Watching House

What an episode! So awesome! Here we go!!

The episode starts off with a man in a wheelchair. His assistance dog is helping him to cross the road when the man falls asleep in his chair in the middle of the road. He almost gets hit, but the dog saves him. House arrives after 4 p.m. (he said he’d be there by 3 p.m. on the last episode) and Amber almost convinces the rest of the crew to leave again, but Cole tells them about what she’d done before, so they stay. House arrives and passes out files on the new patient. He has Spinal Muscular Atrophy but he fainted for no reason.

House tells the team to split into two groups. The twins suggest splitting up into a man vs woman team, and House agrees.

House: If your parts dangle, over there. If they’re more asthetically pleasing, over there.

Amber says that she wants to be on the men’s team (she later says it’s because House never hires more than one woman, so if he fires the women’s team, she’ll be in). The men are reluctant. Meanwhile Thirteen comes up with a diagnosis of a specific type of parasite that she believes he got when he went to Thailand on a recent trip. She walks into the patients room with two pills and sets them on his bedside table to get him some water. Meanwhile Taub and Kutner (plastic surgeon and the agressive number 6/9) decide to do a buttload of tests in order to find something wrong.

House heads for clinic duty and walks in to see a guy who looks like he was trampled by a few dozen elephants. He cracks a joke about the patient not shaving and the patient jumps up and opens his knife. House backs off but the patient stabs his knife into the electrical socket and gets electrocuted (at this point my husband has a fit, saying that it wouldn’t happen that way because the knife had a plastic handle - I’m not so sure about it, but it was an interesting observation!). House calls for a crash cart and says “I didn’t do it” when the nurses arrive.

Amber heads to the ER and finds Cameron. She says that House is going to kill the patient because he’s turning this into a game (really she’s there to get some sort of an advantage so the guys will let her play on their team). House heads to Cuddy’s and she warns him about turning patient care into a game.

Cuddy: But you know what’s wrong with him.
House: If I didn’t, that would be stupid.

Then we jump to New York City, where Foreman is diagnosing with his new team. (which consists of one woman, one man with long hair, and one hispanic man - sound a bit familiar?!) They come up with a diagnosis and Foreman tells them they did a great job before they leave the office.

Back to Princeton Plainsboro Hospital. Wilson tries talking to House, but House is flicking the knife and wondering why anyone would put their internal organs on a skillet purposefully.

Wilson: Go ask him.
House: That would be cheating.

Back to the patient. Amber goes to the guys and tells them that she’s got an idea that will make House happy - as long as they let her play with them. They agree. They’ve been trying to get a stool sample from the patient, but he’s been constipated. He’s drinking milk of magnesia when they walk in with a jar full of bugs. They’re going to have the bugs bit him and then test the blood of the bugs to see what they need to see. While they’re trying to get the bugs to bite him, he starts choking on the milk-of-mag.

All the applicants are in the lecture hall. House says that the girls did well, because they came up with a diagnosis and went out to try it, while the guys just drew labs and wasted time. He told the girls to go out and stress the patient on the stress table to see if their treatment worked, while the guys were in the penalty box. They were put into House’s office and told not to talk.

House heads into the patient’s room - the one that tried to electrocute himself, and asked him why he did it. The man tells House that he had a car accident a short time ago and was clinically dead for 97 seconds. When he was dead, he saw beautiful things - it was the best 97 seconds of his life. House tells him that it was just because of the endorphins in his body, but the patient says that he’s done every type of drug there is, and he’s never felt like that before.

Back to the crew in the penalty box - they start talking about what could be wrong (even though they’re not supposed to talk) and the “really old guy” comes up with a diganosis of a tumor on the man’s esophogus. Amber sneaks out and heads to the stress lab. She wants to take the patient for a CT Scan, but 13 tells House that the patient passed the stress test and that he’s fine. House calls the doctors into the lecture hall where he’s set up “Tribal Council”. He tells the men that they’re fired. Amber runs in and shows him the CT scan, where she swears that there’s something on the esophogus. House congratulates her for taking the initiative, but says that there is no tumor, just a straightening and weakening from the disease advancing. Out go the men.

