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.
Cameron and Foreman test Joe’s eyes, and Foreman is kind of mean. Kind of a lot mean. Turns out he can technically see, but his brain can’t process the information. Later during discussion time, House calls Joe “Officer Krupke.” Nice West Side Story reference, you marvelous heterosexual, you. Anyway, House wants to do an MRI on Joe, but Foreman explains in rather deep detail how he’s figured out the kind of bullet used and why that bullet would explode in an MRI. The nice thing here is that House is truly in awe of Foreman’s knowledge. Because Foreman is from da street!
Later, Foreman is still really aggressive and mean toward Joe. Hmm, wonder what’s going on? The group meets later in the morgue while House looks through the body lockers, explaining that he mom didn’t pick up when he called earlier. Snerk. He also explains to Foreman that cops are their friends, and Foreman should go to them if they ever get separated at the grocery store. House is on a roll! Also, that happened to me once when I was four. As House talks, he pulls out the accoutrements necessary for shooting a corpse, and proceeds to do just that.
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Comments (10)
Eeeww, piegon poo. Gross.
1 of 10 | Posted by mesha
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Posted on May 10, 2006 1:00 PM
This was like 3 episodes ago. WTF?
2 of 10 | Posted by mirenis
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Posted on May 10, 2006 1:21 PM
C'mon - the second half was last night. Couldn't you have recapped them together?
3 of 10 | Posted by jeff
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Posted on May 10, 2006 1:23 PM
Two ep's ago. And the "House" recaps always take longer. Maybe Kat has to go to the real hospital to get her ovaries to calm down. Hee. Man, Hugh Laurie's eyes are soooo blue...
I'm sorry it wasn't the pigeon poo. B/c I agree with House about the winged rats. Feeding them should be discouraged.
And shut up, Foreman.
4 of 10 | Posted by lurkertype
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Posted on May 10, 2006 1:31 PM
I love Hugh's blue eyes and for some reason find him very good looking inspite of the fact that his character is an ass. But hey a girl has got to want to change or fix something, right?
But back to the point Kat takes forever with her recaps and I missed last week so I was waiting for that and still haven't seen it. Grrr. And then I t hought well maybe she will recap the two together....apparently not.
I kind of figured that Forman would be ok but I wanted to know what the issue was. And fortunately I didn't have to see that episode in order.
5 of 10 | Posted by wendyloohoo
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Posted on May 10, 2006 1:39 PM
This episode was a two part-er...the second half was on last wednesday. The one from last night was "new".
I don't really care how long it takes for the recaps, I'm just glad someone covers House, b/c its one of my favorites. Kat does a good job adding to the funny.
6 of 10 | Posted by plexitoes
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Posted on May 10, 2006 3:04 PM
These two episodes were the best House episodes ever! It was almost enough to make me recant what I said about wanting to get rid of the current outhouses and bring in new ones. ALMOST. I still think the writers have gone about as far as they can go with these characters. And wondering whether or not (warning spoiler - although it has been over a week so it's probably not spoiling it for anyone) Foreman has permanent brain damage is not worth keeping him around.
7 of 10 | Posted by Aries
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Posted on May 10, 2006 3:48 PM
that photo is scaring me.
8 of 10 | Posted by dredge
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Posted on May 10, 2006 10:40 PM
I hate to tell you people this but pigeons are no more dirty than any other birds. All wild birds are filthy, mite ridden and should be avoided.
Thanks for the recap, Kat. I enjoyed it.
9 of 10 | Posted by zevonia
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Posted on May 11, 2006 1:00 AM
So Foreman really is a scumbag isn't he?
And Cameron is such a wimp. Christ if someone did that to me, once I found out I was safe I'd just sit back and let the little shit die.
The cops apartment looked a lot like mine, except for the pigeon shit and pot. Well, the pot at least.
10 of 10 | Posted by EdHill
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Posted on May 11, 2006 7:00 AM