House needs to save a woman trapped in a collapsed building, and at the same time treat the man who may have caused the collapse in a hospital miles away AND fight for the woman he loves.

Intro:

The episode begins with House somewhere in a small enclosed space with bloodied knuckles, then jumps to the hospital "8 hours earlier".

House finds Cuddy in her office preparing to respond to a medical emergency - a construction crane has collapsed in downtown Trenton, bringing down a building with it. House ignores the emergency to give Cuddy a book, inscribed to both her and Lucas - it's the rare book he fought so hard to get back last week - her great-grandfather's medical treatise. It’s a housewarming gift, which Cuddy is surprised he knew about. She is touched and a bit confused that he's giving it to both of them, but has to rush to the accident site - don't all chiefs of medicine at teaching hospitals do paramedic duties?

House pulls up to the accident site on his motorcycle. Confusion reigns, police, fire paramedics, dazed victims, gawkers - it's nighttime and helicopters overhead both stifle conversation and light the area with powerful spotlights. No one stops House as he wanders around the site, walking right through the barriers. No usual music/slideshow intros this week, just a brief “House” and right back into the story.

House diagnoses a skull fracture in an woman, then tells Cuddy to ignore the man she’s working on – he’ll never last the tip to the hospital. He can tell this from the color of his toes.

Medics work on the crane operator, pulling him from the wreckage – he’s apologetic, claiming to have fallen asleep briefly and lost control of the load. House examines him and finds he’s been taking caffeine stimulants, and therefore couldn’t have fallen asleep and must have a neurological disorder that caused him to pass out, telling Foreman, over Cuddy’s objections, to use up a valuable ambulance getting the operator back to Princeton-Plains Teaching Hospital for further diagnosis. He plans to go back with the op, but Cuddy nixes this, saying she needs him at the site. House breaks into a soft drink machine while talking to Wilson on the phone (Wilson’s filling in at the ER back at Princeton-Plains). Relaxing with his drink, House hears a “clink” from the wreckage and calls rescuers over. The rescue teams don’t hear anything and turn back to their other work, but House hears another ‘clank’ and goes exploring.

He crawls into the collapsed building and finds a woman, Hanna, trapped by the legs far below. She’s hurting but conscious and oriented. Her leg is extremely painful when House tries to pull her out. She panics when House says he’s going for help, not wanting to be left alone, but he says he must. While he’s out, he phones the team to start the differential for his crane op patient. He gives directions to an EMT for special treatments for Hanna, but the EMT doesn’t have the specialized training for her unique problems and House crawls back down to assist. The firemen can’t lift the beam off her leg with a scissors jack and have to get other, more specialized equipment. Hanna worries about her husband and asks House to use his cell phone to call him.. House says it doesn’t work down here.

House crawls back out again and finds time to ask Cuddy why her reaction was strange to his housewarming gift. Cuddy says it’s because she thought it was an engagement gift – Lucas just popped the question, and she’s worried how House would take the news.

The team has been examining the crane ops’ head with the MRI. They find nothing, but when he comes out he’s bleeding from the nose – and eyes.

The firemen are worrying about causing further shifting of the wreckage if they try to lift the beam off Hanna, endangering everyone. The raise the possibility of amputation with Cuddy, but Hanna objects, and House, understandably sensitive on the topic from his own ordeal, also rejects amputation. They risk “crush syndrome”, building up toxins that could poison her body and stop the heart, but House says they have at least two more hours before crush syndrome is likely to occur. Cuddy concedes and directs the firemen to keep clearing rubble, Hanna profusely thanks House, who promises to ‘not let them cut off her leg’.

House’s phone rings, exposing his lie to Hanna. The team explains the new bleeding to House. Hadley shows up late to diagnosis – she’s been in therapy – her Huntingdon’s is getting worse, but she doesn’t want House to know. House directs the team to get an x-ray phenagram, and also look for venous sinus thrombosis. House says he’ll be back at the hospital in ten minutes, but Hanna begs him to stay. Cuddy stops House from leaving, saying Hanna is freaking out and trusts only him. House crawls back down to her, and gives her his phone to call her husband.

Hanna’s blood pressure spikes and House cuts off the phone call, telling her that’s why he lied before about the phone not operating. House sits and talks with her, keeping her calm. She asks about his leg, which he keeps rubbing, but House clams up. She asks him to pray with her, but House won’t truck to superstitions, either.

House and Hanna exchange philosophies, when a fireman crawls in announcing “good news.”

Hanna wants to know if they can be friends after she gets out. House warns her she’ll feel a lot of pain as the beam lifts with the high pressure air bags. The lifting only causes more collapse, and Hanna is still trapped. Hanna is breathing rapidly. One of her lungs has collapsed. House punctures her chest to allow it to reinflate.

House crawls out to get his own abrasion treated (by Cuddy), while continuing the differential over the phone. The phenagram was clean and now the patient has a fever. Possible meningitis. House directs them to do a lumbar puncture.

A fireman reports they can’t try another lift for hours. Cuddy says it’s time to rethink amputation. House says they can treat the potassium buildup that crush syndrome causes with drugs. He wants to dose her with insulin. Cuddy accuses him of taking Hanna’s side against hers to get back at her because of her engagement. Insults are exchanged. Cuddy says she’s risking Hanna’s life to spite Cuddy. Cuddy says she’s going down to convince Hanna to try the amputation and if he has any decency he’ll stay out of it.

House crawls up and joins Cuddy in urging amputation saying they’ve run out of time. He brings up his own case, when he saved his leg when all the doctors wanted to amputate. In a self-analysis we’ve never seen from House before, he says “I wish I hadn't. They cut out a chunk of muscle about the size of my fist, and they left me with this mutilated, useless thing. I'm in pain... every day. It changed me. Made me a harder person. A worse person. And now... now I'm alone. You don't want to be like me. You’ve to a husband who loves you. You have friends. You can start a family. You have a life, and this… is just a leg.” She agrees to the amputation. Cuddy has heard all this and is silently touched.

House prepares for the operation. It won’t be quick. It will be painful. He’ll save as much of the leg as possible and get her to the hospital as soon as possible. House starts, and the pain is tremendous. He works quickly as Hanna’s screams can be heard all over the area. They get her out and into an ambulance.

Her husband joins them for the ambulance ride to the hospital, as does House. An EMT cares for the wound, as House takes another call from the group. The crane operator has fallen into a coma as he was being questioned by the police, a development that angers House. Now they’re suspecting an arachnoid cyst on his lower spine, but before the diagnosis can go further Hanna begins stroking. House applies a blood thinner to protect against clots – but it’s not a clot, it’s a fat embolism. House sits back – there’s nothing he can do and Hanna dies before his haggard gaze and her husband’s pleading. She’s DOA at the hospital.

Foreman tries to comfort House that there’s nothing he could have done, but it doesn’t make House feel any better. Foreman doesn’t want House to be alone, but House orders him away.

Emergency over, Hadley is asking for time off, but doesn’t want to talk to a concerned Taub about it.

House returns to his lonely apartment, smashes a mirror, behind which is his last vicodin stash. He takes the bottle and sits on the bathroom floor staring at it. He dumps some pills in his hand. As the tension builds, Cuddy walks into the room. She says Foreman didn’t send her, and she’s not going to yell at him. She tells him she ended the engagement with Lucas.

“I'm stuck, House. I keep wanting to move forward. I keep wanting to move on, and I can't. I mean, my new house, with my new fiancé, and all I can think about is you. I just need to know if you and I can work.”

“You think I can fix myself?”

“I don't know.”

“ 'Cause I'm the most screwed-up person in the world.”

“I know. I love you. I wish I didn't. But I can't help it.”

She gives House a hand up, and they kiss.

“How do I know I’m not hallucinating.”

“Did you take the vicodin.”

“No.”

“Then I think we’re OK.”

“Yeah.”

He drops the bottle on the floor. And they kiss again, and hold hands.

= Cecil =

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Next Year

Something marvelous, I'm sure.