Amber runs to Chase and asks him to run labs for her. He refuses because “I may not work for him, but he can still make my life Hell”. She counters. “But what if you could make his life hell?” House tells her to draw the blood and meet him in the lab. When she goes to draw the blood she finds that it’s green. (cue my husband: “He’s the Hulk!”)

The fellows are in the lecture hall again and they figure out that the blood is green because the patient’s liver is failing. (he’d been given a contrast for the CT that the Liver didn’t filter). House unfires them and says that now he’s diagnosing too, because he’d thought it was the parasite as well. He runs into Chase and Cameron in the hall and starts to yell at Chase for helping his doctor. Chase stands up to him and walks off.

Cameron: I like him better this way.

Cuddy catches up with House in the hallway and wants to know why he wants to remove a patient’s eye. He explains about the tumor being in the retna of the eye, and says that they have to remove it. He stops outside of Wilson’s office and yells:

House: Hey Wilson! I’m gonna cut some cripple’s eye out. Wanna come watch?
Dr. Wilson: Good times.

Wilson and House head to the patient’s room and explain what’s going on. The patient says that he doesn’t want the surgery - he doesn’t want to live, suffering, for a few months. He’d rather leave the body that has been trapping him. House asks what he’s leaving FOR - that there’s nothing out there. Wilson shuts him up and then corners him in the hallway.

Wilson: You can’t let a dying man take solace in his beliefs.
House: His beliefs are stupid.
Wilson: Everybody lies. Some for good reasons, some for bad. This would have been a fantastic reason to lie.
House holds his hand out to Wilson: Hi, Greg House.
House: He’s making a decision based on a lie. Misery’s better then nothing.
Wilson: You don’t know there’s nothing. You haven’t been there.
House: Oh, God, I’m tired of that argument. I don’t have to go to Detroit to know that it smells.
Wilson: Yes. Detroit…the afterlife…same thing.

Back to Foreman in New York. The treatment didn’t work and he wants to radiate the patient. His boss (a female boss - wow - sounds familiar again) says that he can’t because she believes the patient has a virus, and radiating her will kill her. She believes that Foreman is trying to re-do the time when he accidentally killed a patient. She tells him that he can NOT radiate his patient.

Back to House - Amber and 13 are in the patient’s room and do a lung tap - the fluid is clear, which means he doesn’t have cancer. Suddenly Amber gets beeped by House. She heads to his room and a bright flash fills the room. She sees the knife sticking in the socket and House down for the count on the floor. She immediately starts compressions.

Wilson goes into the lecture hall and says that House has burned his hand pretty badly and that he hasn’t woken up yet. He then says that they need to diagnose the “real” patient. We then cut to Wilson standing by House, who’s opening his eyes.

Wilson: You’re an idiot.

He tells him that he nearly killed himself.

House: That was the whole idea.
Wilson: You wanted to kill yourself?
House: I wanted to nearly kill myself.

He then asks to talk to the other patient - the one that tried to kill himself the same way House did. He says it’s important he talks to him. Wilson informs them that the patient died a few hours ago.

Wilson: Apparently it’s bad to electrocute yourself after getting a number of internal injuries. Just looking at you hurts. I’m going to order up some extra pain meds.
House: I love you.

Back to the crippled patient’s room. He’s having a hard time breathing, and asks 13 to bring his dog to him. She puts the dog on the bed and he asks her to put his hand on the dogs head.

Patient: Don’t worry - I’m not scared.

(at which point Randi starts bawling and gets ’silly female’ looks from her husband)

And the patient dies. Amber goes into House’s room and tells him that the patient died. She helps House out of bed and he heads to the patient’s room, where 13 still is. He notices that the dog’s not moving, and the vet discovers that the dog is dead too. House asks 13 if she watched the patient take the pills she gave him WAY at the beginning of the episode. She says “I don’t know”. He looks around and finds the cup with chew marks on it. The dog had swallowed pills that are fatal to canines. The patient really did have the parasites, but because he never took the meds (due partly to the guys coming in to run a battery of tests), he died.

