By Montykins
Park has been having sex dreams about Chase, which is treated by everyone as a crazy idea, since she's weird. Then she has sex dreams about Taub, which he properly takes as a compliment. Finally, Chase has a dream about Park, which brings everything into balance.
In the medical mystery, an eight-year-old boy has dreams of his ancestors choking him, and then he can't breathe when he wakes up. The symptoms also include a bruised neck and, um, levitation. The solution is either Ibuprofen or an exorcism, both of which happen at the end of the episode.
House's ruse to keep Dominika around a little longer collapses, of course. She moves out when she finds out she's a citizen and that House purposely didn't tell her about the multiple notices. When House goes to get sympathy from Wilson, it turns out Wilson has cancer. But that's for week, probably.
A child is sleeping. Someone enters the bedroom -- someone with dirty feet. The music tries to be scary. It's an old lady who's choking him, which I guess really is pretty scary. Then his mother enters the room to wake him up and also call him "Lue." Lue still can't breathe. She tells him to relax and take slow, deep breaths. But he can't!
House enters the lobby while Foreman tries to tell him about Lue's problem. Night terrors and all. House decides it is stress-induced panic attacks. He also gloats about having sex with Dominika in a dream. The thing that catches his interest is learning that the kid has recurring dreams about a hag strangling him. And he's Hmong.
House tells his team that this sort of thing is common. In fact, he thinks it's related to over a hundred other unsolved cases of Hmong children mysteriously dying in their death. It's called "Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome," which doesn't really explain anything. Park thinks dreams don't mean anything and can be ignored. House wants to know what Park's been dreaming about that she wants to distance herself from. Chase and Park are sent to one team and Adams and Taub to another, but Park wants to switch teams. She denies that it's because she's been having sex dreams about Chase, but that's clearly what's going on. Also, he wants the entire team to read every file in the box.
Chase and Adams work on Lue, checking for pneumonia. Chase interrogates the mother to find out if she's been teaching Lue that evil spirits could get him in the night. No -- she's an engineer.
House bursts into the room where Wilson is examining a woman's breasts. For medical reasons. He wants to tell Wilson that he had a dream where he had sex with Dominika. Wilson isn't interested.
Taub and Park examine Lue's house. Taub thinks it's normal to dream about having sex with people at work. Park accurately points out that Taub's had actual sex with people at work. Taub suggests that Chase might just represent work. Maybe she's in love with her job? They are distracted by a smell, which might be a wet dog. Or maybe mold. Taub sees no sign of water damage. They go into a bedroom, where they find some blood on the wall. And a pig's head in the middle of a circle of blood on the floor.
Lue's mother denies knowing anything about a dismembered pig in Lue's bedroom. She realizes it was her father-in-law, who's sitting over there on a bench. He did it, all right. Just then! BEEP BEEP BEEP! Lue's coding! Out with the paddles!
House wants to know about the ceremony, which Park says is to get the soul back. Taub further explains that Lue's grandfather also allegedly lost his soul after beating someone to death. So he didn't move away; he's in jail. Park vehemently insists that Lue doesn't have PTSD and a few other diagnoses are thrown out by House on the grounds that they don't match any of the other cases he's decided are exactly the same as this one. Taub pitches acute pericarditis, which gets worse when you lie on your back... which happens when you go to sleep. Just like the other cases! Before they break, Park lets them all know that she likes her job.
House wants to know about the ceremony, which Park says is to get the soul back. Taub further explains that Lue's grandfather also allegedly lost his soul after beating someone to death. So he didn't move away; he's in jail. Park vehemently insists that Lue doesn't have PTSD and a few other diagnoses are thrown out by House on the grounds that they don't match any of the other cases he's decided are exactly the same as this one. Taub pitches acute pericarditis, which gets worse when you lie on your back... which happens when you go to sleep. Just like the other cases! Before they break, Park lets them all know that she likes her job.
House barges into Wilson's office and tries to go into a story about his sex dream. But Wilson says that the floss doesn't represent sex; it's guilt over throwing away her INS notice. "Tell her the truth and leave me alone."
Park and Chase in the lab. Chase denies ever having dreamt about sex with Park, which she thinks is because his subconscious finds her abhorrent. Show, stop pretending Park's gross. They get to the patient's room, where there are some new symptoms. There's a problem with his bowels, so Chase wants to biopsy his thyroid. It makes sense to the team, so what are you complaining about?
House and Dominika eat Chinese food in his office. He tells her he's had news. He claims to have called and that they said it'll be a couple of weeks before there's a decision. Maybe a month. She is mildly dismayed. House asks if she's ever shot anyone.
Lue is supposed to get a shot. He freaks out and shouts in Hmong. But he doesn't speak Hmong and neither does his mother. Her father-in-law does, though. He claims that something is speaking through Lue. Anyway, Lue starts seizing.
