Two strange doctors are talking to Breck. It's 13 and Louise, but Breck is hallucinating. He confesses to his girlfriend, who looks like Cameron Diaz in a brunette wig. Unless he's hallucinating her too. He's only sold two paintings, and is living off the drug money. Louise watches with envy as she forgives him and they have a big moment. Later, Louise is down in a basement, looking through a pile of Breck's old paintings. Chase (working without the hospital's one other surgeon for a change) is about to operate on Breck to fix the heart problem they think he has. Or was it a nerve problem? Louise finds one or two wacky paintings in the pile, and calls House stat. Lightbulb.
How House connects the dots here is beyond me. See, every other month Breck gets the symptoms because... he has a bezoar in his stomach! If you've never heard of a bezoar, it's straight out of Harry Potter. Quick, someone fetch Madame Pomfrey. He's under a Cruciatus Curse! A shot of Polyjuice Potion will set him right. OK, now that I have that out of my system, let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. One of the experimental drugs was a stomach acid reducer, which caused undigested food and pills to pile up in Breck's stomach and sit there like a rock, or a hairball. Sometimes the drugs leak out, which then interact and cause the symptoms. House calls up Chase down in the OR, and has him pull the disgusting thing out.
What the Sorcerer's Stone should have looked like.
As Breck recovers, Louise asks the girlfriend how she took the news that her starving artist was selling out to Big Drugs. Before she can answer, his wife shows up with the key to the new car. It's a convertible Porsche that I can totally not see Louise driving. He's very quiet, and then he drops the bomb: "We need to talk." But the scene is over before we can find out why.
You gotta fast car. Is it fast enough so I can get away?
Lucas is playing jazz on House's piano. Let me guess, House is going to pick up his guitar and they'll make beautiful music together. Barf. The private eye says Cuddy saw through their scam, and he also found out that the cheerleader photo is genuine. "There was a girl," is House's excuse. House also wanted to find out if Cuddy could see him in a different light, and she didn't. Ouch. Lucas asks if House wants him to back off. They play something that sounds like the theme from a cheesy '80s TV show. Something by Stephen J. Cannell, maybe.
Simon & Simon & Garfunkel
For me, this was the best episode of the season so far. Not much drama, but good character stuff. I warmed up to Lucas a little. Sure, he has the stalker thing going, but if it works for Cuddy, why not? He also seems to get House, more than Wilson ever did. I still don't think he's really in House's league, though. It was also good to see Louise Taub get some face time -- he hasn't done much of anything since he came on the show. What's his secret, anyway? And did House know about it all along? I'm guessing yes. And... what's House going to do when Lucas gets to Roxanne -- I mean Cuddy -- first?
Until next week!
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Comments (6)
Good recap. I also thought it was the best episode this season, although am totally not buying Cuddy's Stockholm Syndrome (sort of). Women usually aren't turned on by stalkers. A MAN totally wrote in that storyline.
Sadly, there was no Wilson-House this time... *sigh*. Oh, and I lol'd at the Eric Forman thing. It was always strange to me as well.
1 of 6 | Posted by alex_w | Posted on October 4, 2008 1:26 PM
Very good recap. I agree with alex_w.
I don't agree about the car - seems like it is MADE for a short, middle aged, tired looking bald guy with a mid life crisis.
Any young, handsome hunk you see driving one is probably either a car salesmen, a valet, or dating a rich cougar.
2 of 6 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 4, 2008 4:42 PM
I agree, this was the best episode of the season so far. Lucas is a really good character and I'm really starting to like the role he plays. He and House have good chemistry...
I think the writers are digging into the characters of the new doctors (Talb, 13, and Kumar). Its about damn time too! Its weird to give them so much time on the show and we (the viewers) don't know anything about them....
excellent recap :)
3 of 6 | Posted by KrispyDixie | Posted on October 5, 2008 3:47 AM
This might have been the best episode of the season so far, but we all know this season has absolutely sucked. It's been shockingly bad, and I didn't think it could get worse than last season.
If I'm reading between the lines right, I think Taub's secret is that he is sleeping around on his wife.
I think Chase's first name is Robert. Speaking of Cameron & Chase, how pissed must they be about being nearly totally replaced on this show, while Foreman still gets a bunch of screen time every week?
I appreciate your use of Princess Bride references. They were spot on. You know, too, I had to look up Breckin Meyer. He looked familiar and I didn't know why. It took going allllll the way back the 90's before I got it. He played Travis in Clueless (the movie).
4 of 6 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on October 5, 2008 8:47 AM
@alex_w: I also think Cuddy's interest in a guy that's going through her personal things stretches the limits of disbelief. They better be coming up with some really screwball backstory for her to explain all that.
@fire@will: I see Louie driving a Buick. I don't see him as the midlife-crisis sort, but we don't really know him well enough to see him as anything. But maybe he's about to surprise us.
@Memememe: Every conversation can be improved by a Princess Bride reference. Never go in against a Sicilian WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE!
(Also, Clueless was a great movie.)
5 of 6 | Posted by copyhacker | Posted on October 5, 2008 8:12 PM
re: what taub did?
am i mistaken or didn't he leave his last job because he cheated on his wife? i thought we found this out during the whole contest thing.
anyways, i enjoyed this ep. lucas is annoying but i love his and house's scenes together. him and cuddy i'm not really feeling. if more lucas means less 13 then i'm all for it.
6 of 6 | Posted by MsMonis | Posted on October 6, 2008 3:16 PM