner of your request would be $30,000. That may seem expensive, but we're the best, and we’'re getting even better. Sean, in English} Still trying to get to the bottom of this. He turns back to Alejandro and Silvio, continuing in Spanish, CHRISTIAN (cont’d) A finales del ano esperamos inaugurar nuestro propio espa/centro de recuperacion y distribuir nuestros proplo linea de productos. Sin duda alguna seremos el centro guirurgico mas grande del sur de la Florida. (ENGLISH) By the end of the year, we hope to open our own recovery slash spa center and distribute our own product line. Without a doubt, we'’ll be the best plastic surgery operation in Southern Florida. SILVIO Quiero a los mejores, registreme. (ENGLISH) I want the best. Sign me up. CHRISTIAN Perdone, pero aqui no vale su dinero. (ENGLISH) Sorry. Your money’s no good here. Silvio looks at Christian darkly. He knows he‘s being toyed with, but he has no more options. A beat, then ~- SILVIO Le doy $300,000 dolares si me hace la cirugia. En (ENGLISH) {MORE) (CONTINUED)

4 CONTINUED: (4) 4 ) SILVIO (cont'd) If you do the surgery I’ll pay vou $300,000. Christian pauses, smoothly turns to Sean. In English -- CHRISTIAN I don’t thank this guy has BDD. His expectations aren’'t unrealistic, he doesn’t want to look like Tem Cruise or anything. He's just and wants a fresh start. {turns, to Silvio --) My, Perez, let's schedule. Off look of relief, we begin TITLE SEOUENCE. 5 EXT. MIAMI CAUSEWAY -- DUSK i & An AERIAL VIEW of Mercedes convertible as it glides across the bridge connecting the city to South Beach. 6§ EXT. MIAMI ATHLETIC CLUB -- DUSK 6 The Mercedes roars into valet parking. 7 INT. MIAMI ATHLETIC CLUB -~ NIGHT 7 Where the elite pay $20 grand a year to sweat in style, Christian sits at the bar nursing a Patren tegquila. His eves are drawn to a BEAUTY two stools away in garb. CHRISTIAN Single or doubles? The BEAUTY ignores him. Then -- BEAUTY Doubles. I'm meeting my boyfriend, CHRISTIAN May I buy you a drink? BEAUTY I don’t drink, CHRISTIAN Can I buy you an sppetizer? BEAUTY I'm a model. I don't eat. Christian pauses. Thas arrogant bitch is a lot of work. time to seal the deal. He peels off bills to close his tab. { CONTTNUED)

7 ] 10 11 CONTINUED: 7 BARTENDER one for the road? CHRISTIAN No thanks. I have to operate tomorrow. The beauty slowly turns and looks at him. , BEAUTY You‘re a doctar? CHRISTIAN (a wolfash grin) Plastic surgeon. SNASH CUT TO: INT. CHRISTIAN’S SOUTH BEACH PENTHOUSE -- NIGHT 8 Against a backdrop of white silk curtzins billowing in a balmy breeze we find Christian, glistening with sweat, fucking the model. She groans with pleasure and abandon. EXT. CORAL GABLES HOUSE -- NIGHT ] Uppermiddle-class in a family-friendly neighborhood. As we PUSH acrose a front-lawn we h -~ VOICE Bread. Rembrandt toothpaste. Bananas... ' INT. BEDROOM -~ NIGHT 10 We meet the woman. CLAIRE McNAMARA, 39, is underneath her husband Sean as he gives her the once-a-week high hard one. As he mechanically pumps away with no kissing to distract her, she mentally continues her grocery list. VOICE Wolfgang Puck pizzes. Grape jelly... INT. CHRISTIAN’S -- NIGHT 11 The model is now giving Christian a blow-job. CHRISTIAN You’re a bad girl, aren’t you Kimber? & nasty dirty bad girl. He flips her over, sprinkles a LINE OF COCAINE down her spine, snorts it as she giggles. -

12 13 14 15 INT. SEAN'S BEDROOM -- NIGHT 12 The monogamous Eex between Sean and Claire continues. We go into Sean’s head as he dutifully thrusts away. SEAN‘S VOICE I'm gonna fire the gardener. The hedges in fromt are lopsided, it loocks like he trimmed them drunk. (pauses, conflicted) Maybe Claire should fire him, she's better at that sort of thing. CLATRE Are you finighed honey? He orgasms with a contained shudder, SEAN Yes. INT. CHRISTIAN’S LAVA ROCK SHOWER ~=- NIGHT 13 Christian and the model conclude their passion under a sexy waterfall. He orgasms loudly, almost violently. INT. SEAN‘S BEDROOM -- NIGHT u Claire rolls over, looks at the moon. Her eyes are pained. Sean is asleep and oblivious as the TITLE SEQUENCE ENDS. EXT. CHRISTIAN‘S BALCONY -- MORNING 15 Wearing Christian‘s shirt from the night before, model RKimber leans against the balcony and stares at the ocean, bathed in the glow of the rising sun and her night with Christian. Fresh from the shower, he appears, hugs her from bshind. KIMBER Take me back to bed, Praince Charming... CHRISTIAN Don't you have a boyfriend you have to explain last act to? KIMBER not my fiancee or anything, he's Just a bouncer at Level., And I didn’t move here from Minnesota to settle down in a one-bedroom in Hialeah, that’s for sure. (CONTINUED)

