The fact that Wilson still yawns on speed is House's proof that the oncologist is on anti-depressants, and he berates him for keeping it a secret. Mid-rant, Wilson cuts him off with: "This is why I take them," but House has the best retort: "They're antidepressants, not anti-annoyance-ants." House implies Wilson's a hypocrite for not mentioning them while lecturing House on how to fix his own life.
"You wouldn't take them," Wilson protests. "You'd rather OD on Vicodin or stick electrodes in your head because you could say you did it to get high. The only reason to take anti-depressants is that you're depressed. You have to admit you're depressed."
It's the line I've been waiting for since "Half-Wit" – some implicit acknowledgment that the buried motivation for House faking brain cancer was something other than getting high, that it was the act not just of an out of control drug addict, but of man desperate for, but unwilling to admit a need for, help.
House would not agree. So it's a challenge he meets by demanding some of Wilson's pills to prove he's not depressed. Wilson, inexplicably – except I've explicated it in this review before the episode did – refuses.
There's an odd, but also funny and sexy, scene in there when Cameron sneaks into House's apartment to wake him up in the middle of the night, since he's not answering the phone (hmm, because of the drugs?). She's getting good at that breaking and entering thing. "What did you do?" she exclaims when she turns on the light and sees his face. "Nothing! This is what regular people look like when you wake them up."
Chase's diagnosis of autoimmune has been proven wrong, leaving only an infection that comes and goes through various body parts on the table again. House is ecstatic. Inappropriately ecstatic and self-absorbed, as his team points out. Foreman considers it yet another sign that his decision to quit was the right one. To House, confirming the diagnosis is all that matters. The fact that it's incurable doesn't dampen his Prozac-enhanced spirits, because his curiosity has been satisfied, and curiosity is what drives him, not that Ben and Jody are losing their only daughter, Addie.
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.