Well, the dead woman’s organs were declared non-viable, which is great news for House (and Henry). He might be able to get her heart if no one else can have it. Now, I don’t know if you’ve noticed before, but House can get a little bullheaded about things. True to form, he goes into the ER and starts switching the woman’s machines on again, much to the displeasure of her grieving husband. Next we see them, they’re conferencing with Cuddy in her office. Greg is mostly pissed about the way House messed with his head. Understandable. He refuses to allow the transplant.

However! House has set up a little manipulative scenario involving an unwitting Amy. She’s waiting outside to thank Greg for donating his wife’s heart. I think this is supposed to be one of those “tough call” situations where House did the right thing, the wrong way. I think that’s debatable. Greg changes his mind. And knees House in the nuts for his troubles.

The doctors still have to figure out what’s wrong with the dead woman’s heart before they can do the transplant. Even though she’s dead, they’re going to give her antibiotics or whatever it needs to fix her. Well, within reason. She’ll still be dead, is the point.

A little wrap-up for the Cow Boy: his blood tests show he eats meat, not humps it, so he finally admits that his stepmom is way hot and perhaps coming on to him. He needs to kill his sex drive for three months until he moves out. So House gives him the Depo. The end. By the way, is this Warren from Buffy?

The dead woman’s body isn’t responding to the treatment. House wants to take her off life support, but Greg is having none of it – after all they put him through, his wife’s heart had damn well better save Henry. The only option at this point, per usual, is to search the woman’s home and place of business. Because she was lying about something. OK, I think this theme is a little played out. In a slight twist, Greg will be breaking and entering his own house.

Greg is hugely in denial about his wife – about her hair dye, her sleeping pills, her diet pills…so I think we can infer she lied about other stuff. And the other stuff is good – naughty pictures of her teenage students! Nice. Foreman thinks it’s irrelevant because “teenage boys are not toxins.” I beg to differ.

So does House, and he’s thinking about STDs again. And he’s right, again. The dead lady has gonorrhea. They can give her really high dosages of drugs because she’s dead, but no dose will get rid of it right away. Which is unfortunate because Henry’s in a coma and not coming out of it unless he gets a heart right away. Much to Cameron’s Puritanical shock, House decided to do the transplant immediately, gonorrhea be damned. I gotta agree – better to be alive with a few days of gonorrhea than dead, no?

House lies to Greg and tells him that his wife had a different illness – he tries to play it off, but look at him, being all sensitive…Ack, there’s the heart! Wide open chests! Ew! OK, everything’s fine now, the heart works in Henry’s body.

And it turns out Greg gave the gonorrhea to his wife, anyway. He didn’t tell the doctors because he thinks that if he made her sick, he caused her death when she fell asleep driving. Yikes. That’s awful.

And at the end of the episode? Wilson moves in with House. His wife is having an affair. And so I leave you with this beauty of an image.

Posted by Kat on March 25, 2006 4:48 PM