Newborn disappears from nursery.
It was more of a think piece, in my opinion. It was a different feel, delving more into the minds of the characters than actually solving any sort of medical mystery.
I watch the show because I like the mystery-solving. I can deal with episodes like this on occasion.
That said, I give Hugh Laurie props for his directorial debut. He did well.
I could watch Thirteen and Wilson play Truth or Dare forever. And Cameron and Chase have sex forever. What?
Definitely a different sort of episode, and a bit weird as the first one back from a somewhat significant hiatus, but I did enjoy it quite a bit. A lot to think about with all of the different pairings.
I think the plot itself was forced and I really had to work to suspend my disbelief.
Cameron and Chase coincidentally in the same place? And to me it was so obvious they’d do the deed after he signed the papers.
They’d really keep ALL the doctors and ALL the nurses locked up? Having everyone not be looking for the baby, I can’t help but wonder if 100 hospital staffers had combed every inch of the floor that someone might have heard the baby in the laundry cart or thought to look in it. And I love Cuddy, but she knows how many laundry carts there are at any given time in a particular location? I do like how she had the House epiphany and found the baby, although having her now find TWO newborn baby girls is also stretching my willing suspension of disbelief.
But I really did like the episode. I wonder if House had accepted David Straitharn’s case if he would have been able to save him.
Does Vicodin really get one high like that? I’ve taken it a few times when I’ve surgery and was in serious pain. I didn’t notice any special feeling from them, other then helping my pain. So I just never understood the Vicodin thing.
Coincidence? She went to the hospital to see him.
When I had my appendix removed I had some left over vicodin. Never took enough of them at the same time apparently because I just felt drunk.
It does.
Would have been better if they just went ahead and called it “The breakfast club” - everyone would’ve been looking for the kid - wouldn’t security camera footage have come in handy? If there’s a gps tag thingy in the bracelet, why not use it? Steal a dollar? cmon, lets take drugs i just took from some random patient, we’re doctors, we’ll do it together and have a great time in a locked room with no one around or anyone to help either of us if we get into actual trouble. No one ever noticed the housekeeping girl just ‘zone out’ like that before? 5#2oz newborn premature c-section babys cant make that much noise, nor would they be likely to survive 3-4 hours covered up by a bunch of dirty towels.
Cameron and Chase, while totally cliche, was the only part of the episode that was enjoyable and somewhat believable for both the charectors and the relationship they had in the show.
Dear god, I hope thats not me dieing alone like that.
Obviously she’s got Baby-Radar.
When you’re not in pain, and take enough of them, yeah (I imagine if you took enough of them when you’re in pain, too, but the pain kind of helps you maintain clarity, I imagine). The thing is, Vicodin is hydrocodone and acetaminophen (Tylenol). Two doctors should probably know better than taking that much acetaminophen at once, as it could potentially cause problems with your liver.
All hospitals I’ve been to have the baby rigged so that the alarm is tripped when you try to take him/her off of the maternity floor, not the entire hospital. And how was it that the worker was able to cart the baby outside to the dock? Wouldn’t that have set off the alarm?
In any event, I liked this episode. A patient got House to say “I’m sorry.” That’s progress!
i thought there were too many storylines to juggle, even for House (the show). House apologizing didn’t really do much for me so if i were in charge of the show, i would have voted to have House be locked OUT of the hospital and just have occasional shots of him killing time at the apartment, and devote more screen time exploring what makes his fellows tick. That or save cameron’s reconciliation for another show.
all in all, it was a weirdly timed episode and i found myself checking the clock a lot, wondering how they were going to wrap it up in only an hour. imo it was a pretty raw episode, and they could have done better to flesh out the details and come up with a better explanation for the missing baby - or a whole new distraction even.
I liked it. For me, things like how the baby got where and whether it should have survived and wouldn’t someone have noticed the nurse easily get lumped under “suspension of disbelief.” I don’t watch the show for its realism, I watch it for the characters. And this episode presented several interesting character studies.
I loved those two together!
I liked the individual pairings and hijinks, though the part in the file room was a bit goofy.
I might have missed them saying explicitly they were on a maternity floor. In my own head, I made them on a post-op/recovery floor so it didn’t have the lock-down doors the way real-life maternity wards tend to do.
And I said to myself the cart wasn’t on a dock, but just on the inside of a set of “employees only” doors
As far as it not being too coincidental for Cameron and Chase to have been together because she had gone looking for him, what was contrived to me was that they happened to be together at the exact moment of the lockdown. I liked the storyline and they had to stick them together for the plot, but it still felt forced to me.
All three of the non-House pairs were great together. Truth or Dare was the best, Druggies were goofy but cool and Divorce Sexers were interesting. House with the random guy was a bit boring.
I’m a sucker for unusual pairing episodes. All too often writers seem to get stuck in a rut, focusing on the same relationships over and over again. Even if the plot was on the contrived side, I liked the Taub/Foreman and Wilson/13 interactions. If the writers had spent more time developing these sorts of relationships since the beginning instead of over-relying on Hugh Laurie, maybe the show wouldn’t be feeling so tired these days.
I was positive that House was going to “cure” the dying patient by figuring out he had been misdiagnosed. They included a line about how the pain started in his teeth, and I thought that by the end of the episode House would conclude that he didn’t have X, he had Y, which was treatable.
I’m actually glad they didn’t go in that direction. It made it more poignant. If a little boring.
That truth or dare was great, Wilson and 13 definitely worked well together. And wow, that patient getting House to say “I’m sorry” was impressive. I thought that House was back to his old tricks for a while, but that’s definitely a great change.
This kind of reminded me of that episode of ER where they had to attend the sexual harassment course – you got to learn a little bit of personal stuff about the characters.
It’s always a treat watching Wilson interact with people . . . and yes, she eventually did flash a breast at Taub. I loved his non-reaction.
A very good atypical episode.
Finally, an episode where nobody complained about Thirteen. I loved the scene at the end when she flashed Taub.
I think the writers should put Chase and Cameron together again and not explain it right away. That’s the style of the show.