Watching House

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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He asks Taub to check the history and Kutner to find his motorcycle and cane. House finds the bus driver, curious to see if the bus driver was the person who was sick, but the bus driver seems fine. He doesn’t want anyone to leave.

Kutner has a video of House leaving the Hospital, but that still leaves almost 4 hours of blank time. Kutner suggests that they do a medical hypnosis trick that will allow House to remember.

House: You’re not going to make me do the chicken dance, are you?
Kutner: Someone in the surgical ward must be trained.

Low and behold it’s Chase! Chase apparently learned how to do the medical hypnosis when he was in Australia. (Wilson is in the office as well) He tells House to visualize the bus and suddenly, right when he begins to say that it is a waste of time, House is sitting on an empty bus. Chase is there, as was Wilson. Chase asks where he was before he was on the bus and House is suddenly in a bar. Wilson and Chase are, once again, there, and Wilson learns that House can not lie under hypnosis, so he begins to ask him questions, but House doesn’t let him trick him. Suddenly Amber is there harping at him.

Amber: He’s concerned about you. Why does that mean he’s insecure?
House: Will you get your girlfriend out of here.
Amber: It’s a legit question.
Wilson: Amber’s there? You’ve got Amber in your head?
House: You put her in my head. I can’t even have a conversation with you in my subconscious without her tagging along.
Wilson: She’d better have her clothes on.
House: Unfortunately.

House is able to get Amber and Wilson both out of his head and remembers the bartender, who looks fine. House remembers that he takes the bus because the bartender took his keys since he’d drank so much.

Back to the bus, House is starting to remember the faces of some of the people. A brunette is smiling with him, yet he is focusing on a punk-rock guitarist with a blond Mohawk. He sees the guitarist picking his nose and believes that it is the person he’s been looking for.

Out of his hypnosis, House walks down into the ER to find Cuddy working on the guitarist. House tells the guitarist that he has a brain tumor. He talks him into checking his nose and doesn’t find anything. Cuddy tells House to rest and says that she’s admitting him.

Meanwhile the bus driver can’t get out of the wheel chair because he can’t feel his leg.

House: Your leg is not your biggest problem. Your biggest problem is…I don’t know your biggest problem.

They have one clue and, when discussing the case, House smells Taub’s coffee and decides to head off to smell the clothes that the people who came into the ER were wearing. House is smelling the clothes to try to evoke a memory so that he can figure out what symptom the bus driver had that he saw on the bus. He takes 4 vicodin in less than a minute (a record, even for House!) and plunks his face down into the pile of laundry.

Taub: House, do you think this is going to work, or are you just stoned?
House: Both, apparently.

He is suddenly on the bus and the bus driver tells him that he’s hallucinating and not having a memory, because he’s not limping.

House: Okay, so I went a little heavy on the vicodin.
Bus Driver: Better hope so, otherwise your brain is bleeding.

He turns around and sees more passengers, specifically the brunette that he saw before. He starts to talk to her and says that she wasn’t on the bus – she’s got $500 shoes on and looks too wealthy to have been on the bus – when Wilson taps his hand on House’s shoulder and interrupts.

House: I was talking to the people on the bus!
Wilson: You’re hallucinating. You’re getting an MRI.

Wilson sees that his brain is swollen where short term memory is stored.

Wilson: Also the penis size cortex is set to pathetic.

Wilson is trying to figure out why House was trying to hide that he wants to see Amber naked, and he believes it is because House has feelings for Amber. He then discovers that House has a fracture of the temporal bone.

House: I banged my head.
Cuddy: This isn’t just a boo boo.

Cuddy tells him to go to sleep, but he can’t. He starts writing down different potential diagnosis on paper and his head appears to really be hurting.

The next morning, House is in the patients room when he was trying to stand and his stomach began to hurt. Foreman notices that House’s ear is bleeding, and House walks off to take a bath. His idea is that if he can cause sensory depravation, he’ll be able to remember something.

