He also bounces around with his camcorder, gets giddy at the prospect of his patient's impending heart attack, shows even more traces of Hugh Laurie's rubber-faced comedic past, and overall seems oddly peppy for a guy continuously proven wrong, or at least not proven right.
Until he is proven right, just not in the way he thought. He's also proven right about Wilson and his yawning as a medical symptom. We see House get amphetamines from the pharmacy for no particular reason – but then does House need a reason to illegally procure drugs? – and then sit at his desk with two cups of coffee and an evil grin.
Wilson is suspicious of the coffee offering from the man who constantly begs, borrows, and steals food and beverages from him. "Because it's either that or I accept the fact that you've done something nice, and then I have to deal with the horsemen, and the rain of fire, and the end of days," Wilson explains.
So House and Wilson play a little Vizzini and Wesley, and Wilson takes the cup that was not offered to him. Did House predict he'd do that, or did he lace them both? I'm inclined to think it doesn't take a genius to think Wilson would not take the proffered cup, but I have no idea how someone would act on the combination of anti-depressants, Vicodin, and amphetamines.
Because, as House deduces later, Wilson has been dosing him, too. Scary how alike they are, underneath all that unalikeness. Wilson's experiment is testing if House is happier on anti-depressants, proof that he's depressed. I hope Wilson knows how anti-depressants would interact with Vicodin, amphetamines, alcohol, and god knows what else House puts in his system, because otherwise he's quite the hypocrite for complaining about how dangerous House's experiment is.
What amphetamines do to Wilson is make him jittery and talk a mile a minute. His pep talk to Foreman is less effective than entertaining, and he conducts a highly inappropriate breast exam on a confused patient. Finally Wilson realizes something's not quite right: "I feel like my heart's going to explode." Don't say that, Wilson. Not in this episode of the exploding head. "Excuse me, I have to go kill someone."
Article comments
1 - Maddoc
Hmmmmmm.
2 - Kaonashi
The exploding head scene was sooo gross. They were picking up pieces of her scalp and putting it in a bag! *BARF*
I'm not sure about the patient's form of suicide though. Turning kitchen cleanser into a pill sounds far-fetched to me. If she were truly depressed and suicidal, wouldn't have she just done the deed much quicker? Is this based on a real event?
3 - Diane Kristine
I don't know - I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on truth, but it did seem like a too-convenient way to commit suicide (and then go to karate?), designed to create a medical mystery instead of being all that believable. It didn't bother me too much, but it was a little jarring.
4 - Kaonashi
Hi Diane,
Exactly! She tries to kill herself and then goes to karate class? I wonder if it was an actual attempt of suicide or a desperate call for help to her parents.
5 - MT
I kind of buy the suicide thing. She doesn't know why she wants to do it, and she doesn't want others (like parents) to know, doesn't want to have traces of drugs in her system, so have the kitchen cleaner in the pill sounds like a good way of going about it. Although I'm not quite sure how House got the kitchen cleaner and pill thing; I didn't recall it's been mentioned anywhere till he brought it up, so that's a bit wierd.
Also, she would have done it a while ago(thus the scars forming), but no immediate effect, so she's still going abouther business like karate as usual, kind of like a routine that one just does but without actually experience the moment. That's my take on it.
6 - Diane Kristine
You're right about the timing - I'd forgotten about the scar tissue, so she didn't likely gobble the pills and then go to karate. It still felt they created a convoluted suicide attempt to turn it into a medical mystery, but whatever. I was too distracted by exploding heads to be bothered too much.
7 - PDESR
I believe that the only way Foreman is going to stay is if he winds up overriding House on a decision and saves a patients life. I think it may be the only way he could personally justify his continued existence on the team.