(S03E07)

Detective Tritter is hanging around the team - still - and is almost begging for something that will damn House to hell, or at least prison. The doctors aren't exactly forthcoming, but they're not exactly hiding everything, either. Cameron's given a little bit of tease about House selling Wilson up the river, Foreman is told that "everyone lies" (which could be a motto for this show), and Chase is pushed a bit on how he might be doing what House wants him to do, not what Chase thinks he should be doing. Well, it's good to see that it took Tritter a long time to figure out a way into the heads of everyone at the hospital, isn't it? Who wouldn't want to see his sitdown interrogation with Cuddy - I'm sure that would work out well.

You also can't ever say that this show doesn't have a hoot of a story just about every single week. I mean, waking up a guy who is in a coma - err, vegetative state - after ten years, just to a) prove a point and b) see if you can help another case is kind of out of control, don't you think? I would seriously hate to peruse the malpractice insurance policy that House and the hospital were using these days.

John Larroquette is making a guest appearance this week playing "Gabe," the father of a young man who comes in to visit his previously asleep dad, but one that House has pushed into a bad situation by forcing seizures on him by flicking the lights and throwing a bag of chips at him. Doesn't sound like much, but I guess when you're right, you're right. Which leads us to this week's theme, pretty much. House at one point tells a story about his father, and when he (House) decided he wanted to become a doctor. While it wasn't exactly the most moving story of all time by any means, it definitely opened a little bit of a door into House's thoughts in general. Although at the same time, it pushes the fact that House, purely and simply, wants to be right all the time. What's so funny about that is while he's good at ultimately figuring things out, he still has to try four or five things along the way.

Getting to see House, Gabe, and Wilson tread their way to Atlantic City so Gabe can get a sandwich that he's been pondering for quite some time - that House feels is a "cover" for his real issues - was kind of comical. Seeing them sit around a hotel room playing a "you ask me after I ask you" game, with Wilson all the while hammering his friend about the police / Tritter situation was well put together, and definitely worth a laugh. Getting to see what someone does when they figure out they have one day left to live, pretty much, was interesting - although spending that day with House is probably not what most people would do.

While we're in a world where O.J. Simpson is (ahem) making headlines for a book and some television interviews about "how he would have done it , were he to have killed his wife and her friend," nothing would really grab headlines the way that the medicine House is practicing on a weekly basis, really. I mean, can't you just see "Rip Van Winkle wakes up, rips out own heart for son" in war font on your local newspaper?

With Wilson apparently in some big trouble with Tritter, it's pretty clear that this whole drugs and police thing isn't going to just drift away, and this show has typically not dropped the ball on anything without some sort of resolution, even if basic. Unless the writers of this show want to have an "end game" in play for it all, I can't see the drug charges killing House's career or putting him in the state pen, can you? I can see that the continued pushing of how he treats his team causing more and more concern on their faces, and definitely making one of them leave the team though. All in all, thought this was a great episode, good use of a guest star, and a crazy ending that we should have seen coming, yet I certainly didn't until House made the call to Cuddy about the heart transplant.