House: Frozen
February 4th 2008 21:27
Open on a blizzard at a frozen American base in the South Pole, where a guy named Sean is out trying to fix the generator. Just as he’s getting ready to head back inside, he turns just in time to watch a blade snap off one of the windmills in the storm. It hurtles towards him and slashes him in the leg. Luckily, he radios for help and Dr. Cate Milton is able to get him inside. She examines his leg, uses glue to repair his cut femoral artery (apparently at this temperature it’s the best thing to do) then checks his toes. It seems he’ll be fine. Suddenly she grabs her stomach, doubles over in pain and gasps, “I need help.”
Meanwhile, back at Princeton-Plainsboro, House is struggling with a comatose patient’s fuzzy TV trying to get cable. Cuddy walks in to tell him he’s been requested to help Cate, but House is more worried about the cable. She finally tells him that it’s only available in rooms now for a fee. He is not happy.
House and his team discuss the possibility of kidney stones or appendicitis. House pulls out a box containing all the supplies Cate would have in the South Pole. He dumps it on the table, and Taub asks what else they have down there? “I don’t mean medical stuff, I mean other stuff. Some geologic equipment breaks ice and rock the same way we do kidney stones.” At everyone’s looks, he adds, “The Discovery Channel. I like watching them blow things up.” House: “Who doesn’t?”
He leaves and goes to Cameron for help, or rather to try and push her into getting the budget committee to reinstall free cable. Cameron ignores him while he follows her around and finally tells him that charging patients for cable brings in $13,000 a month. House decides he’s going to go around emptying boxes of supplies until he can waste 13 grand a month. He gets Taub, Kutner, and Thirteen to go annoy Cameron until she gets the cable back.
Despite the lack of cable, House finds he gets the South Pole in HD quite nicely. He and Foreman talk to Cate over a teleconference and gets her to try out a sound wave procedure on an egg. She does. The egg pretty much explodes. She says she’s not doing that to her kidney. Foreman asks her to do a chem. 7 test to check her kidney function, and House wants her to take cefuroxime in the meantime.
House’s team goes straight to Cameron and tells her House’s orders to make her life miserable until the cable is back. They try intimidating her, and when that doesn’t work, they decide maybe they should pay for the cable themselves. Cameron over hears this, turns around and says, “No…”
Foreman tells Cate that her kidney function is declining and House notices she hasn’t been taking her medicine. Cate says that Sean (the man with the severed artery) needs it more than she does. Suddenly she starts to have trouble breathing, and House tells her to lift her chin so he can see her neck. He sees that her lung is collapsing, and orders her to stab herself in the chest with a syringe to inflate her lung. When she does he tells her, “See all the good stuff that happens when you listen to me?” Her response? “Means it’s not a kidney stone.”
Cate’s stubbornness makes House like her. Although he denies it of course when Wilson insists that he does.
Cate has to use an oxygen mask to breathe, and Foreman and House argue over the webcam about the possibility of cancer. He tells he she needs to X-ray her whole body since that’s the only imaging equipment they have on the base. She does, and Wilson gets House to look at the lymph node slides. They decide she should have a biopsy, but Wilson argues that she can’t biopsy because she doesn’t have the equipment to do the stain. House argues that anything with a strong enough color could do it.
After deciding that feeling the lymph nodes would be an easier and faster way to diagnose than the x-rays, House gets Cate to take her clothes off for an exam only after he shows her his apartment via the webcam. Being a psychiatrist, Cate automatically starts to analyze him, Much to House’s annoyance. He wants her to get on with the exam, and she will as long as he lets her keep her socks on. It is the South Pole after all. He agrees and finally he guides her in finding the lymph nodes and she finds a swollen one in her stomach.
Meanwhile, Foreman and Wilson search for a dye substitute to use in the biopsy. They agree that Cate is perfect for House and that spaghetti and soy sauce don’t work.
House and Wilson convince Cate to do a biopsy on herself, and when she inserts the needle into her stomach, House is strangely kind. He actually asks her if she’s okay, and Wilson is quick to point out that he never asks anyone if they’re okay. Not even him in all the years they’ve known each other!
House asks Wilson who he’s meeting for lunch, but his friend won’t tell him. Cameron shows up and tells House that she’s resigned from the budget committee. She can’t help him with his cable anymore. House stares at the paper as she walks away, a smile on her face. His next plan of action is to have his team post up fliers for free puppies that have Cameron’s home number on them. They say only to call after midnight and before 5 a.m.
Cate does her biopsy with red wine, Wilson looks at it and assures her she doesn’t have cancer. She ruminates on the fact that House and Wilson are total opposites, yet best friends…When she starts having pain again, they realize her kidneys are still failing. House talks to her again in from his apartment and tells her she may have autoimmunde diseases, SLE, or vasculitis. He wants her to start taking prenisode, but she refuses until she has proof that she really needs it.
