Dr. Mira tells Wilson she's been checking up on him, and that she's heard he's respectable, nice, human, but he's also House's BFF. Wilson asks if that makes House nicer than he seems. "Or you're secretly a lot less nice than you seem." Much closer to true, Dr. Mira. "Indiscriminate niceness is overrated." Amen, sister. And boring.
"No wonder he likes you," Wilson spills the beans. Way to pass her the note during study hall ("Do you like House? Check here for yes, there for no and pass back....hee hee hee.")
"Based on this slide, you do not have cancer," Wilson assures her. Maybe it's worms! South Pole worms! That would be crazy awesome. As she leans back in relief, she grabs her left side and wails. It's the same pain she had on the right side. Rut-roh. "Ow," she whines. "I'm screwed." Well, whatever you do, don't take any medicine!
"Bad news is, you're 0 for 2 in the kidney department." House gives this news to her from his apartment, and pant-free I might add. Lucky Mira. He narrows down the disease to autoimmune based on the kidney issues and inflammation in her cells. She bitches back that autoimmune disease is just his latest theory. I have to admit, I'm with her on this one. We have gone from kidney stones to cancer to autoimmune. This is when my insurance deductible level is reached and I'm screwed until the next calendar year.
She once again one take the Prednisone because one of the crew has asthma and if it's gone when he has an attack, he'll die. The crew certainly seems to be a bunch of weenies. How did they pass the physical? She wants proof it's autoimmune before she does anything else.
In House's office, Foreman suggest sending her outside in the cold to reduce the inflammation. If she does feel better, then it was an autoimmune problem.
Wilson notices his wallet is missing and finds it on House's desk. "You didn't touch the cash, but took the receipts." Yes, for the credit card numbers, bonehead. Come on now!
Dude, did you take my condom too? I've had that since high school!
"$190 restaurant bill," House notes. Holy crap, really? I have to find myself a doctor and quick! "Includes booze...you probably lingered. That means it must be a third date." I remember those days. House doesn't want to send Dr. Mira into the cold, so Wilson holds up a paperclip. Because he's going to poke House's eyes out for stealing his wallet?
Dr. Mira is shaking her blood in a test tube with a paperclip to check for autoimmune - they can see how the cells break against the paperclip. Now everyone's in on the MacGyver! Lucky the South Pole has a Staples store close by. Dr. Mira and House banter back and forth until she says "You've spent more time with me than any other patient." Of course he has, if you irritate him, he can just turn off the video conference. There's a lot of freedom with that option.
House and Foreman are lunching together when Cuddy arrives to tell them she had to fire Cameron. I'd woo-hoo, but I'm pretty sure we're being played. Cuddy lays it on a little too thick, boring House and myself. We can only hope she's gone.
Dr. Mira says it's not autoimmune (go figure) because the paperclip test says so. House says she should still take the Prednisone. but instead she keeps sucking down oxygen. Leave some for the others! Look, it won't hurt you to take the antibiotics, screw asthma boy!
Oxygen or Helium? You be the judge
Foreman says, "There is one more test" as House crumples his potato chip bag into the phone and says Foreman must be breaking up. I do the same thing on my phone, but only because the other person CANNOT SEE ME, HOUSE.
"If you have an autoimmune disease, exposure to the cold should decrease your kidney pain." Foreman advises. She has to stay outside for 5 minutes. As she's getting dressed, she's holding up the web can so we can get an excellent shot of her passing out and collapsing onto the floor.
Yes, folks, she's fallen, and she can't get up!
Oh good - femoral artery guy is in the camera. It took them 20 minutes to contact the station to let them know she collapsed, and still femoral guy is the only one there. They've determined it's not autoimmune. House is happy she's in a coma, "or we'd have to listen to her gloat." And I'm with House on this one.
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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