![]() ![]() Plus, for the second episode in a row, Thirteen figured out that a patient was the victim of a crime, leading me to fully support a Diagnosis: Murder reboot with Olivia Wilde as the lead. The tension highlighted just how difficult their job is and proved that they aren't incompetent doctors completely dependent on their boss to bail them out every week. We're used to seeing petty bickering between Foreman, Chase, Taub and Thirteen that often devolves into schoolyard insults, but their disagreements in this episode weren't superficial. House's absence from their case caused a ton of stress within the team and I felt the heavy in-fighting was warranted given how close the woman was to dying. House, despite asking for it a number of times. You could say this one was a small victory for House's team, as they managed to diagnose the woman's illness (Spanish fly poisoning!) without any input from Dr. We've seen episodes split up into dual cases plenty of times on the show, but I enjoyed how committed they were in "The Fix" to keeping House and his team separated. House had lost $50 on the fight to Wilson and wanted to prove that the boxer had a pre-existing condition, therefore ruling the fight a "no contest" and salvaging the wager. He wasn't doing it out of the goodness of his heart - Dr. House was obsessed with diagnosing a young boxer who'd lost his last fight. " The Fix" was separated into two cases: House's team tried to figure out why a weapons designer fell ill immediately following a test of one of her bombs. Regardless of how uneven this season has been, House is better than that, and thankfully the creators know it too. House stooped to such a low, given how much grief he's already undergone for his Vicodin addiction. It would've felt like such an obvious ratings grab had Dr. House wasn't shooting heroin - both for the sake of the character and also the show. Even though the real drug he was taking was somewhat of a stretch, I'll admit I was thrilled when they revealed Dr. And that one of the rats died should only make this arc more interesting in the future. Even though he was a rude, irresponsible, stubborn pain-in-the-ass (and a borderline criminal) for the majority of this episode, that he's working to get healthy proves there's still hope for him. I was really happy with this turn of events. Experimental or not, the new drugs were an active step towards getting off Vicodin and living pain-free. House had given up and succumbed to the pain in his leg turned out to be just the opposite. What was first a disappointing realization that Dr. House stole samples of an experimental drug used to grow muscles on lab rats and cooked up a few batches for himself. Using counter-intelligence skills perfected over the years, (lying through his teeth, misdirection, and playing on others sympathies for the handicapped), Dr. ![]()
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