HouseSaviors
Original Air Date: April 13, 2009
Patricia Morris Buckley - Associate Staff Writer
pmb@thetwocentscorp.com
House is at its best when it’s an equal measure of personal stories and medical ones. Which means that “Savior” isn’t one of the better episodes. There’s a lot more personal in this one.
The action starts with the usually House fake out — environmental demonstrators are chained to a tractor that is tearing down a mountain when one of the women chained passes out. But wait, she’s not the patient. Turns out, she was just dehydrated. Then her male companion gets up and drops to the floor, unable to walk. Yep, he’s the one.
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Original Air Date: April 14, 2009
Patricia Morris Buckley - Associate Staff Writer
pmb@thetwocentscorp.com
House is at its best when it’s an equal measure of personal stories and medical ones. Which means that “Savior” isn’t one of the better episodes. There’s a lot more personal in this one.
The action starts with the usually House fake out — environmental demonstrators are chained to a tractor that is tearing down a mountain when one of the women chained passes out. But wait, she’s not the patient. Turns out, she was just dehydrated. Then her male companion gets up and drops to the floor, unable to walk. Yep, he’s the one.
About a month later, after he’s gone to a bunch of clueless doctors, the protester comes to Cameron, who hooks him up with House — sort of. Seems House is suspicious of Cameron’s motivations as she’s delaying a vacation with Chase to follow this case. So he makes her start all the tests, delaying her getaway even more.
That’s how Cameron discovers that the patient, Doug, isn’t faking his dizziness and the same time catches that he has chronic hiccups, something other doctors have dismissed. Still, nothing fits. Doug develops a neck bulge that feels crispy and then breaks a femur bone in his bed.
About this time we’re introduced to his wife, who doesn’t seem to be living with him any more. Seems Doug spends a lot more time protesting environmental issues than being at home with his wife and young son. This story feels tacked on just to add tension, but it does finally lead to the currect diagnosis — turns out he missed their anniversary and bought her roses, despite hating commercial growers’ impact on the environment. And he has sporotrichosis, an infection from the thorn of a rose.
Meanwhile, House is fascinated that Wilson appears to have gone on a diet — actually, he’s obsessed at finding out why. Finally he figures out that Wilson is just trying to distract him and Wilson answers that if House is able to figure out that he’s being tricked, then he’s coming back to normal after Kutner’s shocking suicide.
Meanwhile, Chase is confused about why Cameron is skipping their planned vacation. He asks Cuddy if Cameron is still in love with House and does Cuddy have the same emotion? Cuddy doesn’t really answer, then tells Cameron to basically back off House ¬ so we at least have an answer to Chase's second question.
Everyone is telling Cameron that she’s destroying her relationship with Cameron. I must interject here to tell you I have a little trouble with this whole Cameron-Chase thing as the producers got the two characters together because the actors were engaged in real life, but they’ve since split. Why keep going in this direction on the show?
But just as Chase breaks up with Cameron, she tells him she found the ring he’d hidden and knew he planned to propose on their getaway — and she wasn’t ready. But now she is. And even though I’m a little skeptical, I still I get a little tear when Chase gets down on one knee and Cameron accepts with tears in her eyes. Sniff.
There’s one last surprise. House, alone in his home playing the piano and harmonica, suddenly sees Amber. As in Wilson’s dead girlfriend. Let’s just hope this isn’t like the return of Denny on Grey’s Anatomy. But then, Amber has never been a boring character…
What do you think about the return of Amber? And why does she show up to House, not Wilson? Are you glad that Cameron and Chase appear to be tying the knot? And is Cuddy really in love with House?