Watching House

Show starts with a “previously on House�? segment, showing what we discovered last episode.

Wilson finds Amber and her heart is racing – she’s all cut and bruised and she has a lot of problems. House is there trying to figure out what is going on as well. House wants to move Amber, but the doctor doesn’t want him to.

Doctor – You’re not her doctor, you can’t move her.
House – No, but her husband can.
Wilson – Move her.

Wilson and House are on the ambulance – House is trying to help her, Wilson is trying ot figure out why she was on the bus. Amber goes into V-fib and before house can shock her, Wilson says that it will hurt her heart more if he shocks her. He says instead that they slow her heart down by icing her down and put her on bypass so that House can have more time to diagnose her correctly.

House – This is not a solution. All you’re doing is pressing pause.
Wilson – It gives you more time to find a diagnosis. House, this is Amber! Please.
House – Cold saline solution.

The rest of the recap (and there is a lot) is under the tag so that those who don’t wish to be spoiled don’t have to read the whole story…

They’ve got Amber lying on a bed in an obscenely white and sterile room. She’s got a chest tube in and tons of needles poking her. They’ve got her on bypass. All of the ducklings are watching, as is Wilson, from the observation room. Chase is the doctor responsible for getting the bypass working and gets her stable. Foreman questions why they are doing it, and House replies that it gives them time to think.

House thinks that Amber had a heart problem before the accident and Foreman says that they won’t be able to diagnose her because her heart isn’t working. House gets perturbed.

House - Yeah, we get it, her heart’s not beating – it’s gonna make it harder to diagnose. On the other hand she’s not going to die while you’re whining about it. What else?

Kutner suggests that they can start House’s memory again the same way they did before.

House: I had a heart attack this morning – can’t do any more drugs until lunch.

He sends some of the ducklings off to check her house and others to test Amber. Taub questions House, trying to figure out if House and Amber were sleeping together, or if they slept together once, and if they’d done any drugs together. He decides to run a tox screen.

Kutner and 13 are at Amber’s house, checking it out. Kutner is checking her laptop and finds a video of Amber and Wilson having sex on video. 13 shuts it off before Kutner can see too much. 13 believes that they shouldn’t be treating Amber because they’re going to alter their behavior since they are friends with her and that they’ll miss something.

House, meanwhile, is at his white board, which is in his office for once, when Amber shows up (weird). She tells him that he’s dreaming and pours him a drink, questioning if they just met for a drink or if they met for some other reason. She climbs onto his lap and asks if she feels familiar.

Amber: what do you feel? Electricity?

House wakes up and spills his coffee. He walks into Amber’s room and says that he can use electricity, deep brain stimulation, to wake up his memory in order to see what memory he has forgotten – what symptom he forgot.

House gets a beep and Wilson and House head to the office where the crew say that they found prescription diet pills which could damage her heart. House tells the team to crack her chest open and feel the heart to see if there is structural damage.

Foreman: And that’s the safer course of action?
House: It is if we’re wrong.
Foreman: And when did we start assuming we’re wrong?

House asks 13 who found the diet pills and he tells her to get over whatever her problem is and to do her job.

They’re in surgery getting ready to feel her heart when they discover that her eyes have a yellow tint to them. Chase diagnoses that her liver is shot, which couldn’t happen from diet pills, and says to take her back to the ICU.

The ducklings and House are diagnosing again, and House asks if she drinks sherry, as its interesting that she was pouring him a sherry in his dream and he tends to drink harder stuff.

House: Sherry means something.

Kutner remembers that there’s a Sherry’s bar that is right off the bus route. He tells the team to make Amber colder and heads to Sherie’s with Wilson. The bartender (Fred Durst) gives him back his keys and House starts to question him. He remembers House and Amber there, and says that he didn’t notice the color of “his girlfriend’s boogers�?.

House: She’s not my girlfriend, genius.
Bartender: She was hot, you seemed into her, she bought you drinks. Last night, she was your girlfriend.

House has a flashback of he and Amber at the bar, and says that maybe the sneezing that the bartender noticed means that Amber has an infection.

Back in the ICU, Kutner and 13 are working on Amber, trying to cool her down even more.

Kutner: I know this is different…but its not. Everybody dies.
13: She’s not dead.
Kutner: You’re reacting this way because she might be, soon.
13: Yeah, I am, why aren’t you?

Kutner tells her about how both of his parents were shot in their store, which is why he’s able to handle Amber’s potential demise a bit better. They put in “slush�? and make her even more cold. House checks on Foreman and Taub and they all believe that she has Hep B. Foreman goes to tell Wilson, House goes to visit Amber, who opens her eyes and starts to talk to him. She sits up and starts taking off all of the plugs and the cold wrap around her body.

She says that Hep B doesn’t fit and shows him a mark on her back. House wakes up and walks into Amber’s room for real. He tells Taub and Foreman to turn her over and they find bruising and a rash, which, apparently, he knows because he’s starting to remember.

The ducklings are trying to figure out what the rash means and Wilson wonders how House saw the rash “down there�?. House asks 13 to stick a needle in to see if it is an abcess and she can’t. They think she got “rocky mountain fever�? from a tic. Foreman wants to give her meds and then start her heart, but Wilson doesn’t want to because he’s worried they may be wrong. House backs Wilson and tells them to run the blood cultures, even though it takes longer.

13 is in the bathroom stall when House’s foot touches hers from underneath the other stall.

House: Sorry. Wide stance.

