Watching House

The show starts with us looking through another man’s eyes. We can hear other people talking, including someone who says “great heart for transplant”. House, however, stands up for the patient and says that it’s breaking ethical laws for the doctor to take the organs out of a guy who is still alive.

We don’t see House, but we do see his shirt and some blood. The doctor says that House is there because he crashed his motorcycle, not because he’d ordered a consult. House points out brain waves on the monitor but the doctors says that they’re minimal – even though the guy is screaming in his head that he’s okay.

As the doctor walks off, House bends over the patient.

“I also know about Locked In Syndrome. Blink if you can hear me.” The guy blinks (we see through his eyes still. “Oh this is gonna be fun.” House says.

House brings the doctor back and shows him what’s going on. The doctor says that the patient needs to accept what has happened, while House says that the accident (which apparently was caused when he rode his bike into a car door) may have been caused by his problem, which could be a fixable condition.

Unfortunately House isn’t a teaching doctor in the hospital so the doc doesn’t want to listen to him. So House calls his team in.

House: If you can’t bring Mohammed to the mountain, bring the mountain to Mohammed. Meet my team – hot, dark, and darker.

Thirteen thinks that maybe there is a brain tumor, and House tells them to go find it. Kutner finds MRI goggles which are supposed to “put you into a relaxing place” (like a virtual world). They put them on the POtW and he finds House sitting next to him on a beautiful beach. He says that he thinks that his wife was right (she visited him briefly at the hospital) and that House was sent there to make him get better. House replies “I think so”.

When he wakes up again House comes walking into his bedroom late at night and shows him an MRI with a strange spot in his brain. The “real” doc thinks that it’s an infection. House thinks that it’s cancer. So House wants the viral drugs that they’re giving him to “almost kill him” so that the doctor would let them do whatever he needs to do. Sure enough, he goes into a seizure.

When he comes to House is talking to the doctor and the wife and she asks the POtW if he wants House to treat him. He blinks once. House look at the other doc.

House: Can you send up a couple of bell boys?

The POtW is now at Princeton Plainsboro. Cuddy is worried about House and touches his scrapes. She asks House what he was doing so far north, and he replies.

House: Antiquing. I got you a lace Victorian corset. Come by later and I’ll tie you up.

The POtW says that if Cuddy turns back around after that conversation, she’s into him. She, of course, turns around.

Taub shows up and House tells him that he accepted his resignation, even though Taub now wants to be back. House looks at the POtW and says:

House: Save the cheerleader, save your world. (nice Heroes dig there, writers)

Wilson catches up with House and wonders exactly what Cuddy wondered. He says that House crashed 10 miles away from a pain clinic. House says that he was there to tell the ex-ex-ex wives that Wilson is getting extra money from the lecture circuit so that they can adjust their alimony.

Wilson: You wouldn’t do that.
House: Yeah, I wouldn’t do that (sarcastically).

Kutner and Taub are with the patient and Kutner says that they need to entertain him so that his brain doesn’t atrophy. Taub and Kutner notice something and rush off. House comes back and it’s decided that he needs to undergo an operation to check the lesion on his brainstem.

His wife and children come in for a few minutes – both adorable and heartbreaking – and Thirteen makes them leave because he was crying.

Chase counts down to put him to sleep for the surgery and he’s suddenly back on the beach with his children. And House. He asks House if he’s going to be all right still. House says that he doesn’t know.

He wakes up again and needs to answer some yes and no questions. He tries to answer some questions but by the third one can’t blink anymore.

Now we actually see the patient for the first time. He’s laying still, in a coma-like state, without blinking. House isn’t sure what caused the problem now, as he can’t tell why the patient is suddenly unable to see.

House isn’t sure what they can do when Taub has an idea. We see him in the patient’s room with a machine on the patient’s head – a brain interface machine. When he thinks “up” enough, the machine will move the computer arrow up. So Taub waits around for the arrow to go up.

Wilson goes into House’s office again and he admits that he was at a correctional facility where Foreman’s brother is being held.

We’re back with Taub again and he talks to the POtW about how he feels. Suddenly the arrow moves up. His wife comes back in and is crying, and asks if he’s in there. The arrow moves up.

House and the crew come to diagnose him and he’s able to answer up for yes and down for no. The wife says that he went to St. Louis, but he says “no”.

House is questioning the POtW and is trying to figure out if he was sleeping with someone else while he wasn’t in St. Louis. He keeps saying “no” about not sleeping around on his wife. He was within just a few miles of his house. Suddenly we see House and the POtW doing yes or no questions and they finally figure out that he was not in St. Louis but was within 2 miles away from their house at a friend’s house. They narrow it down to Dave, his friend’s, house.

