House: Whatever it Takes
November 7th 2007 05:22
Forman came back last week and now that House has decided he can’t humiliate him enough to force him to quite, he leaves him in charge as he is contracted out to the CIA. Yep, you heard right the CIA wants House to come look at one of their own who someone tried to assassinate. House doesn’t believe it at first, that the guy sent to get him is really CIA or that the other guy has radiation poisoning. He hits on the CIA doctor and totally ignores the other one’s diagnosis, believing that the patient is suffering from cancer, not radiation poisoning.
Meanwhile, the team has to figure out what’s wrong with a young racecar driver who collapsed after her most recent race. Foreman thinks it’s just heatstroke, everyone else has their own competitive theory ranging from Lupus to Polio.
As both cases progress it looks like House and Foreman are both going to be taught a lesson in humility, but in both cases just when they’re about to accept that they were wrong in the diagnosis, it turns out they’re not.
The CIA agent who brought in House told him the dying agent had been in Bolivia when in fact it was really Brazil. The poor guy isn’t dying from cancer or radiation poisoning it was just nuts. Brazil nuts to be exact, that when eaten in large amounts have the same side effects as radiation poisoning. House and Dr. Terzi tell him he was an idiot, then House treats the patient the right way.
When he gets back to the hospital, he’s told that his six remaining job candidates cured Polio with orange juice. Lots and lots of orange juice. Foreman comes in and says that they didn’t, that he re-ran the test and the patient never had Polio to begin with. Everyone says that’s absurd, but House says either the test was wrong, or somebody would have to poison the patient to make it look like she had Polio so he could come in with a ton of Vitamin C and make it look like he saved the day. As it turns out, this is exactly what happened. #37, the Doctors Without Borders Travis Brennan did just that. House tells him he’s not going to fire him because Travis is going to quit. When Foreman asks if he’s just going to let him get away, House tells him no, that he’s just going to let him get a few blocks away before Foreman calls the police.
House’s cell phone ring is hilarious, “What a man, what a man, what a mighty good man…”, and the entire time he’s with the CIA and actually tells everyone the truth when they call nobody believes him. After teasingly offering the CIA Dr. Terzi a job, she actually shows up as House is leaving to tell him she'll see him on Monday.
Case and Cameron make brief appearances, Cameron apologes for giving the team help in beating Foreman, then reassures him that he won't always be wrong even if he's not always right. She also admits that as much as she likes her new job she still misses the do-whatever-it-takes attitued of her old one.
Favorite quote of the week:
House: Just so you know, my malpractice insurance doesn’t cover alien autopsies.
Dr. Terzi: That’s okay, The X-files is the next wing over.
*FOX
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Comment by Michaelie
Flick Wit
But I will stick with it! Lol. I love Hugh Laurie too much.
Michaelie
BTW, what's the CIA chick out of? She looked so familiar.
Comment by Meggie
TV Chit Chat
The CIA doctor is Michael Michele. She was on an episode of Law and Order and another one of Law and Order SVU. She played Dr. Cleo Finch on ER and I Det. Rene Sheppard in Season 7 of Homicide.