Cuddy blames House for the death. Meanwhile we cut back to Foreman, who had snuck the patient out for radiation against orders. His boss asks how the patient is doing - turns out Foreman was right and the radiation saved her life. She’s mad that he didn’t follow orders, and she fires him.

House heads to the morgue where 13 is sitting beside the body. He starts to lecture her.

13: Enough of the lecture. Just get it over with and fire me.
House: If I was going to fire you, I wouldn’t be lecturing you.

He says that he fired the rest of her team, but not her. He tells her that he knows she’ll never make the same mistake again, and that he’ll see her tomorrow.

He covers up the patient, but not before saying, “I told you so.”

WOW WOW WOW! Awesome episode! I loved this episode, and it reminded me that I love 13 and I love Kutner. I also love the old guy LOL - I wanted to see more of Kutner, but hopefully we’ll get that in two weeks.

What did you think?! Do you hate Amber the way I do? Which new doc do you like?

Remember, one of the new hits has it’s third episode tonight - it’s not QUITE as good as House, but it’s decent to watch! Check out Watching Bionic Woman.

House, 97 Seconds

WOW WOW WOW! That was an awesome episode! I was a bit worried about the new people, but I thought it worked! It almost gave an “ER” feel to the show, without really making it seem like ER, because we knew that most of the candidates would be gone quickly. Here’s the quickie recap!

The episode started with Captain Greta Cooper - she was flying (and crashing) a flight simulator because she started seeing strange colors. She later said she was “hearing with her eyes”.

Jump to House - he’s in a room with TONS of fellow candidates, asking them who the picture on the screen is.

House: Take a shot. I’m not going to fire you every time you give a wrong answer.
Applicant: Neville Chamberlain.
House: Wrong. You’re fired.

That’s pretty much how he whittled down candidates. Cuddy told him that he could only hire three, so House fired row D - until a cute girl came out and he says “I’m sorry - I was wrong - it’s not row D, it’s row C that is fired.”

He gets a page - from his own office. He heads to the office and finds Captain Cooper, who dumps $50,000 on his desk in order to cure her. She tells him that everything has to be off the books because she’s in line for NASA, and there are 100 candidates that are completely healthy right behind her waiting to take her place. House asks what’s in it for him, and she explains her symptoms, intriguing him.

He heads back to the fellows and introduces her as Osama bin Laden. He has some of the candidates run diagnostic tests while others break into her house and still others run to wash his car. One catty blonde says that she’s not washing his car and convinces the others to walk off with her. She returns a bit later, having used her wits to get others to quit so that there are fewer people to go against. Meanwhile House has three of the applicants put Cooper into a hyberberic chamber in order to make sure there is enough oxygen in her lungs. She winds up going into v-tach and Kai Penn (Kutner and number 6) brings in the defibrillator paddles, shocking her and causing a fire to break out on her chest. They get the fire out and her heart is now beating.

When they go to House’s office to tell him, he’s looking at something on the computer.

House: What, you’ve never seen the naked female form before?
13: I don’t think she’s seen it spooning with a dolphin.
House: Porpoise - Porpoise - there’s a difference you know.
13: Should we give you a minute?

To read the rest of the episode, click below!
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It’s out! The list of the new cast members to be on House this fall! Let’s get into detail and speculation, shall we?

According to “sources” - the five are supposed to be vying for a candidacy as a Fellow under House. for some reason, Peter doesn’t seem to fit for me. Maybe he’s an older man who decided to switch his speciality? Or a friend of Wilson’s who wants to train under House?! (God help him)

These five have signed a contract for an “undetermined amount of time”….wonder if anyone will make it through, or if the other three are coming back?!

So what do you think of the new cast?

House, House New Cast

The finale of House - last night - OH MY GOD!! This post is so long because this episode was AMAZING!