Back in the office, Foreman tells Cate she should go outside to cool the inflammation. House doesn’t want her too, but she tells him she’ll take Sean with her.
Meanwhile, House has snatched Wilson’s wallet to look at his lunch receipts.
To test for autoimmunity, they decide that Cate should drop a paperclip into the test tube to break up her blood cells. If she doesn’t have it, her sells will enlarge.
The next day, Cuddy tells House and Foreman that she was forced to fire Cameron for a mistake in the ER. House thinks she’s lying and doesn’t give it a second thought. He thinks Cuddy has just joined Cameron in the conspiracy against him and his cable. House continues to pester Wilson about his new girlfriend, but Wilson doesn’t budge.
When Cate suddenly passes out, House gets Sean to drink her urine. If it tastes watery then the problem is with the brain, if there’s a strong taste, it means there’s a kidney problem. House suddenly realizes Sean is in love with Cate. He tells him that’s good, because now he knows he’ll do anything for Cate.
Sean finds a watery taste, indicating intracranial pressure or a hypothalamus malfunction. Sean’s going to have to drill a hole in Cate’s skull. Sean says he’s not a doctor, he can’t do that! But House assures him that he’s not going to let Sean hurt Cate. Finally, he agrees to do it.
After drilling the hole, Cate regains consciousness. The team tries to come up for the reason for her symptoms, and after arguing for a while, thirteen finally throws down her papers and says she’s not playing this game anymore. House lets out an exasperated noise, saying that finally someone got the point of the game! He wants them to argue with him, not run around worrying every second that they might get fired!
They start bouncing ideas off, and House keeps telling them their idiots. Suddenly Kutner sticks up for himself, and House rolls his eyes. But then he realizes that he’s right. He realizes suddenly that the fat emboli clotting her blood flow could have been from a break in the one part of Cate’s body he didn’t see because he let her keep her socks on.
House tells Cate to show her his feet and she’s shocked to find that her big toe is broken. Bits of bone marrow have been leaking into her blood stream and causing all the other problems. She couldn’t feel it because of the South Pole cold. House tells Sean to pull on the toe and he fixes her broken bone. Cate hugs him and thanks House.
House shows up at the restaurant where Wilson is waiting for his date. He starts to push him for her name again, and suddenly he turns to find, Amber! (a.k.a. “Cutthroat B*tch” who was trying out for a part on House’s team.) She smirks at House, kisses Wilson, and leaves poor House in a amusing state of shock
Quotes of the Week:
Wilson: You don’t like her because she’s a psychiatrist.
House: I’m a complicated man. I loathe her for many reasons.
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Wilson: That makes sense.
House: That makes sense?
Wilson: I said it first.
House: In a shockingly calm matter…after I’ve been jerking you around for 30 seconds...without you complaining or analyzing said jerking.
Wilson: I was being mature.
House: In a lavender shirt…You for some reason are happy.
Wilson: How dare you. X-rays don’t show any abnormal nodes.
House: Well abnormal nodes can be felt before they can be seen on x-rays—you’re wearing that shirt for someone.
Wilson: The Health Department. They frown on topless oncology.
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Wilson: “Are you okay?”
House: Valid medical question.
Wilson: I have never heard you ask a patient that ques—you’ve never asked me that question, and you’ve seen me fall down a flight of stairs drunk!
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House: Where you going?
Wilson: Out to lunch.
House: You never go out to lunch…so there’s a reason you’re going out to lunch and I assume the reason is a human being.
Wilson: Or a sandwich.
House: Sandwiches can come here.
Wilson: So can human beings.
House: And yet she’s not, which I find interesting.
Wilson: I’m leaving.
House: Small world! *starts to follow him*
Wilson: Are you going to follow me into my car?
House: It’s got two doors.
*Wilson stops*
Wilson: Okay look, the reason I haven’t told you is *makes a mad dash for the door and out into the snow*
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House: Get me cable, how tough can that be? Cost a woman her job. There’s only one thing you can say to keep me from firing you.
Thirteen: Cameron wasn’t fired, we—
House: Wrong!
Taub: You know?
Kutner: We’re still fired?
House: That should be a hint as to what you’re supposed to say…
Taub: We’re sorry?
House: Wrong.
Kutner: I love you.
House:…Wrong!
Thirteen: This is a game? First we have to screw with our co-worker, now we have to try to figure what you want us to say? This is insane, I’m not playing.
House: Right! You should have said this two days ago. Do NOT play games with me. Number one, you’re going to lose, you’re just not ready. Number two, the game was to force you to stop playing games! I need you to stand up to me, challenge me! I need you to stop worrying about getting fired…Now go pay for my cable.
*House starts to leave*
Kutner: No!
House: *turns around* I didn’t mean on this. *starts to leave again.* Seriously, I need cable.
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