House: "Help Me" (06x22) (Finale)

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Oh my God. Six seasons of waiting and the moment I've been waiting for is finally here: Cuddy and House kissed. For real. And not as a apart of the hallucination.
In a monumental finale which had me almost in tears, screaming and biting my nails, the last two minutes were the best ones yet. I'm so happy now I can't even say it. This is awesome.
More coherent thoughts tomorrow.

And now I'm watching it again

EDIT:
Okay, more coherent thoughts on this one. Other than pure squee and delight? This was definitely one of House’s best episodes and Emmy-worthy material for Hugh Laurie. I think that this one will go head to head with instant classics as Three Stories, House’s Head, under my Skin/Both Sides now, Joy, Broken, One Day, one Room etc. And of course this is the mother lode for all Huddy-shippers. But it was also a good and suspenseful dramatic episode – not just a shipping episode.
From the top: We begin exactly where the last episode has ended: house wants to give Cuddy a book her grandfather wrote. He decided not to wait any longer and give it to her and Lucas as a housewarming present. Cuddy reacts kinda strange but House can’t find out why yet because an emergency occurred. A crane fell on a building. Loved btw that he helped her in that suit just as it was the most natural thing in the world.
Off they go to the crash site where House quickly realizes that the crane operator is sick. But before he can leave the site, Cuddy intervenes and House has to stay and help. Cuddy also tells him that she was insecure before because she somehow thought House had found out about her engagement to Lucas the night before. You can see the hurt in his eyes, but he tries to be the bigger man.
Then he hears a knocking and discovers a woman trapped under the concrete. And her begins one of the most compelling patient stories of the last years. House crawls under the concrete and finds a woman whose leg has been trapped under a cement block. Shrieked a little when the woman grabbed his hand btw. I’m a wuss, I know. The woman urges him to stay, but House leaves, gets help and just wants to leave, claiming the crane driver needs him, but I suspect he just wanted to get away from Cuddy.
She tells him she needs him there and he returns to the woman, with a paramedic and Cuddy. The paramedic tries to get the woman out but fails and suggests that they might have to amputate her leg. The woman begs that she wants to keep her leg and House – of course – understands and promises that she can. They try to get her out with heavier machinery and there’s a secondary collapse. Little shock moment there. The woman’s lung crashes and House saves her and then has to be treated himself – by Cuddy.
She bandages his shoulder (sweet) and the paramedic suggests again that they should amputate the leg. House snaps that he is seemingly the only one who knows that a leg is worth and that they should try something else-. Cuddy takes him aside and the following dialogue might be one of the saddest and most dramatic talks they have ever had, concluding with this from Cuddy:
Cuddy: “What are you clinging to, House? You're gonna risk her life just to save her leg? Really worked out well for you, didn't it? What do you have in your life, honestly? Tell me. I'm moving on. Wilson is moving on. And you... you've got nothing, House. Nothing.”
Harsh. Brutal. Unnecessarily? Not really. It was heart-breaking and on the one side I felt so sorry for House, but somehow Cuddy is also right. Tough one.
After this, House goes down to the woman, with Cuddy again, and you might think that he would still maintain that they shouldn’t amputate. But surprisingly House reconsiders and empathetically convinces the patient to let them amputate: “You don’t want to be like me” and “I made a mistake” were admissions that we have never heard him make. Cuddy as also moved.
House even was the one who took the saw and amputated the leg. He drove with the patient to the hospital (shared an intense look with Cuddy before, which I thought would be their last) And then the unthinkable happened: the patient, happily reunites with her husband, crashes and dies. Just like that. Didn’t expect that at all. House (who btw diagnosed the crane operator via phone before) is shocked. Shell-shocked. He can’t do anything anymore. When Foreman opens the ambulance, House looks as if his world just fell apart. Foreman tells him that he couldn’t have done anything, that he did everything right and House yells at him that this was the point. If he did good things, shouldn’t good things happen?
House leaves the hospital, stumbles in his apartment, the place of so many deaths, tears down the bathroom mirror from the wall and finds Vicodin. He takes the two bottles in his hand. He breathes heavily, desperate, only the pills can help him. He pours two of them in his hand. You’re sure he’s going to take them, but he hesitates. He has come a long way in the last year. Will he destroy everything?