Kutner and Taub check out the friend’s house and find that he’s been working on his resume and trying to find a new job. He owns his own business but it wasn’t going good and he was looking for more work. Kutner finds that he temped a few times as a janitor, so they check the factory, which is where they make rechargeable batteries. Taub thinks that heavy metal poisoning explains everything from the dirt found on the floor.

Taub explains that it’ll take about a day for the medicine to work. Now all of the doctors/wife are taking turns talking to him while he’s waiting for the meds to kick in. He keeps saying that his eyes are killing him.

Now we’re back to House. He’s in his office and Taub comes in and tells him that he wants to keep his job. Taub tells House that he realizes that what they do in House’s office terrifies him, but that overcoming that is the only way that it can matter. House says that Kutner found the factory and came up with the diagnosis, so maybe Taub doesn’t matter.

We’re back in the patient’s eyes and Dr. Hadley says that she’s going to shut his eyes to let him get some sleep. But she notices that there is a problem in his eye and puts some stingy drops in it. There is a problem in his eye which means that it’s not heavy metal poisoning.

Back to House and Cameron comes into his office to fix his dressing on his arm. She gives House some vicodin and asks him to take 2 now, 2 later (because she’s going to scrub road rash out of his arm) and he swallows all 4 at once. She suggests that he does an LP to try to solve the case.

House: Why did I fire you again?
Cameron: You didn’t. I quit.

Wilson corners House with proof that he wasn’t visiting Foreman’s brother. House says that the reason he was visiting upstate was because he was checking out the one who Wilson was dating – the woman who is taking care of Wilson’s brother. He somehow found out even though Wilson has only been dating her a few times.

Foreman is explaining the LP procedure when the patient goes into a cardiac arrest. He’s back on the beach with House and says that there is no God, because he doesn’t know what’s wrong with him.

POtW: Am I dead?
House: Not yet. But you’re about to be.

And his eyes close.

They shock him back into rhythm and he says inside that they should let him go. That he’s been there for three days and that he can’t do anything for his wife or kids. House notices that he’s trying to talk through the machine. They isolate that his right foot is itching, which House says means his liver is failing.

House believes that the liver was dying which caused the locked in syndrome. They are getting ready to do a test and the discussion about the bracelet Foreman bought Thirteen is brought up. He bought her a bracelet and hasn’t seen her wear it, so he assumes that she doesn’t like it. She says that she’d rather have it at home, save in the jewelry box, than getting peed on at work.

The POtW had peed on her accidentally while she was putting the catheter in and she’s got a rash where the bracelet was. Kutner believes that a rat had a disease that somehow got into the patient’s body. They find a paper cut on his finger and the rats in the basement tested positive for the disease.

Kutner treats the patient and asks him to move one finger. He does.

In the locker room Taub claims the credit for the rat pee situation, but House knows that Kutner is the one who solved the case. He also says that the simple fact that Taub lied about the treatment means that he cares enough for a job.

Wilson snags House again and says that he stole House’s phone and redialed the number on the phone, and it was a psychiatrist. He follows House into the patient’s room where House retrieves a recorder from under the patient’s pillow – he’s been spying on his crew!!

Wilson follows him out and says that he thinks House went to a psychiatrist because he wants to change so that he can be with Cuddy. House, however, says that he’s not going back to the psychiatrist because it doesn’t work.

We go back into the “locked in” camera mode, this time out of House’s eyes, and he’s looking at Wilson. Wilson says “You’re going to die alone.”

Apparently there are a lot of Foreteen fans. I actually have to say that I didn’t see that coming! Sad, I know, but I was focusing so much on the Huddy romance that I completely missed the Foreman/Thirteen romance - and I keep thinking of Thirteen more as a lesbian than as a bisexual, so it came from out of nowhere for me.

So the weekend discussion - do you think that the Foreman/Thirteen romance will continue? Do you hope it does? Or do you think that one of the writers needs to be smacked upside the head for ever allowing it to happen?

Discuss in the comments!

The show starts out at a Christmas play with the kids singing “Joy to the World” – of course. Some teenie bopper girls are talking about trying to “make a statement”. They go on stage to sing and the girl on the end is tricked into starting to say something mean about their teacher and then she starts seeing everything blurry and vomits.

Cuddy brings the team the case and says that the girl’s liver is failing. House hints that Cuddy is around because she’s got a sexual interest on someone in the team – Taub – but Cuddy just walks away.

