Part of why I don’t buy what House did is because…yeah, he looked through the window and saw Cuddy, her date, and the sister and her date around the table. But…Rachel (Cuddy’s daughter) is small, potentially not visible through the window, and quite likely to have been present at the gathering (maybe sitting on the floor playing). House has indicated on many occasions that he genuinely likes and gets along with Rachel, regardless of his attitude toward Cuddy. I can’t imagine that he would do something that would put her at that much potential risk.
What? Are silver ones OK?
I think you mean a golf ball. Still, this is not the sort of thing that gets into the law without a story behind it…
It’s House’s car.
I am assuming House is in Mexico. Or maybe he fled to where his ‘wife’ is. Mexico sounds better.
It’d be easier to posit House in Mexico <or somewhere else hard to extricate him from> than to remove Cuddy from the hospital and have any real semblance of the show continuing, especially if Wilson isn’t going to be in the picture much, either.
So, my vote…Mexico.
I’m sure whatever beach House is on has no extradition to New Jersey. Also, his line “what should I do now?” seems to be pointed at the writers more than anyone else.
“OK geniuses, write me out of this.”
Yes, gold ball was a typo. I meant to write golf ball.
But the fact that gold ball seemed almost as plausible as golf ball indicates how strange the law is.
And I didn’t even think typo. I assumed the strange law was what you typed.
I missed the first 20 minutes. Could someone please recap?
Yeah - that baffled me too. It was daytime, not evening (and even if it were evening, kids don’t always go to bed when the grownups are standing around talking).
That really makes me thing Patrick Duffy’s coming out of the bathroom soon.
Having seen nearly every episode multiple times (curse you, USA and BRAVO), I would have to say this wasn’t the worse thing he’s ever done. He drove someone to shoot him, for crying out loud. Sure, it’s pretty stupid, reckless, petty, dangerous, and criminal, but sneaking someone out of a mental hospital who then nearly killed himself was pretty bad too. (I use that as something he did outside of his practice, because while Cuddy’s house can be rebuilt, how many lives has he destroyed with his quest for honesty in everyone but himself?)
This is the only thing that puts it at “worst thing ever.” Again, it’s not like what he did was good, but as far as House goes, it seemed pretty in character, EXCEPT for risking Rachel.
I mean this as a good natured-ribbing and not a bitchy slam or anything: when I read the italicized part, my first thought was, “oh man, you are sure showing them with that strong stance!” 
Heh. No, that’s just me mis-italicizing and not noticing it until you pointed it out. D’oh!
I thought it was clear his wife is living somewhere locally (probably in House’s residence). They’ve got to at least maintain the fiction of it being a real marriage for it to work for immigration purposes. And besides, House mentioned that she packed up Cuddy’s belongings at House’s residence.
“Write us out of this one, Joan Wilder!”
I liked it. The PotW is a great mirror for House, House and Cuddy finally (almost) face their breakup, and House is left in some twilight zone. Who could ask for anything more?
When the writers call me up for suggestions for next season, I’ll tell them to make it House meets Oz: Have House spend the entire next season in the slammer, paying his dept to society; scamming the guards, beguiling the inmates, and playing mind-games with his team through the the glass visiting window.
I was wondering how that mess would affect Dominika. Yeah, she’s not been around much at all (like, the night he did some home surgery)… but would the fact that her husband is now a wanted felon impact her immigration status?
Thinking this through, and it’s starting to make more sense to me. I fell into the trap again of reading the story arc as the story of the hospital, or of a man (House) or of a group of friends. It’s not, it’s the story of an addiction. House’s addiction to narcotics, and his two enablers’ addiction to House/chaos. It’s a Mark Twain-style examination of a basic conflict: Perfect, life-saving intellect versus increasingly unacceptable addict behavior.
And what addiction story would be complete without the “geographic cure”? House went to the psychiatric institution and continued in therapy for a while, but increased knowledge of himself did no good at all. Now he has to try changing absolutely everything else in his life,except the problem behavior, and see how the misery follows him everywhere he goes.
ETA: Fantastic phrase from “The AV Club”'s review: Vehicular Domicide. BWaa ha ha haaaa! House: "Moving On"
On House, House wrecks House, house.