House 4/12: Lockdown

[StarvingButStrong]

@panache45

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.

Of course. The guy’s a plastic surgeon: he’s probably seen more breasts than Hugh Hefner.

[RickJay]

@Ruby Sees

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 actually could quite believe that Lisa Cuddy would notice something like that. For one thing, it was foreshadowed right there in the episode by having her notice the towels, which was a clever way of noting that she notices such things while simultaneously leading her to search the laundry.

And building on that, it’s already very well established that Cuddy knows the hospital inside-out and backwards. What glimpses we do get of her doing stuff unrelated to managing House demonstrate that she is a very picky, detail-oriented manager who’s obsessive about running her hospital by the numbers. It’s Lisa Cuddy’s way or the highway. I can totally believe someone like that would walk around making note of almost everything.

Of course, the problem, as you point out, is that the laundry hampers hadn’t already been searched. If you were searching a hospital for a lost baby, wouldn’t that be a really OBVIOUS place to look? Like, one of the very first places you’d look? Who goes in and out of the rooms who isn’t a nurse? The service people - the people who change laundry and bring food back and forth. The cops would have been on that stuff like white on rice.

Sensational guest appearance by David Strathairn.

[ftg]

I liked this episode a lot. Mainly because of the Chase-Cameron thing. Their dialogue was quite different than usual, but also more “realistic” (whatever that means).

I don’t understand the game “True or Dare” at all. Why on Earth would anyone want to play it? Why not play “Let’s see how many fingers we can cut off?” The worst part of the show by far.

The interplay between House and Straitharn was okay, but I expected more.

Nice to see Cuddy display some smarts. (But at the expense of requiring a host of others to be idiots.)

Some things that seem to be set up in this episode:

1. Cameron gets pregnant. Yadd-yadd-yadda. I hope they don’t go down that path.

2. House mentioned the woman from the psych hospital. He’s still thinking of her. Perhaps she will re-appear in his life.

3. House mentions the taking on 1 in 20 patients, and knows that’s not good enough. Perhaps he will up his ratio. Then he’ll need more help. Maybe hire Cameron back. (A guy can hope, can’t he?)