Here we go! (remember, I’m TERRIBLE with names, and I didn’t catch the husband and wives name, so we’ll call them Husband and Wife!)

The show starts with a helicopter. A rescue worker is dangling from it trying to save a man who is drifting in the ocean. He is hanging onto a briefcase and refuses to let it go. Finally the rescue worker holds him under the water and almost drowns him so that he will release the case. The second he does so they hook him up and pull him into the helicopter where Wife is waiting. He has crossed the ocean illegally and they are asking him what was so important in the case. He says that it is her medical records. The translator says, “and he says he wants to go home.”

“Not home!” the man says in English, “House! We need to see Dr. House!”

Dr. House, however, is busy hiding behind a newspaper spying on Foreman during his going away party. Cuddy has been trying to get him to see Wife, but House has been ignoring his pager. Wilson was sent to retrieve him. He tells House if he wants Foreman to stay that he needs to show him how he cares. He reminds House that he has a guitar that he was given when he was in eigth grade.

“Foreman isn’t scared to turn into you - he’s scared to turn into who he thinks you are.” Wilson says.

The crew meets in their room the flush the case out and Foreman is reading e-mails and giggling - yes, giggling - the whole time. House sends Cameron and Foreman off to do some tests and sends Chase to interview Husband. He wants Chase to figure out which symptoms they both have in common so that he can cross them off of Wive’s symptom list.

Cameron starts talking to Wife right before she goes into the MRI scanner and finds out that Husband and Wife left their country in a motor boat. The motor broke the first night and husband then started rowing.

“He can fix everything - except that estupido motor….and me.” she says.

The MRI reveals nothing and Chase is convinced that it is an infection. Foreman comes in and says that it’s MS. Both Husband and Wife have a few symptoms that could be MS related, but Foreman says that it’s possible for two people to have the same symptoms for different reasons. He wants to start treatment.

“We can stand around guessing or we can be productive.” he argues.

“I do like being productive.” House says, and lets Foreman do the treatment.

Chase gets upset that House is agreeing to everything Foreman says as if that will make him stay. Foreman gives the Interfuron shot and Wife starts to feel immediate pain. Foreman turns her wrist over and it breaks!

“That’s productive,” Chase says, “Break her arm!” Chase insists that it’s an infection but Foreman disagrees with him and House backs Foreman up. He tells Foreman to get a PET scan to see if she has bone cancer, to which Chase vehemently disagrees.

Chase turns around and yells at House as he is walking out of the room.

“This isn’t going to work! Do you think that by agreeing with everything he says he’s going to forget how much he hates you?!”

House turns around and calmly says, “Anything else”. Chase is silent and House says, “Come find me when you have the results.”

Chase enters House’s office and apologizes for yelling at him. House barely looks up from his desk and says…

“You’re fired.”

“Why, because I yelled at you?!” Chase asks.

“You’ve been here the longest…you’ve learned the most. It’s time for a change.”

Chase finds Cameron and House doing the PET scan on Wife and tells them that he’s been fired. The looks at the monitor and sees something in the heart and tells them that. They look at the monitor and when they look up, Chase is gone.

The two storm into House’s office and demand to know why Chase was fired. House says he’ll tell them after he has the PET scan results. Cuddy comes flying in demanding to know why Chase was fired. House asks if SHE has the PET scan results. Wilson comes in right behind and asks again why Chase was fired. House says he’s sure that Wilson doesn’t have the PET scan results.

Cuddy tells House to call Chase and “unfire” him. House picks up the phone, pushes the speed dial and says, “Dr. Chase - this is Dr. House. If you know what was on the PET scan, call me back.”

A minute later the phone rings and it’s Chase. “Thank you Dr. Chase - you are indespensible….you’re still fired.” he says as he hangs up. “Wow, that was awkward!”

Foreman explains the situation to Husband and that his wife will need to have a heart catherization in order to see what is going on. Husband asks if House is going to do it and Foreman tells him that House has gone home.

“But we came all this way!” He says.