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Favorite quotes:

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House: Is that a pill in your pocket, or are you just happy to have a tiny pill-shaped penis?
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House: So I hope I didn't weird you out giving you that gift.
Cuddy: Can we talk about this later?
House: Of course. Is now later?
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Hanna: Can I ask what's wrong with your leg?
House: Crane fell on it. Small world.
Hanna: You could have just said no.
House: I'll remember that for my next human contact.
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Hanna: Would you pray with me?
House: No. I'm not in the habit of encouraging my patients' superstitions.
Hanna: How is that a habit? You plan on getting trapped under a building again?
House: I don't believe in God.
Hanna: I don't either.
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Hanna: I always thought... if I did the right thing, if I treated people right, then good things would happen to me. You think that's how it works?
House: I didn't use to. Then recently I tried... now I don't know.
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Hanna: You think we could be friends when I get outta here?
House: Sure. We'll catch a ball game or... group sex show or something.
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Cuddy: What are you clinging to, House? You're gonna risk her life just to save her leg? Really worked out well for you, didn't it? What do you have in your life, honestly? Tell me. I'm moving on. Wilson is moving on. And you... you've got nothing, House. Nothing.
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House: You asked me how I'd hurt my leg. I had a blood clot, and the muscle was dying. And I had all these doctors telling me I should amputate, and I said no, and they did this... very risky operation. I almost died.
Hanna: But you saved your leg.
House: I wish I hadn't. They cut out a chunk of muscle about the size of my fist, and they left me with this mutilated, useless thing. I'm in pain... every day. It changed me. Made me a harder person. A worse person. And now... now I'm alone. You don't want to be like me.
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House: We thought the problem was in his toilet--by that, of course, I mean his head. Which distracted us from the fact that it could have been just a clog in his sewer pipe. And by that of course, I mean his spinal cord. And blah, blah, blah, blah. You get the idea.
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Cuddy: I'm stuck, House. I keep wanting to move forward. I keep wanting to move on, and I can't. I mean, my new house, with my new fiancé, and all I can think about is you. I just need to know if you and I can work.
House: You think I can fix myself?
Cuddy: I don't know.
House: 'Cause I'm the most screwed-up person in the world.
Cuddy: I know. I love you. I wish I didn't. But I can't help it.
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Cast and Crew Ep. 6-21, “Help Me” Air Date 05/17/2010

Cast and Crew

Director:___ Greg Yaitanes

Writers: __ Greg Yaitanes
__________ Russel Friend
__________ Peter Blake (IV)

Stars:

Hugh Laurie ________ Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein _______ Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard _ Dr. James Wilson
Omar Epps _________ Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer _______ Dr. Robert Chase
Olivia Wilde ________ Dr. Remy Hadley (Thirteen)
Peter Jacobson ______ Dr. Chris Taub

Guest Stars:

China Jesusita ____ Shavers Hanna
Doug Kruse ______ Dolce
Jamie McShane ___ Captain McCreavey
DeSean Terry _____ Charles
Angel Oquendo ____ EMT Coumont
Kimberly Bailey ___ Dolce's Wife
Jason Paul Field ___ Rescue Worker #1
Teddy Chen Culver _ Rescue Worker #2
Matthew Brent _____ Dislocated Shoulder
Caroline Pho _______ Head Wound
Marty Hrejsa _______ Purple Toes

Music:

Me and My Woman
_______ Shuggie Otis
Make Me Smile
_______ Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
_______ Buddy Guy & Junior Wells

House must perform under pressure to treat a patient who can't be moved. A search and rescie team is recommending amputation to free her from a building collapse.

House has a double mystery to solve in one patient. And he's seeing his therapist. Wilson wants Sam to move in and House to move out.

Intro:

The episode begins with House entering his therapist, Dr. Nolan's, office. House comes in late and grumpy. The whole episode is told through House's eyes about his latest case, and his dealings with life. House says he's not under any unusual stress. Nolan says "tell me about your week."

House vs. Wilson + Sam

Wilson is moving Sam into his condo, and trying to induce House to move out so they can have some privacy. Wilson says it's his idea, not Sam's. House says he'll just go back to his old place, which bother's Wilson because it's associated with depression and drug abuse.

When House returns to his old apartment, he finds Alvie, his old mental hospital buddy, living there, hiding out from the INS, and hocking some of House's possessions for living money. He's painting House's apartment for him. House hates the colors. His coffee table and his rare books have gone to finance the decorating.

House goes to the pawn shop where Alvie pawned his stuff and finds most of it, but one thing is missing - a very important - to House - rare book. It's been sold. The pawnbroker holds House up for five times what his stuff is worth.

House pays nerf football with Alvie and Wilson shows up. House arranges an immigration hearing for Alvie, which distresses Alvie.

Wilson convinces the pawnbroker to give up the name and address of the buyer of House's rare book by telling him it's contaminated with anthrax spores… and paying him $300. Wilson waffles on making House move out - he's genuinely worried about making
House get along without close moral support.

House thinks someone else is pushing Wilson to take House back. Nolan speculates it could be Sam, but House suspects it's Cuddy, and imagines the conversation between Cuddy and Wilson. His speculations make it appear they don’t trust him to do OK by himself. Nolan questions of those are their feelings or House's. Nolan imagines a conversation with a different slant. Ultimately, Nolan decides the Wilson conversation is a dead end and asks House what else he would want to punish himself for.

House had a confrontation with the buyer of hi rare book, who recognized it's rarity and won't sell it back to House at any price. And the guy is obnoxious about it. Fortunately for House, while House and the book-buyer argued at the front door, Alvie was slipping around the back and stealing the book.

While celebrating their victory back at House's apartment, the INS shows up and arrests Alvie. Alvie denounces House for ratting him out. House shows up at Alvie's deportation hearing and comes close to being arrested himself for continuing the differential on his cell phone as the hearing begins. When Alvie's case is called, House produces a DNA report proving Alvie's relationship to his mother, a Puerto Rican (and thus US) citizen and making Alvie one himself. Alvie swears eternal allegiance (and more home makeovers) to House, but soon now being documented as legal, abandons House to go live with a cousin in Arizona. House's next action: get drunk.

House vs. Patient

Cuddy hands House a case in the E.R. - a jogger found unconscious in the streets, no ID, just her heart rate monitor and jogging clothes, and, by the way, she has amnesia.

House deduces she's an extreme long distance runner from her muscle tone and the fact she's hungry again right after eating. Also that she's rich from the price of her running shoes.

The team looks at MS and physical trauma as a cause, and rules them out. House says they can find at least the neighborhood she lives in by tracing her heart rate monitor to its point of sale. House says he'll take her around the neighborhood to see if anything jogs her memory.

House takes Alvie with him on his 'show the jogger the neighborhood trip. Alvie spins a tale of his INS woes. No one in the sporting goods store where the heart monitor was purchased recognizes the jogger, but Alvie suggests they go to the doughnut store nearby and House, reflecting, thinks an extreme runner would stock up on carbs. The clerk recognizes her but doesn't know her name, but says the guy she comes in with left a business card.

They find a house, and the man who opens the door gives a big sigh of relief and calls her "Sydney" and gives her a big hug, but she's still not recalling anything. He's Jay, her husband, and tells her she's a lawyer, with a stressful job and running is her way of handling the stress.

She finds a picture of herself with a surfboard and asks if she surfs. Jay says she gave it up for lack of time. He also mentions she won a class action suit for clients whose houses had been built on an undisclosed old dump, exposing them to methane. As they leave the house to return to the hospital for more tests, she falls, saying her foot went numb, and loses control of her bladder, which House diagnoses as complex partial seizures.

Taub calls to say the patient is not seizing after 12 hours of observation. House says to use a strobe light and induce stress which Taub says there's plenty of already - the patient is disturbed by the attention of her husband, who is a stranger as far as she is concerned.

Cuddy tells House to get the patient cured, since she's a barracuda attorney - the type that loves to sue hospitals.

Sydney and Jay argue over the potential operation - he saying "you'd be losing a part of your brains" and Sydney responding "It's my brain." Jay tells House he'll take it to court if necessary - Sydney is in no condition to make decisions about herself. Jay continues arguing but House is distracted looking at the monitor over Sydney's bed - he says the argument's moot - the disease has spread to her brain stem and is inoperable. He orders chemo and radiation instead which won't cure her but may give her a couple of weeks more.