10. 15 CONTINUED: 15 CHRISTIAN There are advantages to having a bouncer boyfriend. You never have to wait behind a velvet rope. KIMBER Please. You think a girl like me has to wait? I always go to the front of the lane. Like last week, I was with my girls at that new club Rendezvous and the owner “right this way, Ten.* The perfect ten, that’s what he called me. CHRISTIAN Booked any covers yet? A well-placed arrow. A beat, she looks out at the ocean. KIMBER I‘m only 21. I‘ve got time, right? CHRISTIAN Absclutely. Of course, it takes a lot of discipline and work to get there, to be perfect. But if you fix the flaws, you could absolutely be a ten. KIMBER What am I now? Tell me. » She drops the robe and stands before him, naked and . vulnerable. He scrutinizes her, then unflinchingly -- CHRISTIAN You're an eight. He pauses, turms her face slowly toward the cruel morning sunlight. His index finger traces her undereye area. CHRISTIAN You‘re also 26, you should have worn sunscreen. But with a light peel under the eyes, you could look twenty. Even so...you're a very pretty girl, Kimber. KIMBER I don‘t want to be pretty. I want to be better. I want to be perfect. (pauses, panic raising) I haven’'t booked anything in two months. Tell me. . . (CONTINUED)

15 , CONTINUED: (2) . 15 SN CHRISTIAN All raght. Do you have & lipstick? She reaches in her purse, pulls out a tube of berry stain. He looks her over, like a painter contemplating an empty canvas. Then from the POV of Xamber's face and body, we see Christian making swooping circles with the lipstick. CHRISTIAN (cont’d) Beauty is symmetry. Your left eve is half a millimeter higher than your right, we could properly £ix that with a malaer augmentation.,..that’s a cheekbone enhancement. I‘d give you some Botox here, and here, which would provide a good lift. Irish? KIMBER'S VOICE Part. CHRISTIAN . That explains the slightly £lat boxer _nose, we can shave the cartilage to give . .. - you the Christy Turlaington thing. The =, breasts could go one size bigger to a low N C, you could finish off with some lipo. Pretty much... 16 INT. BATHROOM -- SIMULTANEOUS 16 CHRISTIAN These are your problem areas. He her around to look in the mirror. Her eyes grow wide 1n shock ~- her face and body are slashed in red lines...she looks like a human bull's-eye, Her eyes with tears. KIMBER Am I really this ugly? I was homecoming CHRISTIAN Don‘t be upset. Let your shorteomings and flaws fuel you, let them push you further than you ever thought you could go. When you stop striving for perfection, you maght as well be dead. He’'s genuine here, spooky. She nods, moved by ham. 17 INT. SEAN AND CLAIRE’S BEDROOM ~-- MORNING 17 Sean and Claire prepare for work. As he shaves -- (CONTINUED)

17 12. CONTINUED: 17 SERN I want to fire Julio Esperanza. CLATRE Why? SEAN He's sloppy. He's careless, he can‘t even trim a hedge strzight. When you pay him this week, tell him -- CLAIRE Oh no buddy, I‘m not doing your dirty work. He has three kids and his wife makes us paella every year for Christmas. Instead of firing him, why don't you just tell him what you want? Be specific. Isn't that what you always ask of your own clients? SEAN Are you implying a professicnal similarity between me and the gardener? CLAIRE Ne, but you just did. Clairre pauses. Playfully -- CLAIRE Have you noticed anything...different? SEAN Like what? CLAIRE I know, it's silly, but...ever since I nursed Annae, I‘ve noticed that my boobhs are dropping. Do you think I should, you know...consider a 1lift? SEAN Aren’t you...past all that stuff now? CLAIRE Ch, I fergot, right, I should just cut to the chase and have my uterus bronzed. SEAN I didn’t mean that. Let me see. She strikes a sexy Playboy pese. But he deesn’t laugh. { CONTINUED)

17 18 13. * CONTINUED: (2) ' 17 SEAN For your age, gravitationally, exactly where they should be. His precise medical response deflates her. He turns back to the mirror to rinse his face. SEAN By the way, I told Annie she could adopt the gerbil her kindergarten teacher’s trying to unload. CLATRE Sean, you hear me last week? I specifically told her she couldn't bring it home. SEAN What’s the big deal, it's not like a puppy. It makes messes in a cage. CLAIRE It still shats, Sean. And that'’s more shit for me to clean up. SEAN Claire, come on...it's not like you’re Mia Farrow tending to ten paraplegic kids with polio. We’'ve got two and a gerbil and a maid. {busses her cheek) It‘s manageable. PUSH IN on en upset Claire as she watches him exit. INT. KITCHEN -- DAY (MINUTES LATER) 18 French toast sizzles in a skillet manned by ROSA CITONE, the McNamara family maid. Sean sits at the kitchen table reading The Miami Herald. His two children, ANNIE (five) and MATT (15) sit with him. Matt reading a textbook as he + shovels cereal into his mouth. Annie spills her juice. . Without looking up from the paper, Sean stops the orange flow with a dam of napkins, pours her another glass. Whispering ~- ANNIE Mommy always yells at me when I do that. SEAN {whispering back) Mommy doesn’t need to know. Our secret. Why are we whispering? (CONTINUED)