“I know,” says Foremans, “He doesn’t care. That’s the man you risked your life for. And for good reason.” he adds.

The man signs the consent form and then Foreman seems to think differently. He writes down a number and says, “This is Dr. House’s private number. He might not pick up, so keep calling.”

House is at home and the phone keeps ringing - and the answering machine keeps picking up. House storms into the cath room and demands to know why Foreman gave Husband his home phone number.

Just then the monitors start to go nuts and Wife starts to go into cardiac arrest. She has no pulse but is able to continue talking! House is fascinated and tells her to cough to keep the blood flowing to her brain so that she doesn’t lose consciousness. Shortly, though, she passes out and Foreman and Cameron are doing CPR.

“Keep doing it until I figure out what’s going on.”

Wilson is on an operating room when House takes over the monitor in the room.

“Help me - I’m stuck inside a box!” Wilson tells him to go away but House tries to run the situation by him. Wilson tells him to talk to his team, but when House tells him that they’re busy doing CPR, Wilson turns, looks at the monitor and tells him that he shouldn’t have fired Chase.

“Did you just turn on the monitor? You know I can’t see you.” House says.

Cuddy is leading a group of students through rounds when House appears at the top of the balcony and tells the students whichever one can figure out why Wife’s heart stopped gets an A in Cuddy’s class. One says operator error (which is what everybody says but House discounts), another says an obscure disease, to which House gives him a D. A third says botox - House gives her an F until she replies that the botox could have given her botchalism - then he gives her a B+ and tells her to send him her resume.

He admits that he has not put Wife on a bypass machine and it’s been 3 hours. Cuddy orders him to put her on bypass and Foreman and Cameron rush her to the OR. The husband storms into House’s office and asks him to explain what’s going on. He is ticked that House has not seen his wife and tells him so.

“How can you fix something when you cannot see it?!”

House heads off to the OR and gets the surgeon to show him the heart. He himself turns the heart around and finds no abnormalities. They try to start her heart 6 times, but to no avail. The surgeon tells House to tell the Husband so he can say goodbye.

Cameron finds Chase in a bar eating a sandwich. She tells him that she’s sorry House fired him, and he replies that getting the job was the best thing that ever happened to him - and being fired was (he hesitated) probably the best thing as well. He asks Cameron to go have a drink with him but she declines.

Meanwhile House is sitting in his office trying to figure out why Wife’s heart stopped. He’s convinced it is not operator error. Cuddy comes in and House remarks about how nice her legs look in the security light. She tells him that it’s time to “let go”, and to tell the husband that his wife is dying.

The husband is sitting in the chapel praying.

“I was told you didn’t believe in God,” House says.

“I don’t. But I told my wife I’d do everthing to make sure she gets better. If I do not pray, then I’m not doing everything.”

House tells Husband what’s going on and that there’s no hope. He starts to cry. They enter into the ICU and Husband says goodbye to Wife. Husband asks if her brain is still working and House replies that it is. “We double-checked”. With a nod from Husband, House turns off all the machines. Husband lays on his wife’s chest and cries - then turns around and looks at House.

“Her heart - I hear it beating.”

House isn’t convinced until Husband puts House’s hand on his wife’s chest. House frowns, turns on the monitor and watches the heart beating! She slowly wakes up and asks if she’s in Heaven.

“No - this is New Jersey.” House replies.

And so House, Cameron and Foreman are back to the drawing board, trying to figure out exactly why the heart mysteriously started again. Cameron says, “If it’s not a miracle, what is it.”

House has his brainstorm of the episode and thinks that maybe it’s not God’s doing - maybe it’s God’s fault. He thinks that there is a structural abnormality in her heart and wants to Cath her again. The team freaks out about it but House goes to get consent. When they seem a bit hesitant House asks, “Are you going to put her in God’s hands, or are you going to put her in mine?”

House does the cath himself with the husband watching. He inserts the dye and finds that there is three arteries when there is only supposed to be two! One more surgery and she will be fixed. “Thank you god” she says.

