Mos Def guest stars as a man who falls ill and can't speak or move. He ends up in a New York state hospital room with House as a fellow patient -- House apparently has taken a tumble off his motorcycle and scraped himself up pretty good. Meanwhile, a doctor is waiting for the paralyzed Mr. Def to die so he can transplant his heart, but House quickly establishes that the poor is alive and conscious by slight movements of his eyes. House eventually gets him transferred to Princeton and proceeds to figure out what's ailing the guy. Half the episode is told from the patient's POV and mind, with some great voice-over narration, and the other half is standard House and crew working on the guy. At times, the episode verges on the surreal as the patient imagines himself in various places, playing with his children or talking to his wife and House. The computer-aided effects are seamless, and stand second only to the moment when House walked by himself in an episode from the first or second season. Mr. Def, a rapper who costarred with Bruce Willis in the movie 16 BLOCKS, is funny and said and very convincing as the helpless patient. The kids are cute, too.
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