18 CONTINUED: 18 ANNIE We’'re Spy Kids. SEAN Whatcha reading Matt? ANNIE Dad'! You asked him the same guestion two days ago! Matt's reading about alligators for his science fair project on the...what is it again? MATT On the vanishing Everglades ecosystem. But of course Dad asked me the same question twe days ago, Annie, because Dad never listens to anything I say. SEAN Alligators, huh? Sounds interesting. ANNIE and scary! (““-; MATT . Yeah, they are. Like, did you know that at the turn of the century, settlers dying of starvation in the Everglades would use dead human bodies as bait to lure alligators so they could eat them? . But the funny thing i1s...the alligators . wouldn’'t bite. They’d attack, then spit the bodies out. ANNTIE wWhy. ..why would they spit them out? MATT Turns out gators find the taste of human flesh,..boring. Oh, but I tell you one time the settlers saw a wild boar fall in the water and the gators went berserk? Turns out pork is the gators version of a Big Mac or same shit. Matt takes a chomp out of his sister’s bacon. She screams. SEAN Enough Matt. You're scaring your sister. and watch your mouth, ( pauses, rattled., Then in Spanish, SUBTITLED: (CONTINUED)

18 15. . CONTINUED: (2) . 18 ANNIE Rosa, me das mas toncio depavo por favor? {ENGLISH) Rosa, may I have some more turkey bacan poxr favor? SEAN Annie honey, I teld you, when you're around Daddy, please don‘t speak an a foreign language daddy doesn’'t understand, CLAIRE {entering, heading for coffee) We live in South Florida Sean, English is the foreign language. Matt pointedly looks at his father, starts talking in Spanish. VIA SUBTITLES aB everyone speaks in Spanish: MATT Mami, necesito dinero para mi lonche. (ENGLISH) Mom, I need money for lunch. CLAIRE Veinte dolares son sufciente? (ENGLISH) Is twenty enocugh? MATT ANNIE Rosa, me das un pco de jalea tambien? {ENGLISH) Rosa, can I also have some jelly? ROSA Soy tu cocinera y tu sirvienta, no tus piernas. Psrate y tomala tu. {ENGLISH) I'm your cook and your maid, not your legs. Get up and get i1t yourself. CLAIRE Bien dicho Rosa! (ENGLISH) Way to go, Rosa! Sean just stares at this family he communicate with.

18 20 16. EXT. HOUSE -- LATER 19 Sean exits down the front walk, holding his suitcase. He passes JULIO, the gardener, who is butchering a rosebush. Sean’s bloodpressure skyrockets. JULIO ESPERANZA Good morning to you, Mr. Sean! Is there . anything extra you‘d like done teday? SEAN {after a long beat) No, Julio. Keep up the good work. EXT. MIAMI HARBOR ~- LATER 20 ANGLE: a father and son carry a lunch cooler as they walk up the dock toward their boat for a morning of seiling. PUSHING CLOSER, we Eee it’s actually Christian with Matt. They begin to untie the boat with perfeect synchronicity. CHRISTIAN God it's beautiful out here, huh? MATT Perfect weather for skipping school. CHRISTIAN I want you back by third period Mattie, we agreed. Here, I wrote you a doctor's excuse. MATT Thanks Uncle Chris. And thanks for the, you know, medical consultation stuff. Whnen can we schedule the operation? CHRISTIAN Whoa killer, slow down. Like it or not we still have to talk to your dad about this. You're under 18, he has to sign the consent form. MATT He'’ll never go for it. He’s such an asshole, CHRISTIAN Hey -- don't call your father that, you don’t know how lucky you’ve got it. serious tone deflates Matt. Christian sees this, =- . {CONTINUED)

