Words and Deeds
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| House episode | |
| "Words and Deeds" | |
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| Episode no. | HOU-311 |
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| Airdate | January 9, 2007 |
| Writer(s) | Leonard Dick |
| Director(s) | Daniel Sackheim |
| Guest star(s) | David Morse Tory Kittles Meagan Good Kadeem Hardison |
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Words and Deeds is the eleventh episode of the third season of House and the fifty-seventh episode overall.
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[edit] Plot Overview
House makes a shocking revelation in a bid to save himself from jail time; a firefighter chooses to have a risky, radical treatment on his brain in order to avoid dealing with his affection for a colleague.[1]
Derek, a firefighter, has just escaped a burning building when he begins to have trouble breathing and becomes delirious. He then staggers over to the burning building before being stopped by fellow firefighter, Amy. Derek complains that he is freezing even though he is within yards of the burning building.
The first diagnosis is MRSA to which Derek asks if that is what makes him see blue. Dr. Cameron realizes that this is something entirely different and House suggests male menopause (high estrogen, low testosterone levels). House orders a hormone panel. The team tests for this latest theory but Derek becomes disturbed and begins to choke Cameron. Meanwhile, House visits Tritter and although House apologizes, Tritter ignores him and says he will see him at his hearing.
Back at the hospital, Foreman insists it must be neurological and asks to CT the brain and give a lumbar puncture to test for meningitis. House agrees and leaves and reveals that he is checking himself into rehab. Derek begins to have trouble breathing and it's discovered that he is having another heart attack. The team goes to House for advice who tells them to look at what was in common during this attack and the previous two he had: Amy was present. To test this, the team brings Amy in with Derek. Both confused, Derek suddenly goes into another heart attack. Derek reveals that his brother is dating and engaged to Amy and Cameron realizes that Derek is so in love with Amy that it is literally killing him to see her with another man: Broken heart syndrome. Rather than tell Amy his true feelings, he agrees to a procedure that will remove all experiences he's ever had via electrocuting his brain. Cuddy and Derek both consent. Meanwhile, House and Wilson meet in rehab. House apologizes to Wilson for everything. Tritter then comes to visit, and admits that he is surprised to see House in rehab, though he still refuses to drop the charges against him.
The test is performed successfully. When Amy and Derek's brother walk in, he has no idea who they are. Outside the room, Cameron congratulates Amy on the wedding, however, Amy has no idea what she is talking about as she's not even dating Derek's brother. The team calls House who is at trial and says that the wedding was a fabricated memory and wasn't true. House rushes out of court (after repeated threats by the judge of holding him in contempt) back to the hospital. The team finds a spinal meningioma that restricted blood to Derek's brain creating the false memories.
In the courtroom, Cuddy is at the stand and is confronted with the log book that shows House's signature taking oxycodone in the name of a dead patient. Cuddy then reveals that she replaced the pills with a placebo and had the inventory logs to prove it. The case is dismissed and the judge orders Tritter to stop his investigation on House. However, House is ordered to spend the night in jail for contempt. Cuddy and Wilson both visit him that night and Cuddy is infuriated with House because she was forced to fabricate evidence and commit perjury so that his case would be dismissed. She reassures House that she is now in control of him. House agrees. Wilson gives the pills that the rehab department gave him. Wilson realizes it is Vicodin when House greedily takes them. House has bribed the rehab supervisor to give him Vicodin. Wilson says that nothing has changed. When he asks if House's apology was real, House merely answers ambiguously, "Believe what you want."
[edit] Diagnosis
A spinal meningioma was pressing on an artery that was restricting blood flow to Derek's brain. This created the false memories of his brother being engaged to Amy.
[edit] Medical Terms
- Skin Grafts
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Male Menopause
- Meningitis
- Myocardial Infarction
- Brain Tumors
- Spinal Meningioma
[edit] Arc Advancement
[edit] Happenings
The case against House is dismissed.
[edit] Trivia
[edit] The Show
[edit] Behind the Scenes
[edit] Allusions and References
- House refers to his rehab guard as Voldemort, in reference to the Harry Potter villain of that name.
- House makes mention of deceased professional wrestler Andre the Giant as being his "higher power" in this episode.
- House mentions "turning that dial all the way to eleven," a reference to the film This is Spinal Tap, and to the Season 2 episode "TB or not TB" when he turns the dial all the way to eleven on a tilt-table test on his patient; coincidentally, this episode is the eleventh of the third season.
- Both this episode and the Scrubs episode "My House" (aired five days previously to this episode) contain a patient with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, albeit in very different fashions. The Scrubs episode was a parody of House.
- In a conversation with Cuddy, House makes a quip alluding to Prison Break, a show where the main protagonist sports tattoos all over his body to plan an escape from prison.
[edit] Memorable Moments
[edit] Quotes
House: "If you called to see the design of my prison tats, they're still at R&D."
House: "When I lead the big patient rebellion, Voldemort here is the first to go."
House: "Thanks. I was running short on platitudes. You can leave now."
House: "I thought I told you never to call me when I'm on trial."
[edit] Music
Closing scene: "Season of the Witch" by Donovan.
[edit] References
- ^ House - Words and Deeds - Yahoo! TV. Yahoo.com. Retrieved on 2007-1-9.
[edit] External links
- FOX.com-House official site
- Television Without Pity-House recaps
- House Episode Guide at epguides.com
- TVGuide's Page: Full list of House Episodes
- House M.D. Guide
- "House M.D." IMDB Profile
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| Episode list | Awards | Soundtrack | |
| Cast and crew | |
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| David Shore | Hugh Laurie | Lisa Edelstein | Robert Sean Leonard | Omar Epps | Jennifer Morrison | Jesse Spencer | |
| Characters | |
| Gregory House | Lisa Cuddy | James Wilson | Eric Foreman | Allison Cameron | Robert Chase |