“Don’t make me slap you.” House replies with a slight grin on his face.

It’s time for Foreman to go. He finds House and Wilson in the lounge; House is munching on a peanut butter sandwich. House actually tells him that he does not want him to go.

“You’re an important part of the team. I need you.” he says.

“I know,” Foreman replies, “But I don’t need you.”

A minute later into the exchage and House gets pissed. Foreman has said that he doesn’t agree with the fact that House saved the woman merely because he was curious about why she was ill. House asks if that woman cares, or if the children she can now have will care WHY he saved her, only that he did. Foreman says that he doesn’t want to be that way.

“You’re the selfish one,” House yells, “that’s why you drew that whole ‘good-bye’ thing out for three weeks. It wasn’t for my benefit and it sure as hell didn’t help anything!”

Foreman says nothing and walks out.

“Nice try,” Wilson says.

House returns to his office to find Cameron sitting in his chair. She stands up and hands him a letter.

“Dare I hope this is naked pictures?”

“It’s my notice. I’ve learned all I can.” She stands next to House and touches his arm, very intimately. “I’ll miss you.” she says. House actually looks striken about it.

Cameron heads to Chases and is outside his door when he opens it.

“It’s Tuesday.” she says.

“No - it’s Monday.” he replies.

“I know - I just didn’t want to wait.” she says. The two grin and kiss on Chase’s stoop.

House heads home and walks into his doorway. A large box is sitting there. He drags it into his apartment and opens it up to reveal - a new guitar. He takes his old guitar down, gives it a fond look, then starts strumming on the new guitar.

It really is time for a change.

WOW! Can you believe it! The whole crew - GONE!! AAAAHHHH! I almost woke my kids up screaming at the television last night! What do you think?! What will happen next season?! I’m floored!!!

Ack! I missed the title of this one! Sorry! Got the recap though - and it’s a good one!

The show opens with a 16 year old playing obnoxious chess against another teen - before this episode I didn’t know there WAS such a thing as obnoxious chess - but there is! The 16 year old beats the other teen and then gets up, grabs the time clock, and starts beating him bloody with it.

In the hospital, Chase is checking him out and asking questions and is getting insulted left and right by this kid. We head into the diagnosis discussino with all of the gang, and Foreman is fairly quiet, for once. House tells them to go do some tests, and Chase doesn’t want to. Cameron doesn’t understand why, “It’s just a sick kid”, so he tells her to do it. She declines, and Foreman ends up dealing with the kid.

During the tests, the kid remarks that Foreman must be sick of being picked on. Foreman says, “because I’m black.”

The kid replies, “no, because you’re gay.”

Foreman comes back the next day from an interview, thoroughly pissed at House. Turns out, when he got to the interview, they told him that he had called to cancel. He blames House. House denies that he did it and heads for Cuddy’s office.

House blames Cuddy! Cuddy denies that she did it, and just before House leaves her office, he asks for permission to give the teenager ’shrooms. He believes that cluster headaches are to blame for a lot of the problems, and since none of the other medications are working, he wants to try something different. Cuddy eventually agrees.

The kid goes on ’shrooms and has the trip of his life, picking on Chase and telling Cameron how hot he is. It is when he’s flashing Cameron that she notices that his testicles are undersized. This adds a new symptom to the board (on top of the board is Personality Disorder, by the way).

Cuddy goes to Wilson assuming that HE is the one that canceled Foreman’s interview. Wilson says that he wouldn’t do that - he wants Foreman to leave because he thinks House needs someone to tell him “no”. “He’s like a six year old”, Wilson said.

More tests on the annoying 16 year old - they want to see if his recent diet change to meat (he was a vegetarian) has anything to do with it, so they ask him to eat three hamburger patties to see if his ammonia levels go up. The kid refuses, and Chase calls the nurse with the restraints - fed up with the kid. He eats on his own. Then they decide to starve him for the night to see how his glucose levels react. This puts the kid into a whirl, and he starts attacking the nurse, his mother, Chase and Cameron with his IV stand (like a lion tamer with a chair). They want a urine sample and he obliges….peeing on the floor. During his lovely little interlude, his pee turns bloody. In the last few tests he’s gone into liver failure AND kidney failure.

