The Man with the Glowing Chest
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The Man with the Glowing Chest is the 5th episode in season 1 of the American TV series Watson aired on 9 march 2025 on CBS, starring Morris Chestnut as Dr. Watson. 43 min.
Taryn Quintyne, a 26-year-old woman with sickle cell disease, sees her condition rapidly worsens, even as a real cure exists but is financially out of reach, pushing Dr. Mary Morstan to ask Dr. Watson to get her stable enough for a trial. Watson decides to break the law instead: with Shinwell Johnson's help, he secretly recruits biohacker Hobie McSorley (the literal "glowing chest" guy) and performs an unauthorized gene-editing/bone-marrow procedure to cure Taryn. The team discovers what he's done and debates reporting him, but ultimately chooses to protect him after seeing it worked, until Taryn suddenly suffers a pulmonary embolism and Dr. Mary Morstan gathers blood evidence of Watson's illegal actions. The crisis resolves when Watson realizes the embolism is tied to an unexpected twist (Taryn is pregnant) and Mary destroys the evidence and covers for him, while Dr. Lubbock separately leans on Dr. Derian to help get her sister into a medical trial.
References to the original Sherlock Holmes stories
- "Shinwell Johnson" : He was a former criminal allied to Sherlock Holmes to provide information from among the underworld. He appeared only in this story (The Illustrious Client, 1924).
- "Dr. Mary Morstan" : Mary Morstan was the first wife of Dr. Watson but she was not a doctor (The Sign of Four, 1890).
- "Illegal action" : In this episode Dr. Watson circumvents the law, as Sherlock Holmes sometimes did, for example in Charles Augustus Milverton (1904).
Photos
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Dr. John H. Watson (Morris Chestnut) -
Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster) -
Dr. Ingrid Derian (Eve Harlow) -
Dr. Sasha Lubbock (Inga Schlingmann) -
Dr. Stephens Croft (Peter Mark Kendall) -
Dr. Adam Croft (Peter Mark Kendall) -
Dr. Mary Morstan (Rochelle Aytes) -
Hobie McSorley (Nat Faxon) -
Taryn Quintyne (Brittany Adebumola) -
George Carver (Raymond Cham Jr.) -
Gigi Grigoryan (Kiera Allen) -
Anthea Hines (Keda Edwards Pierre) -
Dr. Martin (Shayn Walker) -
Nurse Reyes (Louriza Tronco) -
E.R. Doctor (Ted Cole) -
Holmes Clinic.
Cast
- Dr. John H. Watson : Morris Chestnut
- Shinwell Johnson : Ritchie Coster
- Dr. Ingrid Derian : Eve Harlow
- Dr. Sasha Lubbock : Inga Schlingmann
- Dr. Stephens Croft / Dr. Adam Croft : Peter Mark Kendall
- Croft twins [1] : Andrew Dobbie, Riley Orr
- Dr. Mary Morstan : Rochelle Aytes
- Hobie McSorley : Nat Faxon
- Taryn Quintyne : Brittany Adebumola
- George W. Carver : Raymond Cham Jr.
- Gigi Grigoryan : Kiera Allen
- Anthea Hines : Keda Edwards Pierre
- Dr. Martin : Shayn Walker
- Nurse Reyes : Louriza Tronco
- Nurse Cassie : Alejandra Chavarria
- E.R. Doctor : Ted Cole
Crew
- Director : Tara Nicole Weyr
- Screenplay : Sharde Miller
- Executive Producer : Morris Chestnut, Aaron Kaplan, Shäron Moalem, Erin Moffitt, Brian Morewitz, Sallie Patrick, Craig Sweeny, Larry Teng
- Producers : Scott Graham, Geoffrey Hemwall, Aren Ophoff
- Music : Paul Leonard-Morgan
- ↑ Peter Mark Kendall = playing both roles of Adam & Stephens Croft (acting + speaking). Andrew Dobbie & Riley Orr = physical doubles used to make the twin scenes possible.
