13 is testing the POW for stress and giving out her special brand of Femgrrl Therapy. Kumar is off like a prom dress since she betrayed his trust. Foreman checks in and they notice that her urine is brown. Didn't that just happen a couple of weeks ago? I'm going to start keeping a spreadsheet of all these symptoms, so I can impress my friends. Brown urine means... their best guess is arsenic poisoning. Hey, I once spiked a roommate's soda with blue dye so he'd pee green. Is this anything like that? I'm pretty sure he's still alive, if that helps. They treat her to remove the arsenic.
Foreman races back to the clinic, where Chase tells him that POW Jr's test results were negative and that he's going to have to call House for help eventually. Right on cue, POW Jr crashes. What would medical drama be without defibrillator paddles?
Meanwhile, Pow Sr has a seizure as soon as she is arsenic-free. It's just not Foreman's day. Now she's got lesions on her brain. The arsenic in her system was counteracting whatever the hell else is wrong with her, so when they treated the arsenic, she got worse. So what do you use arsenic to treat for? Leukemia! What else do you need to treat leukemia? That's right, it's this season's designated cure--a bone marrow transplant. I swear they've used it every other episode so far. A bone marrow transplant requires a genetic match, so what say we go find those conveniently-not-dead rapist parents?
Foreman goes to House about POW Jr. He already knows about Foreman's side project, of course. Foreman wasn't shocked when the 16-year-old POW was dying, which meant he must have been doing another case where someone even younger was dying. That's a bit of a leap, even for Sherlock House. House refuses to help, of course, and leaves Foreman to flounder on his own.
Speaking of which, House goes to see Wilson, and the first thing House says is "your disengagement won't work." Wilson refuses to say a word about Cuddy, tells House he's starting to sound desperate, and leaves House to flounder on his own. Whee, I love parallel plot threads.
13 and Louie are drilling into POW Sr's head--I think to get a piece of the brain lesions, but mostly because drilling into heads is cool. They're trying to talk her into calling up her parents and asking them to donate. She refuses, not wanting to give them the satisfaction of saving her life. In an uncharacteristic display of personality, Louie says he has Huntington's disease and is dying too, and the only way to make your life matter is to fight the disease for as long as you can. The POW still refuses, and now 13 is pissed at Louie for using her story. Louie shrugs. "It's a true story, who cars if it's not my story?" He wanted to take the personal approach with the patient. He must have spent a lot of time with Cameron last week. 13 is going to go look up POW Sr's parents anyway. House says you can't cure idiocy, so why bother? In the House drinking game, BTW, the word "idiocy" is worth like 8 fingers.
If that thing is screwed into your skull, why do I see your head moving?
Name That Disease, Kickin it Ol-Skool
Since Daddy won't interfere, Foreman is back to Plan A: brainstorm with Camerase. Chase wonders if the older brother is poisoning him or something. Foreman says nope, the big brother dotes on him, helps him brush his teeth and... lightbulb! Foreman vanishes in a cloud of dust.
13 is back on the street, looking for the POW's parents. She finds them, or so she thinks. She introduces herself and it turns out that her first name is... drumroll... Remy!
(Remy? Does it get any more random than that? Maybe we'll find out next week that Louie's first name is Ivan or Mboku. But I digress.)
Yes, these people have a daughter by that name... as a matter of fact, she's right here! Ooops. The POW is still lying, only now she's an identity-thieving liar.
This one's my Inspector Gadget jacket.
13 is pissed (4 fingers), because she's just joined Kumar in the Circle of Betrayal. The girl still refuses to have anything to do with her parents.
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Comments (1)
Great recap. I enjoyed the episode. Not as predictable as some. Some good twists that did not depend on repeated wrong guesses.
I would like to see more oc Cuddy (in more ways than one), even in ways that don't directly involve House.
You are so right that the basic House (played by Laurie) would be great in a number of other roles. Detective. Director of a half way house for boys - or a military school.
Laurie is great (and the character so well conceived) that I sometimes take them for granted.
1 of 1 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 23, 2008 10:22 AM