text: nip/tuck...your thoughts on weird episode? i'm sort of freaked out by the "conor mcnamara 2026" episode. was this just a weird, horrible, stupid episode, or am i missing something? was it a dream, or did this all really happen? can someone else weigh in? you are missing the fact that joely richardson had family difficulties during taping so they had to come up with away to send her off with what was going on in the story at the time. so a storm comes into florida and destroys much of the area. shawn is dreaming most of what is going on in the episode because he has just told julia that he cheated on her. he has just told her that he had a cleff palate as a boy. he has just operated on connor's hand and is ready to move on to hand number two. he has alot on his mind. connor, marlo, christian, matt, julia, anne and his father. he is afraid that many of their choices will backfire. one thing to notice is they wrote in nothing about kimber or the baby. what they wrote about is anne having issues with her princess party, matt following in his fathers' footsteps, connor thinking like shawn that he ruined his parents' marriage, and julia still having a relationship with marlo even after they broke up in the last episode. in short this one long nightmare in the midst of the storm. when the storm is over, however, they are talking about having to rebuild things and that takes times. they are talking allegoically about their relationship and about the city damage.  julia flies off to new york with the children and shawn stays behind to clean things up in miami. colin redgrave, joely's uncle was near death with cancer and her daughter had a serious leg injury. that meant she needed time off to take care of thing.