Daddy's Boy
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| Episode no. | HOU-205 |
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| Airdate | November 8, 2005 |
| Writer(s) | Thomas L. Moran |
| Director(s) | Greg Yaitanes |
| Guest star(s) | Clifton Powell as Ken Hall Vicellous Reon Shannon as Carnell Hall Diane Baker as Blythe House R. Lee Ermey as John House Wil Horneff as Taddy Matt McKenzie as Dr. Fedler |
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"Daddy's Boy" is the fifth episode of the second season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on November 8, 2005. A father and his son, Carnell, a student at Princeton University, are celebrating the son’s graduation and they have a father/son moment. Carnell is heading out to a party where he drinks with his friends, but begins experiencing what feels like electrical shocks and starts having convulsions.
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[edit] Plot
Princeton University student Carnell collapses during a graduation party. His symptoms are painful shocks, headaches, nausea and drowsiness. In the hospital, he later has sphincter paralysis added to the white board. That, combined with shocks usually indicates Miller Fisher syndrome but the tests do not support their theory.
More clues are revealed when Carnell's friend Taddy is rushed to the hospital from vomiting. He tells House that Carnell and his father have been working in a scrap metal junkyard. The metal keychain that his father has made for Carnell turns out to be radioactive. Carnell's ability to make white blood cells is severely comprimised because of the radiation poisoning, which causes his reaction to the infections, and he will need a bone marrow transplant because of heavy exposure. He also has a tumor inside his spinal cord which is causing the symptoms. They successfully remove the tumor but he hemorrhages after the surgery and his white cell count is plunging. Dr. Chase informs the father that no matter what courses of antibiotics they give Carnell, he won't be able to fight off the infection and it will slowly compromise his systems. Perceiving the reality of his son's likely death, the father lies to his son once more, telling him he will be "just fine."
Meanwhile, House tries to avoid his parents who are coming from Newark, New Jersey. He says that he has dinner plans with Wilson. His alibi is broken when Cameron tells Wilson and later Cuddy. At the news, Wilson plans to have a party to invite his parents and Cuddy will be attending too. House says that he has problems with his father. The parents end up coming to the hospital and eating dinner with a reluctant House.
[edit] Goofs
Foreman says at one point that the patient was admitted with a 2.0 blood alcohol level. This is highly unlikely; it was likely meant to be 0.2.
It is mentioned that Carnell went to Jamaica with his fraternity brothers. Princeton University does not have fraternities.
[edit] See also
- Goiânia accident: Radiation poisoning by way of dangerous scrap metal that took place in Brazil in 1987.
[edit] External links
- FOX.com-House official site
- Television Without Pity-House recaps
- House Episode Guide at epguides.com
- TVGuide's Page: Full list of House Episodes
- House M.D. Guide
- Daddy's Boy at the Internet Movie Database
- Medical Reviews of House: Daddy's Boy
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