Taub finds a Christmas present on the table and it’s addressed to House. The card says “Greg – made me think of you.” He throws it away but Taub digs it out and opens it. It’s the Manual of the Operations of Surgery – an antique medical test. House, however, is grumpy about it and tells them to forget the book as he throws it away again. House believes that the kids slipped the POtW something and Chase and Kutner question them. They admit that they gave her ‘shrooms to loosen her up.

Foreman is working with Thirteen and she’s asking about the patient she spoke with last week – Lori Petty – who has dropped out. She leaves and tells him to keep the clipboard she left. On it is a gift certificate to a day spa with a sticky note that sys “thanks for helping me out – 13”.

Kutner and Taub go to the hospital to get the ‘shrooms and are wondering why House threw away the antique book, remembering last year when he had them all running around trying to get the best present. In Natalie’s (POtW) locker they find a big bottle of painkillers.

Cuddy talks to her and she says that she wasn’t trying to kill herself, but that she was trying to cure a headache. The girl tells Cuddy about how, last year, the girls took photos of her and put them on a website and called her a pig.

Taub and Kutner are in Wilson’s office trying to pin down who gave House the present. When they tell him what the book is, he acts like he knows. He says Irene Adler, in Christmas 2001 – a woman that House almost killed himself to save. He fell for her, but it was too soon after Stacey and she was the one that got away.

Kutner: Really?
Wilson: No you idiots. House is just screwing with you. You think there’s some woman with a mysterious green wrapping paper trademark.

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I am a huge Lori Petty fan, and I actually pegged in last night’s episode, Let Them Eat Cake that it was Lori Petty playing the ill woman that Olivia Wilde was avoiding! Huzzah for me! Not only was she in that episode, she’s going to be in the next episode as well - I love Lori Petty. Have I said that yet? I love Lori Petty! Anyway, I figured if it was her that she’d have to have a pretty decent sized part - at least a speaking part - to appear, and it looks like I was right! Her name on the show, by the way, is Janice.

Also, it appears that some of you have been wondering who the young actress was that played Young Dr. Thirteen - it was none other than a new actress named Julia Putnam, and this looks like it was her first role! She’s also slated to appear in a movie called 18 Year Old Virgin next year.

Sorry for the delay on the recap! It’s here now - though - better late than never, right?!

The shows starts at PPTH in slow motion – watching the doctors and the patients. Eventually time speeds back up to normal. A man tries to get Thirteen to give him a refill on his migraine medication but she says that he’s not an emergency.

Foreman approaches Thirteen about clinical trials, including one that is a Huntington trial and that can help to slow the progression of the disease. She says that she’s not following any type of program for her disease.

A man is looking into Cuddy’s office and sees House searching through her desk. He goes in and asks for Dr. Cuddy.

House: She’s either not here, or she’s under the desk. Either way you’re going to have to wait outside until I’m finished.

He starts to leave and asks when she’ll return before he walks away. House just says that she will, not when she will. The man walks back outside and pulls out a gun. Thirteen and a bunch of other people come into Cuddy’s office, followed by the man with the gun. He says that he’s sick and that he wants the best doctor in the hospital to help him or he’ll start killing people.

House: What seems to be the problem?

The man instructs the people to barricade them all into Cuddy’s office. He tells House that he’s been to 16 doctors in 3 years and has had tons of tests in order to get the answer. He says he can’t breathe and that he’s constantly tired. He gets skin rashes, heart palpitations and insomnia.

House: That’s a cool constellation of symptoms. Could be something minor. At least compared to life in prison, which is what you seem to prefer than seeing 16 more specialists.

He gives house the file and throws his cane to the side. Meanwhile the entire ground floor is being evacuated and Cuddy walks into a mess.

The rest of the recap is below the cut!

Back in the room, house is checking the man over and says that he’s not looking at the files because the tests were all negative and the symptoms are what is important. One of the hostages says that his pregnant wife is sick to her stomach.

House: Next time pack some heat and maybe we’ll look into it.

The phone rings and the patient hangs it up. House wants a specific type of machine but since there’s none in the office, he settles for a lighter, which a teenage boy has (bad teenage boy!). He has the patient hold it out as far as he can and try to blow it out. He can’t. House says that the patient has pulmonary scleroderma and that it can be fixed.

The phone rings again and the patient has House answer it. It’s Cuddy and House tells her he needs a special medication in order to diagnose the pulmonary scleroderma. The patient wants Cuddy to bring it in because she’s not a guard or cop.

House: She might be armed. I’d have her deliver it shirtless.