Foreman has had another interview, and gets called to Cuddy’s office. Cuddy offers to double his salary and let him lead his own office, parallel to House’s. Foreman declines - upset that someone in the building was dishonest enough to cancel his first interview.

Wilson goes to Cameron and makes up a sob story, saying that Cuddy’s going to fire him because she thinks that he canceled Foreman’s interview. Cameron sees through it and, after she’s told him off and repeated AGAIN that she doesn’t like House, tells him that she didn’t do it. She then goes to see Chase to tell him that she thought HE did it. As he would have nothing to gain, he realizes that she thinks he did it just to be vindictive. This ticks Chase off - he’s annoyed that Cameron believes he would act that way.

“By the way,” he grits out, “It’s Tuesday…I like you”. Cameron seems a bit too smug about how difficult it is for Chase to get the words out.

House decides to stress the kid out, in order to see if he’s got another medical condition (forgot the name on this one - sorry!). He brings in a chess board and takes on the chess whiz. After some pretty rough quips back and forth, the kid starts grinning, and tells House that he’s done - he lists all of the moves House was going to take and says that he’s got him. “Lay your king down”, he repeats. He then goes into a seizure. The nurses take care of him while House looks over the board and then grimly lays down his king.

Foreman has to go in and get blood from the kid again and immediately gives him a sedative. The mother gets upset (the entire time she’s been bouyed by thoughts that his attitude is a medical condition) and responds, “That’s not fair - he’s sick”. Foreman replies, “People who have tuburculosis are sick, but I’m not going to let them cough on me, either.” More tests reveal that it’s not what Foreman thought it was, and he reports to House. House wants him to give the kid another round of meds, and when Foreman starts to argue, House responds.

“There’s two options. You can argue and then give him the treatment, or you can just give him the treatment.” Foreman sighs and starts to walk off when House responds, “Your’e not ready. There was a third option - ignore what I said and give him the antibiotics. You still trust my judgement more than your own.”

Chase comes into House’s office and accuses him (once again) of screwing with Foreman’s interview. House denies, when Chase reponds that House would do it because it makes them all run around chasing ghosts. House grins and responds, “and sometimes I forget why I hired you,” and admits that he did cancel the interview. He refuses, though, to tell Foreman that he wants him to stay. During this discussion, Chase is clicking the chess piece against the table, and House’s eyes narrow.

He walks into the teens room and asks him to pick a color (one chess piece hidden in each hand, one black, one white). The kid pics one and then grabs for the piece. When he does, House bends his thumb back. The kid’s joints and body was not aching because of all the fights he had been in, as they had assumed, but because he’s got too much iron in his blood. The iron builds up and makes everything ache, including joints, and made some of the bones form wrong. He stabs the kid in the wrist and lets it bleed into the garbage can.

“He’ll need dialysis, and then to have his blood drained every few months…for the rest of his long, long life.”

“And the personality disorder?” The mother responds.

“Sorry,” House says, “The iron isn’t to blame - your kid’s just a jerk. Probably partly because of you.”

House then leans over the kid and responds that he wouldn’t have moved his chess pieces the way the kid thought, but would have done it a different way (in a flurry of numbers and letters that I couldn’t understand LOL). The kid says, “I know - I was bluffing you. That’s why *I* won.”

House walks out of the room and replies, “I hate that kid.”

One more episode left - ACK! How will we survive with no House during the summer!?

House, Recap

This is going to be a quick recap - it’s late LOL.

The episode opens with a teen karate student taking on another student. Shortly after she’s done wiping the floor with him, she starts oozing blood from her mouth. Eww..

During their first discussion over the girl, Cuddy pulls House and Foreman aside so that Foreman can sign his resignation papers - after which he tells Chase and Cameron that he’s quit. From the first House swears that it’s an infection that’s bothering the girl, for they can find nothing else wrong with their dozens of tests.

