This drama is set in a south Florida plastic surgery center, McNamara-Troy, centering around the two doctors who own it. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is having problems at home, trying to keep his family together, trying to patch up the rocky road him and his wife Julia (Joely Richardson) are experiencing. On the other hand, sex-craved Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) uses his charm to bring in potential female candidates and conducts shady business deals, often for the love of money. While Sean takes his job seriously, he often has to fix Christian's mistakes. During the first season, Sean and Christian got mixed up with Escobar Gallardo, a Colombian drug lord who forced the two to do free surgery whenever he wanted them to. Sean's marriage with Julia began to wear thin, and Sean had an affair with a patient named Megan O'Hara. Julia went back to school, but it was interrupted by a miscarriage of a child Sean and Julia were trying to have. Christian learned he is the father of a baby with a woman named Gina, who he met at Sexaholics Anonymous. When the baby was born, we learn that the baby is African-American, and therefore not his. Julia questions Matt's paternity.

　　查理（戴米恩·路易斯 Damian Lewis 饰）曾经是一名警察，如今却因为一件他没有犯过的谋杀案而沦为了阶下囚，等待着他的，是长达十二年的痛苦刑期。因为查理身份特殊，在狱中，他没少吃苦头。一眨眼两年过去，康斯坦斯（布鲁克·朗顿 Brooke Langton 饰）利用新的DNA证据还了查理一个清白之身，查理不仅恢复了职位，获得了赔偿，还将警察局告上了法庭。
　　尽管生活回到了从前的样子，但查理却再也回不去了，在他的眼中，世界俨然变换了模样。不再亲密的家人，不再友好的上司和同事，就连他的搭档丹尼（萨拉·沙希 Sarah Shahi 饰）也对查理充满了不信任，在这样的情况下，“重获新生”后的查理会怎样自处呢？

　　他是一个落魄的拳手，曾经的辉煌年代早已过去，他也不愿再提，如今他推着一辆超市手推车流浪在街头，连一个名字都没有，同伴们给他起了个外号——反复嚼（塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）。艾里克（乔什·哈奈特 Josh Hartnett 饰）是一个不太成功的记者，除了被老板派遣去采访一些毫无价值的体育新闻外，他一事无成。
　　一场斗殴将这两个看似毫无交集的男人联系到了一起，艾里克将反复嚼从小混混的拳脚下救出时也发现了他惊人的拳击天赋，他认出了这个脏兮兮的老头竟然就是曾经红极一时的拳击天才，而在纷繁的传言中，他早已死于非命。一个得天独厚的机会近在眼前，艾里克知道，这将是一个多么重量级的新闻报道，而他也将就此一举成名。