After being released from the mental facility, House returns to Princeton Plainsboro and quits. He and his therapist are sure that working in the hospital will only bring him back to Vicodin. Cuddy seems to be okay with it, although shocked at first, and when House is out the door, Foreman has a demand: He wants to become the new boss of the Diagnostic Department. Cuddy tells him that there's really no Dianostic Department because it was built for House, but Foreman gets his chance: He has to solve one case and prove he's a genius like House. Genius 2.0. that is.
The patient of the week was a computer programmer whose hands were "burning" after he played a test version of his game. The cold opening was two minutes of this game. First I thought I was watching the wrong show and then it was still kinda weird. And the computer geek was kinda weird, too. He was googling his symptons and later posted them and offered a 25K reward for the diagnosis. Foreman, Taub and Thirteen tried to find his diagnosis, but had several problems. But the patient was the least of all: Foreman tried to be the boss and Thirteen and Taub were of course not very happy. Especially Thirteen who had to deal with the fact that her boyfriend was her boss now. She accepted it, albeit unwillingly whereas Taub quit his job. He just quit. I wonder what will happen now, when he's going to be back and how it will all play out. Foreman and Thirteen went on on their own and had a diagnosis. But Foreman suddenly realized that the diagnosis was wrong (in a very Housian epiphany) and went back to the patient. But Thirteen already changed the treatment and had the same diagnosis: A guy on the internet was right. The patient was healed, but Foreman fired Thirteen because he needed her as his girlfriend and not as his employée.
Oh Foreman, you were borderline interesting this episode and I suddenly cared for your relationship with Thirteen. But still, there was so much about them this episode, I really don't need that every week.
But wait, what did House do all the time? After quitting at the hospital he moved in with Wilson and went to a cooking class with him. Of course, House obsessed over cooking as he used to do over diagnostic medicine. He perfected his cooking skills because then his leg didn't hurt as much. He even made contact with another cooking student, a Chinese woman. She helped him just when Cuddy was visiting him. And they had an honest conversation. He told her that it was not her fault he left the hospital ("We flirted. We kissed. I fondled. I hallucinated sex with you and yelled it from the hospital balcony.") and she said that she'd miss him. The Chinese woman said what I thought: "Either kiss him or leave" Hihi.
Well, the cooking didn't help long and neither did the Biggest Loser marathon on TV (BTW, I pretend they can see me eating, too ;) ) and he was tempted to take Vicodin again. Wilson was supectinf that and brought Cuddy to confront him, but House was clean. He then admitted to his therapist that he found another way to feel better. Internet diagnosis. It tunrns out he was the one to solve the case of the Internet geek and he was right. This made the therapist reconsider his opinion that House shouldn't practice medicine. I guess this means that House will be back next week and Taub probably, too.
All in all, I enjoyed this episode but there was a little too much Foreteen. Enjoyed Cuddy and House scenes and the very funny House-Wilson scenes. More please.
Best Moment: House and Wilson in the cooking class. The meatball conversation was fantastic.
Weirdest Moment: The cold opening.
Favourite Quotes:
House: "Ladies, avoid your eyes. (To Cuddy) You too."
Wilson: "My godson made me that cup."
Current Mood: Mixed
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