She admits that she’s screwing up and House believes that its because she is scared that she’ll succumb to Hungtington’s, as she doesn’t know if she has it or not because she’s avoiding dealing with her problem.

13: You’re the champion of not dealing with your problems.
House: My grandson gave me a mug that says that. Deal with it, or pack up your stuff.
13: You’re screwing up this case worse than I am.

Music montage – House is sleeping, Foreman is working on Amber, and 13 is drawing her own blood. Cameron is visiting Wilson and Foreman hands Cuddy a file, going over House’s head. Wilson finds them trying to warm her up and sees that her EEG is slowing.

Wilson: Nice job – you’ve just let the infection spread to her brain.

Wilson is ranting at Cuddy in House’s office. House says that an autoimmune disease fits best, and to give her steroids and warm her up again.

Cuddy: He’s the attending, you’re the family. Go spend more time with Amber.
Wilson: (to House) You can’t do this.
House: That’s not a good argument. That’s not an argument at all. I’m sorry.

Wilson heads off but comes back to House’s office. Wilson questions if there is still something else stuck inside House’s head, and wants to do the deep brain stimulation.

House: You think I should risk my life to save Amber’s.

House is undergoing surgery with Chase and Wilson – he shoots Wilson a bit of a dirty look. They shoot electricity into his brain and he sees the bartender in black and white with no sound. They increase the voltage and suddenly there’s sound. The bartender takes House’s keys and he picks up the phone, but puts it down. He asks for a phone to call someone and he calls Wilson’s number.

House was calling Wilson’s home in order to have someone pick him up. Amber arrives and says she’ll take him home. He talks her (guilts her) into drinking a drink, which she downs. He sees her sneeze and says it looks like snot and seems like a cold.

House goes to walk out and Amber runs back to pay the bill that House stepped out on. He jumps onto the bus and Amber follows him to give him his cane and make sure that he goes home. She sneezes again and she says she’s getting “that nasty flu�?. She takes out some meds.

House: It wasn’t the flu – its what she did for it. She has amantadine poisioning.

Wilson gets excited, and says that all they have to do is put her on dialysis and the toxins will clean out of her system. House replies that Amantadine binds to proteins and that dialysis can’t clean it out.

House: There’s nothing we can do. I’m so sorry.

House starts seizing and Wilson jumps in to help.

The ducklings are in the office and Foreman says that House suffered a complex partial seizure, and that the shaking widened his brain fracture, causing a brain bleed. He says that House was right about Amber, that her heart was dead once it stopped in the ambulance, and that she can’t qualify for a new heart because her organs are damaged.

Cuddy tells Wilson that they can wake Amber up so that Wilson can tell her what she means to him. He breaks down and she says that they need to wake her up so that they can say goodbye to each other.

Chase wakes Amber up and leaves the room. Amber opens her eyes and sees Wilson. She figures out that she’s on bypass. She remembers the bus accident and says that she shouldn’t have gone on the bus. Wilson tells her what happened to her body.

Amber: The flu pills.
Wilson: Yeah….
Amber: I’m dead.
Wilson: I love you.
Amber: I love you too.

13 and the ducklings talk about saying goodbye to Amber. They go into her room and say goodbye. Wilson climbs into bed with Amber and holds her.

Amber: I’m tired. I think its time to go to sleep.
Wilson: Stay a little longer.
Amber: We’re always going to want just a little longer.
Wilson: I don’t think I can do it.
Amber: It’s okay.
Wilson: It’s not okay. Why is it okay with you? Why aren’t you angry?
Amber: That’s not the last feeling I want to experience.

Wilson kisses her and then shuts off all of the machines.

And Amber dies.

*at this point Randi paused for a moment in order to bawl her eyes out. Ahem – moving on*

Cuddy and Taub are working on House. He opens his eyes into a white room (a white bus) and sees Amber sitting next to him.

House: You’re dead.
Amber: Everybody dies.
House: Am I dead?
Amber: Not yet.
House: I should be.
Amber: Why?
House: Because life shouldn’t be random. Because lonely, misanthropic drug addicts should die in bus crashes. The young do-gooders in love, get dragged out of their apartment in the middle of the night, should walk away clean.
Amber: Self-pity isn’t like you.
House: Ah well, I’m branching out from self-loathing, self-destruction. Wilson is going to hate me.
Amber: You kind of deserve it.
House: He’s my best friend.
Amber: I know. (she leans over and whispers) what now?
House: I stay here with you.
Amber: Get off the bus.
House: I can’t.
Amber: Why not?
House: Because….because it doesn’t hurt here. And I…I don’t want to be in pain, I don’t want to be…miserable. And I don’t want him to hate me.
Amber: Well…you can’t always get what you want.

House gets up and walks off the bus.

He wakes up in the bed with Cuddy sitting next to him. She tells him to blink if he can hear her. He does. She tells him to rest.

13 is in the lab getting her printout. She is positive for Hungtington’s.

Taub goes home and crawls into bed with his wife, cuddling her. Kutner is watching television. Foreman is alone, in a bar, until Chase and Cameron show up. Wilson is staring at House, while Cuddy is curled up, asleep in the chair next to his bed. House wakes up and sees Wilson, who opens his mouth as if to speak, but closes it and then walks away. Wilson goes home to an empty bed and finds an envelope unerneat the pillow. There is a note on it that says

“Sorry if I’m not here. Went to pick up House.�?

Cuddy is holding House’s hand, asleep, while he is awake, staring at seemingly nothing.

OH WOW! What did you think of the season finale of House?!