This Helicopter Parent Will Get Her Own Son Killed | House M.D.

0:01 Matt, did you take any drugs this morning?

0:05 Pencils down.

0:08 Can you squeeze my fingers for me?

0:14 Did anyone give you anything to help with the math test?

0:18 Matt?

0:19 I told you he doesn't take drugs.

0:22 Ms.

0:22 Davis, all parents think that about their children.

0:26 And they're usually wrong.

0:28 I gave my mom a little trouble now

0:30 I was his age.

0:31 I turned out okay.

0:32 Even she thought so.

0:34 I know my kid.

0:35 The fact that you did drugs doesn't mean he did.

0:40 Did he go anywhere last night?

0:44 No.

0:45 He was home studying.

0:47 Any friends come over to help him?

0:48 And bring him drugs?

0:50 Is that what your friends did?

0:51 Ms.

0:51 Davis.

0:53 Look.

0:55 I tested him myself.

0:56 The home kit.

0:57 I took some hair off his brush.

0:59 I didn't want him to know about it because I do trust him.

1:03 Then why did you test him?

1:07 All he did last night was study and argue about his college interviews.

1:12 He wants to be himself.

1:14 No haircut.

1:16 Ratty old clothes.

1:17 That'll go over big.

1:19 Then we both gave up and went to bed.

1:20 That's it.

1:22 Has he ever had any problems like this before?

1:24 Any family history?

1:26 No.

1:27 It was just me and Matt.

1:29 Diazepam.

1:30 10 milligrams.

1:30 Stop.

1:31 Right.

1:31 What's going on?

1:32 He's taking precautions.

1:35 He's seizing.

1:37 Help me hold him.

1:40 Stay cool, Matt.

1:41 Calm me down.

1:51 Yeah.

1:52 I found the pesticide.

1:53 It's [music] disulfoton.

1:55 And it's empty.

1:56 He used up the whole can.

1:57 Okay, I'll get the chase on it.

1:59 The poison's called Dursulfoton.

2:01 This should bond with it and neutralize the poison.

2:04 Then his nervous system will start sending

2:06 the correct signals to the rest of his body.

2:07 But there was no Dursulfoton or that stuff in that can.

2:11 The label says Dursulfoton.

2:12 I can show you.

2:13 But you didn't test it.

2:15 You said Matt sprayed with it this morning before school.

2:17 Matt started that garden himself for environmental science class.

2:21 They weren't allowed to use pesticides.

2:22 Apparently he cheated a little.

2:23 It was orange peel oil, totally organic.

2:26 He dumped that other stuff last winter.

2:28 The symptoms fit.

2:29 There must have been some left in the can.

2:31 If you're wrong, what will this treatment do to him?

2:35 Well, theoretically it could increase the toxicity and but we're not wrong.

2:41 Don't.

2:41 We're not wrong.

2:43 I can't let you do this.

2:45 I, Margo Davis, have been informed of the risks

2:48 which may arise from my refusal of advised medical care.

2:50 I hereby release you?

2:53 I work for the hospital.

2:56 The Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and its employees, agents,

2:59 and otherwise from any adverse medical conditions resulting from my refusal.

3:02 It is not the hospital's fault if my son kicks off.

3:06 Kicks off?

3:08 I punched up the language, mostly for clarification.

3:12 I understand my doctors consider my decision to be completely idiotic.

3:16 you doing this?

3:17 But I am convinced I know more than they do.

3:19 I took a biology course in high school.

3:21 I assume that's Yeah.

3:24 Besides, I enjoy controlling every single aspect of my son's life,

3:29 even if it means his death.

3:32 Sign here, please.

3:35 I brought a pen.

3:38 Who are you?

3:39 I'm the doctor who's trying to save your son.

3:42 You're the mom who's letting him die.

3:44 Clarification.

3:46 It's a beautiful thing.

3:53 Dr.

3:54 morale contacted She rethought her position.

4:01 Start him on the hydrolyze.

4:02 No.

4:03 We've got a problem.

4:06 Three, one, two, three.

4:10 Heart rate is 49.

4:11 O2 sat 84 and falling.

4:13 Silene actually painted eyes pattern now.

4:16 His name is Chee Ling.

4:17 He was admitted 12 minutes ago.

4:19 Identical symptoms as Matt.