House takes the package from Cuddy and prepares a syringe. The patient wants House to give the medication to someone else first. One of the patients tries to get House to give the meds to Thirteen, but as she’s sick, House says he can’t. He gives the meds to the larger guy who had the migraine in the beginning and tells the patient to roll up his sleeve. Before he can, however, the hostage passes out.

The patient pulls the gun on House.

House: You’re not going to do anything. You need me.
POtW: You’re right. I need you. I also need you to know that you can’t screw with me.

He moves the gun and shoots one of the hostages in the side. The phone rings again as we go to commercial.

Back form commercial and it’s still ringing. Thirteen is trying to help the gunshot victim. The patient tries hanging up the phone but Cuddy keeps calling him back. The hostage negotiator finally shows up and says that they need to set up perimeters.

Cuddy: By perimeters you mean snipers? We need to get those people out of there.
Negotiator: Got a husband or a loved one in there?
Cuddy: Um, no.
Negotiator: Don’t worry. We’ll decide when it’s time to start shooting.

Cameron is with Taub and Kutner when house pages Kutner. Foreman calls him back with all of the ducklings, both new and old, with him. Chase, however, isn’t having any of it.

Chase: You think he’s the only guy in New Jersey with an unsolved illness and a pistol? I’m not playing this game.

Chase walks out of the office. Cameron, however, says that he’s still there. House takes down some of Cuddy’s artwork and starts using it as his white board. He instructs Foreman to get the test supplies needed for bloodwork, Cameron to comb through his past medical history, and Taub and Kutner to go to his apartment to check for toxins. The patient gives his address quickly, and House notes that since he’s willing to give it, he’s not going back there, which means he has “an end game.”

The phone rings in the lobby and Lt. Bowman (our hostage negotiator) answers the phone. House has the nurse who was taken hostage draw his blood and after she’s done, the patient suddenly hangs up the phone and tells the hostage to open the blinds a little bit. Thirteen ends up doing it and they see snipers by the window. They back up once the patient says that he will kill Thirteen if they don’t back away.

House says that it’s interesting that the patient could hear the snipers, as no one else could, and that the patient has hyperacusis. House believes that this means that it is a nerve problem. The patient is able to smile but it is lopsided. House says that there is a test that they can do to check for the herpes disease that he believes that the patient has, but the test is painful, while the treatment is painless. The patient wants the test.

The phone rings and it’s Lt. Bowman. Lt. Bowman says that he won’t send in the capcasin unless the POtW is willing to give something back. He says that they can have two hostages, but that Cuddy has to bring everything in. Lt. Bowman says that it’s not going to happen, and keeps using the POtW’s name – Jason.

House: First, don’t use his name so much. It doesn’t sound reassuring, it just sounds creepy. Second, come on, he’s not going to shoot the one person he trusts to bring in his medication. He’s going to shoot the hostages if she doesn’t bring it in.

Lt. Bowman simply says that he’ll get back to them and hangs up the phone. Cuddy is fine with doing the transfers. She brings a wheelchair for the patient who was shot and takes out him and the big guy who was zonked out by the meds.

The child in the room says that he’ll take the shot, which is supposed to be painful, but House is going to give it to another guy. Thirteen, however, stands up and says that she’ll take it.

House gives the medication to Thirteen who crumbles to the ground in pain, a sign that she doesn’t have herpes.

House: Wow. I would’ve laid $20 that you had herpes.

He goes to give the POtW the shot and figures that the patient was defined by his work, and that he missed time and messed something up, which is why he’s so desperate for an answer. He gives him the shot and he’s in pain from it, proving that it’s not nerve damage and he doesn’t have herpes.

Meanwhile Taub and Kutner are in the guy’s apartment. Everything is laid out for them to see, making Taub remark that the guy was waiting for them. Kutner finds that the patient is thousands of dollars in debt with medical bills.

Taub: I’ve got debt too, you don’t see me acting like a lunatic.
Kutner: There’s no excuse for what he’s doing, but if you’ve got millions of people thousands of dollars in debt because they’re sick, at least one of thems going to do something inexcusable. Especially if it works.

Foreman and Cameron are checking the blood and the white count is normal, ruling out infection. While they’re diagnosing, Thirteen notices that the patient has a distended jugular, and that his heart is racing. House does a massage to try to help but it doesn’t work. The patient wants paddles so that they can slow his heart down, but House refuses because he’s got his finger on the trigger and the shock will pull the trigger. The patient refuses to give up his gun, however, leaving them at an impasse.

Thirteen suggests cardioverting chemically. She says that she’ll go get the meds. The guy gives her thirty seconds to get them from the crash cart. As she’s getting them, the sniper is at the door to the clinic.

