- House maneuvers against a measured Cameron when she takes over Cuddy's duties, Foreman faces an ethical dilemma, and Cuddy has trouble bonding with the baby.
- Cuddy takes some time off to be with her baby. She leaves Cameron in charge of daily operations, including supervising House. How will House react when a former employee is now his boss? After learning the truth of Thirteen's drug treatment program, Foreman seeks advice on how to handle the situation.—Jesse Sanchez
- We opened in a classroom where a kid named Johnny (Andy Scott Harris) was having trouble concentrating, but it's never the first kid. The teacher talked Johnny through his issues when another girl wet herself after Johnny spilled green glitter all over her snow drawing. Apparently, it's no longer the second kid, either. The teacher started coughing blood all over the girl and then passed out.
Cue: Most awesome theme music.
House (Hugh Laurie) arrived at the hospital to find Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) had taken over some of Cuddy's duties -- like babysitting House -- so the big boss could spend more time with her kid. Cameron gave House the file on the 29-year-old teacher.
"Good. Fun. You get to exercise your new-found power, I squirm under your thumb, resent the student became the teacher. Then push comes to shove and we all get to realize what our real roles should be -- and then you put out," House said, taking a bite of his bagel.
"That's why I took the job," Cameron replied, handing him the file as neither of them said anything more. Cameron saunters away, House looks amused.
Foreman (Omar Epps) smirked at House taking orders from Cameron. He predicted Cameron would destroy House.
House poked fun at Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) and Foreman for disagreeing on the diagnosis for the patient, saying it was a smokescreen to cover up for the fact Foreman had "boldly gone where no man has gone before." Foreman admitted they were seeing each other and it shouldn't matter.
Thirteen and Kutner (Kal Penn) began treating the teacher, who talked a lot about finding her happy place. Her answers were a little too detailed and cheery for her own good. Kutner told her, "If you ever meet our boss, just 'yes' or 'no' answers, OK?"
Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) visited Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), who was taking care of her new baby. She started crying for no reason and said she didn't "feel anything at all." Wilson expressed concern, but Cuddy said she wasn't neglecting the baby.
House went to Cameron and told her he wanted to hit his patient with radiation, which the other doctors thought would be "premature, reckless and potentially lethal." She said, "Fine." House was surprised she gave in so easily. She said if he made a request that medically necessary, she'd approve. He then asked for oral sex, saying it was medically necessary. Cameron just wanted to return a phone call, poor House.
House went back to the doctors to ask what he could do to avoid doing the radiation treatment, because he didn't intend to do it in the first place (because it's "premature, reckless and potentially lethal"). He just wanted to get Cameron's power trip out of the way and she didn't fall for it. Thirteen suggested they go through all the steps to make it seem like they ran the test, but not actually run it.
Foreman told Chase (Jesse Spencer) that Thirteen was getting the placebo in the Huntington's clinical trial -- which was a 50 percent probability -- and he wanted to give her the real drug. Chase told him it was completely unethical and Foreman was trying to justify it to himself.
While giving the teacher, Sarah (Erika Flores), her fake radiation, she got up from the bed and collapsed. "She clearly doesn't need fake radiation," Taub (Peter Jacobson) said.
House wanted to give Sarah a cold bath to test the theory her condition was caused by cold temperatures, and knew there was someone in charge who would let him do it. Cut to Cuddy walking into her office to ask Cameron why she allowed House's radiation treatment idea. Cameron said she had to say yes because she knew House wanted her to say no. She knew he was testing her. Cuddy told her not to get cute.
House walked in and wanted to wait for Cuddy to leave before talking to Cameron about the patient. House suggested Cuddy was at the hospital dumping her baby because she secretly hated her baby. "Can't trust that Wilson guy with anything," House told Cuddy. She was upset, but tried not to show it too much. House told Cuddy it's not a big deal, suggesting she give back the kid because the adoption wasn't formal. "Thanks," Cuddy said. "I'm just going to go drop her off at the pound." House has the grace to look a tad guilty and uncomfortable.
Cameron made House do the cold test on some of Sarah's blood instead of letting him do the bath. Foreman told House that Cameron was playing him. Thirteen and Foreman did the test and Sarah's blood clumped, apparently confirming the theory. The bath was on.
Foreman stepped into Cameron's office and asked, "Got a sec?" She only said, "Don't be an idiot," and he walked out.
Sarah sat in the cold bath, and she and Kutner discussed their career choices Sarah tells them she wanted to be in physiology, but instead of going to room 214, she went to 241 and found special education. House does the thoughful-stare-into-the-distance thing. The cold bath doesn't work. "I'm not surprised," House said. "She obviously has brain damage. Seriously."