.20 21 22 17, CONTINUED: CHRISTIAN (cont'd) Besides -- your dad‘s not an asshole. (a beat) Robots can’t be assholes. And the mood is restored. Christian grins, pops a Coors from the cooler, tosses Matt the keys. He catches them, thrilled. MATT You‘re gonna let me drive? CHRISTIAN Yeah. That way I get to drink. They laugh as they climb on board. PANNING the boat‘s gleaming exterior, we notice that Christian has christened his $100,000 toy *The Boatox.” . INT. MCNAMARA/TROY OFFICES -- DAY (LATER) 21 OMIT INT. SEAN'S OQFFICE -- DAY (LATER} 22 MARIE MICHAELS This is my Joey last At Epcot. Sean looks at the picture of JOEY, 14 and full of life. He has a brilliant Matt Damon smile and is a good-looking kad. SEAN And after the accident? MARIE It was no accident, okay?! I‘m sorry, I‘'‘m still reelin‘, you know? SEAN Can I see the current pactures please? * Marie hands over a handful. Sean looks at the pictures with ‘no emption, even though they are horrifying. The previously handsome Joey is now terribly burned. CLOSE-UP CLINICAL SHOTS of his charred arms and legs are difficult to look at. SEAN How many grafts has he been through? MARIE We had to stop at five, he needs three more. Shitty HMO... { CONTINUED)

18, 22 CONTINUED 22 . SEAN Ms. Michaels, like to help. But ~- MARTE Pleage say no. Can’t we make an arrangement or somethin’? Like,.,you know, a lay-a-way? SEAN Ms. Michaels, it’s not the money, the time. We’re booked solid for the next six months. If it were a more simple operatian, 1 could squeeze you in, but because grafts of this nature are complicated. .. MARIE I get it. So if I wanted something silly and stupid like a goddamm boob job -- somethin’ you could make a quick buck on maybe you could squeeze me in. SEAN : Ms. Michaels, I’'m going to give you the == the number of Dr. Michael Lewengard, a colleague of mine I ~- MARIE Screw you! I already went to him, he blew me off and then reccmmended you! why I‘m here! ' {a long beat, then --) Congratulations on your fancy expansion, doctor. Looks like you’ve done real for yourself. And thank you for your precious time. she stands to leave. At the door, she turns. Softly -- MARIE (cont’‘d) The next time you’ve got some little size four on your table and you’re givin‘ her liposuction she really doesn’t need, you think of my Joey, and what you coulda done for him. Shame on you. 23 INT. OPERATING ROOM -- DAY (LATER) 23 Sean and Christian gelect surgical utemsils for Silvio’s operation, Scalpels, an electrie saw, etc. Sean is still upset from his previous cansult. Teo distract himself -- {CONTINUED)

23 , CONTINUED: 19. 23 SEAN So check out this bombshell. We’'re getring ready this morning and Claire tells me she wants her breasts done. CHRISTIAN Well, I can see where she's from. At this Fourth of July poolparty at the homestead, I did think her tits were hanging like sand in tube socks. you're thinking conflict of interest, I‘d like to volunteer my services. SEAN Still have a crush on the Mrs., do we? CHRISTIAN Let the record show I dated her first and passed my sloppy seconds off to you. SEAN Screw you, one date and she didn‘t even let you kiss her. She thought you were too smooth. My wife’s perceptive. CHRISTIAN But you’re not. A lot goes on in your family you don‘t even know about. If my kid was getting brutally razed at pick up on his changed behavior. SEAN Matt’s having trouble at school? And he told you this? CHRISTIAN He‘s torn up. I guess he was showering in gym and shit and some tough guys started laughing at him and calling him Anteater. SEAN Anteater? CHRISTIAN Basically, he’'s self-conscious about his dick and he wants a circumcision. SEAN He need a circumcision. That’s a vanity operation. (CONTINUED)

23 CONTINUED: Gloves on 20. (2) CHRISTIAN in the vanity business, Sean, That’s what we do. Shit, I remember when I was his age. I got in fights every goddamn day. SEAN Not over your pemis. CHRISTIAN Over my Dollar Mart polo shirts I stuck construction paper alligators on trying to pass them off as Izods. Appearance is everything for a kid, it’'s how you fit in. Snip snip, he feels better about himself, and you can make that happen. How coal is fatherhood? SEAN I'‘m not doing anything to my son’s penis or my breagts, T don‘t want my family...infected by what we do here. CHRISTIAN What do we do here Sean, other than make pecple feel better about themselves? SEAN What we do here is let people externalize the hate they feel about themselves. Whach is why I want to hire a full-time psychologist, to screen people better. CHRISTIAN Great. And let’s do yoga in the lobby. SEAN Since Botox went wide, 1t‘s become & factory in here. no discernment, no caution,.. CHRISTIAN Thig is a businesg, Sean. A good business that's on the verge of setting us up for life. SEAN Well maybe I don’t want to be an this business anymore, and hands held up, Sean and Christian enter the... 23

25 21. INT. OPERATING ROOM DAY 24 .. .where an unconscious SILVIO PEREZ lies on a metal gurney. LIZ Boys, our patient is comfortably in twilight and ready to be carved. SEAN do it. In QUICK CUTS, we see the mechanics of Silvio's transformation. Christian deftly peels off his facial epidermig, trims it, tightens it, as Sean inserts cheekbone implants, then breaks Silvio‘’s nose and resets it. Saw in hand, Christian begins to thin Silvio’s jutting chin. SEAN You’'re shaving too deep. CHRISTIAN It’s fine. SEAN Do you want it fine or do you want it perfect? Sean holds out his hand. Christian, pissed, hesitates, but hands over the saw. . INT. RECOVERY ROCM -- DAY (LATER) 25 We PADE UP on Silvio, still unconscious, in post-op and now wearing an eerie cobalt blue mask. Alejandro sits in a chair, on vigil. Sean enters, checks Silvio‘s vital sigms. SEAN He's on meorphine, there’s no pain. He'’ll be up and around at the hospital by week’s end. A transport ambulance just arrived, you can ride with him to Dade County if you want. ALEJANDRC What's with the mask? SEAN A new break-through. Pulse magnets bring constant rejuvenating bloodflow to the surface of the skan.

