has there ever been a diagnosis where it wasn’t House who had the brilliant realization? maybe the dictator chase killed back in season 1 or 2 but that’s not really what i’m asking. i feel like cold-hearted-bitch had a few insights here or there after she didn’t make the team but i can’t say for sure.
if not, i feel like that is a huge waste of character-building to not have an a-ha moment for each person each season. i mean, yeah, we get it… house is brilliant but needs people to bounce ideas off. but every 4-5 episodes or so, would it hurt to have Talb have a flash of brilliance? or even Cuddy? Or Wilson?
It was Chase who figured out what was wrong a few episodes ago. The one with a local Philanthropist who started confessing to bad things he’d done. Chase figured out a brain thingy* was making him exaggerate misdeeds.
There was an episode from Wilson’s POV, where he did with self-sacrificing compassion what House does by cynically assuming that people always lie: the patient in the A plot would’ve died without a liver-destroying chemotherapy treatment – and so would’ve died from that, if not for Wilson promptly donating some of his own liver – sure as the B plot involved diagnosing another patient’s ailment by cheerfully expecting grandfatherly affection.
For what it’s worth, the only reason Foreman is still at the hospital is the time we saw him quit to play House Lite at New York Mercy: he promptly did a bit of white-board brainstorming to brilliantly diagnose a patient’s mysterious condition, and sneakily administered much-needed radiation therapy his Cuddy-esque boss refused to approve without further evidence – at which point our hero of course got fired, and came slinking back to Princeton-Plainsboro, because no other place puts up with crap like that.
The other doctors do occasionally get to solve the mystery, but they rarely get to do the old “unrelated discussion causes light bulb to go on and eyes light up with sudden realization” scene that House pulls off almost every week. I *think *I’ve seen that once or twice with the other doctors, but can’t remember the specific episodes.
Hijacking, sorry, but it bothers me: House is continually sending some of his subs to break into patient’s houses.
But I’ve never seen HOW they do it – they’re just suddenly inside the house in question. So… Do they bust windows? Are they all expert lockpicks? Or do all the people involved just happen to leave their doors unlocked?
(Maybe this was explained earlier, I only started watching th show about 18 months ago.)
By this point they’re all fairly accomplished cat burglars, but earlier seasons focused more on their attempts to enter patients homes. I remember Foreman picking numerous locks (one of the reasons House hired him was because as a teen he was a car thief), and I believe he taught Chase and Cameron to do the same. They’ve also gotten into a few places by climbing in through unlocked windows, and either through deceit (“She’s my sister and I haven’t heard from her in days, we just need you to unlock the door so we can check on her”) or disarming honesty (“We’re her doctors- open the door”).
Thank you for the answer – must make for an interesting orientation lecture. Come to think of it, maybe the ex-prison doc learned all sorts of good stuff from her charges.
And it’s probably good that they have an extra skill to fall back on, once House’s antics leads them to losing their medical licenses.
Others have provided more direct answers above, but I gotta say it’s astoundingly easy to pick your average house/apartment doorknob/deadbolt lock. There’s dozens of websites with theory, dozens of websites with tools for sale, and it’s only illegal to do/practice if you don’t have permission from the owner/dweller.
—G!
“And if they catch you in the backseat
Try’n to pick her locks
They’re gonna syncopate your mother
in a cardboard box
YOU BETTER RUN!”
. --Pink Floyd
. Run Like Hell
. The Wall
I’m thinking, since this is supposedly the last season for House–sob, sob–that the series finale will be House killing 13, because her Huntington’s will have progressed to the point where she can no longer care for herself.
~VOW
Most of the time, they don’t get permission. House’s reasoning: people lie, and if you ask permission to enter their house, it gives them time to have someone they trust hide things for them. The patients are usually surprised when the team confronts them with what they find in their homes. (“You broke into my home?”)
