Carnell's graduation toast turns into a party collapse
Ken toasts his son's Princeton graduation; that night at a drinking party Carnell is jolted by shocks nobody can explain and goes down.
S2E5 · Daddy's Boy
20 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House's new jacket, Wilson's $5,000 loan and a riddle for the team
Wilson pitches the shocked wrestler as payback for the loan; House dodges why he needed it, trades guesses with the team and orders them to find what's missing.
House revs his new motorcycle over the team's report
House shows off the bike he bought with Wilson's money, drowns out the team with the engine, points them to the mother's car crash and wangles a dinner.
Carnell learns his father lied about how his mother died
Asking about an inherited disease, the team exposes Ken's story of a drunk driver; Carnell turns on his father, then a new symptom hits.
House's prairie-dog question and a phone call with his mother
House quizzes the team about the patient's bowels, lies to his mother about a business dinner and lands on transverse myelitis from molecular mimicry.
The Jamaica trip and House's pesticide theory
The team learns Carnell hid a spring-break trip from his dad; House bets the family's lies hide pot laced with pesticide and orders treatment without proof.
House exposes Wilson's dinner plot; Wilson turns House's experiment on him
House reveals his loans were an experiment to see where Wilson draws the line; Wilson pays him back with an experiment of his own.
Carnell rallies, then his fever spikes near 106
Cuddy marvels that House's untested treatment works, until a call brings news of chills and a fever; House offers Ken the truth or a comforting lie.
Effect follows cause: House splits the team and the dinner invite fails
House decides the fever is a new hospital infection, sends the team off, and nobody will join Wilson's dinner with House's parents.
Carnell confesses the Jamaica trip to his father
Cameron asks for the names of Carnell's travel mates; Ken insists on staying and hears that his son lied about spring break.
House offers Cuddy a night shift to escape dinner with his parents
House volunteers for a clinic that closes at night and threatens Cuddy with a rumor; she tells him to lie, and he admits it's his father he hates.
Cameron examines Taddy's groin in his new office
Visiting Carnell's friend at his new job, Cameron asks to see his rash and has him drop his pants just as his boss walks in.
House wants Taddy scared into coming in; Cuddy approves lying to House
House wants a rash seen and tells Cameron to frighten the friend; Cuddy refuses to lie to a patient but suggests tricking House with a fake parent visit.
House grills Taddy, then traces a radioactive keychain
House insults Taddy, learns Carnell worked in his father's salvage yard, catches Ken's lie and finds the gift metal crackling on a Geiger counter.
Foreman tells Ken his gift poisoned his son
Foreman explains the radioactive source, the destroyed immune system, the need for a bone-marrow transplant and a risky spinal tumor surgery.
House's parents arrive early and meet Cameron
House's mother catches him in a lie, House tries to beg off with a dying patient, and Cameron meets the parents and declines their invitation.
Lunch with House's parents: the motorcycle and three legs
Over a cafeteria lunch House's father presses him about his life and the bike, and tells him he doesn't know how lucky he is.
Ken remembers single fatherhood as Carnell's prognosis darkens
Waiting through surgery, Ken recalls packing cold pancakes after his wife died; then he hears the tumor is out but his son likely can't beat the infection.
House explains his parents to Wilson
House thanks Wilson for skipping lunch, describes his parents' marriage and says his father is just like Wilson, an awful quality in a dad.
Ken lies to his dying son one last time
Carnell forgives his father for the story about his mother and asks for the truth; Ken swears he'll be fine and they say they love each other.
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