House wanted to biopsy the patient's brain to test for muscular scolerosis, but Kutner wanted to test her pancreas instead, thinking it was a tumor. They have an argument in which House predicts Sarah's lungs will fail next. House and Kutner went to Cameron to settle the dispute and she told him to do an MRI to check the brain for plaques before doing the biopsy. House tried to pressure her into approving either the biopsy or the pancreas test. "Do the MRI," she told him. He walked out.
Cuddy went to Wilson's office, with her baby, and told him she didn't want to go home. She said she was wondering whether House was right about suggesting she give the baby back. She confided in Wilson she didn't know if she wanted to make sacrifices for the baby. "I feel terrible," she said. "I feel like a failure." Wilson didn't know what to say.
The doctors found no plaques on Sarah's brain. House told Kutner to go ahead with the pancreas test. Foreman pulled House aside and wanted to ask him about "Remy" -- Thirteen. House knew he was the last person Foreman would ask for ethical advice so he must have gotten the answers he didnt want to hear from everyone else. Foreman claims he just respects House's opinions. (ha!)
House asked him if the drug would cure her. Foreman said it would reduce symptoms. "No cure, then" House said. He asked Foreman whether another few years of Thirteen having reduced symptoms were worth him risking the rest of his life in medicine. Foreman said, "No." House seemed to agree, but then said, "unless you love her." Foreman turned around. "If you love her, then you do stupid things," House said. Foreman left.
Kutner, Thirteen and Taub were doing the pancreas test and Sarah's lungs started to fail. Kutner doesn't want to be the one to tell House he was correct. House wanted to cut off Sarah's skull to check her brain for infection. Cameron didn't let him do it.
Foreman and Thirteen went to check Sarah's classroom and Thirteen told Foreman she wanted kids. She said she was starting to feel like it was an option.
Wilson brought Cuddy a picture frame and told her the girl in the photo was one of those estimations of what her daughter would look like in 18 years. He gave her a whole spiel about how she'd teach that kid to ride a bike and give her lifelong advice. She said thanks, that it was "sweet", then Wilson admitted it was just the photo that came with the frame.
House pressured Cameron into allowing him to cut open Sarah's skull and put electrodes on her brain. Cameron even goes to OR to assist. Kutner scuttled to a phone and called Cuddy, telling her about the operation. House was conducting the test when Kutner put Cuddy on the speaker phone in the operating room. Cuddy's baby was crying in the background as she was telling him to stop the test. That freaked out the patient a little and while Cuddy's baby cried into the phone, it was bothering the patient. Sarah calls it "annoying". House was trying to figure out why. Cuddy was panicking at the same time, shouting at the baby to tell her what she wanted. The baby stopped crying. The patient was stable, and Cuddy was, too.
Nothing was wrong with Sarah's brain and Kutner wanted to remove her spleen next. House was still mulling over why Sarah was annoyed by the baby's crying.
Cuddy came to the hospital later, with the baby, telling House they made a connection. House held the baby and it puked on him. Cuddy laughed. House went on a mini-rant about how we've evolved to find baby puke cute, "because otherwise we'd kill them all before they become functional." Then he had his epiphany. "Bonding is over," he said. "I've got to go see another baby."
House went to Sarah's room and told Kutner her spleen was fine. House said her heart didn't form correctly, ultimately causing blood to flow away from the left side of her brain when she got stressed. The left side of the brain registers annoyance. When her blood pressure was low, during the brain test, she became annoyed with Cuddy's baby's crying.
House said he could fix her heart, but it was bad news for the special education kids she helps, because she wouldn't be quite as patient anymore.
Cuddy told Cameron she did great work and should have trusted her instincts. Cameron quit. She was down on herself for approving an insane procedure with no proof or evidence. Cuddy tried to assure her she made the right decision. Cameron admitted she'd always say yes to House, and anyone else would always say no to him. "Which leaves me", says Lisa (hey, they called her by her name more times than ever in the series in this one episode.) Cuddy knew she had to get back to work.
During a montage, Sarah was visited by her student, Johnny, who accidentally knocked a cup over and onto her her lap. She didn't get annoyed, though. She just hugged him as House looked on. Foreman switched the patient label onThirteen's IV bag, and Cuddy left her baby with a sitter as she rushed off to the hospital. The baby began crying as Cuddy left, she paused and looked like she wanted to cry, too. Then she left.
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