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!!!
Robert Sean Leonard
