Failure to Communicate
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| Episode no. | HOU-210 |
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| Airdate | January 10, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | Doris Egan |
| Director(s) | Jace Alexander |
| Guest star(s) | Sela Ward as Stacy Warner Currie Graham as Mark Warner Michael O'Keefe as Fletcher "Fletch" Stone Erica Gimpel as Elizabeth Stone Mimi Kennedy as Greta Sims |
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"Failure to Communicate" is the tenth episode of the second season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on January 10, 2006. The episode's title is a reference to the film Cool Hand Luke, a famous line being "What we've got here...is failure to communicate."
[edit] Plot
Reporter Fletcher Stone collapses and hits his head on a desk during his speech. He wakes up moments later but is babbling uncontrollably although it is clear that he believes he is speaking normally.
House is in Baltimore with Stacy justifying his Medicaid billings. Stacy and House are in a long meeting with the Medicaid review officer. Stacy manages to appeal to the official’s better nature. House offers Stacy a dinner but they are on separate flights. House notes her crucifix is missing and that something is up. When there is a flight delay, Stacy is irritated as House continues to pursue the missing crucifix. Stacy reveals she and her husband Mark had a fight over nothing and she thinks he’s pushing her out of his life. The airport announces that all flights are grounded and Stacy reveals she already has a hotel room booked.
Meanwhile at the hospital, the tests show amphetamines although Fletcher claimed he is sober. House recommends treatments over the phone and tells the team to get a medical history – Fletcher can answer in one-word sentences of yes or no. Fletcher takes sleeping pills, which he wants to keep from his wife. Chase and Foreman find an anti-convulsive medicine at Fletcher’s office, then head to the patient's home to collect information about his wife. They find an incomplete home-work project but no other medicines.
In the hotel room, Stacy and House begin to kiss until they are interrupted by the phone. The staff tries to decode Fletcher’s statements with House over the phone, trying to draw patterns to what he’s saying. Cameron concludes that it’s Elizabeth’s presence that makes Fletcher reluctant to answer truthfully. House figures out when he’s talking about a bear, he’s talking about the puzzle of a polar bear – Fletcher is bi-polar and has been using alcohol during the depressive periods and weight medicine during the manic phases. Before House is forced to get on the plane, he concludes that Fletcher covered up his disorder as a journalist but tried to change for his wife. House concludes Fletcher underwent secret surgery. While House delivers his diagnosis, Elizabeth overhears the news, unhappy at his secrecy. House recommends they test the blood by hand to confirm the diagnosis – cerebral malaria, which the computers missed.
[edit] Continuity errors
- In the scene which starts with House saying "When people give themselves away, it's by little things," the pen in Stacy's mouth jumps to behind her ear when the angle changes. Later, the pen disappears while she is audibly typing, then reappears seconds later.
[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
- Failure to Communicate at the Internet Movie Database
- Medical Reviews of House: Failure to Communicate
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