House Season1 EP2

Paternity

Episode 102 : 2004-11-23

A family arrives for an appointment with House even though it's a walk-in clinic. They claim to have a letter from him about the appointment, which is odd because House doesn't write letters. It seems that Dr. Cameron wrote the letter and signed House's name to aid the family.

House agrees to see the patient. Dan is a 16-year old who has the sudden onset of double vision and night terrors. House says that post-traumatic stress and sexual abuse are two common symptoms. Dan, a high school lacrosse player, admits that he was recently struck in the head. House tells the kid to get some glasses to correct the double vision and ride out the concussion that's causing the night terrors.

As the kid is leaving, House notices Dan's foot twitch and he asks if he's tired or about to fall asleep. He isn't, and House knows the myoclonic jerk is common when a person is falling asleep. The body misinterprets a falling pulse as dying and jolts you awake. House instructs his staff to admit the patient.

House bets Dr. Foreman that the dad isn't Dan's biological father. They can't rule out genetic causes just yet. During the first night, the patient has another night terror, which is recorded on a polysonagraph. But a series of scans and tests show no explanation for the symptoms. House re-examines the MRI and orders another test that shows there is significant blockage. A shunt is inserted to relieve the pressure. After surgery, it turns out what they thought was the issue was only a symptom of something larger. Is it Multiple Sclerosis?

That night, Dan goes missing from his bed. Cameron, Chase and Foreman set off on a search, eventually finding Dan on the roof. Dan thinks he's on the lacrosse field walking around. The doctors tackle him moments before he wanders off the edge of the roof.

The next morning, House is confused by Foreman's report from the roof. House is thrilled because this means Dan doesn't have night terrors -- and thus, is not suffering from MS. Dan must have an infection in his brain, which House thinks is neurosyphillis.

As Cameron and Chase inject penicillin into Dan's brain, he begins having another attack of voices in his head. The auditory hallucination disproves neurosyphillis. House orders more tests to read Dan's brain. He notices that the parents have left their lunch behind in the hospital, so House takes a sample to run a DNA test. Cameron finds that neither of them are Dan's biological parents. He's adopted. Was his birth mother vaccinated? House thinks infant Dan caught a basic measles virus that mutated and reappeared 16 years later after settling into his brain. He suggests injecting a needle into the boy's eye to do a biopsy on his retina.

That frightening test reveals the mutated virus which requires a dangerous brain surgery. However, the surgery if effective and Dan will be fine. Turns out Dan already knew he was adopted after doing his own research in the fifth grade.

第2集（EP02:Paternity）
1.曲棍球
本集的病人就是一個曲棍球球員。在最後House看完曲棍球訓練後，面對一大片空空的球場若有所思的樣子，也許就是在想像自己玩曲棍球的樣子。這個時候他拿枴杖的姿勢其實是拿曲棍球球棍的姿勢。說明House在瘸腿之前起碼是非常喜歡曲棍球的。後面也經常看到House用枴杖在辦公室裡對著牆玩曲棍球。

2.House: The George Washington Bridge between the left and right side of the brain. It』s subtle. 
和小鴨子們討論病人Dan的核磁共振（MRI）結果的時候，
House: Take a close look at the corpus collosum.
House: 仔細看看胼胝體。
Chase: It looks ok.
Chase: 看起來沒什麼問題。
House: Are we all looking at the same thing? 200 million interhemispheric nerve fibers, the George Washington Bridge between the left and right side of the brain. It's subtle.
House: 我們是在看同一個東西麼？2億個在腦半球之間的神經元，連接左右腦的華盛頓橋，可是很精緻/脆弱的。
喬治華盛頓大橋（The George Washington Bridge）是一座橫跨Hudson河的懸吊式橋樑，是連接曼哈頓和北新澤西的主要通道。這裡應該是形容胼胝體的重要性。

3.House: General Hospital is on Channel Six.
House: "General Hospital"在六頻道。
House看見Foreman在實驗室中觀察Dan的病情時說的。General Hospital是ABC電視台播放的一部肥皂劇，主要講述發生在紐約查爾斯港（Port Charles）一家醫院裡的故事。