House thinks she’s going to go, and that she should go. He almost shoots the boy – and then a nurse who puts herself in the line of fire (and then says “don’t shoot me” – which House finds intriguing). Thirteen comes back. The patient wants her to take the meds, but it slows the heart and House says that it isn’t okay when you’re dealing with a normal heart rhythm. Thirteen injects herself and falls to the floor.

House gives the patient the meds and his heart slows. House notices that the patient is sweating on one side of the heart but not the other, and says that it means that he has lung cancer.

Thirteen’s heart is below 50, and House says to help her up and to move her around. The POtW says that he needs proof that it’s cancer, so, of course, House calls Wilson. The patient can’t spit on the floor because his mouth is dry due to the lung cancer metastasizing. The patient, however, wants a test to prove it.

House: Good idea. Oh, damn, I left my CT machine in my other pants.

The patient willingly gives up two more hostages in order to get to radiology. He ties up Thirteen, House, the teen boy, the nurse, and another male hostage and they walk together slowly to radiology. House is trying to figure out what happened to make the guy snap. His answer?

POtW: I just want an answer. That’s all.

House looks at him strangely.

They slowly shuffle to radiology and get untied. Meanwhile the swat team is slowly creeping up into the CT hallway.

The patient has House get the machine (the computer) from the other room and bring it into the CT room. House refuses to believe that curiousity is not enough of a reason for the patient to have snapped.

POtW: This is my body. My life. There’s a truth out there. I’d rather rot in jail knowing than…I can’t handle not knowing.
House: Yeah.

House says that the metal from the gun is causing the CT to not work properly and shows the POtW the screen. He refuses and pulls the gun on House. Some hostages run out because he finally gives up the gun. The teenager, however, is still there. He says he’s stayed because he’s curious.

The phone is ringing in the background as House looks at the POtW after the CT scan. House says that there isn’t a tumor on the screen, and that he doesn’t know what the POtW has. House gives the patient back his gun. Wait, let me type that again, HOUSE GIVES THE PATIENT HIS GUN BACK.

House answers the ringing phone and says “he overpowered me, got the gun back.” Thirteen is upset that he’s given the gun back to the patient. House, however, says that he’s not scared, he’s arrogant, and that Thirteen is scared…of death.

The ducklings and Wilson (minus Chase) are back in House’s office. They’re trying to diagnose when Foreman leaves because he thinks House is going to kill someone. While the POtW is answering questions, House notices that he’s turning his head and favoring the right ear.

The patient gives up the teenager in order to get the meds to test. The patient wants House to give Thirteen the meds – he refuses, but Thirteen grabs the meds and gives it to herself. House then gives the patient the meds. The patient thinks that Thirteen should do something for her disease.

House: I can’t decide which is riskier. Taking crazy risks or taking advice on crazy risks from a crazed risk taker.

Thirteen’s heart is racing and she’s got a fever, while the patient’s breathing is unchanged. Thirteen’s kidney’s are shutting down due to the meds.

House tries diagnosing with the ducklings and Cameron says that maybe something is protecting the guy’s kidneys.

House: I need to slap you. For diagnostic purposes. Seriously. If I were jerking you around I’d say that I needed to kick you in the groin.

House slaps the patient realizes that he’s got calcium deficiency – and that he has something that has a long incubation period. Cameron thinks it’s Melioidosis, except that you can’t have it unless you’ve been to a tropical climate. He swears he hasn’t.

POtW: I’ve never been anywhere south of Florida.
House: You idiot.
POtW: Florida counts?
House: Well not to the supreme court, but it’s warm enough for germs. You’ve been blaming doctors and you can’t even give a halfway decent history.

The patient says that he can have Dr. house as a hostage. House would rather he let thirteen go and he take the meds. He says that they’ll kill Thirteen if he gives them to her. House says that he’s not leaving even though thirteen wants him to.

Thirteen: Who’s the martyr now? Either the drugs kill me, or he kills me, it doesn’t seem to make a lot of difference.

The SWAT guys come with the meds and House shuffles out.

It’s thirteen and the POtW sitting in the CT room and she’s talking to him. He says that she wants to die but that she doesn’t have the nerve to do it herself. She starts to inject herself but begs that he not make her do it. She goes to stick the needle in again and can’t do it.

Thirteen: I don’t wanna die. I don’t wanna die.

The man throws down his gun and goes to inject himself when a blast destroys the wall and they both are knocked down. The SWAT team rushes in and finds them both laying on the ground. House rushes in to check on Thirteen and finds that she’s still alive.

