Hitchcoc
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Joel Gray, looking like he is about a hundred years old, is a researcher of questionable repute, who is brought to the hospital. He wants to die, but the foursome don't want that to happen. This is where the "informed consent" thing comes into play. He makes a deal with House who reneges on it almost immediately (not that such deals are really a part of reality). Cameron has read a document that shows this guy did experiment on babies to prop up his research base, claiming the end justifies the means. This is steeped in moral and ethical issues. We watch Cameron being torn apart by the harshness of every decision.
In the subplot, House's leg problems seem to have returned full force.
In the subplot, House's leg problems seem to have returned full force.
I can't even begin to comment on the medicine here. Is there any reality to what they pulled off in the end? A young boy believes aliens have been attacking him, coming into his room at night and so on and so forth. Of course, the gang has to look into a whole series of brain scans and such.
The second plot involves Cuddy and Wilson withholding the fact that House did come up with the cure for the previous guy, the catatonic one in the wheel chair. They decided to teach him humility. They didn't want him to have a God complex. Of course, they are unethical and it makes us wonder what difference it would make. He also begins to feel the pain in his leg and is doing drugs. The Cane in title!
The second plot involves Cuddy and Wilson withholding the fact that House did come up with the cure for the previous guy, the catatonic one in the wheel chair. They decided to teach him humility. They didn't want him to have a God complex. Of course, they are unethical and it makes us wonder what difference it would make. He also begins to feel the pain in his leg and is doing drugs. The Cane in title!
House, for the time being, has two good wheels. Of course, like a kid at Christmas, he can't stop playing with a new toy--his legs. A one point he drops four feet on a skateboard. The case he is on is a man who has brain cancer and is nearly comatose. It is suspected that he tried to commit suicide by driving his electric wheelchair into a swimming pool. As usual, House comes up with a solution, but because Wilson and Cuddy won't listen to him, things almost never happen. This leads to House's return to depression and a trip down Vicodin Lane. He feels he has failed.
This is a really well done first episode of new season.
This is a really well done first episode of new season.