This is the point where the spoiler guys’ tape cut off and where my favourite scene of all times begins. Seriously, I got it on my cell phone and have watched it at least ten times already.
House, miserable, panting, sitting on the floor. A figure in pink scrubs appears. It’s Cuddy (Me: OMG, Squeeeee! This can’t be true) Cut to House, he’s a little better:
House: “Are you going to leap across the room and grab them out of my hand?”
Hopeful, miserable.
Cuddy: “No. It’s your choice if you want to go back on drugs”
She knows that he’s the only one who can help himself and the only one who can stay sober. Also, nice call-back to season 5 episode 23, also known as my one week of happiness before episode 24 happened (Read Reviews of “Under my Skin” and “Both Sides Now” HERE and HERE). The real Cuddy doesn’t leap.
House: “Just so you know. It’s hard to see the downside right now”
Still miserable, almost crying. Poor House.
Cuddy: “You have to re-bandage your shoulder”
House: “Is that why you came? Did Foreman send you?”
So much hope and fear in two questions. Is she just here to get him away from drugs, taking care of him because she feels she has to?
Cuddy: “No”
House: “Are you here to yell at me again?”
The way he said that almost broke my heart. Almost no cynicism, he’s really hurt. The woman he loves has nothing but disdain for him.
Cuddy. “No”
House: “Then I’m running out of Ideas”
Cuddy: “Lucas…”
(Me: OMG; she has broken up with him. SHE HAS BROKEN UP WITH HIM! I can see it in her eyes)
House: “Oh great, you’re uncomfortable again. Means you’ve probably just come back from some quickie wedding in Vegas or you’re already pregnant”
Cuddy: “I broke it off” (Me: YAAAA!)
House: “What?!”
Stunning House is almost impossible. It’s a wonderful sight. Full of hope and despair. Why has she broken it off?
Cuddy: “I’m stuck, House. I keep wanting to move forward, I keep wanting to move on, but can’t. I’m in my new house with my new fiancé and all I can think about is you. I just need to know if you and I can work.”
You can see it’s hard for her. This has been her struggle for years. She wants to get away from him, from the hurt he causes her. But she can’t move on. She admitted that she thinks about him all the time. And then there’s his face, his disbelief. And the question he now asks kills me every time:
House: “Do you think I can fix myself?”
Hopeful, desperate, sad. And so honest.
Cuddy: “I don’t know”
House: “Cuz I’m the most screwed-up person in the world”
True. Very true. But for him to see that is a major step. We’ve come a long way from “This is the only me you get”
And then my heart skipped a beat and I got that sinking feeling.
Cuddy: “I know. I love you”
Short break for major squeeing. She admitted it, finally. And then she swallows and adds:
Cuddy: “I wish I didn’t. But I can’t help it”
I think that makes the whole thing even better for House. She loves him despite all reasons that speak against him. She loves him despite him being as he is. I also liked the way he then tries to get up, but can’t and holds his hand out to Cuddy. She takes it and pulls him up. You can only see her face and then finally House’s face moving in. Then the moment I have been waiting for for 4 years. It’s a tender kiss, almost as if he’s afraid he might break her. It’s so different from his hallucination, but not less beautiful. And his hallucination is also on his mind here: They stop.
House: “How do I know I’m not hallucinating?”
He still can’t believe it’s true.
Cuddy: ”Did you take the Vicodin?”
House looks in his hand, where the two pills still are.
House: “No”
Cuddy: “Then I think we’re okay”
She smiles at him and he whispers “Yeah” and a tiny smile is also visible. This moment always kills me. Beautiful. He lets the Vicodin fall to the ground. Then he moves in again, a little more passionate and their hands find each other and the last picture of season 6 is their entwined hands. Beautiful.
So. Deep breath. That was unexpected, beautiful, dramatic and just great. A wonderful season finale. Would have even made a good series finale. Let’s see where the next season will takes us. Oh, I almost forgot that 13 is taking a leave of absence. But who cares if I got House and Cuddy together. I’m so excited to see how that will go. How will they deal with it? I suspect they might not be that successful, but hopefully happy for a while.
Season wrap-up in a little while. Until then, I remain flashed and very happy.

Best Moment: The last three minutes.
Saddest Moment: House telling the woman they will have to amputate.
Favourite Quotes:
Cuddy: I know. I love you. I wish I didn't. But I can't help it.

Cuddy: I'm stuck, House. I keep wanting to move forward. I keep wanting to move on, and I can't. I mean, my new house, with my new fiance, and all I can think about is you. I just need to know if you and I can work.

House: I'm the most screwed up person in the world

Current Mood: SQUEEEEEE!