Only 45 minutes late…
Sleeping in a room full of pictures of a dead person would be creepy under any circumstances…
Quite an interesting and unpredictable patient tonight; nice interplay with House and Wilson regarding Amber and the whispering; more foreplay with Cuddy; and Chase is unraveling rapidly.
Good ep.
This was an excellent episode, one of the best. Jesse Spencer, tormented ex-seminarian, really did a good job, wrestling with his guilt. He’s going to mess up bad with Cameron, though…The only bad part was that baseball game running long, I had to keep checking back to see if it was over. … If you missed this episode, USA network will replay it in a few days, or you can watch it on the computer or something. It was really really good.
Man what a great baseball game tho! shoulda stuck around! 
I thought at first that the POTW had actually died and they were going to spend the rest of the show trying to save the kid. would have been a shocker if House’s team lost 2 patients this soon!
I enjoyed this episode a lot more than I should have. Every time something horrible happened to Jon Seda’s character, it was like watching Falsone get the well-deserved beating he somehow escaped over three seasons of “Homicide”. Very cathartic.
Merged two threads about last night’s episode.
When Chase asked the patient about his fellow cops who’d killed people, it was as if he was getting permission to become a hopeless drunk like his mother. Are we going to see Chase going into an alcoholic tailspin? Signs point to yes. And how sweet and sad to see House and Wilson, each in his own lonely bedroom, talking to dead people? “Well, Dad . . .”
IANAD, but I suspect octors run every test imaginable to confirm death before starting an autopsy. Like cutrting a finger and seeing if it bleeds.
But the POTW sitting up and screaming was marvelously scary.
Wasn’t House hearing whispers in the hospital too at one point? Maybe he really was hallucinating.
Yes he was. Clearly, there are still questions about his sanity.
Wilson may be a little around the bend with the mourning of the dead girlfriend and talking to the dead girlfriend and having a shrine to the dead girlfriend, but making House sleep in the shrine to the dead girlfriend with dozens of pictures of her looking down at him watching him, when it was hallucinations of her that put him in the asylum to begin with . . .
Well played, Wilson.
I hope so…but then, there’s TLC’s “I Woke Up in the Morgue” about people with conditions where they fall down and seem dead. One woman got pronounced dead and taken to the morgue multiple times.
You watched House instead of baseball? What is this world coming to.And football on ESPN. too.
I saw it coming a mile away because it was only halfway into the episode, and that’s too early for the House formula… I’d actually have preferred he stay dead instead, because at least it would have been something different from the usual.
(Has House’s team ever lost the POTW before the last ten minutes in the show? I can think of cases where POTW dies, but it’s always in the last 10-15 minutes).
As for the tests… I just assumed that there would usually be some sort of test to confirm the patient is well and truly dead before they start cutting, but that Foreman didn’t get around to it because House got impatient and started waving the power tools around. I got the impression there was a bunch more preliminaries that would usually be done, but he skipped them to pacify House.
Yes, I believe it has happened a couple of times, but only because there was more than 1 PotW, so the death of #1 figures into the curing of #2, etc.
I’ve wondered about this phenomenon too. One of my friends is in her parents’ house, both parents have died, she never got rid of any of their things, she talks to their photos on a regular basis–even telling them about the ball game or where she’s going that evening–and sleeps with a throw pillow that has her mom’s photo inset into it.
At some point, isn’t this sort of behavior unhealthy?
I think if someone told me she visits her parents in the cemetery once a month and talks for a few minutes, I wouldn’t think that too out there. Probably a good outlet, in fact. But, as you say, “at some point.” Wilson has now been mourning Amber longer than he was with Amber.
I thought Foreman’s reaction to POTW waking up was awesome & dead on. It would scare the crap out of me.