justin turner first appeared while working with tara mandal (ayesha dharker) in her new art gallery. he took photos which tara considered high quality, but which her boyfriend and backer dev alahan (jimmi harkishin) saw as difficult to sell. dev secretly purchased some of the photos to boost tara's confidence, but when she found out, she dumped him. before she took him back, he slept with lisa dalton (ruth alexander rubin) and lied to tara about it. when tara learned of his fling, she worked with justin to convince dev to take naked photographs, making him believe they would be kept private. instead, tara had a gathering in the middle of the street and horrified dev by unveiling a huge naked photo with liar scrawled across his privates in red paint.