Louie runs to Wilson and says he's been busted. Louie is helping Wilson with his alibi, but doesn't know what Wilson's really up to. Meanwhile, the POW is about to undergo some long test, and asks his wife to leave before he hurts his family any more. Jeez, why don't they just tape his mouth shut?
Kumar returns from a sweep of the POW's house. Seems their dog isn't quite housebroken, which could have given the POW an infection. Louie reports back to House, saying he successfully told Wilson he'd been turned and is now a double-double agent, or as House calls it, a quadruple agent. They break into Wilson's email to look for clues. House wonders if the big secret is that Wilson has cancer. Louie wonders if he's depressed. Cut to a commercial for an antidepressant. Product placement FTW!
Have you asked your doctor about Rogaine(TM)?
Foreman and Kumar tell the POW he's getting better, but they can't cure the honesty. Brain surgery would be too dangerous, so he's stuck that way. At least for the next 15 minutes or so. He kicks them out.
House finds Wilson out taking a walk, and Wilson never just takes a walk, so what's he got on his mind? Wilson figures out that Louie ratted him out, and calls Louie a dick. "Private dick," corrects House. Can they say "dick" on TV now? First McHale drops P-bombs all over last week's episode of The Soup, and now House is on board. We can't make The Big Switch to digital, but there's still no stopping progress. House presses Wilson for more info, but just manages to piss him off. Ha, I can say "piss" on TVgasm. Take that, censorship!
The POW shows up unannounced in House's office. He's pissed too. Piss piss piss. He wants surgery to cut out the messed up part of his brain, risky or not. Piss on risky. He can't live this way anymore.
My Face of False Sympathy, let me show you it.
Hey, who's that guy House is talking to in the locker room? That's right, his name is Chase. Looks like the month-long vacation is over. House needs him to do the Dramatic 11th Hour Operation, and by George, this hospital needs its one surgeon back! Chase opens his mouth, which is all rusty from disuse, and wonders why House cares. Because House knows what it's like to be that guy. He is that guy. Only his actual speech is much more Emmy-tastic. So we're all set for the...
***DRAMATIC 11th HOUR OPERATION***
Wilson and House watch Chase do his thing from the peanut gallery. Wilson apologizes for overreacting to House earlier and getting all pissy. "You only snap on one subject: losing people," notes House. Since the Mysterious Disappearance of Lucas, House has had to do all his own detective work, and he found out that Wilson's brother is in the psych ward at a hospital up in New York. Wilson's going to visit him, which is why he can't go to the monster truck rally with House. Mystery solved. Now I can sleep tonight. Wilson didn't tell House because he just wanted someone to make him feel better-he didn't want the Cold Hard Truth from his buddy House. Since House is fresh out of warm fuzzies, he offers to go with Wilson as company instead.
(PLOT HOLE ALERT: Wilson would have gone to Cuddy for warm fuzzies, and House would definitely think to ask her.)
After surgery, the POW seems back to normal. For about three sentences. Then his oral diarrhea relapses. All that brain-cutting to no avail. Oh well. Sorry to cut your vacation short there, Chase. The wife breaks down and the POW mercifully crashes.
The Houseguests Are Still Stumped, and House is incommunicado. He's sitting with Wilson in the most depressing waiting room I've ever seen. Maybe it's the psych ward's way of recruiting new patients. House's cell rings (Mmm Bop for the Houseguests, member?) and he doesn't answer. "They already texted me to say they're doing something stupid," he explains. Without House's help, they come up with some plan that I didn't follow.
House thinks Wilson is punishing himself out of guilt. Why does Wilson feel responsible for his brother's breakdown? Well, while he was in med school, his brother would call him up every day to yap about his problems. Wilson hung up on him once, and Brother Wilson ran away from home. House blames all of Wilson's people-pleasing behavior on overreacting to this one event... until he gets a lightbulb. He dials up the Houseguests and leaves Wilson to go see his brother alone.
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