I didn’t look up the storyline for tonight’s ep, but here’s the thread.
From IMDB:
A wealthy businessman brings his teenage son, who is suffering from inexplicable stomach pains, to Princeton Plainsboro and insists on having Dr. House handle the case. The father of the patient believes the karmic penalty of his financial success is that he is victim to personal tragedy. Meanwhile, Foreman and Chase prepare to present information on the Dibala case.
I cut out one part that might have been slightly spoilery.
Did they ever mention what happened to the kid’s mother, other than that the father lost her? If she’d died of some disease, isn’t it SOP to ask about it?
Yes, that is a normal part of taking a medical history, but I don’t recall if anyone asked.
They def. didn’t mention anything further about it, so I assumed it wasn’t pertinent to the case.
Well the whole ‘karma’ thing was pretty silly, but it was a cool not so subtle moment when the giant tennis ball on the desk rotated to look like a yin yang symbol.
Did we ever find out who screwed up 13’s plane ticket? She thought it was House but he accused Wilson, who admitted it but then accused someone else…
Looks like Taub is really gone but 13 will be back eventually…and of course there’s other ominous spoilers…
I liked the ambiguity re: was it House’s genius, or Karma, that determined the outcome of the case?
And I assumed that it was House who kiboshed 13’s ticket. Since it wasn’t explicitly stated otherwise, that is the only default option that fits.
Me too. I liked that pretty much the moment after he signed the papers, his son had a heart attack, which of course eventually led House to the correct diagnosis.
It was pretty much explicitly stated. It came from Wilson’s computer. Wilson “admitted” it to 13 to cover for House, then he later confronted House about it, who didn’t deny it.
What a waste of Wilson this episode. His entire function was to assure Thirteen that House needed her? We could have had another good scene with him, and instead we get treated to a scene with her in a taxi insulting the driver on the way to the airport?
Rats! Googling “misty may digs for gold” yields no results.
Did Wilson actually say that he didn’t mess with 13’s plane tix? He said something when he went to see House after she confronted him, but I couldn’t make it out and I’ve never quite figured out how to turn on CC on my new TV.
Yes. He asked House if he was the one that screwed with the ticket - he wouldn’t have asked if he was the one that had done it.
What was the point of House going around trying to figure out who did it then, if he was the one?
Exactly what were the “papers” that he signed? He kept talking about how by getting rid of all his money he would somehow change his karma and save his son’s life, but everyone else was acting as if by signing the papers he would be shutting down his company and costing thousands of people their jobs. How would bankrupting himself personally cause his company to go out of business? What was I missing?
The only one he went to was Forman, and that’s because he suspected Forman didn’t even know that 13 was leaving the country, and that was his excuse for bringing up the subject and filling Forman in.
I think it had to do with making really risky, bad investment choices with his personal fortune. Like the opposite of what made him all his money in the first place, so that karma would be reversed (because everyone knows that’s exactly how karma works). I don’t know how that would affect any of his businesses.
My impression (and I agree it was very vague) was that it was more than this – that he was basically selling his business for next to nothing – leaving him without an ownership stake in the business and virtually no money from that transaction. This would obviously affect his business, as it would now be under new ownership.
It isn’t clear exactly who he was selling it to, or what the new owners were going to do with it. Presumably they could keep it up and running, or they could fire everybody and sell it off for parts.
Upon further reflection, it appeared to be a publicly-owned company (since House talked about shorting shares) so let me amend my theory to say that he was a majority shareholder in his company, and sold off all his shares for next to nothing. This would leave him powerless, with no money (assuming all his fortune was tied up in his company) and leave his company to whoever happened to be the new majority shareholder.
I love that House is secretly working for good now, eg the records from the dead guy’s previous dr that explained away the cholesterol discrepancy.