27 28 22. INT. CHRISTIAN'S OFFICE -~ DAY 26 Christian logs in on a COMPUTER as Kimber watches in a surgery-prep gown. CHRISTIAN Before you sign the final consent form, I thought you might want to see some of my . greatest hits. . On the SCREEN,; startling BEFORE and APTER of WOMEN. ..6's before he sliced and diced, now B’s and 9's. Kimber 1s impressed. Her current FACE fille the screen. CHRISTIAN This ie you...and thies is what you‘’ll look like when I'm done. KIMBER (re: her new AFTER shot) I...I don’t reelly see any difference. CHRISTIAN Agents who book you will, photographers looking through telephoto lens that highlight every flaw absclutely will. I told you -- beauty is millimeters. See this girl, haby? She's my ten. EXT. HALLWAY -- DAY 27 ' Sean heads for his office. Alejandro catches up with him. ALEJANDRO Dr. Sean, excuse me. I forgot to ask ...does the 300 grand cover everything, or is the hospital stay extra? SEAN Did you pay by check, Mr. Perez? ALEJANDRO Cash. - INT. CHRISTIAN'S OFFICE -- DAY 28 Rimber is now giving Christian a blow job. Just as he reaches orgasm, an upset knocking at the door. CHRISTIAN Coming... Christian exits to find -~ .

29 EXT. CHRISTIAN'S QFFICE ~- DAY SEAN Where’d you hide the extra Perez money? CHRISTIAN You wamma play accountant, go check the goddamn corporate account. putting that money back into our company. The Alpha Lipoic Firming activator sample costs three times the projection. It has to be perfect, it’s the cornerstone of the skincare line. SEAN Why didn‘t you tell me? CHRISTIAN Now you’'re suddenly interested in cosmeceuticals? SEAN It's drug money, isn't CHRISTIAN I didn’t ask. Neither did you. It’'s what he offered. If we turned him away, he’'d go down the block to Myers or Jacobian. SEAN And I would have slept better. NURSE Excuse me Dr. Troy, the architect is here to show you the marble samples for the steam room. SEAN Steam room? Our recovery unit addition now has & marble steam-room? I didn't approve that, I wasn’t even consulted on that, that’s a ridiculous unneccessary expenditure. CHRISTIAN You stay out here and moralize, Sean. I'd listen, but I'm trying to run a business. END ACT ONE 23. 25 (CONTINUED)

24. 28 CONTINUED: 25 ACT_THO 30 INT. SEAN’'S OFFICE =-- DAY 30 Sean looks directly at us. SEAN Tell me what you like about yourself. We PAN arcund the desk, see Sean’s morning consult is Matt. MATT Look dad...I'm grateful you're treating me like an adult. But if we have to do this, could we please skip the psycho mind probs stuff? SEAN Matt, honestly, why do you want a circumecision? . MATT (uncomfortable) I want 1t removed because...you know. SEAN No, I don't know. N MATT Yeah, because you don‘t have a stupid hard-top! SEAN Your mother and I thought -a lot about this topic, and we didn’t give you a circumcision because you were six weeks premacture. Your little fighting body didn’t need the stress of an operation. MATT I could‘ve taken it. SEAN Matt, why did you go to Christian with your concerns instead of me? MATT Because he's cooler than you. And he listens to me. I don’t get that Pather Knows Best bullshit from him. He treats me,.,like a man. (CONTINUED)

i | | | ] 30 CONTINUED: . 25. SEAN You want straight talk, Matt? I’ll give it to you, right now., A carcumcision on a post-puberty male 15 a suturs-heavy procedure recuiring some degree of nerve reassemblage, it's extremely painful. For a week to ten days after the operation, you'll be pissing fire. MATT It can’'t be eny worse than when I broke my leg and the shin-bone stuck through my muscle, right? And you’ll give me pain drugs, right? Maybe I could try Oxycontin. SEAN Matt, I'm gonna make an appointment with a psychologist., I apologize we don’‘t have one on staff here, we should, MATT What? SEAN You've never bowed to peer pressure before. I think something’s going on. MATT I just want it, okay? I don’t want guys talking trash about me, and I know women like it when you’re not cut. The smell or something, even though I keep it clean and stuff, so feel free to skip the hygiene lecture. SEAN Matt, are you having sex with girls? MATT Not with girle, dad, with Yanegga. Maybe you’ve overheard me talking to Mom &bout her. She’'s beautiful and she‘s a varsity cheerleader and she can have anybody and she chose SEAN S0 you have had sex. MATT getting there. And I know she’ll see it and hurl, 30 (CONTINUED)