The SWAT team cuffs the patient and hauls him out.

House: Why are you still alive?
Thirteen: He didn’t make me take it.

As the POtW is leaving, he realizes that he can breathe and smiles at House.

Thirteen is laying in a bed and Foreman is next to her. She’s on dialysis due to the kidney failure, but it’s only temporary. She hints that she’d like to be in on the drug trial.

Cuddy goes into her office to see it wrecked, with blood on the walls and House’s writing on them as well. He comes back in to get his cane and House says that he understands why the patient did what he did.

House hints at a relationship, but doesn’t come clean about wanting to have one. Cuddy goes to open her desk…the drawer falls open because House rearranged it to be upside down.

Opens with a man lying on the ground with flowers also on the ground in front of him. People come in and crush the flowers – paramedics – and are trying to treat him. He is outside of his house on a stretcher when he punches a paramedic and runs back into the house.

Cameron is in front of House and the ducklings talking about the POtW. Apparently the patient and his girlfriend were shot seven years before, which is why the patient is now severely agoraphobic. Cameron knows that patient due to talking to him through the door when she as a community outreach doctor.

House sees Cuddy through the glass and she stops to talk to him. He heads out to talk to her. She hands him takeout menus as a ruse to talk to him. She says they only kissed because she was emotion and he let his human side show for a moment.

Cuddy: I just want to say thank you for not taking advantage.
House: You’re welcome. Any time you want to stop kissing, I’m there for you.

House goes back into the room and Thirteen asks what Cuddy wanted.

House: I hit that last night and now she’s all up in my jock.
Thirteen: Wow. Looks pretty good for someone on rufees.

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We didn’t have any House last week, but it was kind of hard to miss it due to the huge election coverage! I don’t know about you, but I was stuck to the television watching as the nation made its choice.

This week, however, we’ve got “The Itch” to look forward to! Then, a week later, we’ve got “Emancipation”. A week after that we’ve got “Last Resort”, which looks like it’s going to be really good - check it out!

A gun-wielding man from the waiting room at the Princeton-Plainsboro clinic takes House, Thirteen and several patients from the waiting room hostage in Cuddy’s office. The man claims to be sick with a long undiagnosed illness and demands medical attention from the best doctor in the hospital, threatening to kill any hostages necessary along the way. With a room full of already sick patients, House must use them as guinea pigs to assure the hostage-taker that the medications he is administering to him are legitimate. As Cuddy and the rest of House’s team communicate with House over the phone to run tests and offer possible diagnoses, they ponder the possibility that the hostage-taker has nothing physically wrong with him and that everyone in Cuddy’s office could wind up dead. With one hostage already shot, Thirteen wagers her own already diminished health as she simultaneously receives the experimental treatments the hostage is receiving. Her life lies in danger as House’s own determination to diagnose the hostage-taker threatens to thwart the SWAT team’s plan to put an end to the standoff.

House opens with a man looking at leaves out of his window. Seems like a normal man – drinking coffee, checking off….lists? Has five coffee makers on his counter. His daughter comes in and they have a very weird discussion. He goes to use the last coffee pot and it’s empty – then sees that they’re all empty, even though he just used them. Gets out more coffee and sees that the coffee pots are GONE. Yup, he’s hallucinating. His daughter is back again and says that it’s 4:30 – when just a few minutes ago it was 8:15. He’s losing track of time. Next thing he knows he’s in the living room in front of his laptop. And we go to the opening song…

House comes in and Cuddy tells him he’s late. She says they’ve got a new patient.

Cuddy: 37 year old man, recurring blackouts.
House: Tell him to switch from tequila to burbon.

House switches the conversation from the prospective patient to her potential adoption and he finds out that she’s meeting the new potential mother.

House and the ducklings are diagnosing when House does the “pick a date” scene on the board as to when Cuddy will back out of the adoption. POtW is a consumer tester. House asks them to check his home for toxins and Kutner is IN on the baby pool, under the pseudonym “Skutner”. House thinks she’ll meet the mom and bolt.

Taub and 13 are at the house and we learn that the POtW is a single dad and that he only “smelled” the coffee. Taub thinks that single parents shouldn’t be single parents.

Thirteen: My dad was great.
Taub: He might be the exception. On the other hand, you are fairly screwed up.

Thirteen finds mold behind the baseboard and begins testing the daughter for exposure to mold. The POtW’s kid goes to school and really nowhere else. Thirteen and Foreman are in the lobby and see Mr. Harmon (POtW) standing in the hallway and he keeps repeating “I have an appointment, I really have to go”. Foreman thinks that he’s asleep – sleepwalking.

