Episode Recap: Que Sera Sera
A new patient, a 600+ lb man is brought in. Nothing seems to be abnormal, but he’s in a coma.
Meanwhile, House is in jail after being arrested by Tritter (the Morse character). Wilson bails him out and he’s in a particularly testy mood, even for House. ;-)
Apparently the patient is a loner and reclusive. He works from home and has food delivered. His gourmet kitchen is totally stocked and he has no friends.
- A patient in the clinic sees House with a painful arm. He says that it’s because he sleeps on his arm and it hurts when he wakes up. House offers to amputate, “After all, it IS your left.” The patient calls him insane a rushes out of the exam room in a huff. (Jail didn’t change good old House…)
The large patient needs an MRI or a CT scan but is too big for either. The team has a debate about how to get the tests for him. They decide to try to do the MRI by only putting his head in. The table groans as if it’s about to give way. They guy’s coma persists. They don’t find anything that could be causing the coma. The patient wakes up screaming during the MRI and is disoriented.
The patient wants to go home, the team tells him he needs to stay until they find out what’s wrong. He and House get into an intellectual tug-o-war about his condition, but he still wants to go home.
Tritter gets a search warrant for House’s apartment and finds hundreds of vicodin. He’s making a case against House for being an addict and having enough drugs to traffic. Boy, when he holds a grudge, he really can be a real nasty guy.
They agree to let the large patient go home AMA (against medical advice.) Before he can leave the building, he collapses, breaking a large window.
The team goes back to the drawing board. They find out that Cameron gave him medication that caused him to get dizzy and collapse to make sure he didn’t leave. They decide to test for bacteria that could have come from imported food. They need to drill a hole in his head to do tests.
During the surgery, he starts to scream that he can’t see and panics. They have to test for MS and for diabetes.
House goes to see a lawyer recommended by Cuddy. The attorney suggests that House’s “particular brand of charm may not easily be appreciated by a jury.” He advises House to settle.
He hires the attorney and goes back to the hospital.
- They ask him what his attorney said and he tells them, “That my winning smile can’t lose.”
House determines that the patient’s fingers are clubbed, meaning that he must have lung cancer. They do the appropriate tests and find that he has a small cell lung carcinoma. It’s metastasized. They can give him treatment, and it might give him a few more months. He has never smoked. He says, “C’est la vie.” (i.e. that’s life.)
House gets his charges dropped except the speeding ticket. Wilson goes to bat for him with Tritter and explains that he really needs the meds. He covers for House by saying that he writes his name different ways sometimes. Tritter leaves, but seems suspicious of the prescriptions anyway.
It will be interesting to see what new form of torture he devises to get back at House. Do you think House will learn anything from all of this? What do you think of Tritter? Leave a comment. Tell us what you think!
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1 opinion for Episode Recap: Que Sera Sera
mo
Nov 10, 2006 at 3:18 pm
i think house wouldn’t be house if he wasn’t a pill popping jerk, and i would have liked triter trying to bring house’s ego down a notch, if triter didn’t act like an over the top asshole.
I didnt like the episode much as it wasn’t interesting diagnostically. I mean seriously it took house like what ..5 seconds to come up with the disease. And even that from an obvious sign. Also, what was up with Chase? that was the weirdest disappearence, i kept expecting him to come back…i mean seriously he is part of the team right…or have they decided to kick him out of the show?? They better not!
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