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"PATERNITY"


House Episode Number: 102

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: November 30, 2004

Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

Director: Peter O'Fallon

Special Guest(s):Kylee Cochran (Young Mother), Alex Skuby (John Funsten), Scott Mechlowicz (Dan), Paul Ganus (Trainer), Robin Thomas (Dan's Father), Wendy Gazelle (Dan's Mother), Scott Hochstadt (Jake)

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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

Teen lacrosse player Dan is hit in the head when he starts seeing double during a game. Dr. Cameron wants to investigate, but Dr. House dismisses it as a concussion. When the team learns that Dan is also twitching and experiencing night terrors, House takes the case. When he meets Dan's father, House bets everyone that father and son are not related, throwing in questions about what paternity may have to do with the symptoms. After misdiagnoses and Dan nearly jumping off the roof of the hospital, House confirms that Dan was adopted, deduces that his issues are due to lack of childhood vaccinations, and treats him for a rare case of measles.

House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers
  • Will House always pick on his staff so mercilessly?
  • Do we see some initial sparks between Cameron and Chase?
  • House seems to reminisce about the sports he played when young. Will we ever find out more about his backstory?

House M.D. Medical File Folder

HOUSE EPISODE: MEDICAL MYSTERY: PATIENT OF THE WEEK (POTW)

Location of incident: Lacrosse playing field
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Dan / High School Student / 16 / Male
POTW symptom(s):
  • Night terrors
  • Hallucinations
  • Twitching
Team mis-diagnoses:
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Sexual Abuse
  • MS (Multiple Sclerosis)
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: House does a DNA test on the parents without their knowledge
House's "Aha!" moment: When we find out House knew Dan was adopted because of his cleft chin.
POTW final diagnosis: Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
Other / clinic patient(s):
  • A man with a really nasty abscess on his knee who has sued other doctors. House treats the knee and, when the patient serves him with papers, House tells him he has diagnosed gonorrhea.
  • A woman paranoid about vaccinations and her baby; House scares her into thinking it's something serious before announcing it's simply a cold.

House M.D. Episode Best Moments

Best House Episode Moments:
  • When the team realizes that House has won his bet about the paternity of Dan.
  • Watching House look out at the Lacrosse pitch with a reminiscent look about him, as if he used to play the game.
  • During the lumbar puncture, Dan is in pain and frightened, so Chase tells him to focus on the necklace that Cameron is wearing/ As she leans over the boy, she realizes the necklace hangs over her cleavage, at which Dan is now staring. "Thank you so much," she says to Chase. "The kid's in pain," Chase replies.




House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes

    HOUSE QUOTES
    • House: "You know another really good business? Teeny tiny baby coffins. You can get them in frog green or fire engine red. Really. The antibodies in yummy mummy only protect the kid for six months, which is why these companies think they can gouge you. They think that you'll spend whatever they ask to keep your kid alive. Want to change things? Prove them wrong. A few hundred parents like you decide they'd rather let their kid die than cough up forty bucks for a vaccination, believe me, prices will drop really fast."
    • Dan's Mother: "How can you just sit there?"
      House: "If I eat standing up, I spill."
    • House: "Could we get off my screw-ups and focus on theirs? Theirs are bigger."
    House M.D. Episode Trivia
    HOUSE EPISODE TRIVIA:
    • The clip on which Foreman taps his fingers while Chase is working on a crossword puzzle was originally used in the unaired version of "Pilot."
    • "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" by Ricky Lee Jones is the song played when House watches a lacrosse game at the end.
    • House tells Foreman to turn on General Hospital on channel 6 -- a long-running ABC daytime drama, which features life in and around General Hospital in Port Charles, New York.

    		 Preview of "Paternity"

    HOUSE EPISODE PICTURES & VIDEOS




    102: Paternity - House Wiki
    Dan when he is first hurt
    102: Paternity - House Wiki
    Dan has a night terror that House is removing his toe
    102: Paternity - House Wiki
    Dan has a hallucination and goes missing
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