Island Son Season 1, Episode 17: Moving Targets

1

Heart and Soul

Daniel witnesses a drunken accident that leaves a little girl severely injured.

60 min

2

Sometimes They're Zebras

Metzger suspects an elderly patient's family of abuse; Daniel's son visits and decides to make it permanent.

60 min

3

Fathers and Sons

Daniel's son falls for a patient facing a fatal prognosis; a resident falters before his prominent mother's determination that he follow her into cardiac medicine.

60 min

4

Gifts

A tourist protests the age of her physician when Caitlin gets her case, and Daniel's budding romance is nipped by illness and her past.

60 min

5

Painkillers

Daniel suspects the new head of cardiology is addicted to pills, and an orderly's illiteracy nearly kills a patient.

60 min

6

Life Sentence

Daniel tries to protect his patient, a convicted rapist, from the media mob surrounding the hospital; Sam falls for a crafty hitchiker.

60 min

7

The State vs. John Kulani

A doctor has Daniel's father arrested for performing a Hawaiian healing ceremony in the hospital; Caitlin worries about a furtive admirer.

60 min

8

Role Models

Fushida becomes a difficult patient when he develops a dangerous infection; Daniel battles to have a patient admitted for critical surgery despite insurance problems; a diabetic friend of Sam's risks his health.

60 min

9

Everyday People

Veronica returns with a proposition, but Daniel's distracted by his patients: a dying talk-show host and a paraplegic fighting to keep his home.

60 min

10

Hihia

Sam is paralyzed with caison disease after lying his way into a deep sea diving job with his uncle, which touches off a bitter fight between the brothers; racism cripples Metzger's romance with a Japanese-American.

60 min

11

The Christmas Story

A group of men dressed as elves are admitted with symptoms of plague; Dr. Fushida is adamant that he wants a natural son despite the diagnosis that a pregnancy would kill his wife.

60 min

12

Falling Stars

Metzger's confidence is shaken when he disastrously misdiagnoses a patient; Daniel tries to reconcile the estranged Fushidas; Sam befriends an elderly man.

60 min

13

Icarus Falling

A pilot refuses to be tested for the source of his blackouts; a teenager resists his girlfriend's decision to put their baby up for adoption.

60 min

14

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

A teenage volunteer attempts suicide after confiding a terrible secret to Sam. Increasingly unable to cope with terminal cases, Margaret betrays a patient when he returns to the hospital after a recurrence of his cancer.

60 min

15

Janine Returns

Daniel's former wife stirs up trouble when she arrives to celebrate their son's birthday. Parents of a dying infant worry that a doctor whose child has an identical health problem will receive preferential treatment in an organ donor program.

60 min

16

Viruses

Daniel discovers that Tess's little friend is HIV-positive; Margaret tries to help an ailing former movie star.

60 min

17

Moving Targets

A serial killer who targets prostitutes poses a threat to James's fiancé, a former call girl; Fushida's disapproval of Margaret's office romance hurts their working relationship.

60 min

18

Separations

Nina hesitates when Daniel proposes, a man uses his illness to blackmail his daughter, and Caitlin murders a patient when she disagrees with his family's decision to fight his liver disease.

60 min