House is back on the bus and there is Cuddy.

Cuddy: I didn’t know you rode the bus.
House: I used to drive home after getting drunk, but some mothers got Madd (he pronounced the second d – ha ha)

Cuddy is suddenly in a sexy school-girl type outfit and says that she’s not there to indulge his sexual fantasies, but to help him solve the case. He wonders why she can’t do both. Suddenly she’s discussing the patient while doing a pole dance. She gets down to an unclasped bra before saying that she’s distracting him. She winds up back on the bus, next to him, fully clothed.

House: I screamed ‘no’!
Cuddy: And your own subconscious ignored you. That’s because you’d rather fantasize about finding symptoms. How screwed up is that?

The bus driver is back and says something about a shuffling gait. House remarks that you can’t have a shuffling sitting, when a female voice says that he moved when he helped the old lady up the steps. It is the same brunette that has appeared twice before.

House: Who are you?
Woman: I’m the answer.

He looks again and can remember the bus driver shuffling when he helped the old lady up the stairs of the bus.

Cuddy, Wilson, Foreman, and 13 open the sensory depravation tank and House stands up, telling them that its Parkinsons disease. Cuddy sees the blood coming out of his ear and Wilson tries to get him to sit down. House, instead, throws up a bit and passes out.

House wakes up to a Nurse Dickerson taking care of him in his home. He’s on his couch and there is even a body guard to keep House resting, as the nurse says that the vomiting means that the skull fracture is getting worse.

Back at PPH, Foreman’s trying to lead the team to figure out what’s wrong with the bus driver. House calls them trying to diagnose (as they’ve ruled out Parkinsons). House winds up calling back when the bus driver is doing a treadmill test. He eventually falls, wheezing.

House shows up at the hospital because Cuddy asks for him to come back, as the patient still isn’t breathing on his own. They start to take him away and down to the OR when House slides the door shut and uses his cane to keep it closed with him, 13, and the patient inside. He noticed that the patient had recent dental caps put on, and says that air got into the gums which caused a myoclonic jerk. House raises his legs to move the air bubble to the heart so that Dr. Hadley can get it out. (Cuddy calls 13 Dr. Hadley a few times!!!)

Cuddy brings House home and says that she’s spending the night on the couch to make sure that he stays resting. House walks into the hallway (you can tell he’s hallucinating because he’s walking perfectly) and sees the mystery brunette. She’s wearing a necklace that is supposed to signify “a fly in the ointment�. House has a red sash in his hand that he says he has to tie around her. He does so and she complains that she’s cold.

House: Stay with me. (pause) Why did I say that?

There is blood staining the sash. He wakes up and goes into the living room where Cuddy is sleeping. He tells her that it’s not over, that he saved the wrong person.

He gets doctors and nurses from the hospital to sit in the bus in order to reenact the bus scene. House has been taking Alzheimers drugs in order to remember things. He suddenly slips back into the bus and sees the brunette again.

Woman: What’s my necklace made of? Who am I?
House: No. It doesn’t make sense.
Woman: What’s my necklace made of?
House: Amber.

House suddenly remembers being on the bus with Amber when the garbage truck hits. It hits exactly where Amber is sitting. As the bus flips and tumbles, he tries to reach her, but can’t. When he wakes up, he can see Amber struggling, with a large piece of metal in her thigh. He struggles to stay awake and get to her as she’s going into shock.

He takes off her scarf and ties it around her leg to stop the bleeding.

Amber: I’m cold.
House: Stay with me. Just stay with me.

Then he passes out. When he wakes up he sees someone carrying Amber out of the bus, but he can’t get to her. He finally gets out of the bus and has no memory of what happened, which is when he walked into the strip club.

In the present, Wilson and Cuddy are giving CPR to House, whose heart has stopped. He finally comes to and tells Wilson that it was Amber. She is Jane Doe #2. Amber is the one who is dying.

Wow - oh just WOW! What do you guys think?!