James LeBeau

James LeBeau
First appearance	Blu Mondae (episode 4.02)
Last appearance	Willy Ward (episode 4.14)
Created by	Ryan Murphy
Portrayed by	Jacqueline Bisset
In-universe information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Occupation	Criminal Mastermind/Escort Service Owner
Family	Son (deceased)
Children	Jonathan, died at 18 months of kidney disease

James was a character from the fourth season of the hit FX television series, Nip/Tuck. She was played by Jacqueline Bisset.

She first appears in the second episode of the fourth season, when she meets Michelle Landau in the basement of the McNamara/Troy Parking Garage. She then engages Michelle with a kiss. McNamara/Troy anethesiologist Liz Cruz sees the meeting, and becomes convinced that Michelle is a lesbian. Eventually Michelle comes close to firing Liz to hide evidence of this meeting.

In fact James is blackmailing Michelle with the information that she used to be a call girl. James was her pimp or Madame.

It's eventually discovered that James is a leader of an organ thieving ring who apparently are after people's kidneys. James poses her ring as an escort service in which sends attractive women after their targets. They then put the target to sleep or knock him or her out with anesthesia and then the call-girl or someone else comes in and removes the kidney.

James also seems to have really good command of the French language and can speak it very well.

However, James is subservient to crimelord Escobar Gallardo. She was threatened and beaten by his henchmen in an episode for failing to meet her organ quota.

Later, in season 4, James is badly beaten and Christian gives her surgery to repair her damaged face and nose. She quickly reverts to her old ways under pressure from the gang and uses McNamara-Troy to operate her group's "surgeries". In the episode, "Reefer", James goes perhaps farther than she ever has: after Sean brings a homeless man (Reefer) into the clinic on Christmas for some minor therapeutic surgery for facial wounds and rehabilitation, she drugs him with tainted champagne and murders him, harvesting all possible organs from his body. When she calls Michelle in to clean-up, her only complaint on the matter is that his liver was useless from years of drinking.

In the season 4 episode "Willy Ward," James commits suicide. Before she commits suicide, she reveals that she once had a son named Jonathan, and that he died due to medical reasons concerning his kidneys. She realizes the monster that she has truly become, and once more professes her love for Michelle. The last words she spoke were "I loved you" before she shot herself because she realized that she had come to a point where she would even kill a child for monetary purposes.