4:20 Chase isn't sure he's going to make it.

4:32 Nice work.

4:35 Bag.

4:50 Matt's next [music] door neighbor by any chance?

4:53 They live 10 miles apart.

4:56 Apparently they don't even know each other.

4:58 The only thing they have in common is the bus.

5:00 Except their symptoms.

5:02 Given their severity and the fact their cardiac symptoms

5:04 are getting worse much faster than their other ones,

5:06 what does that tell us?

5:07 The poison was probably absorbed through the skin.

5:09 They were admitted at 8:45 and 11.

5:12 When were they poisoned?

5:13 Absorption through the skin?

5:14 Anywhere from 3 to 8 hours.

5:16 that bad boy like 1 and 1/2 to 4.

5:18 So Matt was poisoned before 7:15, before he got on the bus.

5:23 You're thinking [music] each kid got poisoned in his own house?

5:26 Two separate exposures?

5:27 What do teenage boys do in the morning [music] besides the obvious?

5:31 Wake up, go to the bathroom, and the obvious,

5:35 then check their zits in the mirror.

5:36 Did they both use the same acne cream?

5:39 Because acne cream contains lanolin which could have pesticides

5:41 [music] and you're thinking they both bought the same product.

5:45 Shaving cream.

5:46 Chee doesn't look like shaves.

5:48 sweats.

5:48 Deodorant could contain linalool.

5:49 Did these people have animals?

5:51 She has a dog, [music] Matt has a cat.

5:52 Please, flea powder.

5:54 Okay.

5:55 Go to their houses, check for anything that might have touched their skin

5:57 between the time they got up and the time they went to school.

6:00 TKO.

6:01 TKO.

6:04 Liquid?

6:05 Liquid, 128 oz.

6:07 128?

6:08 Yellow jug?

6:08 [music] Special?

6:10 Environmentally safe formula.

6:12 It's the same.

6:12 Bring in the detergent.

6:14 [music] So, the detergent was contaminated with pesticides?

6:16 Which soaked into their clothes and got absorbed into their skin.

6:19 Davis.

6:20 Yeah, they're Matt's.

6:24 And they're old.

6:27 And yet the label hasn't faded in the slightest.

6:30 Fake old.

6:31 $100 for the homeless look.

6:34 What, kids aren't pretentious in England?

6:38 She was wearing a different brand.

6:40 How could they both have been contaminated?

6:41 That [music] is a question for the ages.

6:43 Meantime, get these tested.

6:45 Judging by the self-importance of your strut,

6:46 you have identified the chemical in question.

6:48 Phosdrin.

6:51 Hit him with the hydrolase.

6:52 She's parents said yes, but Mighty Mom said no.

6:56 She's going to feel like a million bucks when she lives and her son dies.

7:01 Send Cameron.

7:02 She's the only one of you he's managed to talk into anything.

7:05 Not this time.

7:06 Matt's mom won't make a move until she gets that opinion from the CDC.

7:15 Hello.

7:17 Yes, this is Margo Davis.

7:23 But you have his records, I sent them.

7:30 Yes, I understand.

7:39 And they can't help me.

7:42 They haven't seen him.

7:44 I can't make a decision with it.

7:58 The CDC is unable to give an opinion at this time,

8:01 and we're going to have a doctor in your area next week.

8:05 You fooled her with that?

8:09 So, I'm going to be cured?

8:10 As long as you don't wear any more poison pants.

8:14 Sorry, Mom.

8:16 I knew the pants were stolen.

8:18 They were only five bucks.

8:20 You're going to give me hell, aren't you?

8:22 Oh, honey, I'm just glad you're alive.

8:25 Let's get you home so you can rest.

8:26 was selling pants off the back of his truck near the school.

8:29 When he wasn't busy as a clothing entrepreneur,

8:32 he did day labor at a cornfield out on Route 1.

8:34 He used the same truck for both jobs,

8:36 so he spilled pesticide on the pants and was too lazy to clean up.

8:40 The real question is, why are you still here?

8:44 Why aren't you out there making up with the joyful mother?

8:49 Why would I do that?

8:49 No reason at all.

8:51 If you don't care about her or her son.

9:00 Oh, Dr.

9:01 House.

9:04 The CDC called.

9:07 Again.

9:08 Oops.