He sends Wilson flowers and a suggestive note under Cuddy's name, then encourages him in his plan to barge into her office and kiss her. After all, as Wilson says, he'll either gain a girlfriend or lose a job. Shrug. But immediately after making his grand exit to sweep the lady off her feet, Wilson barges back into House's office to berate him for letting him go off to make such an obviously idiotic move. Their use of reverse psychology reversed is enough to make your head spin, but it's a pleasantly loopy feeling.
Chase is pathetically jealous of the eight-year-old, and Cameron just as pathetically encourages that jealousy. She's also unreasonably pissed. When they're forced to search Lucy's home for evidence of environmental reasons for her symptoms, Chase points out: "You dumped me. You don't get to be mad." It's sort of a sweet scene as they're poking around under the girl's bed, lying side by side with the dust bunnies as they try to fix things between them. Cameron replies almost kindly: "We had a really good thing. You broke the rules. I'm angry. I'll get over it." They not only take a step towards rapprochement, they find what could be a key to the case: a bloody t-shirt stuffed in a vent.
The first theory is abuse, though the father denies it and an examination of the girl doesn't quite substantiate it. When it turns out the blood is menstrual blood, and the cuts Cameron found were caused by Lucy trying to shave her precocious pubic hair, the answer is that Lucy has been exposed to massive amounts of hormones that have led to her symptoms. As for what's causing the massive amounts of hormones, the team can't quite get 2+2 to equal 4.
Foreman is exasperated with Chase and Cameron for bringing their personal lives into his work place since he hasn't yet learned to embrace the fun surrounding those personal weaknesses, like his mentor has. He also thinks Chase is an idiot for taking Cameron at her word, that she has no feelings for him. "She's either emotionally detached or she's lying. Which sounds more like Cameron?" Chase confronts her in another sweet scene that is interrupted by the next medical twist that offers the team a clue to solving the case. Jasper bites Chase in a fit of jealousy, allowing House to make the connection that the boy has too much testosterone in his system, so is afflicted by the same problem as his sister.
Cameron proves Foreman's point by exercising her empathy skills on Lucy's father. All of the team's theories on an environmental or genetic source of the hormone imbalance have been eliminated, leaving brain surgery on the pituitary as the only option, in her opinion, though adamantly not in House's. He's appalled that she plays "the dead husband card" to get the father to agree to a treatment before they've answered the question of why both siblings would be affected.
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1 - Kaonashi
I thought the medical aspects of the episode were as reaching and far-fetched as you thought, but I enjoyed the interpersonal actions among the characters. Chase is downright lovable in this episode. I can't understand why Cameron wouldn't want to date him. He's a nice guy, he's intelligent and charming, they get along as friends and co-workers, and I suppose he was really good in bed.
2 - Diane Kristine
Ha, yes, she seemed pretty satisfied in that department. I suspect she's still harbouring the House crush, though. But Chase seems prepared to wait and charm her.
3 - Kaonashi
To quote Chase when he and Foreman found out that Cameron was going on a date with House:
"But he's so...old."
What's it going to take for Cameron to become attracted to Chase? Does he need to be hit by a bus? Develop cancer? Become an arrogant know-it-all drug addict? Girl is crazy.
4 - Morgenstern
I really liked this episode. Everybody seems to be acting like House (going home and letting the others do the work, bullying parents into consent for unnecessary surgery) but House himself. And the fun is back in the series, hooray! Highest giggle factor since season 2 for me! Oh and Diane: "Since their heart-to-heart moment was so rudely interrupted by a teeth-to-arm moment [...]" - that made me laugh out loud, too! ;o)
5 - Amrita
I dont know - I heard some anvils ring. I bet House and Cameron are headed somewhere with all this smoke in the other direction.
Which isn't fair coz I'm now officially a Huddy shipper. Sigh.
6 - Diane Kristine
My guess is that they'll keep sporadically playing with House-Cuddy and House-Cameron, with a little House-Wilson subtext thrown in for fun, through the run of the series.