House“Wilson’s Heart”
Original Air Date: May 19, 2008
Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
Shannon@thetwocentscorp.com
Remember last week? House couldn’t remember what had happened to him and then after a bunch of dreams and a heart attack he remembered he was in a bus crash with Amber. This week, House has to find a way to save Amber’s life. Can he do it? What was he doing on that bus with Amber in the first place? Can he save his friendship with Wilson?
Amber is in another hospital in Jersey. Her doctor there says that’s she’s got an elevated heartrate that’s unrelated to any trauma from the bus crash. I was about to say, for someone who had a bus fall on her, she looks surprisingly good. They move her to PPTH and put her on bypass so they don’t kill her heart.
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Original Air Date: May 19, 2008
Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
Shannon@thetwocentscorp.com
Remember last week? House couldn’t remember what had happened to him and then after a bunch of dreams and a heart attack he remembered he was in a bus crash with Amber. This week, House has to find a way to save Amber’s life. Can he do it? What was he doing on that bus with Amber in the first place? Can he save his friendship with Wilson?
Amber is in another hospital in Jersey. Her doctor there says that’s she’s got an elevated heartrate that’s unrelated to any trauma from the bus crash. I was about to say, for someone who had a bus fall on her, she looks surprisingly good. They move her to PPTH and put her on bypass so they don’t kill her heart.
House has a dream about Amber walking into his office. In the dream she pours them glasses of sherry and talks sexily to House about electricity. House decides they need to electrocute Amber’s brain. It’s a no-go. Wilson won’t let them shock her.
House has another Amber dream where she shows him her back and there’s a rash there. So, apparently, House saw the rash when he and Amber were together. Why would he have seen a rash on her lower back if they weren’t doing anything nefarious?
Wilson suggests that the rash could be caused by a tick. Wilson and Foreman make the following exchange that I think sums up the entire premise of House:
Wilson: She could have gotten a tick.
Foreman: It’s treatable.
(Talks about treatment…antibiotics and restarting Amber’s heart)
Wilson: Wait! If we’re wrong, restarting her heart could kill her. Run the blood cultures first.
Foreman: The fastest way to test is to treat. If we’re wrong it gives us time to try another treatment.
Wilson: We are not restarting her heart until we’re absolutely certain.
Foreman: We’re never absolutely certain.
Yeah, that’s no joke, Foreman. That’s why you kill a patient for 50 minutes of a 60 minute show until you finally figure out what the hell is wrong with them.
Anyway, Foreman tattles on House and he and Cuddy start to warm Amber back up. Wilson rushes in and tells them that whatever infection Amber has is now spreading to her brain.
House thinks it’s auto-immune and wants to warm Amber back up. Wilson disagrees. He wants House to risk his life to save Amber’s. House gets a hole drilled in his head and a probe inserted. They’re shocking House’s brain so he can remember some more about the previous night. He’s still lucid even with them shocking his brain, so he can tell Wilson what he sees and Wilson can ask questions. That’s how Wilson shows up in House’s flashback.
Flashback: House is at the bar, drunk. Bartender takes House’s keys. House calls Wilson to pick him up but Wilson was on call at PPTH. Wilson shows up in House’s flashback to narrate. Amber shows to pick House up. House gets Amber to have a drink. Amber sneezes but it’s just plain snot. She helps him out of the bar. Amber rushes back to pay the tab. House gets on the bus. Amber sneezes again and says she’s getting the flu. She takes some kind of pill to ward off the flu. She has amantadine poisoning. The crash destroyed her kidneys so it couldn’t filter out the drugs. Dialysis will do the trick, Wilson thinks. But House says that won’t work and there’s nothing they can do.
House relives the crash while still having his brain probed and has a seizure that puts him into a coma. House was right and Amber is too far gone for a heart transplant. There was nothing they could do and she’s going to die. Cuddy suggests waking Amber up so Wilson can say goodbye. They do and Wilson has to tell her she’s going to die.
Wilson gives Amber one last kiss, shuts off the bypass and Amber dies in his arms.
House is still in a coma. He’s in a brightly lit bus with Amber. He asks her if he’s dead and she says not yet. He says Wilson will hate him and she says he kind of deserves it.
She tells him to get off the bus. He says he can’t because it doesn’t hurt there. He doesn’t want to be in pain, be miserable or have Wilson hate him. She says you can’t always get what you want. House walks without a limp off the bus. He wakes up from the coma.
So the whole episode we were made to think House and Amber were having an affair, but obviously, that wasn’t the case. This was a stellar episode. There was some great acting by Robert Sean Leonard and I think it was a great way to wrap up this season.
What’s your Two Cents? Did you blubber like a baby when Amber died? Will Wilson hate House for inadvertently killing his girlfriend? Will they work Thirteen’s positive Huntington’s test into next season?
Thanks for reading and I’ll see you all next season!
ok... so this was a really good 2-parter episode. So sad for Wilson, seeing him cry was heartbreaking. Now this is what I got at the end... after Amber died and was talking to House I kind of got the feeling he felt he should change his ways because of what Amber said. I also wonder if House will somehow hold a bit of hard feelings to Wilson for asking him to risk his life to save Ambers.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point, Mojo. I guess I never thought about House holding a grudge toward Wilson. I would assume House would take on the blame because he was the reason Amber was on the bus in the first place. It would put an interesting spin on the situation, if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if House will change after all this. He certainly did show a wider range of emotions than we probably even thought him capable of. Can't wait until next season!
A really beautiful and amazing season finale, even if I'm little sad for Amber's death...I long for the fifth season
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