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House: Finding Judas
(S0309) While this show usually isn't "spun" too much in its promos for the next episodes -- something I'm grateful for -- I'm even more grateful that they don't put the titles of the particular episodes at the beginning of each, because this week's would probably have made some people feel a bit ill. "Finding Judas" is one of the more specific ones we've seen that weren't trying to be punny or something else, and as it turns out, it wasn't House that was looking for the "Judas" in question, it was more like we were, or that his team and colleagues were trying to find the Judas within. Or, even better, that Tritter knew that if he pushed enough buttons, that he would find the Judas in House's life.The case in question this week was quite interesting, as well. A little girl who seems to have an allergy to everything, or perhaps an infection that makes her look allergic to everything, or maybe a flesh-eating disease, or could it be something else? Who knows. All that was clear here was that with extra pressure being put on Chase, Foreman, Cuddy, Cameron, and Wilson, something would probably give - or would it?
Now, back to those promos we were talking about. We pretty much knew that someone was going to say something about House and his drug habit. The writers did a great job at framing Chase - even during the episode - to make us think that he'd be the one to drop the bombshell, but apparently even Detective Tritter saw him as the easy mark that would either sell himself out to the team and cause a rift, or make House mad. Turns out that it almost didn't matter what he did with regard to those guys, as Wilson was the straw that broke. Dr. Wilson, who had pretty much given up his oncology practice due to his inability to prescribe medication to cancer patients, is pretty much just serving time as a clinic doc, mixed in with serving himself peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the staff kitchen. As much as he gets agitated from week to week with what House is doing, it's got to be clear that he is a real friend to House, even as House steals half of his sandwich, drives away on his motorcycle as Wilson is sitting on a bench waiting for a bus, and so on. It's also pretty clear that having that friend in the first place is what's going to get House in trouble.
We also saw Cuddy in a completely different place. While she's obviously practiced medicine or been really involved in things from time to time in this show's 2 1/2 previous seasons worth of episodes, we got to see her not only take on a child as her guardian, but be involved in a surgical procedure and follow that up with trying to help the girl out by cooling her in a shower. To boot, we got to see her feelings hurt in a way that might as well have been as bad as the spear in Jesus' side, if we're going to use the biblical references this week and all.
While we're on that theme, I'd say that asking for "30 pieces of silver" has to be one of the more interesting comments to be uttered from a character on this show. I'd also say that House's knowledge that Chase wasn't the real reason that Tritter had let go of the bank accounts (or at least his allusion that it wasn't him, possibly, and that he just wanted to clear himself with his colleagues) means that he knows the drill, and he is obviously aware of the buttons being pushed. What he might not know, however, is that Wilson truly walked the walk once he saw what would happen if Chase did so. Sure, House is going to have "a decision to make" in the next episode (two weeks!), but he's also going to have to figure out how to deal with Wilson, if it turns out that he finds out who told Tritter the deal. At the end of the day, Wilson helps himself by "helping" a friend, but could it be that he saw the end of Chase's career if the young doc had sold out his boss, and knowing what he had already given up that he needed to just bite the bullet?
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