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(S03E12) It's certainly been a while since we've been treated to Dr. House's charms and ability to make patients feel better in a single bound, but now he's back, and better than ever. Or, at least he's out of jail, and back on the Vicodin. One of the better strings of dialogue that this show has had was in last night's show, when House and Cuddy are discussing the fact that she perjured herself to keep him out of jail, and now he's going to do clinic duty, and next he's going to do his paperwork because she kept him out of jail, and so on and so forth. He's *so* right, and she *so* knows it, and that's why you have to love their interaction, because it digresses to the high school-esque flirting situation, even if it is only from one side, every so often.
Other than the "opening up" that House did on this episode, the other thing that struck me in a big way was the lack of focus on the rest of the characters, sans Cameron. She's left to contend with a patient struck down with a cancerous mass in his lung, who is looking for a place to sleep. He appears to have figured out about her husband's suffering, but she quickly determines that a nurse led him on. To me, this almost felt like this patient was playing a "ghost of Christmas past" type of character, sent there just for Cameron, to change her perspective on things.
House's dealings with Eve, the only clinic patient who happens to have an STD, definitely broke down a fence that we hadn't even approached before. She, after being raped, and coming down with chlamydia (and later is determined to be pregnant), lashes out at House when he touches her. His attempt to pawn her off to another doctor in the hospital end up drawing him back to her in a number of ways, especially when he sees how she reacts to the other doc by trying to kill herself with medication.
Telling stories is something House is prone to do, especially when dealing with younger patients, and others he just wants to get rid of. This time around, with Eve, he tells a story as it traces back to his grandmother, and she doesn't believe that it could be the case, and he just boiled down and played it off as a lie. What I was so surprised by was that, in the end, he came out and told her what the real deal was, how his father was the one forcing him to take ice baths, among other things. He knew, deep down (is there a deep down in House?) that he had to give something up to get her to tell her story, and that that would be the only way that Eve would be able to heal. He also seemed to want to say that she would have a hard time, later on in life, if she had given birth to the baby of the man who raped her. Cuddy wanted House to get a little more humanized by working with patients in the clinic, but I am guessing she wasn't expecting to have this kind of result in this short of a time period. He didn't even have to spend the whole three days there before having a solid breakdown of his own that helped someone for the better.
With Tritter far out of the way, House seemingly making Cuddy a little more happy, and Cameron having a life-changing experience, what could come next for this band of physicians? More random, reckless surgery, or perhaps just more dramatic caseloads that make us all want to scratch our eyes out? I'm still one to say that there's a high chance of someone leaving the team, and the money seems to be leaning towards Cameron, more than Foreman, who had his taste of power not so long ago, and might want more of it. But a little foreshadowing doesn't go a long way on this show, as we've learned a number of times before.
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