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So I’ve been bad for not doing a review of the episode - I guess my opinion is that if I can’t get the review up by the next morning, there’s no point in doing it. The review for next week’s episode, “Not Cancer”, however, WILL be done that night or on Wednesday morning - guaranteed! I guess having House move to a new time slot has messed all of us up a bit.

So what’s up next week for House? Check it out!

When several people die suddenly and without warning five years after receiving transplants from a single organ donor, House and the team rush to save the only two surviving recipients. With one already dying and other healthy but sure to fall ill at any moment, the team must find out what was wrong with the original organ donor. As the team sorts through the records on the deceased donor recipients to find the common thread, they must deal with a new intrusion. House has hired Lucas (Michael Weston),[1] a private investigator, to dig up information about the deceased despite the team’s skepticism. Meanwhile, House auditions new best friends to replace Wilson, and soon uses Lucas for his own personal means to spy on Wilson and the other team members.

Oh yes! House and a private investigator! That’s perfect!!

Here are the screen shots for the next episode, and although I don’t know much about Michael Weston, I like the looks of him from the preview shots!

And it’s important whether we like the character or not, because David Shore will be making a whole series around him!

“We brought in a character, partway through the year, Michael Weston as this private investigator House goes to,” Shore told Newark Star-Ledger. “The spinoff would be less of a spinoff, it would be more us using House to launch it. It would be an independent world. A character out of the House mould, but definitely different.”

“He appears very early in season five,” Shore continued. “House is constantly sending people to break into people’s homes, and he does it the right way in one episode. It’s a character that only House could love.”

Wow - umm - hmmm - what do you think of Shore using House as a way to launch a new show?

Also, I loved one of the promo shots so much that I messed around a bit this morning and made a new House desktop background. It’s yours if you’d like it!

House opens with House at….a strip club? He’s getting a lap dance from a pretty little brunette chickie and suddenly says that he doesn’t know how he got there. He figures out that he’s lost four hours of his life and he’s not sure if he’s okay. He has the stripper tell him five random animals to see if he can remember them, and he can only remember a few. He touches his hand to his head and discovers blood and a gaping wound. He says that he has a concussion and retrograde amnesia. He remembers that he saw a symptom and that someone is going to die unless he finds them.

He goes outside and sees a fire truck, tons of EMT’s, and an overturned bus.

Where do you go when you’re hurt? To the ER, of course! House stops by the ER and Cameron goes to work on his head while Wilson is there telling him that he couldn’t have seen something, and that he was merely concussed.

Wilson: A week ago you saw a symptom in a soap star.
House: Bad argument, as I was right.

The three new ducklings arrive and House can’t seem to remember Taub’s name. He looks to Thirteen.

House: Lesbian. Find out if anybody on that bus was taken to other hospitals.
13: He just forgot mine.
House: No, 13, I just wanted to call you a lesbian.
13: I’m not a lesbian.
House: I was rounding up from 50%.

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Ack! I’m so behind today! I got about 3 hours of sleep last night due to a lovely flu bug and I’m EXHAUSTED! I’m going to TRY to stay up and write the recap, but I may miss it, and if I do, I’M SORRY! Know that if I do miss it, it’ll be on in the morning - promise! Here’s the overview for tonight’s episode…

Jason Lewis (”Sex and the City”) Guest-Stars

House is convinced one of the actors on his favorite soap opera (guest star Jason Lewis) “Prescription Passion” has a serious medical condition after observing his symptoms on television. House decides to intervene and take matters into his own hands, but both the actor and House’s own team dismiss House¹s assessment and do not believe there is anything wrong with him. Meanwhile, much to House¹s delight, Amber and Wilson have their first argument, and Cuddy tries to keep up appearances when an inspector makes an unexpected visit to Princeton-Plainsboro.

If you’ve been checking the news sites at all, you’ll have read that it’s a pretty good chance that the writer’s strike will be over by next week (hopefully). Things are moving along well and it looks like everything can be finalized sooner rather than later. So what does this mean for our favorite shows, like House? Unfortunately, we probably won’t see an “end” to the fourth season, and if we do, it’ll take awhile.

Industry executives say it will likely take eight weeks to restore favorite shows like “House,�? “CSI,�? “Grey’s Anatomy,�? and “Desperate Housewives�? to prime time once the strike ends. “The writing process itself tends to take a couple of weeks for a script to be ready to shoot, and that’s just the beginning. Then you have to get it out to directors, scout locations, cast it and build sets,�? said one studio executive. Filming a drama generally takes about eight days, with another week and a half needed for editing and other post-production work, he said.

