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Epic Fail
Episode 603 : 2009-09-28
Players in a video game known as SavageScape battle ferocious creatures. After the game ends, the testers find their boss, Vince Pearson, claiming that his hands are on fire.
House walks into Cuddy's office and quits. Foreman wants to run the diagnostic department and Cuddy offers him a chance to do it. Foreman settles in to House's office.
Foreman discusses Vince's case with Taub and Thirteen. Foreman says to treat him for complex regional pain syndrome with a spinal stimulation. Vince has other ideas, having looked up his symptoms on the internet. He thinks he must have mercury poisoning and wants to be tested. Despite Foreman's orders, Thirteen and Taub perform the test for mercury and not the spinal stimulation.
House has therapy with Dr. Nolan, who instructs him to take up a hobby. He joins Wilson in a cooking class.
Foreman gives Vince news that his mercury test came out negative. Vince demands treatment for the mercury but Foreman challenges him. Taub and Thirteen administer the spinal stimulation, and it sets Vince's lungs full with fluid.
Taub and Thirteen report back to Foreman that Vince has a thickened left ventricle in his heart, which caused pulmonary edema. Taub speculates that cocaine could be the culprit. Foreman admits to Thirteen that he has been comparing himself to House. Taub and Thirteen go search Vince's office.
Cuddy visits House at Wilson's apartment. He is cooking with a Chinese classmate and they talk about Cuddy in Chinese. Cuddy wants to know if she is the reason that House left the hospital. He says no.
As Taub and Thirteen play SavageScape, she complains that Foreman told her that he made a dinner reservation rather than asking her. Thirteen realizes that Vince, in researching the birds in the video game, may have caught something avian. She tells the patient he may have an infection called psittacosis, and Vince informs her that he has had a three-hour erection.
The doctors implant a stint for the priapism. Thirteen suggests Vince has a brain tumor but Foreman overrules her with a diagnosis of Thrombocystosis. Taub agrees with Foreman. Thirteen and Foreman are arguing about the new dynamic in their relationship when they see strange doctors in the patient's room. Vince brought posted his symptoms on the internet and brought in the doctors to diagnose him. Before Foreman can kick them out, one suggests the possibility of a brain tumor. Thirteen tries to be diplomatic by saying that both Foreman's diagnosis and the other doctor's have merit.
In the middle of the night, House cooks up different versions of meat sauce. He makes Wilson taste them.
Foreman is angry that Thirteen did not completely back him up. The MRI comes out clean, so he orders her to treat Vince for Thrombocystosis. Thirteen complains to House. He tells her to give in to save their relationship. She tastes the egg dish he is preparing, and she is impressed.
House decides to give up cooking because his leg pain returns. He confides to Dr. Nolan that he is afraid of turning back to Vicodin. Later, House goes back to his apartment and finds a bottle of Vicodin.
Foreman apologizes to Thirteen and they make up. They rush to Vince because he has a new symptom of swollen lymph nodes. Foreman was wrong about Thrombocystosis and Vince offers a $25,000 reward for an answer online. The team is swamped by suggestions sent in from the public. Vince wants to be tested for amyloidosis. Foreman makes a deal with him.
Taub tells Foreman the test results show deposits in the renal endothelium consistent with amyloidosis. Foreman is discouraged and turns to Thirteen for support.
Wilson finds House feeling much better, which worries him. Wilson shares his concerns with Cuddy. He had House's urine tested and it came back clean because it was from a dog.
Vince wanders to the hospital lobby, hallucinating that he is in the world of the video game. Foreman approaches and finds him feverish. Thirteen and Foreman discuss the diagnosis while Vince is in a tub to reduce his fever. Thirteen wants to turn to the internet theories but Foreman thinks Vince has LCDD, which can be treated with chemotherapy.
Wilson and Cuddy confront House. To prove he is clean, he urinates in their presence.
Foreman has taken a shower and looks at his fingers in the locker room. He rushes to stop the chemo. Vince's fingers did not prune up after being in the bathtub for an hour. This is a symptom of Fabry's disease. Thirteen also came to this conclusion based on iodine mumps, which came from an internet suggestion.
Thirteen comes to see Foreman in House's office. He is angry, but he needs her love. He fires her instead.
