Watching House

Opens in a steel family and a young girl is talking to a guy about giving money to some sort of charity. She starts to be short of breath and grabs her chest. She falls down on the steel conveyor belt and the old man stops it and calls for an ambulance.

House steps out of the elevator and confirms that he didn’t ask Cuddy out. The ducklings start telling him about the 16 yo patient and they tell him that she’s an emancipated minor. Her parents died last year and she got emancipated to avoid foster care. She got her GED and started working.

Kutner is backing her up and says that just because she’s a teenager doesn’t mean she’s into drugs and sex. House wants him to check for drugs and a pregnancy just in case.

Foreman comes into House’s office and says that he’s been asked to help in a clinical trial. House says that he can’t because clinical trials take time, and “your time is my time”.

Kutner’s doing an echo on the POtW (Sophia) and says that he lost his parents when he was si and that it gets easier. Kutner says that her heart is healthy.

Taub and Thirteen are checking the girl’s apartment, which is well taken care of and organized considering her age. Thirteen finds a bong in her house.

The rest of the recap is below the cut!

Back at the conference room, they’re trying to figure out if the drugs had anything to do with the heart problem she had. House asks Foreman to start the patient on beta blockers. Foreman tells the rest of the team to do it and to page him if they need him (looks like he’s going out on his own anyway!)

Sophia says that the bong belonged to her ex “that’s why he’s ex” and says that they have no reason to trust her and that’s fine. She’s adamant that she hasn’t used drugs. Kutner stops the beta blockers and goes for the steroids (which could kill her if she’d used drugs).

Cuddy meets Foreman in the clinic.

Foreman: He didn’t need to say no. He just wanted to say no.
Cuddy: House did something solely out of self interest? Freaky.

Foreman is trying to annoy House by working the clinic hours. Cuddy gives him a possible House case instead. It’s a 4 year old child who has been throwing up blood and has a stomach ache and Foreman is taking care of the kid.

Meanwhile Sophia is having a freak attack and is going manic in her room. She’s fighting Kutner and Taub screaming “get away from me”.

Taub: Beta blockers don’t cause psychotic breaks.
Kutner: She’s not on beta blockers.

The patient is on halaperadol and House blames Foreman for not being there.

Kutner: I treated her based on the symptoms she had.
House: You treated her based on empathetic orphan syndrome.

Kutner swears that the heart isn’t the problem. Foreman thinks it’s Prince Metal Angina (sp) and House asks Foreman to run the diagnostic check. He tells the ducklings to set things up and to page him when it’s time to do the procedure.

Foreman’s got a pill camera that he needs the child to swallow. He asks Foreman to swallow it (it’s HUGE). The older brother convinces him to swallow it. The child starts laughing for absolutely no reason.

Cameron and Chase are getting lunch and Foreman comes to ask them for help. While he’s showing them the case, the team beeps him to do the procedure on Sophia. She’s in the MRI and Kutner’s working on her. They find no brain spasms but Kutner notices that the limbic region was lighting up when he was asking her about her parents death and foster parents.

He confronts her and tells her that the limbic region only lights up when you use your imagination. She’s lying about her parents being dead. She says that she got emancipated because her father raped her and her mother pretended that it didn’t happen.

The ducklings are diagnosing again and Thirteen is thinking about how she’s been raped.

Thirteen: We find out our patient’s been raped and that’s your response?
House: Is she a psych patient?
Taub: Rape could mean STD.
House: Thank goodness one of you doesn’t have a heart. Maybe if we all stop wringing our hands we could solve this thing and let her live to have a few more nightmares.

House believes that stress could be the problem and asks Thirteen and Foreman to give her the anti-anxiety medication.

House finds Wilson scrubbing up for surgery and he tells him about how he went to Cuddy’s house but he didn’t ask her out.

Foreman Cameron and Chase are diagnosing (ahh, the good old times). He asks them to test the child for a few different things.

Thirteen is explaining about stress to Sophia when Foreman walks in. Thirteen is talking to her about how she should turn her father in when they notice that her urine color is extremely dark now.