Chase admits that the seizure rules out his thyroid idea. The main issue though, is how Lue learned Hmong. House rules that it was just gibberish that the grandfather interpreted as Hmong. The grandfather has a vested interest in believing Lue to be possessed, because it would mean Lue's father was also possessed and not a regular murderer. Anyway, they all agree there's a neurological component. Park suggests scleroderma that's progressed to the point where it's affecting his brain. House calls it interesting, but that's just to trick Chase into agreeing. Adams has Rasmussen's encephalitis and House sends them off to get an MRI.
The mother and the Grandfather talk to Chase. The grandfather tells Chase that his son had the same dreams as Lue. He was bright and happy until the bad dreams came again. Chase just tells him not to scare the boy. So they're just ignoring the possibility of a genetic component?
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Park and Taub look at the MRI results. Park admits that she's had a dream about Taub and his reaction is acceptable flattered for her.
Dominika and House are at a shooting range. Bang! Bang! She's a good shot, thanks to her history. House gets a beeper message that the MRI was blank, which he points out is not the same thing as proof that there's nothing there. Dominika wants to talk about the Higgs-Boson particle. This is to show us that she's smart.
Lue tells his grandfather that his doctors say his brain is sick. The grandfather tells him that he's angered their ancestors by ignoring them. He has Lue cross his arms, close his eyes and ask forgiveness. The evil spirits are in the air and the only way to stop them is by stopping the air. Grandfather holds one hand over Lue's nose and grabs his neck with the other. He promises this will help. Of course, this isn't really happening. Lue wakes up and tells Taub that his grandfather was choking him. And he's got bruises on his neck!
Taub reports to House that Lue had the dream and then had the bruising. House flips those: he got the bruises and that resulted in the dream. Chase insists that the dream doesn't mean anything. House goes on about Park's dreams. House proposes liver failure, and Adams tries out patic fibrosis. Biopsy time!
The mother is in the room with Adams and Taub while they do the biopsy. She says that none of the diagnoses have been accurate yet.
Park tells Chase that the test results are back and he calls her on avoiding eye contact. Which is kind of her main character trait, so I don't know why we're making such a big deal out of it in this episode. He says that the dreams just show that she likes him more than he likes her, which is no big deal. She calls him an egotist, then busts this out: "Because anyone who hasn't gotten wet from your petri dish of STDs clearly has low self-esteem!" He calls her a bitch and she calls him a dick. They kiss! Then she shoves him down on the couch and rips off his shirt. Then Chase wakes up on the couch. Park is telling him the biopsy's ready. The way he's lying on the couch, it would be immediately clear if this dream were getting to him. I'm just saying.
Adams tells the mother that the biopsy was negative. "So once again, you don't know what's wrong," she sneers. Everyone's called to the patient's room, where Lue is clearly levitating over his bed. I mean, there's a sheet over him, but it's still a levitation scenario. He drops to the bed before they can get to him. I should mention that the grandfather is standing to the bed, but don't let that affect your guesses about what's actually happening.
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House thinks the levitation is "cool." He's not convinced by the eyewitness testimony of Taub and Adams. Then he does the street magic levitation that he learned from David Blaine. He doesn't think the boy is a magician; he thinks he's the lovely assistant to the grandfather. Then he does some psychoanalyzing of Chase. Park proposes tetanus, which would make the body rigid. Chase goes with hypocalcaemia, caused by the shot they gave him the day. And then House announces that Chase had a sex dream about Park.
The mother continues to be skeptical of the medicine, because it hasn't worked so far. She wants to do the exorcism and if they won't let her do it in the hospital, she'll take Lue home. She feels that the man she loved must have been possessed.
Foreman's office. Foreman thinks that it's okay as long as they don't feed Lue anything or put anything on his skin. House thinks it's crazy. Foreman says it's just like having a priest in there. House points out it might involve animal sacrifice. Foreman decides he'll talk to the mother.
And here he is, talking to her! She doesn't want to deny Lue any treatment; she just wants to also try exorcism. She threatens to take him elsewhere if they won't let her do it there. Foreman won't allow that, but she's spoken to a lawyer. Foreman can't say no to her religion. He asks for twenty-four hours.
Dominika is tearfully shouting into the phone. A letter came in the mail. House apologizes, saying he should have told her. "Told me what? I don't understand." Now House asks what's in the letter. It's about an uncle in a nursing home. He hugs her. She asks if he's going out tonight, but he says he could stay.
Lue is still barely breathing. Adams comes in and talks to him. Then she jostles him. Lue can't even squeeze her hand. The mother asks, "You were wrong again?" Adams ignores her. The mother says she's calling Lue's grandfather.
The grandfather performs a ceremony which we can assume is an exorcism. It has a gong!