So IF it does show the end of the season, it’ll take two months before we see it.

And how do we know, for sure, that House will be on? Hits like “CSI,�? “House�? and “Grey’s Anatomy,�? are “no-brainers�? to bring back this spring, one network executive told Reuters. Works for me!

One bad thing about the writer’s strike? Not all writers will have their jobs back. The networks are using this as a reason to cull out some of the lower rated shows that weren’t rating too high, and they now have even more reality television to air, meaning that the shows will have to share air time with reality tv.

So good news on one end (our end), and “not-so” good news for some of the writers.

Okay, to begin with, I love the survey that TV Squad has got at the end of their “Frozen” review. The question ponders whether House fans believe that Dr. House should have a love interest (such as Mira Sorvino), or not.

It was put up this morning around 7 a.m. and as of about twelve hours later (if they’re on the East coast), 332 voters think that House needs a love interest as compared to 92 voters who do not believe that a love interest would be in the character’s best interest. This really surprises me! Most people that I know that loves House don’t think that the character would be the same with a love interest. What do you think?

Next bit of info - preliminary reports have come back about the ratings: FOX averaged a 36.5 rating/55 share in primetime Sunday, although those numbers will change when final ratings for the live broadcast are calculated….At 10 p.m., the Super Bowl post-game show and a special “House” averaged 25.1/41 for FOX

I honestly have no idea what numbers are good or not, but I’ll keep on top of this to see if House did better than normal.

Next up: the music! A lot of you have e-mailed me asking what music was playing during the trailer. It’s a beautiful song called Breathe Me, by Sia. The video for the song is below. I’m finding it and downloading it quickly, as it’s such a wonderful song! Added: my good friend Dave at one of my favorite sites, Killed by the Video Star, has put up a review of the song. It’s a good review, especially since his music taste is definitely not the kind of songs that Sia sings. Go check it out here

And finally, NEW HOUSE TOMORROW!! The patient is the wonderful Laura Silverman who was gracious enough to give me an interview a week or so ago. I can’t wait to watch the episode! She said she had “tingles” when Hugh touched her. I probably would too! Don’t forget to stop back for the recap tomorrow night!

Sorry it’s been a few days guy - I’ve been buried underneath a mound of paperwork so high that I wasn’t able to even see the rain that was coming down where I live!

When I work on the laptop I usually have the television on…partially just for the noise (because, you know, the noise I get from a 7 year old and a 3 1/2 year old isn’t enough), and partly to distract myself when I get a little loopy. Disney was playing Ice Princess, which I actually kind of like to watch. Yeah, I know, I’m 12 in a 28 year old’s body. Anyway, Michelle Trachtenberg is the star of the movie.

Now I really like Michelle. In a world where our teen stars are getting pregnant at 16 and having to go into rehab before they’re 21, she’s a breath of fresh air. Like Amanda Bynes, there’s something clean and fresh about Michelle. So I decided to log onto IMDB in order to see what she was doing lately. Imagine my surprise when I notice that she’s been on an episode of House. What?! How come I never saw this episode?!

To make things a big more clear, I only started watching House last year. Before that, my friend had been going on and on about this amazing new show, but I was so miserable and busy, I didn’t make the time to watch it. Then, right before the third season began, my best friend brought up the first season DVD. I fell in love and have watched it whenever I can since then.

Michelle’s guest appearance was on an episode in the second season called Safe - now I thought I’d caught the reruns of the second season, but apparently not, because I definitely would have remembered this episode. Apparently Michelle is a teenage girl who has a heart transplant and goes into anaphylactic shock. From the quick review I’ve read, House even kidnapps her in an elevator! Yes!

Has anyone seen this episode? Is it good?? I guess I’m heading to Blockbuster to rent the whole second season, huh?

Thanks to the wonderful Dr. Greg House, we’ve got a few more pics to see from It’s A Wonderful Lie, which will be airing on January 29th…I can’t tell if House acutally looks concerned in these photos, of if he’s about to give the very ill-looking patient some extremely snarky line…what do you think?

Also, the most hilarious thing is going on - there’s an Evil Nurse Previn festival going on!

Nurse Brenda Previn is the nurse that is always very kind and considerate to House…umm…or not, which is why she’s been dubbed “Evil Nurse Previn” by so many House followers. Evil Nurse Previn is played by Stephanie Venditto, whose other credits have included Cold Case, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Alias, 7th Heaven, and ER.

If you’d like to get involved in the Evil Nurse Previn Festival, head here!