Sleeping Dogs Lie (House episode)
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| House episode | |
| "Sleeping Dogs Lie" | |
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| Episode No | 40 |
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| Airdate | April 18, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | David Foster |
| Director(s) | Fred Gerber |
| Guest star(s) | Jayma Mays as Hannah, Dahlia Salem as Max |
| All House episodes | |
Sleeping Dog Lies is the eighteenth episode of the second season of House, and overall episode #40.
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[edit] Plot Overview
The episode opens with a woman lying in bed with her girlfriend wide awake around 3am. Her girlfriend (Max) asks Hannah if she can't sleep again. Hannah says she's fine and says she'll go downstairs for a drink. Max falls asleep again and wakes up in the morning. She finds Hannah in the bathroom banging her head against the wall with an empty bottle of sleeping pills. It's revealed she hasn't slept for about 10 days.
[edit] Diagnoses
1. Infection
Disproved due to lack of high white cell count.
Disproved to lack of delusions.
3. Optic nerve disease
Tests proved negative.
4. Clotting disorder or Colon tumor
Test could not be completed due to a massive nose bleed.
Disproved from a movement disorder witnessed during an exam. First thought to be Rapid eye movement.
Disproved as Hannah has never been abroad.
Final diagnosis. House says the dog came from the southwest, where fleas can occasionally carry the plague. A small percentage of cases present with sleep disturbance.
[edit] Treatment
House orders Hannah started on large doses of streptomycin sulfate, gentamicin and tetracycline.
[edit] Clinic Patients
Chinese woman and daughter: A Chinese woman and daughter are in the clinic. The daughter speaks for the mother who cannot speak English. She says her mother has menstrual problems and is depressed and says she heard that birth control can help. House deduces that the daughter is after the birth control and all the mother has is a cold. House gives a prescription for birth control to the daughter and a prescription for medicine for the mother's cold. They return later and the woman complains that her breasts have gotten bigger and House realizes the girl switched the medicines. When the woman asks her daughter in Mandarin what House said, the daughter replies that House gave her the wrong medicine. House then replies, "No, YOU gave her the wrong medicine." The girl asks House if he can speak Mandarin. He then says that he can ask where is the restroom, count to ten, then tells the mother, in very poor Mandarin, "Congratulations, you are about to become a grandmother."
[edit] Notes
[edit] Medical Terms
[edit] Arc Advancement
[edit] Characters
House: House reveals that he can speak some Mandarin. However, due to his normally sarcastic comments, it is difficult to judge whether he only knows how to ask where the restroom is, count to ten, sarcastically offer felicitations to a prospective grandmother, or if he possesses a larger Mandarin vocabulary. While Hugh Laurie tried his best to speak Mandarin, the sounds he uttered were so mangled that it was barely discernible to Mandarin speakers, both in pronunciation and in pitch. However, the Chinese mother helped Mandarin-speakers understand the intended phrase as she quoted Laurie when questioning her on-screen daughter. The exact words Laurie had tried to say were: "Congratulations, you are about to become a grandmother."
[edit] Trivia
[edit] The Show
[edit] Behind the Scenes
In the blooper reel from Season 2, there is a shot of the Chinese woman from the clinic saying "Excuse me, I speak English!" and everyone bursts into laughter.
[edit] Allusions and References
After 28 minutes from the beginning of the episode, Dr. Wilson enters House's office, while he's sleeping on the floor. In a very fast sequence, you can see House sleeping on the book "Gray's Anatomy - The classic collector's edition".