Turns out the brown urine is caused by shredded blood cells. House believes that maybe the patient has arsenic poisoning due to the pressure treated wood she works with at her house. During the conversation, Foreman gets a beep and leaves.

Chase and Cameron found no cancer and no profuria and Chase is worried. He believes that it’s time for foreman to talk to House. As they’re talking to the mother, the child goes into cardiac arrest. Chase and Foreman shock him and he’s back. Chase insists that Foreman talk to House about the case.

Thirteen says that Sophia is arsenic free and that she can leave tomorrow morning. She suddenly starts to seize.

They did another MRI of Sophia’s brain and there are lesions now on the brain. House wants them to put the arsenic back into her body, that it has been helping to treat whatever the problem was. Leukemia is one thing treated by arsenic and they’re asked to do a biopsy.

Foreman walks in as they’re leaving and House figures out that Foreman has a patient and that they’re younger than Sophia. House walks down the hallway with Foreman and isn’t helping.

House: You wanted something all your own? Now you have it.

He walks into Wilson’s office and tells him that his disengagement won’t work.

Wilson: So my not doing anything isn’t causing you to do anything.
House: Right.
Wilson: I’m okay with that.

Thirteen is doing the biopsy on the brain and Sophia says that she’d never get bone marrow from her parents because it would mean she owed them.

Taub says that he has Huntington’s disease, and that he would do anything to stop it from killing him, while a ticked off Thirteen glares at him.

Sophia: Have you ever been raped?
Taub: No.
Sophia: Don’t try to walk in my shoes and I won’t try to walk in yours.

The biopsy confirmed leukemia and Thirteen wants to track down her parents. House says no, but Thirteen goes to look for the parents anyway.

Chase, Cameron, and Foreman are diagnosing the young patient (Jonah) when he says that the older brother is extremely protective of him – and then he walks off to go to the patient’s room.

Chase: I think we gave him an idea.
Cameron: Either that or he’s off to kill House.

Thirteen finds Sophia’s father…except that the real Sophia is home with her father. Interesting.

Thirteen confronts Sophia, who admits that she stole the girl’s identity. She still, however, refuses to let Thirteen call her parents.

Foreman says that the patient has an iron overdose from taking too many children’s vitamins. The older brother says that he thought more would make him strong and gave him more. (Randi insert – AWWW – so nice to see siblings harming their other siblings because they were trying to HELP THEM instead of hurt them. Glad the boy will be okay!)

The ducklings tell House that they found a partial match but they’re at odds about doing the surgery. He’s surprised to hear that Sophia didn’t want her parents help because she didn’t want to feel that she owed them. Now he’s positive that she’s lying about being raped to cover up something even worse.

He finally visits Sophia and asked what she did. House believes that she did something terrible and that she wants to suffer.

House: What did you do? Eventually we’ll find your parents, if only to deliver the body.
Sophia: They won’t care.
House: You’re an idiot. You’d rather die than face your parents because you, what, broke their Faberge egg?
Sophia: I killed their son. I killed my brother. I was supposed to watch him. He was in the bath. I could hear him laughing. Every time they look at me it’s like I kill him again.
House: If you don’t take your parents bone marrow, you’ll be killing their other child. If they don’t hate you now, they will then.
Sophia: I don’t care.
House: Sure you do. You want someone to tell you that it was just an accident, that it’s not that bad. It is that bad, and you know it. There’s nothing you can do to change that. But there is one thing you can do to not make it worse.

He hands her the phone and you see her parents showing up at the hospital. You see the two brothers getting ready to leave the hospital and the mother hugs Foreman. Sophia’s parents go into the intensive care room where she’s sleeping. She wakes up and sees them and starts crying…they all start crying.

Foreman tells House again that he wants to do clinical trials.

Foreman: I’ve proved I can do two cases at once. I can do this. And I’m doing it.
House: Okay.

Foreman: Three days ago you said no.
House: Three days ago you asked me. Now you told me. I can’t say no if it’s not a question.

Wilson catches up with House in the elevator. From the conversation they’re having, House knew about the four year old patient and wanted to prove to Foreman that he could solve the case on his own.

Wilson: You’re going to be okay House.
House: Good to know.