A patient has a collapsed lung, and House’s psyche is still a mess.
The question is, will he get busy with Cuddy? Will he then dismiss her like a side dish he didn’t order? Will their professional dynamic change?
Fox has a special promo video on their website that answers some of Kalhoun’s questions, but it is spoilery so I will say nothing more.
I have nothing useful to say but I’m bumping the thread in case somebody else does.
“You’re saying we should kill [the patient].”
…No.
Pretty good episode. I was wondering how bad things would have to get with House for him to change, and I guess now we know.
The skin falling off stuff gave me the heebie-jeebies.
OK, Cameron just broke my emotional squick-o-meter. Head for the hills, Chase!
House turning over a new leaf? Becoming a “nice guy”? Say it ain’t so! The show has an eight-season run…being one episode away from the end of season five at this point, it’d be a damn shame if they jump the shark this early on. Dr. House, in my bed - stat - I need to, um, straighten you out!
Anduinel: Oh, you are so right.****
An interesting episode. But I hope the “real” House returns next week.
And yeah, Cameron’s being a jerk. But at least Cuddy got what she wanted.
I think Cameron is still hot for House. That’s why she’s dicking around with Chase. This will cause a Cameron-Cuddy tension story line AND a Chase-House subplot, as well.
Either their timeline was a little screwy, or that was the fastest detox in the history of television.
I wonder how it is acting in the show their (Morrison and Spencer) “real life” relationship?
I thought Cameron knew her husband was dying before she married him. I’ll be glad when her little side-story is over, because while she’s not a bad character, I can only deal with her strange brand of neediness in small doses.
Run, Chase, run!
Speaking of which, Jimmy Wilson is like a speeding bullet! “No, you’d better get up here in . . . two minutes.” Wilson is the best friend ever! Everyone should have a friend to evaluate everything as “regular-radical,” “me-radical” or “me-out-of-my-mind-radical.” And so he says it’s “on the upper edge of regular you radical,” so you know you’re OK.
Good on Taub for not giving up on the patient! Foreman was nominally in charge after Wilson told them House was off the case, and what does Foreman say when the patient’s hands and feet are turning black? “I’m going home.” But Taub thinks something can be done, and damn if it can’t. Screw you, Foreman.
Some idiot was mowing the lawn at my house yesterday and accidentally severed the cable wire. Thus I missed, oh, everything. Can someone supply a synopsis?
So wait, Amber was a personification of House’s opiate addiction? Am I correct in taking that away?
Not exactly. I got more that she was the personification of his subconscious–and specifically the nastier side of it (like his self-destructive tendencies).
Hoo boy. Well, POTW is a ballerina who collapses at a rehearsal because of breathing problems. House prescribes antibiotics, which have the unfortunate side effect of her skin peeling off. He keeps hallucinating Amber and is trying to narrow down what’s causing that, hoping it’s something other than 1) schizophrenia or 2) the Vicodin addiction, both of which would prevent him from practicing medicine. He asks Wilson to monitor his decisions to make sure he’s making medical sense.
House figures out that the patient has a kind of gonorrhea that has affected her heart, which the team treats. In the meantime, Cameron reveals to Chase that she has some of her late husband’s sperm on ice and wants to hang onto it, just in case their marriage doesn’t work out, and how about a donation from Chase ditto?
House decides to try an insulin overdose, because he’s House. That seems to work, and he goes out for a meal. While he’s sitting there, he hallucinates Amber again, and it’s worse than ever, and eerie as all shit. He desperately calls Wilson to come get him, agreeing to Wilson’s offer to get him into a rehab facility. Wilson tells the team that House is off the case.
The team finds that the patients extremities are turning black, and House changes his mind about the rehab, instead going to Cuddy, at his breaking point. She takes him back to his apartment and finds all his stash and destroys it. She stays with him while he has the DTs and vomits. He finds a pill on the bathroom floor and fights her for it, but she wins, with the hallucination of Amber taunting him all the while to throw Cuddy out. It is heartbreaking.
Taub finds a way to save the dancer’s hands and feet. Cuddy and House make it through the night, and in the morning he is miraculously detoxed, though in real life it would take weeks (months?) They are getting ready to leave and have a “moment” and he kisses her and she kisses him back and you-know-what ensues.
Oh, and Chase continues his resolve that he wants to marry Cameron, despite her protests that she’s not sure any marriage can last. He will wait until she’s sure. See you in Season 28.
Hell, yeah. I never much liked the actress who played Amber (at least not on House) but she did a great job of just looking flat-out batshit *evil *in this scene. It was great.
I did manage to see that tiny bit of it–where Hallucination!Amber is singing “Sooner Than You Think.”