30 ) 31 26, CONTINUED: (2} 30 SEAN Matt, this girl genuinely cares zbout you, she won't care about something as trivial as extra skin, MATT This 25 my life! It’g not trivial! For once give me something that I need! - INT. WAITING ROOM -- DAY (SIMULTANEOUS) - 31 DOWN COMES A MENACING BUZZ-SAW...on a piece of wood. A CONSTRUCTION WORKER exits with it, passing Claire, her hair freshly styled. She is sitting next to HEDDA GRUEMAN, 60s. Pushy, nosy and dressed head tc toe in Palm Beach peach. Claire realizes this woman is staring at her, and slowly looks up. MRS. GRUBMAN My daughter’s getting married next month! why I‘m here. I'm gonna freshen up the eyes a bit. Wedding pictures are forever, you know? Claire smiles stiffly, and returns to her magazine. Mrs. Grubman looks at Claire’s chest. Wryly -- MRS. GRUBMAN (cont’d) Going bigger? Before a galled Claire can respond, Christian suddenly appears and smiles at his 3 o’clock. CHRISTIAN Mrs, Grubman, right this...Clazire. To what do we owe this pleasure? CLAIRE having & profegsional sit-down with Matt. To, you know, try and talk him out of the CHRISTIAN I heard. Tough stuff. CLAIRE Things Dr. Spock did not write a chapter about. Hey, thanks for talking to Matt last week. CERISTIAN Everybody needs someone in theixr life listen...right? (CONTINUED)

27, 31 CONTINUED: From the look on her face, he sees she have that person anymore. Christian studies her, breaks into & smile, CHRISTIAN I thought something was differemt. You changed your hair. You look amazing. Claire shoots a triumphant “fuck you* look at Mrs. Grubman. CLAIRE Just thought I'd try something new. CHRISTIAN New? You wore your hair like that when we ware in school. I always thought it looked hot on you back then, too. Does Sean like it? CLAIRE {after a beat) He hasn’t mentianed it. They lock eyes, There's a chemistry here that Christian finds darkly exciting and Claire is terrified of. To change the subject -- ‘\‘.“‘. Y CLAIRE (cont‘d) So the construction seems to be coming along nicely. CHRISTIAN Wait until you see the steam room in the recovery center. Nero Portoro marble, top of the line. CLAIRE How'd you talk Sean into that one? This is a man who wants to rinse and reuse paper plates. CHRISTIAN It’s just smart business, the ladies flocking from Palm Beach know and expect . lwaury = . MRS. GRUBMAN Speaking of which Dr. Troy, I did have a 3 o clock appointment and it’s now 3 fifteen. CHRISTIAN Have me over to the house cne of these days. I miss my family. {CONTINUED}

28. CONTINUED: (2) 32 CLAIRE I'd like that. So, um, would the kids. Christian turns to Mrs. Grubman and smiles seductively. CHRISTIAN And now all my attention 28 focused on my faverite patient. . He ushers her to his office. Over his shoulder, he winks at Claire. It’s & sexy wink. It disturbg and excites her. ANGLE. Matt and Sean exit from Sean’'s office. SEAN Field trip. We'll meet you at home. Matt looks at his mother and rolls his eyes. INT. DADE COUNTY BURN UNIT -- REHABILITATION ROOM ~-- DAY 32 Burn victim JOEY MICHAELS learms to walk again. RACK FOCUS: and Sean are behind a glass cobservation wall. SEAN That boy is your age, Matt. I heard about this case last week. His mother divorced his father. During an overnight visit, his father set him on fire while he was asleep. MATT Why? SEAN So he have to pay child support. MATT *Tonight, on the WB...a father-son field trip to a burn unit turns out to be just what the doctor ordered when his uncut kid sees burn boy and realizes “what am I worried about my dick for? I should be grateful for all my parts that scorched!” Sorry, dad. I stopped watching that network when I was a 13- year-old girl. SEAN How dad you become so0 goddamn cynical? I don‘t even know why I try with you. MATT You never have bhefore, why start now? (CONTINUED)

