Watching House

And we’re off! Season 4 - YES!

A girl is in an office building arguing to her boyfriend. She suddenly says that she feels woozy - and she sees the building start to collapse. Cuddy tells House that he’s going to take the case - that he’s been lazing around for 2 weeks and that he’s not going to get away with not doing anything anymore. She says that he’s got to do the project or that he’ll wind up changing the bandages with the clean-up team.

He tells her that he’ll take the case - if he diagnoses her within a day, Cuddy has to leave him alone for a week she agrees.

He starts working on the board and winds up using the Janitor to bounce his ideas off of - when he goes in to speak with the family, he dresses the janitor up as “Dr. Buffer” (they had been talking about a floor buffer). He didn’t find anything out from the family, so he decided to break into the girl’s house that she shares with her boyfriend. The janitor says that he has morals and won’t do it - for anything less than a fifty.

Instead, he tells Wilson that he’s taking him to lunch and the two case the house, where House (heh) finds a secret diary hidden in the bookcase. It says that the girls’ been upset, but now she’s not, so he believes she’s been taking antidepressants. Antidepressants mixed with demerol is a bad combination and could make her ill. The family discovers that Dr. Buffer is really a janitor, and Cuddy isn’t happy. She helps to convince the family, however, that House might be right. House heads back to his office and finds his guitar gone and a ransom note. The phone rings and a funny voice starts giving his “instructions” - it’s Wilson using a fan to disguise his voice.

House puts the phone on the desk and confronts Wilson. Wilson makes it fairly obvious that he was the kidnapper - House says that he doesn’t need a team and that he’s solved the case.

Cuddy talks with the girl (who is insanely beat up and can only open one eye - Cuddy asks her to blink once for yes. She admits (by blinking) to being on anti-depressants, and then her heart starts beating too fast and Cuddy has to shock her.

Cuddy heads to House’s office the next morning ad says that he never finished the case - his patient is tachycardic. On House’s desk is a note from the “kidnapper” - it’s a Polaroid of his guitar that says “I’m not dead yet”. He goes to Wilson and Wilson gives him a pile of potential students.

House checks the girl’s heart and finds that it’s fine - she’s sweating and her fever is back. House says that it’s because she was a closet alcoholic.

House calls a potential fellow and the kid’s friends in the background are saying “Dude - look at me - I got the House intervew - wooooo” - so House hangs up.

Wilson arrives at the hospital (apparently really late at night) and says that he got a page. The nurse says that the page wasn’t from them, and you see House casing Wilson’s hotel room, looking for his guitar. Wilson calls the room and House answers - he ends up deleting the TiVO - Wilson says that Terrorists Terrorize when they don’t get their way - House says “Bring it on”.

Meanwhile, the girl’s fever is down and her heart is fine. Cuddy tells the family that it means she was an alcoholic. They notice that she’s doing something with her mouth - Cuddy says “I think she’s screaming”

The next morning Cuddy says that the girl was silently screaming for two hours - that she has pancreatitis. She tells House that she’s not interested in “enabling” House - that he needs a team.

(meanwhile my husband notes that she’s wearing much shorter shirts this season)

House finds a box on his desk and opens it - he brings it immediately to Wilson’s office and tosses it on the desk. Wilson peers in and finds a guitar fender that has been broken off of House’s guitar. Wilson asks House if he’s ever tightened the string of a guitar to the point of stress - “it almost sounds like a scream…”

Wilson confronts House and says that he won’t hire a new team because he connected with a team before. That this is why he doesn’t want to hire another team - because eventually they’re going to leave.

The girl starts bleeding out of her mouth and anus and goes into surgery. He watches with Cuddy from the window, and she says (again) that she is done enabling him. Then she gives up and starts bouncing ideas with him - she tells him taht he needs a team because he’s going to kill the woman. He looks on the monitor and says that a team would have killed her because they wouldn’t have noticed the size of her uterus.

He goes into surgery and checks her uterus - she finds scarping in her uterus and says that she recently had an abortion. He goes into the hallway where the boyfriend is, and he tells him what he found. House also tells him that she’s on birth control, and that was why she refused blood thinners when she had hip surgery previously. the combination caused internal bleeding.

He kidnaps Wilson’s patient (by moving him to another room) and then finds that his patient is crashing. He heads to the ER and says “is anyone here a doctor!?” No one will help him - turns out that Cuddy issued a memo to the doctors and said not to talk with House.

One brave young female doctor walks into the hallway and talks with her. He comes into the room and says that she’s got acute respiratory distress syndrome and crush syndrome, which means she’s dying. He then sees a mark on her arm and says that he’s got to biopsy it.

The biopsy shows that it looks like she’s allergic to something, but there’s nothing to be allergic to.

Wilson discovers that House kidnapped his patient and says “they give him the wrong meds, who knows what’s going to happen?!”

House wakes up Megan and says that it doesn’t make sense that she’s allergic to the meds she shouldn’t be allergic to. It turns out that “Megan” isn’t Megan - it’s another co-worker of Megan’s that they thought was dead named Liz. Mistaken identity.

Cuddy tells House that any of his team would’ve solved the case days ago. House is in a teaching room with a number of students and tells them that it will be the most grueling six weeks of their lives.

Season 4, Alone