House says he was angered by Jay's stand since he would rather risk his wife's life than their marriage.

Later, Sydney is crashing and no one knows why. As she's wheeled through a sterilizing ultraviolet lamp toward a clean room, House spots something and tells then to halt under the ultraviolets. He sees a tattoo that's been removed on the outside but with still present in the sub dermal layers. An old surfing tattoo. She was fine until she took up long distance running, and then the greater circulation caused an allergic reaction to the ink. A full layer skin graft will cure the problem. Her memories not back yet, but her husband has adjusted and is courting her, which Nolan infers House suggested, and she's liking it.

House vs. Therapist

Nolan wants to know why House was in the E.R. to get the case in the first place. Avoiding Wilson, who wants to toss him out. Nolan wonders how House can be fine with that. House is entirely rational and reasonable about Wilson's choice, and Nolan thinks it ought to provoke more of a reaction.

Nolan finds House spending time with his patient another unusual behavior. He thinks his tolerance of Alvie is another distraction.

House tells Nolan that Sydney was more comfortable with him than her husband (whom she couldn't remember) Jay, and Jay was picking up on the fact. He say this didn't disturb him, she was just a patient, and interesting.

Nolan wonders why House was so attached o the stuff Alvie pawned.

House tries to duck telling about what Wilson says when he dropped by the apartment.

House tell Nolan the patient became a lawyer as a reaction to her brother dying in a car accident when she was in college - wanting to make her life more meaningful - but with the memory of that gone, she's wondering why she lived such a pressured life.

She develops a breathing problem that leads to a diagnosis of spongiform encephalitis, which would require cutting out part of her brain, the part that that controls long term memory. Nolan says all this is irrelevant to House's case, interesting though it may be.

House admits having a bar fight with a stranger, and Nolan wonder what he's screwed up to give him these feelings of self loathing that lead to such destructive behavior. House finally admits he may have a problem.

House says everybody's happy now. Sydney and Jay, Wilson and Sam, Cuddy and Lucas moving in together, even Alvie and his cousin… Nolan backs him up to Cuddy and Lucas, whom he hadn't mentioned before. The mention of Cuddy strikes a chord in Nolan's memory. He looks up the title of House's 'rare medical book' and discovers it was written by Earnest T. Cuddy, Lisa Cuddy's great-grandfather, a fact House hadn't bothered to mention. House says he's had the book for years, always meant to give it to her for some special occasion. Nolan deduces House is miserable over Cuddy's moving away from him. House accuses Nolan of being a "faith healer" (a mortal sin to House), and concludes he's still miserable and has nothing to learn from Nolan and leaves.

= Cecil =

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Next Week: "Help Me"

House's patient is trapped under a collapsed building.

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Favorite quotes:

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House: Okay. "Therafy" me.
Nolan: You're late.
House: You're fat.
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House: I'm not stressed... beyond the stress induced by you telling me how stressed I am.
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House: Aren't therapists supposed to be nurturing?
Nolan: Nowhere... is that in the manual.
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House: Are you charging me for this time?
Nolan: [reading boating magazine ] Yes.
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Nolan: What's that?
House: A bruise. I fell.
Nolan: Do you remember falling?
House: No, I was drunk.
Nolan: It looks like you fell on the tip of someone's boot.
House: I said something someone objected to.
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House: God's sake, Wilson. You really span the chasm from wishy to washy
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Nolan: Have you gotten any other people angry at you over anything?
House: Well, yeah. That's why I called it an ordinary week.
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Alvie: I didn't know there was a section of the brain just for hope.
House: It's very, very tiny.
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Cast and Crew Ep. 6-20, “Baggage” Air Date 05/10/2010

Cast and Crew

Director:___ David Straiton

Writers: __ Doris Egan
__________ David Foster (II)

Stars:

Hugh Laurie ________ Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein _______ Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard _ Dr. James Wilson
Omar Epps _________ Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer _______ Dr. Robert Chase
Jennifer Morrison ____ Dr. Allison Cameron
Olivia Wilde ________ Dr. Remy Hadley (Thirteen)
Peter Jacobson ______ Dr. Chris Taub

Guest Stars:

Zoe McLellan ______ Sidney
David Monahan ____ Jay
Lin-Manuel Miranda _ Juan "Alvie" Alvarez
Cynthia Watros _____ Sam Carr
Carl Gilliard _______ Dutch
Paul Keeley _______ Harris
Andre Braugher ____ Nolan
Annette Lesure _____ Durdanna
Tina Huang Public __ Defender
Gil Glasgow _______ Court Officer
Ric Maddox _______ Officer Durkee
Angelyna Martinez _ Nurse Jody

Music:

Me and My Woman
_______ Shuggie Otis
Make Me Smile
_______ Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
_______ Buddy Guy & Junior Wells

House has a double mystery to solve in one patient. And he's seeing his therapist. Wilson wants Sam to move in and House to move out.

Another patient who keeps secrets from his fiancée.

Last week Lance Reddick - this week Hugh Laurie sings! Also Jesse Spencer and Omar Epps. At least it's not noir.

Intro:

A bride has a few loving words with her dad before the ceremony. Then it's down the aisle, flower girls, sweet music and a handsome groom waiting at the altar. The ceremony goes fine right up to time for the groom's vows. He creeks and croaks and can't get "I do" out, then collapses.

Ted and Nicole and Cotter (What, no Alice?)

House walks in to the hospital and exchanges snide words with Nurse Jeffrey as Cuddy begs for a replacement doctor for one she's just lost and tries to draft House into clinic duty, but House spies Chase with a 'case here!' look in his eye and accepts the case sight unseen to get out of Cuddy's clutches. Cuddy worries that House is getting drunk and passing out in strange apartments.

House goes straight to the patient, groom Ted with bride Nicole at his side. That's bride and groom. Future tense, not past tense, as the ceremony couldn't be completed with a non-talking groom. House diagnoses fakery, jabbing the patient with a syringe when he wasn't looking and drawing an "Ow!", followed by professions of a miraculous recovery.

Taub follows House out of the room and say he thinks the patient wasn't faking.

Ted and Nicole are leaving the hospital, Ted asking Nicole if she believes him and Nicole saying 'of course' in a not very convincing fashion and Ted proposes they troop right down to city hall and get hitched. As soon as she starts to agree he collapses, coughing.

Now Ted has plural effusion (fluid in the lungs) and the team stares at x-rays and tries to figure out what could account for that, inability to speak, and fainting. Now they're looking for an environmental cause and Foreman and Chase go to look at the lovebirds new apartment while Hadley and Taub are sent to look at his former apartment - which somebody else now lives in.

So now Taub and Hadley are breaking and entering someone's home who isn't even the patient. And naturally he walks in as they check the ceiling for asbestos. Before he can call the cops, they ask him if he knows Ted, and the resident, Cotter becomes very concerned, saying Ted was his boyfriend for three years. Whoopsie. Bet this is news to Nicolle.

Confronted, Ted says he's not homosexual, or even bi, but that Cotter was and had a crush on him, so he left. After three years? Taub reports that Ted tested positive for mononucleosis, which House wonders how he could catch without sex or a compromised immune system. Ted allows as how there might have been some "contact" but no sex, and says they can test him as long as they don't tell Nicole.

Chase, Hadley, and Taub debate the ethics of telling vs. not telling, which I would have thought were perfectly clear, especially in this day and age when the hospitals ask for your permission to tell family members your medical status. Chase is on the ethical side (except when it comes to murdering despotic dictators) while Hadley is arguing for 'right' vs. ethics.

Hadley has a talk with the patient and reports to the group that he took "aversion therapy" to "cure" his gayness - taking emetics while watching gay porn - just which chemicals she doesn't know, and when that didn't work they used massive doses of male hormones and ECT (electro-convulsive therapy.)

Hadley tells Nicolle they've found a cause for Ted's symptoms, some past 'head trauma' and she can't say any more and she should ask Ted about the details. But before he can do so Ted launches into a heart attack.

The EKG shows no electrical abnormalities in Ted's heart, so House has Chase and Foreman look for unsuspected bleeds.