O 29, 32 CONTINUED: 32 . Suddenly, the burn boy loocks up. He and Matt lock eyes. Matt 15 extremely uncomfortable, and loocks away. MATT be in the car. Matt exits. Sean watches, alone, as we DISSOLVE TQ... 33 INT. ANOTHER SECTION OF DADE COUNTY HOSPITAL ~- DAY 33 Christian and Alejandro stride down the hallway. CHRISTIAN How's the patient? ALEJANDRO Pissed they only have vanilla ice cream. CHRISTIAN When our recovery spa center igs done, we’ll be serving fresh fruit smoothies. 34 INT. SILVIO’S ROOM -- DAY (SIMULTANECUS) 3¢ Chrastian and Alejandro enter to see an empty bed. CHRISTIAN Where's your ALEJANDRO I don't know, he was here a minute ago. CHRISTIAN Wall if you want me to do a follow-up, find ham. I have another appeintment in half an hour. . PFUSH IN on Alejandro, as something dawns. 35 INT. PEDIATRIC WING DAY 35 Christian follows & panicked Alejandro as he gpeed walks past the cheerily decorated rooms, checking inside each one. CHRISTIAN Why would your brother be on this 36 INT. PEDIATRIC ROOM -- DAY 36 sits on the bed of a beautiful GIRL, who is eating scomething Silvaio 15 spooning into her mouth. (CONTINUED)

36 37 30. CONTINUED: 36 His magnet mask is still on, giving him an otherworldly chilling appearance. All we can see are his hot wet eyes. They convergse in ENGLISH. SILVIO This will make your tonsils feel better. LITTLE GIRL Are you the Boogieman? The girl turns -- Alejandro and have arrived in doorway. DEf Christian's clemrly concerned look SILVIOD I gave her my ice cream. I didn‘t want it to go rto waste, Silvio exits, but not before staring nastily at his brother, Chastised, slightly afraid, Alejandro loocks down. Christian gently addresses the little girl. CHRISTIAN How’s that ice cream sweetheart, are you LITTLE GIRL Yes. Chraistian follows Silvic out into the hallway as he shuffles toward the elevator. Confused, Christian sees Silvio in an elevator now, waving. Christian turns and sees the girxl in the hallway, waving back at her new friend. Dry-mouthed -- CHRISTIAN Durang our consultatiosn, your brother mentioned he was with the boss' girl. How old was she? ALEJANDRO (weakly) She was gix. Down the hall, Silvio is st:ill spookily to the girl as the elevator doors close. Chrastian is quietly devastated. INT. SEAN’S OFFICE ~~ DAY (LATER) 37 A reflective Sean stares out the window. Liz enters. LIZ We’'ve got a walk-in problem.

31. 38 INT. RECOVERY ROOM -- DAY 38 Kimber sobs as Sean, with Liz's help, re-sutures her left breast. She bandaged and bruised from her recent surgery. SEAN Ms. Henry, you’ve got to celm down. The contractions from your diaphragm have gplit five stitches. KIMBER Is Christian here? I want my surgeon to do this. SEAN Dr. Troy’s in the field with another patient. Are you upset with the surgeries, Ms. Henry? This swelling and tenderness 15 normal, gave it another... KIMBER I don’t understand this, I haven’t heard . from him since my operation! I thought we were gonna be together! SEAN Ms. Henry, I think you’‘re confusing Dr. Troy's pleasant and very thorough bedside manner with real emoticns. LIZ If it’'s any consolation honey, not the first girl he's done this to, But at least you got some gooad tits out of it, heal in more ways than one and go on with your KIMBER No, no you’‘re wronpg. He...he told me he had feelings for me, he told me he wanted to see me again. LIZ He's had six fuck and fixes this month. That’s all you are to ham okay? A fuck - and a fix. You deserve to know. KIMBER He calls me what? SEAN Liz, you're out of line. (CONTINUED)

38 39 40 41 32. CONTINUED: 38 LIZ No Sean, are cut of line. You co-own this business, this reflects on you and your character. Wake up! EXT. HIGHWAY -- DUSK 39 White lines roar by as we hear a BERLITZ TAPE begin to play. BERLITZ ANNOUNCER “Speaking Spanish can be fun! Repeat!” INT. SEAN‘S VOLVO ~-- DUSK 40 Sean has a focused manic intensaty as he listens the tape. SEAN "Hablando espanol pude ser divertido!” His cell phone rings. INT. SEAN‘S OFFICE -- DUSK 41 A pissed Christian is loocking at Sean’s empty desk. CHRISTIAN The construction workers ripped us off., SEAN We weren’t ripped off, Christian. I'm quitting. I'm starting over before it‘s too late. CHRISTIAN . Sean, are you at home? I'm coming over and we're gonna talk about -- SEAN It's my turn to talk now Christian, okay? The mute finally speaks! So ligten up! Thank you for using your cock as a lure to get emoticnally damaged young women into our office, it’'s a brilliant sales ploy! Thank you for being so ruthlessly ambitious that you would gladly aceept drug money, a business transaction, by the way, that could lead the feds straight to our f£ront door! Maybe you want to have your medical license revaked and spend your 40s taking it up the ass in prison but I do not! (CONTINUED)

CHRISTIAN Done? SEAN I'm just getting started, Christian! Thank you, thank you for becoming so repugnant to me that I am finally taking charge of my life! CHRISTIAN what are you going to do? SEAN For ten years 1've been consumed with transforming other people, Starting today, I am transforming myself! He hangs up, turns the wheel and roers into a strip mall. As he parks and a REALTOR stands waiting with keys near a MEDICAL OFFICES FOR RENT sign, we... EXB ACT TWO { CONTINUED)

