Cornelius Rhodes

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"That's your dad? Fathers like them keeps me in business."

—Dr. Charles to Connor about Cornelius

Cornelius Rhodes is the father of Dr. Connor Rhodes and Claire Rhodes.

Biography

Cornelius was born into the Rhodes family, which is very wealthy and influential since his father started Dolen Rhodes department store. He eventually married a woman named Elizabeth with whom he had two children, a son, Connor, and a daughter, Claire. Ten years after the birth of their son, his wife seemingly threw herself off the roof of their home. His son later implies that there was more to the story, however.

Season 1

iNo

He meets with his son after he left the family a long time ago. He tries to convince Connor to go back to the family business and to put everything that happened behind them. However, Connor doesn't buy into it.

Fallback

One of his employees and old family friend is rushed to the Hospital after being impaled by a chandelier. His son, Connor is attending to the patient. He goes up to Cornelius and Claire to ask if Russell's medical bills will be covered as they may be quite expensive. Claire immediately says yes. However, she is shocked when her father refuses to cover medical bills as he says they would have to do it for everyone else if something were to happen, which would mean losing a lot of money. Later on, he tries to force his son away from the case by going up to Sharon. Since his talk with Sharon didn't work, he took his request up to the administration board. Who, after a while, have a representative show up at Sharon's office. She stands her ground and defends Connor. There is nothing Cornelius can do to step his son down from the case. When the surgery Connor performs is a success, he tells him he always believed in him.

Bound

He donates millions of dollars to the Hospital in order to open the Elizabeth Rhodes Psychiatric Ward in honor of his late wife. The donation is seen by some as his effort to take the spotlight from his son, since he works there, and being the center of attention. To the end of the Hospital, at the inauguration of the ward he makes a speech honoring his wife. Connor praises him for his speech, adding that he never told Claire about what really happened the night their mother died.

Trivia

• Cornelius is an atheist.
• His time of death was 17:42.

Appearances

Season 1
Derailed	iNO	Fallback	Mistaken	Malignant
Bound	Saints	Reunion	Choices	Clarity
Intervention	Guilty	Us	Hearts	Inheritance
Disorder	Withdrawal	Timing

Season 3
Speak Your Truth	Nothing to Fear	Trust Your Gut	Naughty or Nice	Mountains and Molehills
Ties That Bind	Over Troubled Water	Lemons and Lemonade	On Shaky Ground	Down By Law
Folie à Deux	Born This Way	Best Laid Plans	Lock It Down	Devil in Disguise
An Inconvenient Truth	The Parent Trap	This Is Now	Crisis of Confidence	The Tipping Point

Season 4
Be My Better Half	when to Let Go	Heavy Is the Head	Backed Against the Wall	What You Don't Know
Lesser of Two Evils	The Poison Inside Us	Play by My Rules	Death Do Us Part	All the Lonely People
Who Can You Trust	The Things We Do	Ghosts in the Attic	Can't Unring That Bell	We Hold These Truths
Old Flames, New Sparks	The Space Between Us	Tell Me the Truth	Never Let You Go	More Harm Than Good
Forever Hold Your Peace	With a Brave Heart