Massage Therapy (House) Overview

So this episode was pretty interesting. I don't remember all of the different diagnoses that they went through until they found out the truth but I'm pretty sure it was a kind of long list. The episode starts out with Margaret, our patient this week, in her house on a stormy night making dinner for her husband. Somewhere in the house a door slams shut and her husband walks in and asks her if she is alright. She then throws up and collapses on the floor in a great deal of stomach pain.

There is a new cast member this week, whose name is Kelly, that Chase hired as a replacement for 13. House has a theory that he hired her because she looks like Cameron/his mother. She isn't really qualified to be a part of the team and Foreman makes that well known. She ends up quitting at the end of the episode before House fires her.

When House asks her things about her past, she concocts a lie about having a past abusive relationship and that her ex-husband poisoned her dog. She says that she goes to a support group in Trenton for abuse victims on Tuesdays and that she used to be on the cycling team when she was a student at UMass. This doesn't really explain her 8 previously broken ribs and her stomach pain. None of this turns out to be true because when they check with the hospital and the university, they have no record of performing the operation and that she was ever a student there. She confesses to none of this being true after the team confronts her about it. Everything is relatively normal until she start halucinating. This leads House to the true answer. She is a schizophrenic who stopped taking her medication and is going through withdrawl. Her husband contemplates leaving her because she lied to him about her whole past.

The other underlying storyline in this episode was House's massage therapist and what Cuddy thinks about her. You see, she is a hooker that House used to sleep with but doesn't anymore because he is dating Cuddy. She isn't confortable with the "slept with" part and want him to stop seeing her. House doesn't want to because she is the only person out of the 15 different massage therapists he's seen that makes his leg feel better. In an attempt to make her feel better about it, House sends her a massage therapist who turns out to be gay and not speak a whole lot of English. This little episode forces them to face the reservations they have about their relationship and eachother.