She was approved, which means that INS won’t be snooping around anymore, which means she could take off and go find an apartment on her own somewhere, which means he might be developing feelings for her since he hide it from her.
As for taking the Real Doll’s temp, I think that was a swab to get cultures from her mouth and I agree, they spent a A LOT of time with that doll that turned out to be nothing. And it wasn’t just the cost of the doll. It was wardrobe for the doll. Surgery on the doll, the actor when the doll came alive, all the extras the reacted to the doll when it was being pushed down the hall. The friend that liked him but couldn’t date him because she thought he already had a girlfriend.
All these things had so little to do with the root cause of his illness that I’m not sure one could even call them red herrings. It’s either bad/lazy writing or “this part of your life is strange so we’ll focus all of our energy on it and only it” which I suppose they’ve done before.
Also, I recognized the neti pot when they first picked it up. I didn’t really think about it, but I knew what it was. How the hell did Chase just think it was nothing more then a funny shaped tea pot? I can’t imagine him not knowing what it was. Or at the very least House should have been able to say “Was it a neti pot?” He shouldn’t have had to explain to hit team of doctors what it was.
The doll was a direct parallel to House’s “paid companion”. It was a way of investigating and explaining the attraction and ultimately unfulfilling nature of the stand-in relationship. Because although it meets the stated, obvious needs of touch and release, in the end, we need the eggs.
This was the best episode in a looong time. A classic House in many ways.
The letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (INS no longer exists) said that fake wife had qualified for citizenship (not a greencard or residency). Of course once she gets citizenship she can dump House, etc. So that’s why he threw it out. (How come people throw things like this in a garbage can rather than actually destroying them or removing them from the apartment? Bad plot device.)
Why she would qualify for citizenship so soon is weird. 3 years is the minimum for a spouse of a US citizen and then there’s delays on top of that. We lost a year with House in jail, but no that much time has passed.
I love Taub and his new lady friend. “Was that a different baby?” … “No.”
I know this show isn’t too concerned with reality, but really? How much is House paying that bunches of gorgeous hookers would audition for his custom?
Are both of the mothers white? I’d surprised someone who saw a baby for a few minutes in a supermarket could tell it a apart from another baby they saw for a few seconds in a crib a few days later. IIRC, both babies are the same age, right?