House shows Dr. Nolan a check for $25,000 that he earned from solving Vince's case online. Nolan thinks it is best for House to return to diagnostic medicine in order to save him from his own addiction.
E ufficioso:
When the episode begins, three virtual reality game designers are playing a demo of their latest creation. Faster than you can say “fragged,” the trio is finished off in a hail of CGI gunfire—game over. The two techies begin to complain to their boss, Vince, about his less than impressive performance when they find him on a nearby couch, rocking back and forth in pain. “My hands!” he pants. “They’re on fire!”
Thirteen sees Vince in the ER and has no idea what’s wrong with him. She offers to refer him to a neurologist, but he wants to know what the hospital’s “genius diagnostics guy” is doing.
Cut to the genius submitting his resignation. House explains to Cuddy and Foreman that his psychiatrist has recommended a change of environment in order to avoid slipping back into the familiar patterns of self-destructive behavior. Cuddy is surprised but accepts his decision. House has barely left the room before Foreman demands to be named the new Chief of Diagnostics. Obviously feeling all misty-eyed over the departure of her devastatingly handsome employee, Cuddy grants his former protégée one chance to prove he can do the job.
Foreman assembles his team of Taub and Thirteen for the DDX. Thirteen suggests Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, and Foreman orders spinal cord stimulation. Vince, however, has other ideas. He’s done some research on the Internet and diagnosed himself with mercury poisoning; he wants a blood test to confirm. Rather than argue, Thirteen and Taub agree to do the test. Meanwhile, Cameron pays a visit to Foreman and winds up accidentally ratting out Taub and Thirteen. Foreman catches up with his ex-teammates in the lab. Upset that they didn’t follow his instructions immediately, he does everything but pee on the Bunsen burners to mark his superior territory. The test for mercury poisoning comes out negative. Foreman tells Vince that, though his mercury levels are elevated, they aren’t high enough to have caused his symptoms. Vince is unconvinced and demands chelation to remove the heavy metal from his body. Foreman arrogantly tells him if that’s the way he feels, he’ll have to get another doctor. Vince reluctantly agrees to the spinal stimulation.
During a session with Dr. Nolan, House admits to having mixed feelings about quitting his job. He also complains that the pain in his leg has gotten worse. Nolan advises him to get a hobby to stay connected to other people. House expresses skepticism, saying he’s already got a roommate. Nolan then asks what Wilson likes to do, prompting the hearts of Hilsons all over the world to spontaneously combust House to attend Jimmy’s cooking class. Together, they make meatballs and lots of testicle jokes.
After their patient suffers pulmonary edema during the spinal stimulation, Foreman and his team reconfer. They now decide cocaine use would explain all the symptoms but, instead of relying on House’s method of breaking and entering to find the truth, Foreman wants to do things his own way. He insists on simply asking Vince if he uses. Vince denies it, and Foreman isn’t sure what to believe. At a loss, he tells Thirteen to take Taub with her to do the B&E. She’s on her way out the door when he adds that they have dinner reservations for seven. Thirteen says she’d prefer dinner at eight, but Foreman makes it clear he expects her to be there at seven.
Cuddy goes to Wilson’s apartment to see House. He’s cooking with a woman from class but assures his former boss that she doesn’t speak English. Speaking freely in front of the stranger, Cuddy tells House she can’t help but wonder if she’s the reason he left the hospital. House denies it. Cuddy confesses she’s going to miss him. In perfect English, the woman from cooking class calls out, “Lady, either kiss him or leave. We’ve got work to do!” Smiling, Cuddy makes her exit.
When Thirteen and Taub return from tossing Vince’s office, they learn he has a new symptom to add to their list: priapism. But speaking of persistent penises, Foreman continues to act overbearing with Thirteen, even bringing up the fact that she missed dinner helping Taub put in a shunt to relieve their patient’s erection. He then dismisses her suggestion of a brain tumor in favor of his own diagnosis, thrombocytosis. They share the news with their patient, only to learn that he’s posted a list of his symptoms on the Internet in an open call to other doctors. One of these competing doctors diagnoses him with a brain tumor. Foreman presents his thrombocytosis theory, and Vince turns to Thirteen to break the tie. Though she tries to remain neutral, it’s obvious she doesn’t side with Foreman. Vince demands a MRI to look for the tumor. Seething, Foreman agrees.
