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2x03 Manya Mabika

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First Aired: Jul. 06, 2004 on FX

Summary: A Somalian woman turns to McNamara/Troy to help reverse her country's custom of female genital mutilation. Not only do the doctors have to reconstruct her body, but her self-image. Since Julia is struggling with inner demons, Sean introduces her to a life-coach who he thinks will be able to…
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Guest Stars

Dr. Erica Noughton played by Vanessa Redgrave
Manya Mabika played by Aisha Tyler
Elias Perri played by Michael Robert Brandon
James Sutherland played by Georg Stanford Brown
Sal played by Stuart McLean
Sweaty Guy played by Mark Engelhardt
Gil played by Chad Mehle
Mitzi played by Anoush NeVart

Episode Quotes

Sean McNamara: They're a mystery, you know. I can reconstruct her external parts, maybe even revitalize dying tissue, but pleasure, release, ecstasy...
Christian Troy: All we're doing is maximizing her potential. She just wants a fighting chance to feel, or at the very least look like the woman she could have been if she lived in this country instead of a place where men are such pussies they have to neuter their women to get a hard on.
Sean McNamara: Let's go rebuild a clitoris.
Sean McNamara: [discussing patient Manya Mabika, who wants reconstructive surgery on her genitals to reverse a childhood clitoridectomy] We're talking about microsurgical free tissue replantation. It can't just look pretty, it's gotta work!
Christian Troy: You might be more adept at nerve reattachment Sean, but I am a goddamn genius when it comes to pussy. If I build it, she will come.

Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr. Erica Noughton (Julia's mother) claims she has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia. However, Columbia does not over such a program.
  • Goof (revealing mistake): After Manya has left the bed, upset that she cannot orgasm, Christian rolls over onto his back with the sheet wrapped around his lower body. You can see the tiniest corner of the underwear he is wearing beneath the sheet, despite the fact that clearly he is meant to be naked.l