Creepy is now trying to psychoanalyze why cute woman wants the job when she tells him to shut his ugly face. She hears the patient somewhere, and they walk into pediatrics. He's in there, entertaining the sick kids, still wearing his eyeliner. After he's done entertaining, he falls over, which may or may not be an act, but they clear the kids out and run over to tend to the patient.
Meanwhile House is in the classroom playing some blues on the piano. Cuddy walks in, and House says he wants to keep all four of his prospects. She won't let him, and doesn't even want to let him keep three. So he asks her opinion, and she says she would keep Kal and creepy. Interesting, since she wanted Kal gone last week. Speak of the devil, in walks Kal with cute woman, and it turns out that cute woman was wrong with her diagnosis, but they found bad blood fragments.
House takes the two and they go find the patient's bandmates. He looks at an arm, and, surprise, he's got track marks. That explains the bad blood, and they're back to square one. House says to retest everything, and strap the patient down, and it would just so happen that the patient chooses that moment to crash. He's having a respiratory failure, so, great news, it's not the drugs causing problems.
Now House has everyone in the laundry room trying to hide from Foreman. But Foreman's there, and he's looking as glum as ever. Seriously, is he even doing anything besides supervising House? This time Kal gets House's backing. But cut throat argues that it would be ineffective without 8 other tests and making assumptions based on all conclusions. So House tells Foreman to do the tests. Foreman says of course he'll do them, then moseys away. He's not going to do them, so it looks like House gets his own chance to do some doctoring.
Since it's just House and the venerable punk rocker alone in the patient's room, it's time for some more psychoanalysis. House wonders why he plays music and if it's as simple as fear of failure. House finds something strange, which doesn't seem to bother the patient. House also finds it strange that the rocker doesn't seem to care if he lives or dies, but he does care if House likes his music.
Nothin like a good Wilson Phillips cover to pass the time in a hospital.
Time to check back in with Wilson. He's apologizing to the faux-cancer patient, and he's already passed over the $6,000 check. But, the guy rips it up and says he thinks it's wrong to take so little money from Wilson. Wilson is incredulous that he's being sued for the right diagnosis. The guy bitches about being given happiness, then having it taken away, then he walks out of the office. Please tell me this isn't going to be dragged out over several episodes as well.
Kal, creepy and House are having a pow-wow about the rocker, and the two ladies have been left out of the boys club. This time, and probably because he doesn't have to fight over the girls and have to deal with cut throat arguing about every little thing, creepy wins House's support, and House asks what tests should be done. Creepy's answer loses points, and he loses more points for disagreeing with House. The arbitrary point system has been a bright spot for me in this episode.
Well, House wants Chase to cut open the patient so House can look at his heart. House and creepy are trying to convince Chase to do it, and then House asks Chase who he thinks should be hired. Without getting an answer, creepy goes into this rant about what will happen to Chase if he declines to handle the patient. Blackmail. Hmm, I wonder where creepy learned that from. Infidelity perhaps? Chase tells House to keep creepy and cut throat because they can get things done, and Chase says to prep the patient. So they get him in, cut him open, take a look around, and they find nothing abnormal that they expected to be wrong. However, the patient starts crashing, and House, looking on, doesn't seem to care too much.
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Comments (4)
I'm not sure how I feel about this new team... I'm just glad the process is over and "cut throat" didn't make the final 3. I still don't see how Chase and Cameron will be involved. Forman is a different story tho.... he's there to butt heads with House, but Cutty already does that so well and with much tighter clothes.
I love your recaps TOM and hope your holidays are happy.... see you in 2008.
1 of 4 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on December 3, 2007 11:40 PM
NOT SURE HOW I LIKE THIS STORY LINE EITHER. ALTHOUGH I MUST SAY ITS SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN THE STUPID COP CHASING HOUSE THEME FROM LAST SEASON. TOO BAD THE CIA DOCTOR DIDNT MAKE IT THROUGH IT SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO LOOK AT HER FOR A FEW MORE EPISODES. OH WELL A FELLA CAN DREAM CANT HE!
P.S. HI THERE SISTER DEAREST ARE YOU READING THIS POST WHILE YOU SHOULD BE WORKING? SEE YOU LATER TONIGHT. LOVE YA!
2 of 4 | Posted by CHRISW78 | Posted on December 4, 2007 4:49 AM
This show is drowning in bad storylines and writing. It's pitiful. So sad! I loved House so much, and look what it's become.
(so did anyone have a gist whatsoever of what was actually wrong with the punk rocker? I didn't get it at all. Maybe I just fell asleep before the end. I can't remember.)
3 of 4 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on December 5, 2007 3:07 PM
Dude had measles. I think. From working with the sick kids, and the drugs he did weakened his immune system.
Maybe now that this fiasco is over we can get back to House being an arrogant (and awesome) prick and lose the lame storylines.
4 of 4 | Posted by treadingonme | Posted on December 6, 2007 9:47 AM