Nicole visits Ted and he tells her his "head trauma"' was falling off a ladder. Hadley and Taub arrive to prep him for an angiogram, and when they hand him a sedative to take, he faints. He wakes quickly and when he attempts to take the drug again, faints again.

The teams speculates that Ted has a syndrome that's posture dependent - causing him to faint when he raised his head to take the drugs.

Cotter shows up at the hospital to visit his 'old friend' Ted, while Nicole is there. His concern starts to seem a little creepy to Nicole, and she asks him to leave.

When Ted awakens and appears to be doing better, Nicole brings up his visitor. Ted shrugs him off as an old roommate, but he can tell Nicole's sensing something else, and she tells him "I need to hear it from you, Ted." He spins a story about getting drunk one night and finding Cotter in his bed, but denies being gay, but also says he was cured of 'thinking he was gay.’ Then he comes down with severe headaches. House direct Taub to do a spinal tap.

The CSF comes up negative, and the headaches get worse. House theorizes they created a leak in the cerebral-spinal fluid, and that cause the headaches to get worse, so find and plug the leak. As they do something to repair the leak, Ted begins stroking. Or so it seemed but it wasn't really a stroke, and now they have a new symptom.

House thinks they're not getting the truth in the patient's history, and so says to get Ted, Nicole, and Cotter all in the same room for a little Q&A.

Cotter brings up another previous fainting spell. Nicolle admits there have been some sexual misfires. (Cotter say they never had that problem.) Taub speculates that could indicate a vascular problem and proposes a test.

Taub and Hadley take Ted to the sex lab, where there'll be sensors on his penis, now all he has to do is choose straight or gay porn for a stimulus. He thinks he's so anxious nothing will work. Then they can give him a shot, they say - where he doesn't want to get one, Taub adds.

The test proceeds and the results are normal, but the patient seems to be sweating and Hadley asks if he feels feverish. She opens his robe and finds he's not sweating, he's lactating.

Taub speculates on a non-cancer pituitary tumor as a cause - House orders an MRI.

The MRI is negative, but on a hunch, House goes to the patient and holds his head up, the headaches get better, releases it, they get worse, hold it up again, better, down, worse again. He tells Ted he has a Chiari Malformation - restriction in his spinal column that can cut off the flow of CSF. It never gave him a problem until the ECT cause his brain to swell just enough to plug the opening. It's a congenital problem, and with surgery can be cured.

After his surgery, Cotter bring Ted some more of his favorite candy, but Ted says he's not coming back, he loves Nicole. Cotter leaves passing Nicole as she returns. Ted proposes they get married on her birthday in three weeks, but Nicole can no longer go through with it and breaks it off despite Ted's protests. Taub observes her leaving.

Taub and Rachel and Maya (yet still no Alice?)

House says he's skeptical that Taub really called off the open marriage Taub thought he'd had going, but was just mollifying Rachel. Taub responds by inviting House to dinner, which House declines saying it's just an excuse for Taub to slip out on Rachel, but Taub says Rachel has been insatiable since their reconciliation and he needs a rest. House agrees to go if Taub will invite his wife.

Taub shows up alone to the dinner saying his wife had a ceramics class, but House is way ahead of him and texted Rachel (from Taub's phone) to invite her - and when she shows up explains he was just leaving - to take a ceramics class, and tells her he talked Taub into taking one on Friday nights and Rachel should join him.

Next day, Taub reports he found a Friday night pottery class that was full, so Rachel couldn't join him. House says now he has to have some pottery to show for it. Later House tells him he's read the course description of Taub's 'pottery class' and it has a Fourth of July theme, so a mug won't do. Taub later reports finding a set of fife and drum napkin rings on line. He had to pay too much for them, he says, because he got into a bidding war with an idiot (who turns out to be named "House".)

Friday night. Taub is holding a package marked fragile. House comes to wish him bon voyage and Taub tells him he called his tryst off - for good this time. He gives the package to House. "For trying to wreck your marriage?" "For trying to save it," Taub replies. "And I get napkin rings?" "Expensive ones." House leaves the package on Nurse Jeffrey's station, and Nurse Jeffrey trashes it.

House and Sam and Wilson (and… still… no Alice!)

Wilson wakes up next to Sam. They nuzzle and contemplate another go-round but Sam worries about House next door. Wilson says House is sound asleep, and indeed he is. In a bed with stuffed animals and rocket ship bed sheets, and a three year old staring at him from the doorway.

A knock forces Wilson to stop nibbling on Sam's earlobe. Two cops have House at the door and ask if Wilson knows him. How strong was the urge to say "Never saw him before in my life, officers," I wonder? But Wilson takes him back.

Out of nowhere, Hadley invites House to help her check out a new lesbian bar that night. House smells a rat ad correctly divines Wilson put her up to it to give him something to do rather than get drunk alone. House allows his arm to be twisted.

House wastes his time in the lesbian bar trying to spot at least one straight woman, which Hadley assures him there aren't any, not even the bartender.

Next day Chase invites House out to karaoke with himself and Foreman.

Chase sings lead, with House and Foreman doing backup, with considerable animation. Catcalls, but admiring catcalls from the audience. They guys are actually having a good time, and toast 'To Wilson!"

Wilson comes in to congratulate him on actually having fun with Chase and Foreman. House denies it but bolts in the middle of the conversation as a revelation strikes him.

Cuddy stops by House's station to report she's hired a new PA and congratulates House on solving his case. She invites him out to eat, and doesn't understand when he asks if Wilson got to her. too. Lucas is working late. He turns down the date and in parting, she says "I just want us to be friends." "Funny," House says, "that's the last thing I want us to be." She leaves, House rubs his leg, and stares at his bottle of Ibuprofen, instead picks up a bottle of whiskey from his desk and pours and drinks a slug.

= Cecil =
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Next Week: "Baggage"

House tells Dr. Nolan about the case of a woman who had amnesia and a disease, and how he had to help solve both mysteries. Sam is moving in and Wilson wants House to move out.
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Cast and Crew Ep. 6-19, “Knight Fall” Air Date 04/19/2010

Cast and Crew

Director:___ Hugh Laurie
Writer:____ John C. Kelley

Stars:

Hugh Laurie ________ Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein _______ Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard _ Dr. James Wilson
Omar Epps _________ Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer _______ Dr. Robert Chase
Jennifer Morrison ____ Dr. Allison Cameron
Olivia Wilde ________ Dr. Remy Hadley (Thirteen)
Peter Jacobson ______ Dr. Chris Taub

Guest Stars:

Adam Garcia _______ Theodore
Eva Amurri ________ Nicole
Jonathan Murphy ___ Cotter Macklin
Gregory Franklin ____ Henry
Patrick Price _______ Nurse Jeffrey Sparkman
F. William Parker ___ Reverend Bowden
Cynthia Watros _____ Sam Carr

Music:

Canon_______________ Pachelbel

Midnight Train to Georgia
______________ By Gladys Knight & The Pips
______________ sung by Hugh Laurie
______________ Omar Epps
______________ Jesse Spencer

Another patient who keeps secrets from his fiancée.

Last week Lance Reddick - this week Hugh Laurie sings! Also Jesse Spencer and Omar Epps. At least it's not noir.

Libby Sam’s back and House Wilson’s got her!

House’s team treats a woman who’s open marriage may be killing her.

Wilson continues dating Sam, though House has his doubts about the relationship.

Intro:

An amorous couple is preparing for sex in a high-rise hotel room. They’re interrupted by a knock at the door. Despite the ritzy location, it must be a really cheap hotel, because they talk through the door like it wasn’t there. Not the spot I’d want to tryst in. It’s the woman’s husband Tom. Her lover’s reaction is not panic but irritation. Tom explains he needs something for a business meeting,. She goes to get it leaving husband and lover alone in the room. Tom and the lover, Damien, introduce themselves and shake hands. Tom leaves, but before the extracurricular activities can resume, the woman, Julia, collapses with pains in the abdomen, telling Damien to “Get Tom!”

Tom and Julia and Damien (and no Alice?)

