A Fathers Radioactive Gift Destroys His Son's Insides | House M.D.

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  @Maria-gd2wr · 5 years ago

  i like this episode because something just like that actually happened in brazil decades ago. a dad gave his little girl a beautiful glowing blue powder he found while working in a junkyard (he found a really heavy metal capsule and opened it,  revealing the blue powder, he had no idea what it was, but he found it pretty so he took it home. Everyone in the family and neighborhood played with the powder and the girl kept it under her bed at night. A few days later, everyone started showing symptoms of radiation poisoning and it was chaos because a LOT of people were affected due to working, studying or taking public transportation with someone who got in contact with the blue powder. some more, some less. Police found out it was cesium-137 from old medical equipment wrongfully dumped in the junkyard, the whole family died days later (the little girl being the most affected) and everyone had to be buried in lead caskets and concrete boxes to make sure they weren’t radioactive to visitors. It was a true tragedy, those who didn’t die at the time, died later with cancer and other radiation related issues.

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• SA

  @sapphael. · 6 years ago (edited)

  Literally wasn't his dad fault at all, it's illegal to dump radioactive waste. That's like saying it's your fault if you bite into candy and there's a razor in it, ofc it's not, it's whoever put the razor there.

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• MA

  @madkip4991 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Unless the father trespass a property that has a sign that says "Radioactive" and get the metal from there, it's not his fault.

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• AR

  @ArkayeCh · 5 years ago

  I love Foreman here. His eyes are always the father's during the news delivery. Constantly watching, listening and caring. His first words after the news is reassuring him that he wasn't at fault.

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• HO

  @HorrorLover98 · 6 years ago

  As much as House likes to be a smart ass, he knows when its time to be (mostly) serious, like the moment he began to suspect radiation exposure, he went on high alert and limped at full speed across the hospital.

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• SM

  @smoothknyte · 6 years ago

  I don&apos;t care how many arguments I have for House. &nbsp;The <b>minute</b> he tells me &quot;get out, this thing&apos;s radioactive&quot; I&apos;m doing the exact same thing that Chase did.

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• DA

  @dancingCarapace · 5 years ago

  “The chances of radiation causing CNS symptoms is-“<br><br><b>geiger counter has a seizure</b><br>Foreman: 👁👄👁

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• SH

  @ShatnerLover · 5 years ago

  The actor who played the dad is ridiculously talented. I felt his pain.

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• VI

  @victoriaheatherly7815 · 6 years ago

  This is one of the saddest episodes. Every other time it&apos;s someone&apos;s pride, someone&apos;s ignorance, but this time it was a father&apos;s love that resulted in the sickness of his son.

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• KH

  @khalilnouira3182 · 6 years ago (edited)

  House standing right in front of a radioactive source be like : &quot;now its time to pose and think&quot;

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• SK

  @skywolfx76 · 6 years ago (edited)

  &quot;if you wanted to be a doctor maybe you should&apos;ve... buckled down a little more in high school&quot;<br>&quot;bite me&quot;

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• LI

  @lindatullos9430 · 4 years ago

  The man &nbsp;had a &nbsp;perfectly legit business in salvage but felt &nbsp;he and &nbsp;his son would be looked &nbsp;down &nbsp;on, so he lied about his &nbsp;business. &nbsp; That&apos;s so sad . &nbsp;Now he also &nbsp;knows his &nbsp;gift is what may kill his &nbsp;son. &nbsp;Too much pain &nbsp;to &nbsp;bear. &nbsp;I &nbsp;actually cried &nbsp;even though this is a &nbsp;made up &nbsp;story the actors gave such a &nbsp;convincing performance I got wrapped up in the story &nbsp;too much and had to talk myself &nbsp;out of the tears.

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