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Next we see House at home, turning on one of those propane mosquito foggers. He sees a mosquito land on it and whacks it with a rolled-up paper. He doesn't get the bug, but knocks the gas hose loose instead. Then he whacks the stove knob, which lights the stove, and BOOM his apartment blows up. GOTCHA! House is just dreaming. Am I dreaming too, or did they really just blow most of their budget for this episode on a 10-second dream sequence?

House goes to see Wilson in the middle of the night to get his dream analyzed. "Ric Ocasek'll kill me," he says, which is an obscure and awesome reference to that Cars video from the '80s with a fly in it. Lines like that are why I watch this show. He says he got the mosquito bite on the night he snogged Cuddy, and scratched it to death worrying about the sitch. Wilson tells House he's imagining the mosquito bite, and he's afraid to try anything with Cuddy, and he should either go home or go ask her out.

You MIGHT think I'm crazy.

Instead he goes to the POW's house to see if he's suffering enough to go to the hospital yet. Cameron tries to flip the POW over for another test and he flatlines. House casually calls the guy's lawyer and says they're going to the hospital at last. But Cameron zaps him with the paddles and all is good again. Sure, he was dead for a minute, but that's no reason to go to a hospital. House wants to give Cameron her job back so he can fire her.

After a lightning Name That Disease round, House hears that the patient cleans his bathroom a lot, and thinks the cleaning chemicals are producing chlorine gas that's making him sick. Bo-ring. We still have a few minutes left. Try harder, guys.

House thinks the POW needs a pacemaker. Chase still refuses to go operate on the POW at his house. He accuses Cameron of looking for an excuse to fight. Furthermore, he thinks she doesn't want him over at her place at all. Every time he was there, she hurried him out. He can't keep chasing her forever, he says. Hey, why not? It's been a whole season and nothing has happened on that front yet. If Cameron is wearing the pants, there's no hope for you, dude.

House finds out that Cameron found out he switched out the morphine, and that she switched it back without telling him. Lightbulb. He says the POW has... lead poisoning! Wow, have they really not used that one yet? House grabs a scalpel, slices open the POW and digs out a couple of lead bullets. It seems the original surgeon missed them the first time around. House also thinks the POW is lying about having agoraphobia and is just basically hiding out acting miserable. Remember the roses by his door? He went outside and visited his girlfriend's grave on her birthday.

Cameron and Chase (Chaseron?) kiss and make up. She cleaned out a drawer for him. Wow, a whole drawer? I barely even get that much! She promises to work on her dead hubby issues.

House examines the sore on his hand while playing guitar. A mosquito lands on his other hand and he blows it away. He picks up his keys and goes biking over to Cuddy's house as the POW ventures outside, and Chase moves into Cameron's drawer, and Louie's wife comes to the couch to give him a hug. Everyone's learned their lesson as a just-indie-enough love song plays. Except... House watches Cuddy through the window, then chickens out and turns away. I call this the Scrubs Ending. All we're missing is an earnest Zach Braff voiceover.

I can't decide how I feel about this one. No real shockers, just your typical followup episode to an awkward-romantic-moment episode. Pretty good character stuff, though, and I do like seeing more of the 1.0 Houseguests. I guess it's going to take House a few more episodes of pining to get up the guts to actually do anything with Cuddy. Who knows, Lucas might even be back by then. I want that slapping match!

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