Wanna hear my theory about who the Carver is?  If not, then this would be an excellent time to poke your eyes out.

It would probably be for the best if someone sat me down, patted my hand and said, “Honey it’s only a television show.”  But since noone’s bothered to do this I’ve been obsessively watching all the past Nip/Tuck episodes; combing over them and searching for clues.

Now a lot of people will put the blame on Matt, but these were also the same folks who thought it was Ava’s son Adrian – ooops, he’s dead now.  Way too obvious a choice anyway.

Julia’s not entirely stable herself; however she did have that epiphany after smashing head first into a sliding glass door.

Kimber is a fruitcup, but she’d never have the brains to pull it off.  Try and remember the lil speeches The Carver gave before he started slashing folks; in short, way too many big words for Kimber.

Now what ever happened to Dr. Santiago their resident therapist?  She seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

At times I’m suspicious of Liz.  She certainly fits the characterization of the embittered Carver and their obsession of societies’ view of the perfect beautiful person, but I could never see her hurting another human being intentionally.  She has your average inner turmoil but not enough to manifest this type of behavior.

This is why I regrettably keep looking at Sean.  We’ve seen too often that Sean is the type of individual to keep emotions bottled up inside.  He’s been Mr. Walks the Straight Line for too long and it’s starting to grate on him.  There have been subtle hints and signs from the beginning of this show.

Remember the first episode where they fed the dead guy to the crocodiles and Christian said that he found it a lil worrisome as to how easily Sean was handling cleaning up after a dead body?

Remember the multi-personality patient?  Sean asked Sassy where she went when Montana returned and then how he could get there.

What happened to Sean’s Yips? By the third episode of the second season they had suddenly vanished.

Sean’s car crash and the lil cut he received just under the eye.  It was soon after that episode that the Carver appeared.  

So my theory:  It’s Sean, but it’s not Sean.  He’s kept things bottled up inside so long that he snapped.  While he’s the Dudley Do Right he still desperately yearned to defy society, to be the bad boy, to be a bit more like Christian.  Sean has never been totally satisfied with his work as a plastic surgeon; he took on more pro bono cases in hopes of truly helping people as opposed to sucking out fat or making bigger tits.  Sean couldn’t kill Escobar, and The Carver has never killed anyone; only mutilated.