House“Not Cancer”
Original Airdate: Sept 23, 2008
Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
Shannon@thetwocentscorp.com
Wilson’s gone and House has one weird case. This episode was classic House. No frills, just House doing what he does best; treating people for things they don’t have and almost killing them then having a moment of brilliance and making them all better.
This week we have 6 victims. Here’s the rundown:
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Original Airdate: September 23, 2008
Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
Shannon@thetwocentscorp.com
Wilson’s gone and House has one weird case. This episode was classic House. No frills, just House doing what he does best; treating people for things they don’t have and almost killing them then having a moment of brilliance and making them all better.
This week we have 6 victims. Here’s the rundown:
A blonde and a brunette play tennis, the brunette collapses
A man controlling a crane passes out and lets a very large, heavy, crate fall
Boxers are fighting and the one winning passes out with blood coming out of his ear
A man playing a tuba starts coughing up blood and collapses
A teacher is taken from her class because she had a cornea transplant
The sixth we never see…he was killed four years ago in a construction accident. Turns out, he was an organ donor and he so generously donated an organ to each of the other five.
So Apple (the teacher, of course) says she feels fine but while House and Foreman discuss a treatment option in front of her she starts hallucinating that they’re going to decapitate her. Obviously whatever’s wrong with her isn’t in that donor eye.
House hired a P.I. to found out the history of the patients who are dropping like flies at this point. Turns out, this P.I. is House’s new BFF. Wilson, who? Also, P.I. likes to wear argyle socks.
Ok, so there’s this one scene I have to talk about. It’s not critical to the plot so I don’t have to bring it up, but whoa. In order to find out if whatever killed all these people (except Apple) is intestinal they simulate colon function on one the dead guys.
Foreman gets squicked out at some bodily fluids that are leaking out due to the pressure they’re putting on the colon and I’m thinking to myself, how in the world did Foreman get to be a doctor if he can’t deal with a little fluid…that then “stuff” explodes out of a dead guy onto Forman. And that, my friends, is the grossest thing I’ve seen on T.V. Well, done, Fox.
Apple starts to go downhill. House starts treating her for cancer, which they’re not sure she has. He believes that if she gets better with chemo they can rule out cancer because they’re sure it’s not cancer so if it acts like cancer, it can’t actually be cancer.
House tricks Apple into thinking she has cancer with some vague theory about the placebo effect so she’ll sign the chemo release. Apple starts telling House her life story and that before her eye transplant she was an architect. The doctors told her that her life would be so much better after she could see, but then when she could she found the world to be an ugly place so she became a teacher.
P.I. and House follow Wilson and learn he doesn’t have a new job and he goes to grief counseling. Cameron visits him to talk about death and loved ones. Cuddy also calls. Wilson has never talked about House according to the bugs P.I. planted in Wilson’s house.
Ok, Apple’s throwing up which is a sign the chemo is working. Placebo effect = not cancer. The team is convinced it’s cancer but House doesn’t agree. He thinks it’s a cancer doppelganger.
House shows up at Wilson’s door to hire him as an oncologist but gets a frosty reception. House wants to know why Wilson is hanging out with everyone but him. Hey, remember, hardhead…HE LEFT BECAUSE OF YOU! Why in the world do you think he would want to see you?
Back to the diagnosis here. Ok, this isn’t going to make a lot of sense because as House was explaining all this I got really confused so I’m going to break it down for you in layman’s terms as best I can: House thinks the problem is in Apple’s brain because the donor’s cells basically impersonated the organs they were supposed to be replacing in the organ recipient, but when they were supposed to do their job they exploded. That’s what I got from what he said.
Cuddy won’t approve House’s plan to take off the top of Apple’s head to get to her brain. There are armed guards outside of Apple’s room. House makes a call and someone jacks with Apple’s IV line so Apple will crash and Cuddy will let House do his thing. Huh, the nurse is wearing argyle socks. Oh, it was P.I. he called. Nice.
House was right, as usual. They removed the messed up part of her brain. House asks Apple what he looks like and she said House looks…did she say dead or dad? I couldn’t tell. But whatever she said made House want to put P.I. on retainer.
Are you surprised that Cameron is hanging out with Wilson so they can talk about their dead loved ones together? Did you love P.I. as much as I did? Talk back and give me your two cents!
Apple said to House, "You look sad."
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Nicole
Oh! Sad! Yes, that does make sense.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nicole. I could NOT figure out what she said.