House Season Four Premier
26 September 2007What a great launch.
A young woman is crushed when her place of work collapses due to a natural gas leak/explosion. She is rushed to Princeton, where House, now all alone since losing his crew last season, must rush to find out why she has so many problems. I mean, duh, she was crushed by a building. But further testing reveals that she was also an alcoholic, on antidepressants, and allergic to a medication she had taken recently in the past, but didn’t have an allergic reaction to at that time. So now what? The girl is badly damaged, and her boyfriend and parents are adamant that she never did booze, drugs, or cheated on her boyfriend (Did I failed to mention that a test also revealed that she had an abortion?).
So what does House do without a team? And why is House without a team, you ask? Well, didn’t you watch last season? Quick rundown: House fired Chase for reaching his peak as a diagnostic team doctor; Foreman quit because he was turning into a heartless jerk and didn’t want to become House Jr.; Dr. Cameron quit because she is a weak, bleeding heart fool.
So house starts bouncing ideas off the janitor, even talking the man into donning a smock and getting signatures from the girl’s parents. He is soon discovered and House is given a tongue-lashing from Cuddy (no biggie there). In the meantime, Dr. Wilson has stolen House’s $12,000 guitar and holds it ransom until House interviews at least five people to replace his team. House retaliates by ‘hiding’ (aka transferring) one of Dr. Wilson’s patients to another floor and not telling him where.
House ends up solving the mystery of the girl with the mysterious past: she wasn’t the right victim. In the confusion of the building collapse and recovery missions, the girl was mistaken for a co-worker that look a lot like her. She was so badly bruised that her family and boyfriend mistook her for their own. Eventually, they had to be told that their daughter/girlfriend was actually dead, and the real victim’s family was notified.
The end of the episode showed Dr. House pulling in 30 people to the lecture room to interview them all at once. He mentioned that his interviewing methodology would be time consuming, unfair, and probably illegal. Awesome.
No comments yet