House is uninterested in the case until Hadley point out Julia and Tom have an open marriage. House philosophizes that it’s monogamy that’s unnatural. Taub says the only problems it that real open marriages are unworkable in practice, somebody always gets hurt. The team speculates on herpes as the cause of the intestinal blockage and is surprised when House volunteers himself to do the test.

House and Julia discuss her marriage. Tom and Julia have a six year old daughter, Evelyn.

The herpes test was negative so Taub ultrasounds her, taking the chance to talk about her marriage. She says they went ‘open’ after three years when they realized they made each other miserable. She still loves her husband, but there’s 10 percent, she says that she needs to get somewhere else. Her heart starts racing and Taub calls for a crash cart.

Chase interviews Tom, asking for a list of sexual partners from the last six months. Tom says he’s had none other than his wife, which he doesn’t tell her to keep her from feeling bad. Later House say, that if Tom’s not cheating sexually, he’s doing something else behind her back. Chase and Hadley are sent to search their house for clues. Hadley revealed her father had a lover as her mother was buying, and she’s now OK with that. Chase confirms Tom’s business trip to Nebraska. Hadley finds a loofa, possibly imported possibly a source of her parasite.

No parasites, nothing detected to explain Julia’s symptoms. Foreman suggests increased libido could be a symptom of adrenal-cortical carcinoma, which offends Hadley – “A woman who likes sex must be sick?” MRI her adrenal glands if House next tactic.

Things get tense when Damien comes in to visit with flowers when Evelyn is present. Tom throws him out of the room.

Hadley and Taub discuss Taub’s marriage as the review the MRI. They find thing in the cerebrum but notice something in the lungs. It looks like a clot. Cuddy walks in on House and Hadley to say that Julia has no insurance, their policy has lapsed.

Confronted, Tom says they’re behind in the insurance ad he’s spying for the hospitalization with their retirement plans, because he ‘lost’ all their savings. Guess they’re ‘open’ and then there’s ‘open.’ If it’s any consolation (probably not) he lost the money on risky business ventures, not gambling.

House sends Hadley to test Julia’s blood for the cause of her clotting disorder. They discuss the marriage.

Julia presents with dramatic abdominal pain again, and again they can find no cause. No their speculation is a ‘folded bowel’. Taub and Chase operate and Chase raises the possibility that Rachel is also going to use the privileges of their new relationship. The biopsy they take doesn’t explain the cause of the condition.

The next day, the white board is full of possibilities, but no certainties.

They come up with three possibilities but none of them work out. Tom has been avoiding the hospital, but Hadley tells Julia about Tom not really using his ‘privileges’ and how he loves only her, but allowed her so she would be happy, and urges her to call him.

None of the three possibilities the team came up with pans out. House sees the husband has brought lilacs from their own garden, leading House to wonder about bees. Sure enough, she said she was stung about a month ago. There should be a rash to confirm the diagnosis of “HSV”, and he finds one on the roof of her mouth. Now she should be fine, with treatment.

Taub and Rachel and Taub’s Imaginings.

Taub and a nurse Maya flirt in the halls. Hadley comes up and may departs, Taub saying they’re “just friends”, which Hadley sees right through.

Taub takes Rachel out for dinner and ‘casually’ mentions his recent case and her ‘open marriage’, which puts Rachel’s antennae up immediately. He discusses Nurse Maya, saying he’s not planning on having an affair, which doesn’t make Rachel feel any better at all. . He gets a page that Julia has become paralyzed, and starts to leave. Rachel feels betrayed that he can’t let someone else take care of it. Rachel finishes the meal alone and dying.

Rachel give Taub permission to fool around as long as she doesn’t have to know about it.

House immediately senses this the next day, and Taub announces it openly in the group. Chase and Hadley try to direct the discussion back to the patient, but Foreman and House want to hear more.

After Julia’s operation, House wishes Taub a bon voyage on is ne quest, but Taub gets a page – it’s Rachel in the parking structure – she says she can’t go through with it. She’s crying. Taub tells her hospital’s been an idiot and needs only her.

Taub gets mocked the next day but says he couldn’t hurt Rachel.

Taub finds Maya in the parking structure, apologizes for “the other night”, and they kiss and leave together in her car.

House and Sam and Wilson (What, no Alice?)

Wilson and Sam make breakfast, Wilson wishing for a tower of French toast, too rich for Sam and she chides him about cholesterol. House comes in to spoil the mood and Sam wishes him a nice day, to House’s scowl. Without much prompting, House predicts an early end to the relationship.

Sam is starting to get on Wilson’s nerves with little things. She places the milk in the door of the refrigerator instead of the body. She places the bowls face down in the dishwasher. She doesn’t use a coaster or replace her toilet paper when she finishes a roll and puts bananas in the bedroom trash can. Except she hasn’t one half these things, and Wilson figures it out – House sabotage.

Now the real friction comes out as Wilson and Sam address past wrongs from their marriage. It must be Festivus because the airing of grievances proceeds apace – can feats of strength be far behind?

Wilson shows up and says House has wrecked his relationship with Sam. House is unapologetic.

House presents Cuddy with an expresso machine as a symbol of his triumph in the Wilson/Sam affair. He signs out with a bow and a “Namaste” (Whoa, Lost reference!)

Sam comes back to Wilson apologizing and wanting another chance. They both say they’re different now and open to change. Hugs ensue.

Victorious House returns home to find Wilson and Sam made up. He sets the milk in the door of the fridge and heads to his bedroom.

= Cecil =
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Next Week:

A groom has a ‘secret past’ that may be killing him. House, Foreman, and Chase follow Lance Reddicks’s lead.

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Last Episode: 6-17 Knight Fall
Next Episode: 6-19 The Choice

Favorite Quotes:

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Thirteen: I thought you'd be relieved. This gets you off the hook. It's just genetics.
Taub: I'm 5'6" and have a receding hairline. I hate genetics
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Taub: Seriously? Our patient's dying and we can't move past my sex life?
House: Seriously, you think it'd kill her if we spent 15 seconds mocking you?
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Cast and Crew Ep. 6-17, “Knight Fall” Air Date 04/19/2010

Cast and Crew

Director:___
Writer:____

Stars:

Hugh Laurie ________ Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein _______ Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard _ Dr. James Wilson
Omar Epps _________ Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer _______ Dr. Robert Chase
Jennifer Morrison ____ Dr. Allison Cameron
Olivia Wilde ________ Dr. Remy Hadley (Thirteen)
Peter Jacobson ______ Dr. Chris Taub

Guest Stars:

Charlie Weber _______ Damien
Sarah Wayne Callies __Julia
Rob Evors __________ Tom
Erica Teeple ________ Evelyn
Cynthia Watros ______ Sam Carr
Jennifer Crystal Foley _ Rachel Taub
Danna Brady ________ Nurse Maya
Liz Benoit __________ Nurse Anne

Music:

The Way That You Want Me _ Jude

Libby Sam’s back and House Wilson’s got her!

House’s team treats a woman who’s open marriage may be killing her.

Wilson continues dating Sam, though House has his doubts about the relationship.

So this week we're recycling "Lost" co-stars?

House has to treat a patient who voluntarily lives a medieval lifestyle. I mean, you can take dungeons and dragons too far. Hadley is impressed by his standards of honor, which I would have thought would turn off a liberate, modern woman.

Meanwhile, Wilson tries to reconcile with his first ex-wife who us – guess who! - Lost Fans – LIBBY! (Or at least Cynthia Watros.) I wonder if Wilson bought her a sailboat?

Intro:

Setting: A medieval tournament. Knights. Fair damsels. Jousting. It’s a RenFair! Queen Shannon chooses Sir William to champion her, while King Miles chooses the captain of his guard the Black (naturally) Knight. Is it the SCA? After a lot of back-and–forth, William vanquishes his rival, but as Queen Shannon rushes to congratulate him, he falls to th e ground with pupils shrunk to tiny points. King Miles whips out his… cell phone and calls an ambulance to Camden fairground, stat.

The Knight’s Tale (Sir William)

House strides into the diagnosis room bearing a broadsword and making everyone nervous, telling them they’re taking the case of Sir William, who doesn’t just perform but lives the medieval lifestyle for months a time, and now has a seizure. House thinks the cause is environmental and sends Hadley and Foreman to check out the grounds. Chase and Taub are to get an MRI.

