House Recap” “Finding Judas”

Title: “Finding Judas”
Original Airdate: 11/28/06

First off, let me just start this recap by saying that after perusing various “House” message boards and reading various comments left my policemen and relatives of policemen, I am happy to state with confidence that in reality, NO, Tritter does NOT have the power to seize everyone’s assets. America is not a Police State – only judges and district attorneys, after presenting a substantial amount of evidence, have this power. Cops could never get away with what Tritter is getting away with. There. Now, don’t we all feel better? I know I do.

And now back to the unrealistic world of TV. So we begin the episode with our patient of the week, i.e. a cute little girl and her dad at some sort of amusement park. But while on some sort of spinning ride, the cute little girl suddenly has some sort of bad reaction, and goes into some sort of… Oh, sorry. Basically, she starts screaming like a banshee for no apparent reason – well after the ride stops. Cut to the hospital; cute little girl is in a hospital bed, and Cameron is trying vainly to get some solid answers about the girl’s medical history out of her bitterly bickering parents. To the surprise of no one, we learn this couple is divorced. They also fight constantly about how to raise their daughter – while said daughter is present, I might add. And not surprisingly, this upsets and depresses the child. Poor little Stuck in the Middle Girl. Stupid Selfish Parents.

Meanwhile, House decides to take up an annoying trend from a few years ago by annoyingly shining his laser pointer on people and things at various inappropriate times. This time he’s pointing it at Cuddy’s head and chest during her meeting, in order to embarrass her enough to leave the meeting and give him his damn pills. Of his new toy, House tells Cuddy that, “This baby won me 2nd place in the clinic’s weekly Weirdest Thing pulled Out Of An Orifice Contest – and you do NOT want to know what came in 1st.” Nice to see that House’s witty remarks are still on the ball. Gee, I sure wouldn’t want anyone to be guilt tripped into depriving him of his pills, so that he starts experiencing excruciating pain to the point where he stops making funny sarcastic remarks and starts making just plain MEAN and cutting remarks because he’s in so much physical pain… Yeah, nice one Tritter. You certainly have everyone’s best interest in mind, sure you do. But more on that later.

Anyway, back to the case. So, after raiding his secret-secret-SECRET stash of pills, which is hidden in a Lupus textbook (because, “It’s never Lupus”), House refocuses on the little SIM girl, and concludes that she must have stones in her gall bladder. Unfortunately, her SSP’s can’t agree on whether she should get the surgery: SS Mother says No, while SS Father says Yes. And so, House and Cuddy are forced to take this issue to a Divorce Court judge, because time is of the essence and SIM girl could die. The sassy judge agrees with the doctors, and the surgery is done. Unfortunately, the girl develops a nasty rash post-surgery. More SSP bickering ensues over how to treat it, and thus it’s back to divorce court. This time, the fed-up judge makes a really smart decision: she temporarily transfers custody away from the SSP’s and into Cuddy’s surprised hands. And how does Cuddy decide to treat the girl? By doing the safe, non-threatening tests and treatments.

Unfortunately, said methods land the girl in emergency surgery because of a serious blood clot in her arm. The surgery doesn’t go well, and the girl’s body starts dangerously overheating, causing Cuddy to rush SIM girl under a cold shower in order to quickly cool her down. This is when House lays out one of those incredibly mean remarks, when he chides Cuddy for her disastrous safe approach and says, “Good thing you failed to become a mom because you suck at it!” Ooof! That was really harsh. Cuddy is devastated by this remark – especially since she’s starting to agree that she’d make a terrible mother. Wilson tries to comfort her, but he is clearly upset with House for saying such a nasty thing.

Meanwhile, Tritter’s reign of terror has extended to House’s minions, for now they too are getting all of their accounts frozen. Tritter then tops this off by interrogating/guilt tripping each of House’s minions. During said interviews, we learn that Foreman has a brother who is in jail for drugs, and that Cameron was once married (?!?!). But neither of these two is taking Tritter’s bait – especially Cameron, who stays surprisingly cool and level-headed. The same can’t be said for Chase. Ah, poor Chase. Pretty boy is usually insulted and abused by his colleagues and boss, but he gets it really badly in this episode. First, when Chase starts to defend House’s early theorizing, Foreman chides him with, “You might want to wait until he actually tells us his theory before kissing his theory’s ass.” Zing! Then later on, Cameron and Foreman tell Chase that it’s his father’s fault that Chase is such a butt-kisser, because the man always rewarded said butt-kissing. “Poor guy is hard-wired to kiss ass,” Foreman smirks. Double Zing! And, Ouch! Chase does not appreciate these comments at all. Nor does he appreciate Tritter pretending to make Chase a favorite in order to isolate him and make the others think he turned traitor.

But most especially, Chase is furious at House’s abominable treatment of him. See, for once, Chase is actually the one to figure out the mystery illness of the week – which turns out to be a rare allergy to light – and House is the one who is dead wrong. Like, willing to needlessly amputate poor SIM girl’s arm and leg wrong. [*shudder*] Thank goodness Chase figured the mystery out just in time to stop the amputation from happening at the last second – but not before House decks him in the chin for daring to impede the surgery and stop House from going home. OUCH. And does House apologize for punching Chase, or even acknowledge Chase’s triumph? Of course not. And man, that is it: No more Mr. Nice Chase, because he has seriously had it with House (gosh, I hope pretty boy doesn’t quit as a result…). But you know who’s REALLY upset about what House did to Chase? Wilson. Yes, the episode ends with Wilson walking into Tritter’s office and telling him, “I’m gonna need 30 pieces of silver.” Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!! We have found our Judas, ladies and gentlemen! But really, after all the bitter confrontations between House and Wilson – especially in last week’s episode – it was only a matter of time.

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