Diagnostic time! House announces that he doesn't care anymore. If they cure the kid now, the grandfather will get the credit. More worrisome (to House) -- it will result in the mother and Lue both becoming very religious. So, in his opinion, the kid's better off dead. He's definitely more mopey than usual. Taub thinks that once your child levitates, it's perfectly rational to consider non-scientific avenues of treatment. House won't consider the case until the exorcism is finished. Chase proposes Kawasaki, which would explain the irregular heartbeat and the respiratory distress. The team decides it fits and Adams stands, preparing to order a coronary bypass. House rejects it, because it would have shown up on one of the tests already. Do they just never consider that? I feel like we get to the end of these episodes and people are always saying, "What if the patient doesn't have a head?" House is caught up in theorizing and comes up with a patent ductus arteriosus. Taub says Lue isn't an infant and hasn't had any symptoms for eight years, but House has the usual dodge about how they accidentally treated the infected ductus with antibiotics. Adams says that's a billion-to-one chance, House points out that by that logic, there ought to be seven people on the planet who match this theory. But what about those other hundred Hmong cases from the beginning of the episode? House suggests that maybe PDA is more common than they thought. Adams says he's clearly wrong. But the treatment is just Ibuprofen, so what the heck, right? For once, the treatment doesn't involve crazy invasive surgery. House doesn't want to try it, which Chase accurately reads as a fear of letting one more person embrace religion. House asks if any of them think it's actually PDA and none of them do. So he strictly forbids them from acting on it and they have to continue on the Kawasaki theory and do the coronary bypass instead.
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Taub and Adams go to the patient's room to get approval for surgery. The exorcism is still happening. Just then! BEEP BEEP BEEP! Adams wants the mother to stop the exorcism, which doesn't really seem to be hurting anything. No dice. Adams administers Ibuprofen.
House is at home in bed, popping Vicodin and drinking brown liquors. Dominika asks why he's sulking. House says that either religion is killing a kid or he is. Dominika climbs on top of him and strokes his face. She kisses him and he apparently doesn't respond. She kisses him again and he does. She takes her top off and the kissing continues. House's phone goes off and he says he won't answer. She announces that it's killing the mood (what she says is "This is killing mood!") and goes to answer it. It's US Citizenship! "This is Mrs. House. Please give good news so my husband and I can go back to sex!" She is delighted! Then she looks at House, who breaks eye contact. She asks them how many notices they sent her. After she hangs up, he apologizes. She leaves, clutching her top to cover herself. Nice going, House. People almost forgot you were a sociopathic creep. Now you have to act extra-sad in the last few episodes to make up for it.
Adams and Taub tell the mother that Lue will be okay. She decides that the exorcism worked. She doesn't buy the theory that Ibuprofen magically fixed Lue's heart, since it's traditionally thought of as a headache cure. Then she tells Lue that the grandfather saved him. Taub: "There were two things we thought were impossible. One of them wasn't. That's all we know." Oh, whatever. It's way too late to add a supernatural element to this show.
Dominika leaves House's apartment while he looks on, pensively. She gives him a sad, no-arms hug before going out the door. House is alone.
Chase and Park wait for the elevator. Park asks if she was good. Chase insists that it doesn't mean anything. Park suggests that maybe he "wants some of this." Or, she says, it means they like and trust each other. Then she farts in front of him.
House goes into Wilson's office. He doesn't quite barge in. He announces that Adams defied him, resulting in one more zealot in the world. And Dominika moved out. "I am surprisingly depressed by this." Wilson counters with, "I have cancer. Stage 2." He got the tests back that morning. I'd like to say that House looks like a man whose world is ending in four weeks, but really he just stares straight ahead.
week: will they kill Wilson? They might! The series is ending! All bets are off! They're crazy! No, but seriously, Wilson will be fine. Don't be dumb.
By Montykins
Adams and Taub tell the mother that Lue will be okay. She decides that the exorcism worked. She doesn't buy the theory that Ibuprofen magically fixed Lue's heart, since it's traditionally thought of as a headache cure. Then she tells Lue that the grandfather saved him. Taub: "There were two things we thought were impossible. One of them wasn't. That's all we know." Oh, whatever. It's way too late to add a supernatural element to this show.
Dominika leaves House's apartment while he looks on, pensively. She gives him a sad, no-arms hug before going out the door. House is alone.
Chase and Park wait for the elevator. Park asks if she was good. Chase insists that it doesn't mean anything. Park suggests that maybe he "wants some of this." Or, she says, it means they like and trust each other. Then she farts in front of him.
House goes into Wilson's office. He doesn't quite barge in. He announces that Adams defied him, resulting in one more zealot in the world. And Dominika moved out. "I am surprisingly depressed by this." Wilson counters with, "I have cancer. Stage 2." He got the tests back that morning. I'd like to say that House looks like a man whose world is ending in four weeks, but really he just stares straight ahead.
week: will they kill Wilson? They might! The series is ending! All bets are off! They're crazy! No, but seriously, Wilson will be fine. Don't be dumb.
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