"Right side pain, vomiting, now a lung that gets traumatized without any real trauma. Sounds odd," House recaps. Foreman and House begin their typical foreplay discussion before Dr. Mira pulls down her oxygen mask and argues that both she and House were wrong. Way to use your last breath, saying "I told you so."
Then they rule out TB. How arbitrary was that? Did she step on a nail we don't know about? Talk about odd.
Foreman puts her on mute and says all of her symptoms could be cancer. Laugh, now, or she'll think something is wrong! "And you're worried the tumor might overhear, realize we're on to it?" House asks about the mute button. Maybe. Those things are bastards! Foreman says that a cancer diagnosis is hard to hear - they should bring Wilson in. I hope they mean the volleyball from Cast Away. Much more charisma than Wilson the doctor.
House un-mutes and Dr. Mira says, "Obviously you two think I'm in bad shape."
"Only if you count the tumor!" Isn't that punchline to and Irish Pope joke?
"House!" Foreman yells. Oh, you didn't really think he'd keep that quiet, did you? Have you learned nothing?
Unfortunately, they don't have any imaging equipment at the South Pole, and they also don't have a surgeon to do the biopsy, and oncologist to read the slide, or thanks to femoral artery guy, anymore glue!
"I have cancer?" Dr. Mira asks. She must have picked that up from "tumor," "biopsy," and "oncologist." Man, can she read between the lines.
They decide to take an X-ray because that is the only medical equipment they have outside of the residual Hello Kitty band-aids and duct tape. She has to get an X-ray of her entire body and upload the images for House and Foreman to look at. Make sure to X-ray everything, Dr. Mira.
Wilson is reviewing Dr. Mira's X-rays while House complains about how irritating she is for saving the antibiotics for someone who might really need them. "She cares for other people," Wilson scoffs. "What a poser." Yes, just like you were a couple of seasons ago when you prayed on one of your cancer patients and moved in with her at her most vulnerable, you tool. Glass/Houses/Rocks, dude.
"Enlarged mediastinal node," Wilson notes while looking at her X-rays. "Unfortunately she'll need a surgical team to biopsy it." Or does she? House recommends finding a node close to the skin she can biopsy. "That makes sense," Wilson says. Thanks, ONCOLOGIST. Forget Dr. Kevorkian. If you ever want to die, go to this hospital and enlist it's clueless group of doctors.
Then the whole story starts to derail as House notices Wilson's lavender shirt and his happy mood. He's wearing the shirt for someone, and per usual, House is pissed it's not for him. These two. Does anyone else get tired of House stalking Wilson?
House then gets distracted at the thought of Dr. Mira feeling herself up looking for a protruding node while he watches from thousands of miles away. Wilson and Foreman have to look for some kind of liquid to use as a stain for the biopsied cells.
Later that evening, House makes himself comfortable on his couch while telling Dr. Mira he can thing of 3 reasons why he should watch her perform her own physical/feel-up, and "one of them is medical." Charmer. You just know Chris Hanson from Dateline's "To Catch a Predator" is waiting in the kitchen.
She asks to see his place first. Because that will make up for the humiliation of having to get naked on camera in front of House. He holds the computer all over the place and she notices the scotch bottle and assumes he has insomnia. Out of everyone at that hospital, I'm guessing House is the one having absolutely no trouble sleeping. He says she's wrong, it's Bourbon. Score one for lonely House.
She notices no pictures in his house and assumes he feels that friends and family "aren't important." This is why people hate shrinks. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar! He notes there are 20 people at the station but she's had only one visitor. She says she doesn't want to panic anyone. Listen, if I'm stuck in the South Pole and the only shrink there has locked herself mysteriously in the medical center, I'm panicked.
"How about if I just get naked and you shut up?" Clooney? Is that you? Oh no - it's House. Crap.
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Comments (2)
Great recap, I didn't think we would ever see one for this episode. I really liked the Mira/House dynamic. I would love to see her in another guest spot.
1 of 2 | Posted by Fitz | Posted on February 14, 2008 11:40 AM
I really enjoyed this episode, but not nearly as much as I enjoyed your recap.
Honestly, I was laughing out loud like a mental patient.
Great job! You made my day.
2 of 2 | Posted by treeqtr | Posted on February 14, 2008 8:36 PM