Talk:Whac-A-Mole (House)
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[edit] Plot
A much more detailed recap is available:
At a pizza place teenager Jack Walters is putting up with the stress of handling the kids when he starts to get dizzy, vomits, and then collapses, clutching at his chest. The boy’s two brothers come up and tell the EMT that their parents are dead. Wilson arrives to find his car towed compliments of Tritter. House’s staff goes over the case but House comes up with a solution… and decided to make a game of it, writing his diagnosis down and sealing it in an envelope. Wilson meets with a lawyer who advises him to stop lying for House. Jack admits he did drugs to House before their parents died, but now they all are honest with each other. House doesn’t believe them. The staff administers tests while House hovers over them making suggestions. Cameron has no choice but to harass Jack into heart stress to see if he has a spasm. Wilson arrives by bus and discovers that he’s been suspending from prescribing drugs, but House isn’t too concerned. House concludes Jack has hepatitis-A and prescribes treatment, but Foreman goes in to see Jack and sees that he’s starting to bleed from his arm tattoo, his nose, and his ear. The team runs a new differential as House starts to feel the lack of Vicodin. House sends Foreman and Cameron on and puts pressure on Chase to write him a prescription. Chase refuses while Wilson asks Cameron to fill his patients’ prescriptions but she’s reluctant to do so and get involved with Tritter breathing down Wilson’s neck. Chase goes to the pizza place to check Jack’s vomit at the source. Wilson meets with one of his patients while Cameron looks on to get a feel for the prescription necessary. Beth is concerned about her presence and Wilson doesn’t have an explanation. Foreman takes samples of Jack’s spinal fluid while his sister Kama offers to help. Foreman tries to reassure her without much luck. When Foreman rolls him over, one of Jack’s ribs snaps. He reports to House who is having his shoulder looked at due to pain caused by his cane usage, and House asks Foreman for Vicodin. He refuses and cane gets a new cane-support. The tests come back and Jack tests positive for at least two infections, including syphilis and botulism. They clear the infections out of Jack’s systems but he starts to have unexplained seizures. House suspects drugs and wonders if they’re trapped in his fat cells, and are causing weight loss. They put Jack not a sauna to sweat it out and he confesses that he’s not the person he was when his parents died, that he’s turned his act around. Jack has another seizure and collapses, breaking his arm. They get a sample and determine he’s drug-free, but House is more interested in trading back for someone with a regular cane. House goes back to Cameron to get a prescription and plays to her sympathy, without any luck. They run Jack through the MRI and spot a bunch of tumors throughout his brain, tumors that weren’t there before. It’s back to differential and House suspects that it’s pus caused by fungus, explaining why the “tumors” suddenly appeared. House orders a needle insertion and then takes his last Vicodin and goes to Cuddy for a prescription. She agrees to keep clear of the police and claims House’s shoulder pain is psychological. House makes a connection and figures out that Jack’s problems were caused by his parents’ death and the psychological stress. Wilson comes in asks for Cameron’s assistance with a prescription for a dying patient but House refuses to let her go. House decides to give Jack more infections to test the specific genetic condition that was triggered. Whichever symptom triggers will identify the condition. Jack has no choice but to agree and after House sprays him, they wait for the symptom to trigger. Finally Jack has a seizure and identifies the disease. Cuddy thinks that they need to turn the kids over to Social Services but House reveals that a bone marrow transfer from his brother Will will reboot his immune system. Jack is reluctant to have Will pressured into helping despite Jack’s reassurances and refuses. House believes Jack doesn’t want the responsibility and Foreman calls him on it. House decides to prove his point and tells Jack they have another donor, but he’s still reluctant to agree. House points out that Jack doesn’t want to be healthy and considers the disease a guilt-free way out of taking care of his siblings. Jack finally admits it and House is proven right again. House visits Wilson who is referring his patients to other oncologists and he’s resigning his practice. He tells House to admit it and when House refuses, he tells him to get out. When House disputes him, Wilson points out his shoulder pain is a symptom of guilt. Foreman looks on as Jack says goodbye to his siblings as they’re taken away by Social Services. After they leave, Jack thanks Foreman for not telling them but still feels guilty for abandoning them. Later, Wilson waits outside for his bus when House drives up to him… and keeps going.