House visits Wilson and gets some coffee from him. He notices that Wilson is yawning and thinks that there’s a medical reason for it. After talking with his crew, they remind him that antidepressants can cause yawning.

House goes into the clinic and meets a man whose poops float. He’s got his girlfriend with him, Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly), who’s a vegan nutritionist. House seems intrigued by her. He diagnoses the boyfriend, telling Piper that he’s cheating on her - with cheeseburgers. He has Piper fill out an application form just so he can get her phone number.

While he’s in the clinic, House gets some amphetamines and, back in his office, crushes them up and puts them in an espresso. Wilson walks in and House tricks him into taking the doctored coffee.

Foreman goes into Wilson’s office to find Wilson on Fast Forward. He’s talking extremely fast and is very jittery from the amphetamines - REALLY funny stuff. He goes into a breast exam and hits on the patient, and then, after he checks his heart rate, figures out that House has drugged him. He heads to House’s house and confronts him, to which House confronts him with the fact that he’s on anti-depressants and didn’t tell him. House denies that he’s unhappy and asks Wilson for some pills, to prove that he’s not unhappy.

Back to the patient - she’s not having a good day. In the MRI machine, she starts screaming that her head is killing her. Turns out that the back of her head literally exploded! House is videotaping it while Foreman is cleaning it out later and he comments, “Yeah, but her head exploded - how cool is that?!” House swears throughout the entire episode that the patient has an infection and an RH deficiency which will kill her in a matter of days.

When he goes to tell the patient, she doesn’t care what’s killing her. House walks out and then back in and smiles at her and tells her how cool it is to be curious and to diagnose - when the girl notices that he’s smiling. He excuses himself and rushes to Wilson’s office. Turns out Wilson had been drugging House’s coffee with anti-depressants for weeks. He realizes that something is wrong with the teen and goes back to her room.

He kicks the parents out, assuring them that she will live, and sits down for a heart-to-heart with her, asking her why she swallowed kitchen cleaner. She had ingested the disgusting substance with cushioners so that they didn’t immediately burn her throat, and instead burned a hole in her esophogus. The esophogus repaired itself, but incorrectly, allowing germs and infections to invade the blood stream. A quick surgery and she will be fine. The teen tells House that she has never been happy.

Cuddy calls Foreman to her and tells him that there are a lot worse things to be like than House.

House heads to a bar, where he meets up with Piper Perabo. She figures out that it’s not a job interview and, even after he tells her all his faults, seems to like him.

Will Piper Perabo appear next week? What’s up with Foreman, where will he go?! It’s getting good people!

Wow - an amazing episode tonight. Let’s get to it, shall we?

We open with a 10 year old African American suiting up to go see his brother, who has recieved the same radiation treatment that last week’s patient did (remember, the one that died?) to kill his bone marrow. The 10 year old will be giving the 14 year old his bone marrow in order to cure his lukemia. We find out later that this is his third resurgence of the disease.

Right before Wilson is set to take him to surgery, he sneezes. Bad news. He has an infection and therefore can not go under the knife.

Cut to House, who is awakened by…a dog. Now, I admit, at first I had high hopes that he was in Cuddy’s house, but alas, it’s Wilson’s ex-wife’s dog, Hector. The dog has chewed EVERYTHING in the apartment, including House’s cane! House.not.happy.

House heads into work to be told the situation of the brothers by Wilson. He marks the board with a large 5, because the 14 year old has only 5 days to live, max, before he dies. House notices that Foreman isn’t in the meeting, and so, goes searching for him.

He finds him in the hospital chapel and says, “If you’re done playing with your imaginary friend…”. House wants to pinpoint the infection by making the boy sicker - basically he wants to get him cold, wet, and run his blood through a machine that separates out the white cells so that he can not fight off any infection. Foreman thinks he’s crazy and wants to check the boy’s home for a biological reason for the infection, and though House disagrees with him, he tells him to go.

The rest of the recap after the break!
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