Chase and Taub talk with William who says a knight is what he IS, not something he pretends to be. He throws up and is hastily pulled out of the MRI machine

Foreman has little patience with the pretend part of the RenFair. Hadley is a little more open minded. After hearing about the vomiting they’re looking into food poisoning. The king and queen show them to William’s tent. More vomit in the straw. The king makes the knights eat disgusting things before the tournament - cow eyes, etc.

House tells them to run scratch tests for food allergies and treat with epinephrine in the meantime. William has a reaction immediately after the first scratch Chase and his heart becomes irregular. House speculates William is allergic to a preservative in the epinephrine. Now the speculation is that perhaps William has MRSA, the super-infection all hospitals dread.

Chase and Taub disprove the MRSA hypothesis, and now House speculates William has inhaled fumes from poison ivy being burned unintentionally in bonfires. William’s heart rate becomes very slow, and Chase takes a risk injecting epinephrine, but it works.

House still thinks it’s environmental, and says to treat for trichinosis while confirming with a muscle biopsy. That come back negative. Foreman suggests retesting every sample they took looking for fungal infections.

House, gobbling more ibuprofen, still insists on an environmental cause, sends Hadley and Chase off to search William’s apartment. In a locked room, they find what looks like witchcraft paraphernalia.

Taub and Foreman find what looks like dozens of tumors on the patient’s liver.

House finds the medieval figures from the apartment are made of lead, and speculates lead poisoning as a cause. But no lead found in his blood, while William gets worse.

House invades the RenFair (in costume) with Hadley (ditto). He smells the apothecary shop, and finds an incompetent apothecary there who doesn’t know what’s actually in his bottles, e.g. hemlock the apothecary thought was wild carrots. But the only person who bought it was… not Sir William, but King Miles,

House confronts Miles and accuses him of attempting to murder William. Miles said it was for the food challenge. Shannon fears he did it out of jealousy. House reveals this to William, but William maintains Miles would never do anything so base. Taub says William is getting worse despite their treating him for hemlock poisoning – there may be some in his system, hospital says, but it’s not what’s killing him. House plays with William’s sword, kisses it, and has an epiphany.

House tells the team that the lesions on the liver are a different type, which, with the erratic hear rate, indicate anabolic steroid abuse. Taub points out the rabdo points to the same thing. Hadley is disappointed in William but concedes the point with a shake of the head. The ancient poison, House says accelerated the effects of the modern one.

William and Shannon

Shannon spends a lot of time visiting William in the hospital. Miles very little.

Hadley successfully diagnoses the William is in love with Shannon, but William says a knight cannot be in love with his king’s fiancé.

William tells Shannon not to bother Miles about coming, but he certainly wants her to keep doing so.

Hadley chastises William for compromising his ideals to win a fight but not to win the woman he loves. William says Miles is a great guy, rich and smart, and can give Shannon more than he can so he’s standing out of the way. Hadley says this confirms House’s “idiot” diagnosis as well.

House + Sam + Wilson (What, no Alice?)

House walks into the kitchen naked and gobbling ibuprofen like he used to gobble vicodin. He runs into a hot blonde who’d just as soon she rubbed that image right out of her eyes.

At the hospital, House confronts Wilson as to the identity of the blonde, and digs out that it’s Sam (Samantha) Carr, Wilson’s first ex-wife. House thinks she’ll rip his heart out – again. Wilson says people can change.

House goes to tell Cuddy, not about the MRSA but Wilson’s dating his ex-wife. Cuddy is already on board. She remembers how badly Wilson came off in his last romantic round with Sam, but tells House to keep his nose out of it like she does. “You force him to choose, you might not like the answer.

Sam prods Wilson to invite House to dinner so they can get better acquainted. Wilson agrees reluctantly, and extends the invitation, telling House not to be protective of him, but just to be his normal self. House shows up with a transvestite prostitute, Sarah, for a date. Amazingly enough, Sam and Sarah hit it off.

Wilson and Sam come home for Wilson to change before the theater, but are interrupted by House cooking in the kitchen – he’s made it for them, as a piece offering, he says, for his juvenile behavior at dinner the other night. They dine together. But when Wilson leaves the room, House lays it on the line – he doesn’t trust her and is going to break them up. Sam accepts the challenge in the spirit it was intended.

Into House’s office strolls Lucas with a dossier he’s compiled on Sam at House’s request, including a sealed copy of her psychiatrist’s report. Sam walks in as they talk, but apparently never overheard Lucas and House’s discussion of her. She sincerely begs for a chance to show she’s reformed and find out where her and Wilson’s relationship is going.

In the ends, as “Just the Motion” provides the sound track, House contemplates his detective’s report at his desk. He breaks the seal on another bottle of ibuprofen – I guess that’s to show us he’s not cheating with vicodin in an ibuprofen bottle – and fingers the unopened psychiatrist’s report and a letter opener – the discards the report unread.

= Cecil =
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Next Week:

A woman with an ‘open marriage’ may be paying for her lifestyle with her life. “How much truth is too much.” Wilson snaps at Libby Sam. Taub and his wife discuss their marriage.

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Last Episode: 6-16 Lockdown
Next Episode: 6-17 Open and Shut

Favorite Quotes:

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House: You're new.

Sam: You're naked.

House: (glances down) And for the record, a little bit cold.
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Foreman: House, what are you doing?

House: (wielding a sword) Filling in for Rabbi Shmuhl at the Goldstein Bris.
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Taub: [Diagnosing] Could be a sub-dural hematoma.

House: You’re forgetting to demonize.

Taub: An evil, satanic sub-dural hematoma.

House: No, “two demon eyes” – hemorrhaging in the schlereae.
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House: I bumped into your babe, naked.

Wilson: I told you to stay out of my bathroom.

House: I was in the kitchen.

Wilson: She was naked in the kitchen?

House: I was naked.

Wilson: Why the hell were you naked in the kitchen?

House: Uh, it's not important right now.
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Cast and Crew Ep. 6-17, “Knight Fall” Air Date 04/19/2010

Cast and Crew

Director:___ Hugh Laurie
Writer:____ John C. Kelley

Stars:

Hugh Laurie ________ Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein _______ Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard _ Dr. James Wilson
Omar Epps _________ Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer _______ Dr. Robert Chase
Jennifer Morrison ____ Dr. Allison Cameron
Olivia Wilde ________ Dr. Remy Hadley (Thirteen)
Peter Jacobson ______ Dr. Chris Taub

Guest Stars:

Cynthia Watros _____ Sam Carr
Noah Segan ________ Sir William
Sarah Jones (II) ______ Queen Shannon
Wesley A. Ramsey ___ King Miles
Carey Embry _______ Sarah

Music:

Just the Motion ____Richard & Linda Thompson

So this week we're recycling "Lost" co-stars?

House has to treat a patient who voluntarily lives a medieval lifestyle. I mean, you can take dungeons and dragons too far. Hadley is impressed by his standards of honor, which I would have thought would turn off a liberated, modern woman.

Meanwhile, Wilson tries to reconcile with his first ex-wife who is – guess who? - Lost Fans – LIBBY! (Or at least Cynthia Watros.) I wonder if Wilson bought her a sailboat?

So now we're recycling "Lost" episode titles? Anyway, Princeton Plainsboro is locked down when a newborn infant goes missing. The episode description makes it sound like every door in the hospital is locked individually trapping everyone with whomever they were with at the time. Which makes sense for a space ship or a submarine (or a funky underground hatch with blast doors), but not so much for a hospital where I'd expect security/police to secure the exits until a thorough search took place. Of course given the past state of PPTH security, perhaps Cuddy has installed blast doors all over.

The Overstory:

A newborn infant disappears in Princeton-Plains Teaching Hospital. Cuddy locks down the whole hospital, freezing everyone wherever they were at the time of the lockdown. All this is an excuse for throwing characters together and watching their interactions.

