House is back and the cop has him in the courtroom tonight. Can’t wait! This should be a pivotal episode.
I think Cuddy is almost certainly lying about perjuring the pharmacy record. Think about it: House can’t possibly challenge her on it, because if he investigates and turns out to be wrong, he goes to jail. He can’t risk that, so he has to be her bitch. I’m not actually so much saying that she has to be lying as that there’s no way for him to find out, and it would be so easy for her to lie to him about it.
And he bribes the security guard in rehab to bring him vicodin. It’s so…House that it’s perfect. I’m glad that this story arc is over, only so much because Fox has strung it out over several episodes, which is to say 6 months.
Really Fox either needs to stop showing sports or other networks need to come up with the good shows.
Ok, so we have to wait three weeks for the next new episode? That sucks…
Unless I missed something, she said as much.
I agree that it was a very House ending to this subplot. So Tritter is ultimately owned, but he was right - you can’t trust an addict!
Fox is really testing our patience with these goofy, long-assed breaks. I thought Wilson’s incredulous look at the end was priceless. I’d also like to request that Cameron get off her fucking cross and get a decent haircut. What’s up with the hug? That was just weird.
About what? I can’t tell what you’re referring to in my post. She said to House that she perjured herself, but that doesn’t mean that she actually did. It doesn’t mean that she didn’t, either, but my point is that House has no way to find out if she’s lying or not. And since he doesn’t, and Wilson knows (and thus would have no reason to reveal it), and she couldn’t give a satisfactory answer, we’re left with Chase, Cameron, and Foreman, and I doubt they have even as much power as House does with Cuddy. If she tells any one of them, she knows that eventually that person will tell House. (Especially Cameron or Chase.)
Perjured herself or not… she saved house, and he knows it. I personally liked the judge calling tritter on it. The look on House’s face was priceless in that scene.
And he can’t be re-tried on those charges… they were dismissed. New ones, yes… those notsomuch.
Question is, did the rehab help in any way? Clearly he still has a need for the vicodin, but has he come to better terms with it? (or was he ever really abusing it to begin with?).
I certainly hope the end of this arc means that House will get rid of the even-more-jerkish-than-usual streak he’s been sporting. His apology to Wilson was a good start, whether he meant it or not.
Do you think we’ll be seeing House doing all the crap Cuddy threatened to make him do, or will the writers just forget about it?
Well, to be fair, this next frustrating break is because American Idol and 24 are returning. Both starting out with big, multi-hour, multi-day premieres. Can’t blame sports for that, and the previous break was because of the holidays. There hasn’t been any sports on Tuesdays to screw things up since the World Series.
I thought this was a pretty good episode, I love the Voldemort lines and that he was bribing the guy into giving him drugs. The downside is that I was actually starting to look forward to seeing a more touchy, feely House for a while. Then I came to my senses and realized that the snarky comments are the best part of the show.
Glad Tritter is gone, I was getting sick of his mean, spitefulness without any comic relief to go along with it.
It would be nice if Cuddy follows through, but I smell a “reset button” being pushed.
Man, I fucking cheered when the judge called Tritter out. I can’t believe it even made it as far as a courtroom. Yes, he’s an addict. So freaking what?? It’s sad and it’s irresponsible, but does it affect anyone else adversely? Nope. I never understood how someone could take such monolithic offense to someone else’s problem. Glad the writers aren’t as dumb as I was starting to think.
Just goes to show you how fucked up the american medical system is.
People with chronic pain need pain control. House has chronic pain. I agree they show him popping a serious amount of vicodan which in real life I dont think he would be dumb enough to do [vicodan is best scheduled not as a ‘rescue’ drug] BUT he is obviously in control of himself and his life. He performs his job, what social activities he wants, he has [he seems fairly solitary like mrAru and myself. We would rather hang at home and do stuff we like rather than go out in a whirl of social events. Holiday work parties are sort of purgatorial for both of us.]
I don’t see why they took away his pain control meds. All he needed was to stop the rather showy popping of pills and use a more controlled scheduling of meds.
