By Montykins
House does, in fact, appear to really be in jail. But he's five days away from getting paroled! What could possibly go wrong? Well, for one thing, he's in debt to some Nazis to the tune of twenty Vicodins, which results in a certain amount of scrambling and hoarding and taking the Vicodin himself. And then there's his homicidal cellmate, who has a very sick cricket.
Oh, and there's the requisite medical mystery, which starts, as is traditional, with House thinking that it's lupus. The power dynamic is an interesting change, because he's just a prisoner and isn't even technically allowed to see the patient's file. But he's still House, so he just bullies the (young, female) prison doctor until he gets what he wants. So it's not really all that different, except that she has the power to order him into solitary confinement, which I don't remember happening before.
In the end, House gets the Vicodin but doesn't give it to the Nazis. Then he purposely loses his chance for parole because he'd rather be proven right. And than he does get sent to solitary, where it's just House, his thoughts, and a note saying he was right. He probably considers this the perfect result.
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