Drugs Are Bad. Does That Mean Sex Is Okay Again? - 
by Kat
When this episode of House started I almost thought I was on the wrong channel. It’s shot like your NYPD Blue or your The Shield, with jumps cuts and handheld cameras and that “gritty” filter. By the way, The Shield is shot in my neighborhood, so you can tell I’m very wealthy and high-class. Anyway, the cameramen are having fun with this scene. A cop car is chasing a huge SUV, heavy with the bling and the blang, down an alley. The perp (I’m so hardcore) gets out and runs through an empty building with the cop right behind him. The cop loses him before figuring out that the guy hid in a Dumpster. The cop starts creepy-laughing and shouts “hands on your head! C’mon out!” to which the perp comes out sassing, saying he can’t get out with his hands on his hand. True, but perhaps not the right time to be getting all smart about things.
The cop is still laughing and pointing the gun at the guy. He bullshits through the Miranda rights and waves the gun in the air…like he just don’t care, actually. And I think he doesn’t. The criminal panics and shoots the cop in the chest/shoulder area. It’s a neato CGI shot, and the cop falls to the ground, bleeding and laughing. It’s creepy.
Things are less creepy at the hospital; more of the status quo, with Cameron still full of hate toward Foreman and Chase just wanking about like usual. I sense trouble, though, because Foreman is being chatty and charming. A normally surly fellow making us smile? No good. Cameron doubts the veracity of the perp’s story that the cop was laughing. House points out the his name is Babyshoes, so he must be a good guy. I love hearing Hugh Laurie say Babyshoes with that earnest look and wee little lisp…Ovaries go ping!
There is much discussion of what could be wrong with him, but I think we all know it doesn’t matter this early in the show. The decision is made to put the cop in a hyperbaric chamber. Chase tries to explain the issue with the doctor who is completely cracked out still, and says he keeps a “pretty clean home.” So of course we go to his place, which looks completely diseased and terrible. Clearly he has a chemical imbalance, because this is just wrong Foreman is getting a lot of samples of nastiness. Ew, a pigeon! Betcha it’s that rat with wing’s fault. Cameron tells the cop that he probably has a carbon monoxide leak at his house, and they have someone checking it out now. This is the one and only time the cop looks serious. Back at his house, Foreman opens a shed and OH! SNAP! THAT IS A LOT OF MARIJUANA! A metric buttload, more or less.
House decides the cop has Legionnaire’s, so testing begins again. In the next scene, Foreman and Chase determine that the cop has gone blind. It took me two watches to understand how they figured it out, but he’s looking in the wrong direction while talking to Foreman. It’s weird that the patient doesn’t say something like, “by the way, I can’t see anymore,” so I guess it’s nice that he has such good doctors.
|
| | Next Page... 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ( Comments ) | Discuss In Our Forums |