House thinks Def lied about St. Louis because he was cheating on his wife. Def wonders why he would admit he lied about St. Louis but not admit having an affair. Louie wonders the same thing out loud, which makes Def think that he likes Louie more and more, despite the boring monologue. We zoom in through Def's eye, down to a Google Earth view of town, down to Google Street View, looking for the house he was staying at when he was supposed to be in St. Louis. This episode has had more gadgets than a Bond movie. Now the wife joins House and the POW in Google-land as we find out which friend he was staying with. Loumar is dispatched to the friend's basement, where they find a bunch of resumes. Apparently Def was cheating on his wife with Monster.com. They follow the paper trail to a battery factory where he moonlighted as a janitor, and there's poisonous metal dust all over the floor. Score!
Louie waters Def's eyes since he can't close them, and you know that metal poisoning isn't the problem because Louie is all "aren'tcha glad I hooked you up to that computer? I saved both our butts!" Exit Louie, enter Foreman, who complains to Def that 13 never wears the bracelet he bought her. Def is bored out of his mind by Foreman, or at least he would be out of his mind if he had anywhere else to go. Exit Foreman, enter wife, who's upset about the white lie, but Louie forgot to program "I'm sorry" as one of the answers on the Mind-Reading Computer, so Def is screwed. Meanwhile, Louie is disappointed that his computer trick isn't enough to get him off House's naughty list. He admits to House that his job is big and scary and he wants to overcome his fear and make a difference. House says Kumar has done all the work on the case so far, so maybe Louie doesn't matter at all. Ouch. This is House being a mentor, though, and you know he's just pushing Louie so he'll grow. Or something.
If getting fired builds character, why it hasn't worked the last 17 times?
13 notices that one of Def's eyes looks ulcery, or maybe lesiony. I get my generic medical terms confused so easily. Which means metal poisoning is out, and infection, or maybe autoimmune is in. Did someone say autoimmune? Bingo square! (Didn't Dr. Idiot blame infection way back in Act 1?) Cameron comes in to change the dressing on House's elbow. Really? She's been out for 3 episodes and the best she can do is change a Band-Aid? Really? She gives House an idea for another test to try, so her job is safe for another week. House goes down to the cafeteria so he can tease Wilson about what he was doing the day of the motorcycle accident. Wilson's figured out House was lying about visiting Foreman's brother, so House says he was tracking down Wilson's new secret crush-his brother's nurse in the mental hospital. Wilson is really ashamed of this for some reason.
The Houseguests turn Def over on his side to do Cameron's test. He crashes and ends up back on the beach with House, where God gets another name-check. When Def wakes back up, the Houseguests are arguing with Daddy about what to do next. Kumar figures out that that Def is trying to say "down" instead of "no", which means his foot is hurting. It's liver failure! How do we know? Let us explain that with a Silly Analogy. Sinking ship. SOS. Enzymes. Got it? Me neither. Just take House's word for it that the liver failure damaged Def's nerves, or maybe his brain, causing the lock-in. So what's causing the liver failure? More medibabble. The Houseguests are about to do a biopsy, until Kumar notices that 13 WAS wearing her new bracelet, but now she ISN'T, which is more than Foreman noticed. (Def noticed it too, but what else has he got to do?) 13 says she took the bracelet off because she got Def's pee on it when changing his catheter. Kumar notices she's sporting a rash where she got peed on, and thinks it's an infection. Is that a lightbulb over Kumar's head? Hang on, cuz here we go! Infected rats in friend's basement -> Def gets rat pee in a paper cut -> Def gets leptospirosis -> liver fails -> Def gets trapped in his own head. Whew! Kumar has got game this week. They treat Def for leptospirosis, and before you know it he's moving his finger like a champ.
Slow down, cowboy. Carpal tunnel's a bitch.
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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