News > TW RECAP: House 10-9-07
October 10, 2007
by Chris Zagorski
A paraplegic man, who's in a wheelchair, is led out into traffic by his dog. Suddenly, the man slumps over, stops in the middle of the street, and is almost hit by a car (the driver was busy switching stations).
This man will be our main patient for this episode.
House is over an hour late for a session with his fellowship hopefuls, and they're all freaking out about whether it's a test, or if he's just not coming. Turns out it was a test, but since no one took any action, we never found out what exactly House was testing, or how they were supposed to pass it. Anyhoo, once that's settled, the kids get split into two teams (they choose girls vs. guys -- classy), and each is tasked with figuring out the secret of our patient's illness. Whichever team loses is fired. Amber (affectionately nicknamed "Cold-hearted Bitch") wants to join the men's team and ditch her female peers (oh, I see where she got the…hmm…), but the men don't really want her (again, probably because she's a…hmm…).
While the teams try and crack this illness, CHB goes to rat out House to Dr. Cameron, claiming he's turning patient care into a game.
Meanwhile, House walks into another patient's room, greets the patient with a sarcastic remark, and the patient immediately sticks a knife into an outlet and electrocutes himself -- and I'm not even joking. (House, your bedside manner needs work, son!) House then reasons that he may actually want to help this guy…
While the two teams continue to work on solving this case (and bicker with one another), House goes to visit Cuddy (and bicker with her). She's operating under the assumption that the House she knows wouldn't let these kids try and figure out what was wrong with a patient, unless he already knew what the answer was. Therefore, she wants him to give the answer to her, so they can actually help this guy (again, House is ambivalent on this issue). At the moment, House is more concerned with why somebody would voluntarily electrocute himself using the old "knife-outlet" trick. (Since I'm curious as well, I'll allow it.)
Foreman and his team are working on another patient case, and not surprisingly, he's taking a very different (and much less uncomfortable) approach to solving things.
CHB finally convinces the men to let her join them, and she immediately nearly kills the patient (welcome aboard, sunshine!). This ultimately prompts another session with House, who "Houses" them all a new one, and then decides the men's team (plus CHB) deserve to really get a good "House-ing."
Foreman's team failed on their first attempt to diagnose their patient, but they're gonna try it again. (Phew!)
House confronts his "wired" friend once he wakes up, and asks him what the "h" that whole electrocution thing was about. Apparently this fella had a near death experience before, and would like to have more of them. House doesn't know what to do with this explanation, and walks out on the guy.
The men's team, still on punishment from House, is stuck in House's office to brainstorm, while they're spied on via House's webcam. Once they discover this, Amber/CHB drops to the floor to sneak out and do some real work.
Unfortunately for her (and the boys), there wasn't much time before the next group meeting with House. When House dressed the whole place up like Tribal Council from Survivor, it was clear that someone was going home. Actually, it was a whole team that was leaving, and it was the men's team. (Sorry, gang.)
Having already turned to Cameron without getting results, CHB, refusing to take her dismissal lying down, not turns to Chase to help her behind House's back. Chase tells her to go draw some blood, and he'll run some labs for her. CHB gets on it. Now, I'm not sure what's going on with our patient fella, but his blood appears to be green. That's strange. And yet to CHB, it's great news.
House meets up with his kids again, both the women's team and the now potentially un-fired men's team, to discuss this green blood. Apparently what it boils down to is that, in addition to Syncope and Aspiration, we can now add Kidney Failure to this man's list of symptoms (apparently the kidneys would have filtered out the green color of a test liquid, had they been working properly).
House goes to yell at Chase, but Chase really isn't scared of House anymore. Sad day for House.
House, fairly frustrated at this point, pretty much snaps on our patient when he wants to envision a better existence after this one. House doesn't agree. Wilson wants to know why House is such a downer all the time (I too wonder this). While House contemplates it all, Foreman is also trying to figure out what's going on with his own patient and his respective elusive illness. Everybody is feeling a little melancholy, and while his team is still working hard to figure out their patient, House electrocutes himself via the now infamous "knife-outlet" method, to the sho--, er, surprise of all.
Wilson takes over meeting with the team, and the eleven of them all try to figure out why House would do such a thing. Nobody knows -- all they know is that he hasn't regained consciousness yet. Later, when he does come to, Wilson tells him that he's an idiot. Wilson also informs House that his partner in crime (read: electro-shock therapy) has passed away. House is sad about this, as he wanted to talk to that guy… House tells Wilson that he loves him. (there was either a lot going on in this scene, or absolutely nothing at all. I'm not sure which.)
As House is still recuperating, our patient passes away. As House gets out of bed to go investigate, they all notice that our patient's dog has passed away also. House, doing some light detective work, figures out that the dog was taking the patient's pills (not good). Olivia Wilde/"Thirteen", who has basically been the leader of the women's team this whole ep, is pretty much assigned the blame for this whole entire debacle.
Cuddy shows up to admonish House, but he's already feeling a bit bad about things.
Good news and bad news on Foreman's side of things. It seems he was finally able to figure out what was ailing his patient, and got her fixed up. Unfortunately, he didn't play things by the book though to get there though -- he took some risks and made some gutsy calls -- and ultimately, he ends up getting fired for it (this hospital is firing-crazy).
House confronts Thirteen about her role in our patient's (and his dog's) death, and when she demands to be fired (she knows what hospital she's in), House actually tells her he's not going to. Instead, he's going to make sure she learns from this, and never, ever, ever lets anything like it happen again.
And that's…the end…(?)