Cuddy and the parents

The parents with the missing baby are a blended family, Sarah and Donald Lozenski and Donald’s son Walker, whom Sarah adopted when they married. Sarah worries that Walker, who’s getting in fights at school, is jealous of the new baby. Cuddy questions him, to no effect. Sarah voices many of her fears for their family as Cuddy listens patiently. Cuddy notices extra towels in the bathroom and wondering why, questions the housekeeping staff. One of the staff goes into a seizure when Cuddy questions her, leading Cuddy to think that person may have intentionally, or inadvertently (weak?) taken then baby – the point is never resolved. But Cuddy searches her linen hamper and finds the baby under some more clean towels. Lockdown over.

House and Nash

House ducks into the room of what he thinks is an unconscious, dying patient so her can watch his television. But the man, Nash, is still awake, since his condition is resistant to the morphine drip he’s been given to ease the dying process. Worse, he earlier applied to be a patient of his and was rejected, and now House is forced to talk to him. Nash is a professor who ran out on his wife and daughter because he couldn’t handle his wife’s physical problems, and now s dying alone and wracked with guilt. He says he’s waiting for his daughter in Atlanta to come home from work at nine o’clock so he can phone her. When he does so, however, he gets a recording and hangs up. House correctly deduces that Nash was actually waiting for his daughter to leave, so he could hear her voice on the recorder but not have to interact. He presses ‘redial’ and tells Nash to say what he really wants to say. Nash blurts out a brief “I Love You” to his daughter.

Nash feels House owes him a secret since Heroes has penetrated his, and House tells him “I like being alone. I’m better off this way. Then I met a woman in a psych hospital of all places. Then she went away. We suffer, then we die.”

Chase and Guess Who

Cameron shows up in the hospital asking Chase to sign divorce papers, just in time to get locked with him (in a room with a bed – see Checkov’s mantelpiece rule of drama.) They talk about their marriage and why it went wrong. Chase repeatedly asks her if she ever really loved him. His theory is that she didn’t and therefore it really wasn’t anything he did wrong that broke them up. Tearfully Cameron says she doesn’t know, which gives him the release from responsibility he wanted, and Chase signs the papers. Almost immediately she takes it back and says she doesn’t know why she said that. After the emotional catharsis, she asks him about the good times in the marriage, and after finding a few they end up in bed and have sex, just before the lockdown end. Will the romance rekindle? Stay tuned.

Foreman and Taub

Taub is in the records room, supposedly on a mission to pick up some patient records. Foreman come in on the same mission just in time for the two to be locked in together. But, aha, the doctors’ personnel files area also currently in the area, preparatory to being digitized and each is actually on a mission to excise something from his own file. At first they each prevent the other from doing so, but instead unite to look for something embarrassing in House’s file. House has beaten them to the punch, however, and all his records are dummies, all his patient’s being named Cuddy.

Frustrated, the two then decide to get high, like House, on a bottle of vicodin Foreman conveniently has confiscated from a clinic patient. Eventually they each get the other’s personnel file. In Foreman’s, Taub finds that the matter he wants exercised is a cheating incident n a lab report in medical school. Foreman confesses to yielding to pressure to compete with the elites because he didn’t really feel he belonged.

Strangely, Taub’s file is exemplary, and when Foreman questions him about this, he confesses to feeling like a failure for not achieving more, and working for House, instead of being House. When the lockdown ends, Foreman departs, and Taub takes the sheet about the cheating incident from Foreman’s file and shreds it.

Wilson and Hadley

Wilson and Hadley are trapped in the cafeteria with a few other diners and the cashier. To pass the time they play Truth or Dare. Wilson questions Hadley about her sexuality, Hadley questions Wilson about his dating relationships. Wilson eventually confesses he’s looking for a relationship with his first ex-wife but is afraid of what House will say. In a dare segment, Wilson dares Hadley to show Taub her breasts. She agrees to do so “sometime in the future”. In retaliation, she dares goody-goody Wilson to steal a dollar from the cashier. Wilson tried but fails miserably to the amusement of all in the cafeteria, except the cashier.

Lockdown over, as everyone passes through the lobby, Hadley encounters Taub and flashes her breasts at him, leading him to comment ‘interesting day’.

= Cecil =
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Next Week:

House must cure a man who lives in medieval times. Not the restaurant.

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Last Episode: 6-15 Black Hole
Next Episode: 6-17 Knight Fall

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Special to MelaniteKing: If you’d like to read a medical review of House, written by a real doctor, go HERE.

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Favorite Quotes:
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Nash: You're House, aren't you?

House: Oh, God, don't tell me we used to date.
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Thirteen: Truth.

Wilson: All right. Have you ever had a threesome?

Thirteen: No.

Wilson: You haven't?

Thirteen: Wait, just--just because I'm bisexual?

Wilson: Well, yeah.

Thirteen: Do you understand what bisexual means? It doesn't mean you have sex with two people at once.
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Taub: [reading House's confidential files] Look at this one. Patient lost four liters of blood from a botched... penisectomy.

Foreman: On a patient named Lisa Cuddy? Damn it. They're all named Lisa Cuddy.

Taub: He's not even here and he's screwing with us.
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Foreman: (Taub slugs Foreman in the face) I wasn't ready.

Taub: What were you gonna do? Flex your goatee muscles?
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House: We're better off alone. We suffer alone, we die alone. Doesn't matter if you're a model husband or father of the year. Tomorrow will be the same for you.

Nash: But yesterday would have been different.
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Wilson: That woman, the woman I'm not involved with, her name is Sam Carr. But in 1990 and 1991, it was Sam Wilson.

Thirteen: Your ex-wife?

Wilson: No, my mother. Yes, my ex-wife.
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Cast and Crew Ep. 6-16, “Lockdown” Air Date 04/11/2010

Cast and Crew

Director:___ Hugh Laurie
Writer:____

Stars:

Hugh Laurie ________ Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein _______ Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard _ James Wilson
Omar Epps _________ Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer _______ Robert Chase
Jennifer Morrison ____ Allison Cameron
Olivia Wilde ________ Remy Hadley (Thirteen)
Peter Jacobson ______ Chris Taub

Guest Stars:

Riki Lindhome ________ Sarah Lozinski
Neill Barry ___________ Donald Lozinski
Riley Thomas Stewart __ Walker Lozinski
David Strathairn _______ Nash
Al Foster _____________ Davies
Dava Krause __________ Daria
Vernee Watson-Johnson _ Nurse Smits
Shelly Cole ___________ Nurse Maldonado
Tom Billett ___________ Security Guard #1

So now we're recycling "Lost" episode titles? Anyway, Princeton Plainsboro is locked down when a newborn infant goes missing. The episode description makes it sound like every door in the hospital is locked individually trapping everyone with whomever they were with at the time. Which makes sense for a space ship or a submarine (or a funky underground hatch with blast doors), but not so much for a hospital where I'd expect security/police to secure the exits until a thorough search took place. Of course given the past state of PPTH security, perhaps Cuddy has installed blast doors all over.

In any event, it's a new House here to relieve our doldrums. Enjoy! Tonight!

A student is mysteriously dying and the clue to why may be locked in her subconscious. House's only chance may be a magic trick.

The Episode:

The theme of the week seems to be the subconscious. The main patient of the week is Abby, a senior girl with plans to go to Stanford and major in physics. She's at a planetarium show with her class and her boyfriend, Nick, passes her a thermos of vodka, on which she chokes a little. Shortly thereafter she stops breathing and the boyfriend yells for someone to call 911.

The doctors' first thought is a reaction to the alcohol, and they run blood tests and a heart scan that finds suspicious spot on her aorta. Now they're suspecting an infection. Hadley proposes a transesophogeal echocardiogram, but they worry it may trigger a heart attack. The find nothing but they do get the heart attack and have to do open heart surgery - the heart doesn't respond to defibrillator paddles, but heart massage does restart the heart.

Now they're thinking perhaps of allergens. They ask Nick for a sample of his sperm - in front of his dad, which leads to some awkward moments. They run a test for allergic reactions (it's negative) but in the middle of it her kidneys begin to fail. Chase proposes cancer, but he can't be specific. Foreman proposes a full body scan, which we know House hates, but he's so tapped for any alternative he OKs it.

