Our first new installment of House in three weeks finds House unable to pee, or consequently to sleep. That is, except for a quick nap he took in his office at the start of the episode. While napping, he dreams of being rescued from a humvee explosion by a marine who, upon waking, is the patient in the file Cuddy just handed him! AAhhhhhhh!
House is way too obsessed with figuring why he would have had this patient in a dream (where? how? when? did he know him?) and trying to get himself to pee than to work on the case much, so Chase, Cameron, and Foreman take the reins.
The patient thinks he has Gulf War Syndrome and has been unable to sleep, so Chase and Cameron take him to the sleep lab to test him out. It's going to be a long night of observation and there's an empty sleep lab right next to the patient's so, hey, why not grab a quickie while we work?? Foreman eventually wanders in to the lab to find the patient crying out for someone to tend to him and Chase and Cameron nowhere in site. That is, till they come running in from the other room looking a bit out of it.
Foreman questions them later about it (in a very House-like suspicious fashion, I might add!) and Cameron comes right out and confesses the truth. Foreman finds what she just said extremely funny and takes it all as a completely ludicrous joke. "House would do Wilson before YOU'D ever do Chase!", Foreman says as he's laughing hysterically. Chase, defending himself says, "Hey, she did me ONCE!" "SHE WAS STONED!", Foreman replies as he keeps laughing.
As the case moves on, the patient is found to have an icky infection is his mouth, multiple tumors in his brain that appear and then disappear, and is suspected of having several forms of cancer, primarily so they can bring Wilson into the mix. During all these various diagnoses, Chase and Cameron continue to find new places to "have uncomplicated sex and nothing more". (I LOVE that Cameron made quite clear to Chase that is ALL this is.) House continues to be on two missions. He must get himself to pee and he must figure out how he knew this patient and how he would have ended up in one of his dreams.
To solve his first problem, House leaves work early, goes home and gives himself a catheter. Oh, yuck. The best part of THAT was, he has another dream where he goes to work with the catheter under his jeans, it breaks, and he "pees" all over the floor... and CHASE steps in it. Now that he has solved THAT problem, he can sleep and therefore dream. He remembers how he knew the patient. He saw Cuddy and this marine making out a party two years ago. AND he didn't like it. AND, Cuddy and he had a one night stand once that likely led to her hiring him at PPTH.
When he reveals all this to Cuddy, she seems a bit flattered that he remembered her making out with this guy so many moons ago. But she also tells him to "get over her" and that "ship had sailed." Sadly, she said those things in such a flirtateous way I don't believe she really DOES want him to leave her alone. Dang!
The patient stuff seemed a bit disjointed to me in this episode and frankly, after two viewings and reading some notes, I'm still not sure what they decided was wrong with him. But I DO know that Chase and Cameron got caught with their pants almost down in the supply closet by HOUSE. This elicited a great "Hugh Smirk" (as I call them) as House walked down the hall after seeing them. And, if Cameron was choosing all these workplace venues for their "fun sex" to get House jealous, as Chase suspected and I think she was, she just may have accomplished her aim!
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