They roll the POW into the House of Pain, and it takes him about 5 seconds to notice the kinky animal magnetism between House and Cuddy. We're still looking through the POW Cam, and this is a really cool idea, because people are going to forget he's awake and say stuff around him they normally wouldn't say, and we get to hear what he thinks, which is probably about what we think, so he's a stand-in for the audience and anyway, writerbabble over. Louie comes running up wondering why he wasn't invited and House says he changed his mind and he's still fired. AGAIN? House thinks Louie isn't motivated to do a good job anymore and he needs to do some brilliant doctoring on this case if he wants his job back. AGAIN?? Next in line to introduce himself to the POW is Wilson, who doubts House's cover story about the guitar. House told everyone the guitar used to belong to Duane Allman, who died in a motorcycle crash, so House is probably screwing around. Wilson's theory is that House was going to a pain clinic out of town for more drugs ("You're on drugs? WHAT??" thinks Def). House blackmails Wilson to keep his mouth shut ("You guys are friends?")
Louie tells Kumar he doesn't know if he wants to stay or quit. ("You should have your midlife crisis after I'm better," thinks Def. See what I mean about audience stand-in?) They see something and run to House. Whatever it is might mean drugs, and they decide to biopsy his brain stem. 13 comes back to change out his catheter, which is a bit of his perspective I could do without (I wasn't running closed captions but he thinks something like "aaarrrrgh awwww dammit!"). There was blood in his urine, which was what Loumar saw earlier. Def's wife brings the kids in for a visit, for about ten seconds before a nurse tells them to scram. 13 wipes his eyes because he was crying. Fadeout. Fade back in just long enough for Chase's eyes to tell him he's going back under for his brain surgery.
During surgery Def goes back to the beach, where he and House argue about God some more while wearing redonkulous Hawaiian shirts. For the record, Def is on God's side... for now. He wakes up and Chase has him read a couple of flashcards to make sure they didn't break his brain while they were in there. He knows the answers, but can't blink anymore. Oops.
Do I hear the Miami Vice theme?
After the break, we're out of Def's head for the first time and we see him just lying there on the bed. I figured they'd have to lose the POW Cam sooner or later or we wouldn't get to see everyone walking down the hall (Anyone got that on your bingo card?). They try to figure out whether the surgery screwed up his blinking or even if he's still alive. Louie comes up with the idea of hooking up a computer to Def's brain so he can talk to them by moving a mouse pointer with his thoughts. Unfortunately for Louie, stealing ideas from '80s Clint Eastwood movies doesn't count as brilliant doctoring.
Must... think... in Russian...
Wilson's still trying to figure out why House was out riding his motorcycle in another town. What, he's not allowed to go anywhere but back and forth between his apartment and the hospital? I blame Amber. None of House's alibis has stood up to Wilson's impeccable sleuthery. House tries again by saying he was going to visit Foreman's brother in jail. Meanwhile, Louie is monologuing his little heart out to Def, and I don't know which one I feel more sorry for. Def isn't listening because he's busy moving the mouse pointer.
Now if they'd just put Pong on this thing.
Now that the Houseguests can talk to Def again, they ask him where he's traveled to lately, and his wife says he went to St. Louis. "Could be Missouri malaria, we'll start treatment," says House. Then Def says no, meaning he was lying about going to St. Louis. It also means House knew he was lying and made up "Missouri malaria" to get him to tell the truth. House could tell he was lying by an arrow on a screen? Never ever play poker with this guy.
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Comments (3)
This episode would have been much better without the POV cam. It got really annoying, really quickly!
1 of 3 | Posted by lesleymoon | Posted on April 3, 2009 1:32 PM
this was a really good episode and i would have LOVED the POW cam had i not been trying to get over a migraine. at the end, when they switched to HOUSE cam, i thought my migraine was coming back. it was totally messing with me.
oh, and more kumar, less taub and foreteen please. thanks.
2 of 3 | Posted by mones | Posted on April 3, 2009 4:21 PM
@lesleymoon: I guess the POW Cam was a matter of taste. I thought it was a great way to mix things up and I enjoyed seeing all the usual episode elements (Name That Disease, Moral Debates, Huddy, House vs. Wilson, etc) through a different lens (literally).
The beach scenes were contrived, but I guess if you're paying Mos Def to show up, you want more for your money than a voiceover.
3 of 3 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on April 6, 2009 8:19 AM