It’s morning at the Hilson home. In a sweetly dysfunctional domestic scene, Jimmy wakes to find House hard at work over the stove. Complimenting the food, he asks if House slept at all the previous night. Of course the answer is no. Wilson remarks on his roomie’s obsessive behavior, and House replies, “What do you expect? I’m an addict. I turn everything up to eleven.” Besides, he admits, he needed a distraction from his hurting leg.
Foreteen squabble again while running the patient’s MRI. When it comes out clean with no sign of a brain tumor, Foreman orders Thirteen to treat for thrombocytosis. Upset, Thirteen goes to House with her boyfriend problems. During the course of the conversation, she also mentions that their patient posted his case online. House plies his guest with elaborately prepared food then tells her she’ll be happier if she learns when to give in. Thirteen tells House he’s a wonderful cook. Too bad his leg still hurts.
While his girlfriend talks to House, Foreman turns to Chase for relationship advice. Chase’s opinion is that Thirteen’s just doing her job and if Foreman can’t handle that, he’ll have to fire her.
The next morning, Wilson finds House sitting on the couch, watching television and eating ice cream. Chef Gregory announces he’s taking the day off from cooking. Worried, Wilson asks about his leg; House says it’s fine. Later, however, he confesses to Dr. Nolan that the pain has gotten worse. Cooking isn’t a good enough distraction anymore. Nolan reminds House that he was released from the institution because he has the skills to cope. After the appointment, House returns to his old apartment and retrieves a bottle of Vicodin.
Foreman brings Thirteen a donut to apologize for his recent behavior. She accepts, and they’re just starting to enjoy a little dessert with their breakfast when they receive a page from the hospital. The patient’s lymph nodes are grossly enlarged, and the treatment for thrombocytosis hasn’t helped. Vince declares he’s put out a $25,000 reward to anyone who can cure him. The team is inundated with phone calls, faxes and emails. Vince tells them amyloidosis is the most often suggested diagnosis and demands to be tested. Foreman offers him a deal: he’ll do the biopsy on the condition that Vince removes his case from the Internet when the test comes out negative. Vince agrees. Unfortunately, the results of the biopsy are consistent with amyloidosis. The Internet wins again! Taub adds insult to Foreman’s injured ego by quitting. Thirteen cheers up her boyfriend with tales of lesbian sex at Sarah Lawrence.
More odd coupling with Greg and Jimmy… When Wilson ditches his standing Tuesday date with Cuddy to come home for lunch, House insists there’s no need for anyone to check up on him. Folding laundry and singing, he walks out of the room without his cane. Wilson is worried enough to rig his toilet’s intake valve to collect a sample of House’s urine. The urinalysis shows the sample comes from a Labrador Retriever. Realizing he’s been duped, Wilson takes his concerns to Cuddy.
Vince hallucinates that he’s back in the virtual reality game. Foreman and Thirteen subdue him in the lobby and find he’s running a very high fever, something not associated with amyloidosis. They put Vince on a cold table to bring down the fever and come up with yet another diagnosis. The standard treatment is chemo but, in Vince’s condition, it could kill him if the diagnosis is incorrect. Vince consents to the chemotherapy.
Cuddy and Wilson confront House, but the only thing he’ll admit to is getting a dog to pee in Wilson’s toilet. That doesn’t satisfy their questions, so he drops trou right in front of them and leaves a urine sample in one of Wilson’s coffee mugs. Cuddy does a very poor job of hiding her eyes.
Back at the hospital, Vince’s fingers haven’t pruned after an hour on the cold table. Foreman recognizes this as a symptom of Fabry disease and races to stop the chemo, but Thirteen has already beat him to it. Privately, she confesses that she got the diagnosis from one of the Internet submissions. Foreman is upset, even after Cuddy officially puts him in charge of the department. He tells Thirteen that he doesn’t want to lose her because of the tension between them at work… and then he fires her.
In a session with Nolan, House confesses to a relapse. Instead of taking pills, he explains that he went online and solved Vince’s case. It made his leg stop hurting. The psychiatrist says that practicing diagnostic medicine may be House’s answer to keeping clean. House worries a return to the hospital will eventually lead him back to the pills, and Nolan admits that’s a possibility. “Well,” House sighs, “I guess we’re going to find out.”
Edited by LaurieLo - 13/10/2009, 09:11
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