I know, it's a miracle. I have something to write about that isn't Glee or OTH based. This is the first episode of House that I have watched this season and in a long time. I really don't know why I haven't been watching it this season because it's not on at the same time as anything this year. (Last year it was on at the same time as OTH. Priorities.) Anyway, on tho the overview!
This week's patient was Alice Hunter, a novelist for young adults, who writes detective fiction. The show opens up with her sitting at her desk finishing up the final pages of her newest book. She is talking with this boy named Jack (who isn't real) about how this is her last book and she isn't going to let him read it. She reaches for a small hand gun and is in the process of killing herself when she has a seizure.
The show then cuts to House and Wilson talking about how House doesn't think his and Cuddy's relationship will last long because they don't have anything in common. House then goes to conduct his first interview with Alice about why she tried to kill herself and she get defensive and tries to leave only to be put on psych hold for 36 hours.
While on their "date", House and Cuddy go to Alice's house to look for clues and end up talking with the housekeeper about her habits. House finds a can of tuna in the trash which makes him think that mercury poisoning is the reason for her seizures. When they return to the hospital, House tries to get Cuddy to perform the mercury poisoning tests because Alice has requested a female doctor. While Chase and Taub are about to administer the mercury poisoning treatment, Alice has another seizure.
It has now been established that it isn't mercury poisoning. They take her in to get an MRI to look for a tumor and the magnetic field causes the screws in her leg to super-heat and giver her 3rd degree burns on her leg. Supposedly, the screws are from a skiing accident, but really they are from a car accident.
When House goes to visit Alice, he says that if she cooperates with the tests that the staff wants to run he'll help her kill herself. He gives her a needle full of "deadly narcotics" and she shoots it into her leg. What he really gave her was a sedative and because she used it, her psych hold was extended another 24 hours.
House has a theory that Alice is really Helen from the novel and he uses the typewriter ribbon and the MRI machine to get the rest of the novel printed so he can look for clues. The new diagnosis is lupus, which doesn't really mean anything because, "It's never lupus". While House and Cuddy are on a double date with Wilson and his girlfriend, House realizes that it wasn't a skiing accident but a car accident and that the real cause of her sickness is hypothyroidism.
In the end, Alice's real name is Helen, Jack (main character of her books) was her son who died in said car accident . House lies and tells her that Jack had a brain aneurysm so that she would stop feeling guilty. Alice (Helen) has surgery to fix her hypothyroidism and all is well. House and Cuddy have a cute little moment at the end where she tells him that she doesn't want their relationship to be normal because then it would be boring.
Diagnosis: Why haven't I been watching this?!?!
Wish you well,
St. Ann
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