Rant brought to you by benefit of watching my terminal cancer patient Uncle Bill begging for pain relief and being refused anything with authority. Nothing like taking a man with essentially no internal organs left and making him cry and beg for pain relief and not get it because it required giving him huge doses of addictive opiates.
Wow, this was a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare! Outstanding script. The poignant and sad stories of both House and the patient were complex and thoughtful.
House played the addict game perfectly; fooling others and probably himself and we are left wondering how sincere he is about the program and everything else and how much he’s manipulating. Hard to swallow House actually being contrite, but I was buying it until the scene in the jail cell. Even then, the interplay between him and Wilson left me wondering…
Because the House plot was so riveting, it actually pushed he patient’s story aside, which could have been a strong episode all by itself. The end of that, when it turned out his girlfriend was not in love with the brother, after he undersent the brain mushing: another Wow.
I’ve watched from the beginning and think this was the best episode yet.
Did anyone else wonder if House had set up his vicodin supply before voluntarily entering rehab?
I thought it was a good ep, although the PT story was very sad. In a way, there’s a parrallel between the patient’s situation and House, with the reset button being pushed.
I’m not sure what they’re doing with Cameron’s character. It seems so unlike her. She had the choice between two needy guys (House and the firefighter), and picked the one she felt was neediest.
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Don’t believe that the Tritter story arc is finished. He will return because he was right about House. Even the scene in rehab where House wants Tritter to acknowledge his efforts, Tritter knows that it is all false…if House was sincere in his efforts to rehabilitate it wouldn’t be about earning the plaudits of others it would be about the process of getting off Vicodin.
Tritter is a sincere man and means what he said to House at the end of the courtroom scene but he will be back. And I think that he himself will prove to be the addict that he knows.
I’m just now getting into House. I’ve been following the Tritter story line.
Question about this episode: Did we find out WHY the fire fighter was lying about the girl and his brother? He had some sort of growth on his spine that was (all sorts of medical stuff happening here) making him think he was in love with her? Or was it causing the heart attacks because he was in love with her? It was pretty dramatic to find out she wasn’t dating the brother, but I wanted to know why the guy lied like that.
Restricted blood flow to the brain created false memories. Explained in the scene where House oversees the angiography after leaving court.
Something in his brain was creating false memories. That’s as far as my understanding went. 
What a heartbreaker that whole story was.
This episode actually pissed me off. I love House’s character but I was left wondering more strongly than ever, why do they put up with him? Surely there are other brilliant docs in the world they could hire; he can’t be the only guy capable of what he does.
And Cameron! The way they have her hug him and then have it looked like it rocked her world :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Cue romantic comedy styling…
For Wilson to just wryly shake his head at the deception House has been pulling–does he never get tired of it? I thought he had when he walked away from him on Christmas. And why the heck would Cuddy ever want House’s help with donors? Talk about an bad job fit!
And Fox: Don’t call it a “two-hour House event” when the first hour is a repeat! :smack: Three weeks from now for a new ep! Gar.
This episode is another example of, IMO, the biggest weakness of this show. They take us on these multi-episode story arcs, and then–just when I’m ready for a big, dramatic, climactic episode–they give us something like this where they basically ignore the whole build-up they’ve created and they wrap things up nice and tidy during the last 30 seconds. Story over, that’s it.
The conclusions to these arcs on House always leave me unsatisfied. The last season ending cliffhanger that they wrapped up at the beginning of this season? I’m still not sure how they swept all that under the rug without more complaints. And there was the arc a year or two ago where Foreman comes down with the mystery disease and after being cured he apparently undergoes a huge change in personality… for about a half an episode until the writers forgot about it.
I’m ok with them wrapping things up and moving on to new stories–this whole Tritter storyline was definitely getting tired–but I wish the resolution to the conflict would take longer to show than 30 seconds.
If Cutty perjured herself, then House has all the power – she goes to jail if he does.
Though the revelation that he got a placebo was well set up: it was established that Wilson knew that House was trying to steal the dead man’s pills before House went to the pharmacy.
However, how does the fact that the pills were placebos have any effect on the fact that House fraudulently obtained the pills? The crime was obtaining them, not using them, and I can’t see the DA giving up on the case simply because House didn’t get them.