Island Son

September 19, 1989

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

September 24, 1989

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

September 26, 1989

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.

October 3, 1989

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.

October 10, 1989

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

October 24, 1989

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

October 31, 1989

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

November 7, 1989

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.

November 14, 1989

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.

December 14, 1989

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.

December 21, 1989

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.

January 4, 1990

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

January 11, 1990

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.

February 1, 1990

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.

February 8, 1990

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.

February 15, 1990

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

February 22, 1990

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.

March 29, 1990

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.