34. CONTINUED: (2) 41 ACT THRER INT, UNIVERSITY QF MIAMI APARTMENT -- NIGHT (FLASHBACK) 42 A VIDEOCAMERA turms on. CLAIRE’S VOICE Is it on? Okay it’'s on. Christian! Tell our viewing audience what we’'re doing here on the night of August 25, The camera, operated by Claire in verite style, focuser on Christian and Sean at a2 rolling a joint and counting pennies, Everyone as 25...at the height of their promise. CHRISTIAN Well Claire, 1t’‘s a momentous night. We're getting your fiancee high for the first time ever and scrounging up change to pay the overdue electricity bill. SEAN {deadpan, to camera) See Sean count. See Sean eat government cheese, They break up. We PULL OUT of the picture to see it's on a plasma in Claire and Sean's current housg. (laire watches, wistful. Christian passes the joint te Sean. He tokes, then: SEAN I don't feel anything. CHRISTIAN ' Keep smoking and keep counting. CLAIRE’S VOICE Christian, if you would have put the money vou scored this weed with toward the bill, we'd have made the payment. CHRISTIAN *Call me...irresponsible...* CLAIRE’S VQICE I guess I’'ll have to hock this camera, guys, or we'll be in the dark. SEAN Your parents just gave you that to celebrate your nursing school graduation, baby, you can‘t do that. {CONTINUED)

42 35, CONTINUED: VOICE ) Ladies and gents, he just called me baby -- he is high! Wait, I was out of focus, say that again on the record. SEAN {in focus, sweet) I love you, baby. ANGLE: present day Claire, watching, very moved by this. CLAIRE'S VOICE Okay...since this is our one and only videotape, let’s tell our audience what all this hard work and eating ramen noodles 24/7 has been about. Christian... what do you want out of your life? CHRISTIAN What I want is...a girl like Claire... {Claire and Sean mock “aak*) ...and a kick-ass practice with Sean where we make women feel better about - themselves., .my speciality. CLAIRE'S VOICE Yeah, we’ve certainly witnessed that, Sean...what do you want? SEAN Well, I want you... {more mock I want to make people’s lives better. I want to make a difference. Claire, give me the camera. She passes it to him, he focuseg. The face of a young Claire -- Dbeautiful, funny and not jaded -- £ills the screen. SEAN’S VOICE What do you want? At the door, a KNOCK. Present day Claire grabs the remote, PAUSES THE PICTURE. She gets up and answers the door. CHRISTIAN Hey. Is he here? CLAIRE No, he left for work hours ago. Christian, is there something wrong? 42

36. 43 INT. SEAN AND CLAIRE’S FAMILY ROOM -- DAY (LATER) 43 Christian and Claire sit drinking coffee. Claire looks shocked and pissed. A beat, then -- CHRISTIAN I‘m sweetheart. I presumed ycu knew. Liz told me he was setting up shop next to some fungus-ridden nail salon right before she quit and left me with no anesthesiologist. CLAIRE why...why would he do this? CHRISTIAN I think our boy's having a mid-life crigis. If I find out he's screwing arocund, you have my word, I'll kill ham. CLATRE You think he’s having an affair? CHRISTIAN o) That was out of line., I‘m sure he’s not, \ I mean, you guys have always had a hot . time between the sheets raight? CLAIRE He told ycu that? CHRISTIAN He used to tell me I miss him. CLAIRE I miss ham too. She starts picking up Annie’s toys, he won't see her cry. CHRISTIAN He needs you, Claire, CLAIRE There’s a big difference between need and want. 2 beat, then Christian turns and gestures at the large TV with her face still paused and frozen. ) CHRISTIAN O Is that new art? (CONTINUED)

43 CONTINUED: 43 CLAIRE . What? Oh, no, I was just watching an old tape. CHRISTIAN To see how much your breasts have changed? She freezes. He's right. CHRISTIAN Isn’t that why you changed your hair, why you want implants? So he’ll notice vou again...want you again like he did when we were young? CLAIRE I just asked him if he thought I needed them... CHRISTIAN 5¢ he could tell you you didn’t. You didn’t get the response you wanted. CLAIRE {voice cracking) No. CHRISTIAN Let me see them. She laughs in his face. Did she hear this right? CHRISTIAN (cont'd) I'm a doctor Claire, I do over 300 breast augmentations a year, more than double the number Sean does. I‘ll be objective. Let me see them. Her mouth goes dry. She’s both alarmed and excited. Would this be cheating? Would it make her feel better? looks toward the kitchen doorway, to make sure no one home. Hand shaking, she slowly unbuttons her blouse. CHRISTIAN (cont'd) . The symmetry 18 perfect. Sagging is minimal, despite two rigorous sessions of breast feeding. The tone is immaculate. He rubs his thumb across her right nipple. They lock eyes. { . CHRISTIAN (cont‘d) Ry How’s the sensitivity? { CONTINUED)