Cara Fitzgerald (S01E08)

While driving his friend Henry (Andrew Leeds) home, Matt looks away from the road and strikes a shy girl, Cara Fitzgerald, throwing her out of sight into a ditch. Disoriented and worried because there is marijuana in the car, the boys don't realize that they've hit a pedestrian and leave the deserted area. But later, Matt learns that Cara is hospitalized in a coma. Guilt-stricken, he visits her and meets her mother, a strict Christian Scientist who refuses to allow doctors to do any reconstructive surgery on Cara's face, which is destroyed. Without admitting to anyone that he is responsible, Matt persuades Sean to convince Cara's mother to allow him to fix Cara's features--and prevent blindness--for no charge, in order to save her from a lifetime of social rejection. Henry, an Orthodox Jew, tearfully almost confesses to Julia, but Matt stops him. When Sean readily agrees to provide chiropractor Megan O'Hara (Julie Warner) with breast implants, Grace correctly surmises that they are having an affair and infuriates Sean by informing Christian. Meanwhile, Grace is bewildered by Christian's curt rejection of a female patient who wishes to change her face so it doesn't remind her of her sexually abusive father. Christian also operates on Mike Shane (Jamie McShane), who urgently wants a birthmark removed from his testicles before his honeymoon. Later, Christian is horrified when he recognizes Mike on the news--he lied about the honeymoon. Mike is actually a priest who is acquitted of molesting 10 boys after an examination fails to reveal the identifying birthmark. Although Sean wants to anonymously call the diocese, Christian violently confronts Mike in a confessional booth and forces him to call the police and confess. Extremely distraught, Christian confides in his friend Sean and finally admits that his foster father routinely bought sexual favors from him when he was a child. (Warner Bros. UK)