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House
Instant Karma
Original Air Date: Oct 12, 2009
Shannon – Associate Editor
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A rich man (Roy Randall) has a sick son, Jack, who has been treated at home but now has to move to a hospital. Guess we know where he’s going or otherwise this is going to be a really short episode.
Roy asks Cuddy specifically for House. Cuddy tries to tell him that his son will be in good hands with Foreman, Chase, and Cameron but the man says that unless House is in jail, rehab, or crazy, he wants him to treat his son. Also, was Cuddy there last week? Their patient died. Foreman won’t admit he’s wrong, Chase killed a man, and Cameron wanted the patient dead in the first place. Kid’ll be in great hands.
So, Foreman has to take on all the responsibility of treating the child, but House gets to make all the decisions. That hardly seems fair. Also, the group has to prepare a report on last week’s patient for some board.
House visits Hadley in an internet café. She’s making travel plans to Thailand.
The find out that Jack has an impacted colon so they clean that out and voila! He’s healed! Only, we’re 10 minutes into the episode and he hasn’t almost died yet so certainly that can’t be all. Of course, Jack starts seizing and they have to drill holes into the boy’s brain to relieve the pressure. They think he has brain cancer.
Hadley’s travel plans get all jacked up and she blames House. House says he doesn’t want her back.
Chase and Foreman have a problem. There was a full scan done on Dibala’s blood and well, apparently, Dibala was a big fan of a cheeseburger because his cholesterol level was 20% higher than the morgue body’s blood. When Cameron notices there’s something wrong with Chase she questions him on it and he makes up a whole story about how Foreman is getting paranoid that the board will think he’s doing something wrong. It’s just lie on top of lie.
House thinks that Foreman canceled Hadley’s travel plans. Foreman says he didn’t tamper with her plans. House believes him.
Roy blames himself for what’s wrong with his kid. They’re looking for stomach cancer and the kid seizes again. Every time they try to find out what’s wrong with the kid he seizes.
Chase tells Foreman to just say that Chase gave him cholesterol lowering drugs and then forgot to put it in the chart. Foreman is not down with that and instead goes to Cuddy saying he doesn’t want to do the presentation because he doesn’t have time. Cuddy says he has to and that’s the end of it.
Hadley tattles to Cuddy about someone hacking her email and canceling her plans. Cuddy tells House she thinks it was Foreman. House tells her it wasn’t Foreman.
Jack gets some kind of rash on his chest. House comes in to look and Roy berates him for not knowing what’s wrong with his son. So they throw around a bunch of diagnoses and ultimately they come up with something called Degos disease and it’s apparently incurable. House (this is how we know he’s House 2.0) says he’ll give Roy the bad news. House says Jack has approximately a day to live.
Chase tries to confess to Cuddy what he’s done but Cuddy gets called away before he can do it.
Roy tries to give all his money away because he thinks that his business fortune has given him bad karma and that his son won’t die if he gives it all away. Roy signs the papers and Jack promptly flatlines.
It was Wilson that messed with Hadley’s plans because he thinks Hadley is good for House to keep him grounded. He urges Hadley not to throw away a good job just because of a bad breakup. Wilson tells House he confessed to Hadley about jacking up her plans. House says he knows Wilson didn’t do it because House did actually do it. Then he epiphanies. I’ve missed those. Jack doesn’t have an incurable disease after all. House thinks it’s a heart problem.
Somebody (House) planted some info on Dibala’s records in Africa on Chase’s desk referring to his African doctor giving Dibala medicine to boost his cholesterol. Chase asks House how he found it. Chase tells House he will always be the boss no matter if he wants to be or not.
Hadley boards the plane to Thailand.
Cameron is alone in her bed while Chase and Foreman are at the review.
Roy and Jack share pizza in the hospital room and look very happy.
House ruminates in his office.
Do you think Roy really did have bad karma? Do you even believe in karma? Do you think House does? How long do you think Chase will hold out before he tells Cameron what he’s done? Let me know what you thought! Leave a comment!
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