As the scan proceeds, the machine Abby is enclosed in begins shaking. She calls to the doctors and tells them something's wrong with the machine, but we hear Foreman's voice tell her it's not the machine, it's an earthquake. [You know, one of those frequent New Jersey earthquakes?] As they begin sliding her out of the machine, Abby panics and begins to hallucinate that she's in space and sliding into a black hole.

Now they're wondering if there can be a brain problem. House wants to know more about the content of the hallucination. He proposes using the 'Cognitive Pattern Recognition Program', an experimental tool for imaging thoughts, to find out what Abby is thinking of. Foreman is thinking along more prosaic lines, beginning with an MRA.

Abby wakes up with Nick by her bedside, and begins hallucinating seeing her younger self. Her younger self tells her to "tell him" and when she doesn't "You deserve to die."

The MRA found nothing so House wants to use the CPRP. He says the equipment is already set up in the Cognitive Science Lab. The protocol is to watch video clips for six hours while the machine maps her brain, then later use the machine to monitor her subconscious when she dreams or hallucinates. At the end of the mapping process they're watching random images flicker across the machine's screen. They ask Abby to concentrate on one particular thing. The image is blurry at first but becomes recognizable as a baseball player. They ask her what she's thinking about and it's 'Nick playing baseball'. The other three doctors are amazed, but Foreman yawns, "Now all we have to do is hope her subconscious is completely rational and went to medical school."

"Does anything get you excited?" Chase asks on behalf of all the other doctors. Foreman just shrugs.

House joins the four as Abby begins to sleep. Sometime later Foreman says "Well, it's taken us just over an hour to prove she has a really boring subconscious."

"Did anyone ever tell you you can be a real buzzkill," House asks. "Yes" reply Drs Chase, Hadley, and Taub simultaneously.

A star field takes shape on the monitor. Then a male figure. Hadley guesses it's her dad, who died in a private plane crash when Abby was eight.

Back to the diagnosis room. Hadley proposes there could be a problem with the liver. Foreman says the pineal gland is calcified (normal in a patient her age) but it could be hiding a tumor their scans couldn't see. House says they should go get a better look with an MRI and other tests. The MRI is negative, but blood tests show some elevated levels that they'd expect with allergies, but they've been unable to find an allergen in her body. Foreman mentions a specific middle eastern parasite but House interrupts that she's never been close to there, and no one in her family has travelled overseas. and all their scans and urine samples come back clean and yet her systems are still failing.

House pores over scans and x-rays, but finds nothing. Talking to Taub, he gets a flash of inspiration and asks if her boyfriend's father travels a lot. House says he's the one in her visions, not her long dead father.

House confronts Artie and finds that (a) he travels extensively in Europe and the Mediterranean (b) reluctantly admits that he had sex with Abby once, when she had broken with Nick, and she was crying in his arms, and he was dunk, and, and , and… Nick catches the last of his explanation, just as House is saying it's a good thing, really, because now they know what to treat.

Peter and Rachel Taub subplot

Taub is late to work and phones in to say he's had a flat but House correctly discerns he's having a fight with Rachel, as indeed he is. Rachel wants Taub to take a yoga class with her, and they argue about it, Rachel saying they never do anything together (except of course for the things they do do, together, which of course don't count.) Finally Taub says OK, he'll go to yoga, but course now Rachel doesn't want to, because what she really wants is for him to want to go with her. He says he's not going to work until they work out this problem, but she says (passive aggressively) that she's fine and for him to go.

Taub asks Chase for advice but Chase says he's hardly the one to ask marital advice from, his marriage just having broken up. Later Hadley says Rachel's naturally worried about his fidelity since he's strayed in the past.

Taub asks Foreman how someone who's broken a trust (him) can regain it. Foreman say keep her with him 24 hours a day. Taub tries a version of this, sending numerous romantic texts to Rachel though out the day. House intercepts his phone and starts sending suggestive texts that appear to come from Taub.

Taub has another bright idea and invites Rachel to met him for lunch, but instead of going to the cafeteria leads her to the parking structure for a make-out session in the car. After reassurances that he's never done this before, she gets into it and the windows are steaming up, until House, taking the part of the patrolman in teen movies, raps on the window and tells them to break it up, Taub's got a diagnostic session to attend.

Wilson's Fear of Furniture subplot

Wilson finds House eating breakfast on the couch in the living room, their one piece of furniture in Wilson's new condo outside the bedrooms. House says if Wilson would buy a table he could eat there. Wilson says House should buy the table. House says no, it's Wilson's condo so the furnishings should reflect Wilson's personality and tastes, and his buying the table would just be 'wrong'. [Also House is a moocher and a cheapskate.] House says Wilson is scared to buy furniture. Wilson says he's furnished several houses. House says no, his wives furnished several houses and Wilson just paid.

When House returns from work, the house is completely furnished, with lots of lights. Wilson says "It was simple, you throw money at them, they throw furniture at you."

Wilson returns the next day to find the house bare again. When he confronts House, House discovered the furniture was only rented with a single phone call, so he sent it back. He challenges Wilson to buy one single piece of furniture at one store.

Wilson tours stores, trying out a lot of modernist hideous furniture without finding anything he likes. His nadir is when he finds he's been looking for a dining room table in the patio section.

Wilson paces Cuddy's office agonizing over his inability to buy furniture. Cuddy says 'so hire a decorator', but Wilson tells her that's against the rules House has set. Cuddy says the only thing worse than being unable to buy furniture is letting House tell him how to buy furniture. She gives him the name of a good decorator and tells him to go to it.

House comes home to a completely decorated condo again, and correctly deduces Wilson has hired a decorator. Wilson begs him to let him keep this set - he can't stand any more furniture buying. House spots a piece on one end of the room covered by a blanket and approaches it cautiously. Under the blanket is an organ. House tries a few notes and smiles. "The decorator didn't buy this," he comments. He sits and begins to play. "I like what this says about you, Wilson."

House breaks into "A Whiter Shade of Pale" on the organ, but is soon supplanted by Procol Harum over a montage of Abby having her brain operated on, Artie having a long talk with Nick (Nick gets up and leaves), Peter and Rachel Taub looking though wedding pictures, and Taub getting down on one knee and re-proposing to Rachel, complete with engagement ring, as a sign she's the one he wants to be married to, Nick and Abby making up as House and Taub look on.

House asks Taub how he made out with Rachel and he says she said 'yes', too. "Good for you," House says, but as Taub walks off he encounters a blonde nurse who seems overly friendly and House gets a worried look on his face as the final strains of 'Whiter Shade of Pale' play out.

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Next Week:

To Be Announced - the next two Mondays are repeats.

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Last Episode: 03/08/10 6-14 Private Lives
Next Episode: 04/05/10? 6-16 TBD

Cast and Crew Ep. 6-15, “Black Hole” Air Date 03/15/2010

Cast and Crew

Director:___ Greg Yaitanes
Writer:____ Lawrence Kaplow

Stars:

Hugh Laurie ________ Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein _______ Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard _ Dr. James Wilson
Omar Epps _________ Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer _______ Dr. Robert Chase
Olivia Wilde ________ Dr. Remy Hadley (Thirteen)
Peter Jacobson ______ Dr. Chris Taub

Guest Stars:

Cali Fredrichs _______ Abby
Nick Eversman ______ Nick
Dennis Boutsikaris ___ Artie (Nick's dad)
Callie Thompson _____ Young Abby
Sunil Malhotra ______ Mr. Damon (teacher)
Molly Kasch ________ Jeanine
Michelle Duffy ______ June
Jennifer Crystal Foley _ Rachel Taub
Floriana Lima _______ Gabriella (Furniture Store)

Music:

Toccata & Fugue in D-Minor __ Johann Sebastian Bach
(performed by Hugh Laurie)

Overture to Phantom of the Opera
______________ Andrew Lloyd Webber
______________ Charles Hart
______________ Richard Stilgoe
(performed by Hugh Laurie)

A Whiter Shade of Pale _ Procol Harum
(instrumental by Hugh Laurie)

A student is mysteriously dying and the clue to why may be locked in her subconscious. House's only chance may be a magic trick.