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CHARACTER HISTORY as Ariel Alderman.]] In season three of Nip/Tuck , Matt McNamara began dating Ariel Alderman ( Brittany Snow ), a girl from his high school who objects to the Aryanization of society. She claimed Christian and Sean promote Aryanization by performing surgeries such as the "Sweet Sixteen Rhinoplasty " on Jewish girls and compared it to the work of the Nazis. She described them as creating a race of "non-white whites." Ariel gave Matt an earring with a left-facing Swastika . Eventually, Matt met Ariel's parents. After several Racist remarks during dinner with Matt, Ariel's father befriended him. Ariel's father, Mr. Alderman , later asked Matt to steal some of his father's patient files as part of a scheme to pressure insurance companies to stop paying for elective surgery. Matt initially declines because he is torn between his morals and rebelling against his father. MATT BETRAYS MCNAMARA/TROY When Christian asked Matt and Sean to be his best men for his wedding, Matt showed up to the wedding late and wore the swastika earring given to him by Ariel. After Christian demanded that he remove it, Matt refused and left before the wedding began. Later, Matt broke into the McNamara/Troy offices with Ariel and stole the files her father requested. Someone vandalized the locker of a Jewish student by spraypainting a swastika on it (in addition to other similar hate crimes), and Sean suspected Matt and Ariel. When Sean confronted Matt about the vandalism, Matt denied having anything to do with it. Sean objected to Matt's relationship with Ariel, but Julia encouraged it to keep him off the streets. Meanwhile, Matt made plans to spend Christmas Eve with the Alderman's. ARIEL'S IMAGE PROBLEM When Ariel expressed anger over a Nativity Scene display on school grounds featuring black characters, Matt helped her return later that night to steal the statues. They painted the "skin" of the figures pure white and returned them. While they were painting the figures, Ariel confided in Matt that she learned she had one sixteenth African blood in her. She learned about her black ancestry after trying to make a family tree as part of a school project. She became fearful of her skin gradually becoming darker and eventually leading to her father finding out and no longer loving her. She convinced Matt to steal some skin bleaching cream from Julia's spa. Although he stole the cream, Matt eventually decided not to give it to her and instead suggested a counselor for image problems that his grandmother had recommended. Ariel refused and took the cream from Matt's bag. After applying the cream, which burnt her face, Matt took her to Christian for help. Matt also called Mr. Alderman and asked him to come to McNamara/Troy. Matt told him the truth about Ariel's ancestry, but Ariel denied it. After choosing to believe that Matt was lying about the ancestry, Mr. Alderman exchanged words with Christian and left with Ariel. Ariel later encounters Matt at a department store shopping for makeup for Cherry Peck . Before she leaves, the viewer sees her talking to her father, but it is not heard. MR. ALDERMAN'S FATE Ariel and her father later trick Matt into coming back to their house, where they tie both Matt and Cherry down to chairs. Unbeknown to Ariel (who leaves the room at her father's demand), Matt and Cherry are thrown into a game of torture where Mr. Alderman eventually forces Matt to cut off Cherry's penis. Later on, he forces Matt to bury Cherry alive, and Matt suddenly refuses to go any farther, and dares Mr. Alderman to shoot him. Right before Mr. Alderman shoots, Cherry rises from the grave and strikes Mr. Alderman with the shovel, knocking him out. Cherry takes Mr. Alderman's gun and fires a bullet at him, presumably killing him. |
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