Bombshells (''House'')

"Bombshells"
House episode
Episode no.	Season 7 Episode 15
Directed by	Greg Yaitanes
Written by	Liz Friedman Sara Hess
Original air date	March 7, 2011 (2011-03-07)
Guest appearance(s)
Paula Marshall as Julia Cuddy Brett DelBuono as Ryan Lesley Fera as Kay Ken Garito as Todd

"Bombshells" is the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama series House. It aired on March 7, 2011.

Plot

A teenager is admitted to the hospital after spitting up blood. Taub also discovers that the boy has been depressed and appears to have been cutting himself. More concern arises when the team breaks into the boy's house and finds his school yearbook with his classmates' faces crossed out and threatening words written about the school, and when Taub checks the contents of the boy's flash drive, he finds disturbing videos of him blowing up homemade pipe bombs and appearing to show misanthropic and sociopathic tendencies.

It is discovered that a piece of one of the bombs ended up lodged in his system, and the foreign material is what has caused his various medical maladies. Taub, however, is torn between sending the videos to the authorities throughout the case, but in the end, decides to mail the flash drive to the police.

Meanwhile, Cuddy finds blood in her urine and undergoes tests for possible kidney cancer, while House grapples with emotionally supporting her, avoiding her, and denying that she is actually sick. Cuddy goes through several dreams while hospitalized before her kidney problems were found to be a benign tumor.

After speaking with her sister, Cuddy realizes that when House came to see her during her illness, he was under the influence of Vicodin. Realizing that he is unable to open up completely and share the pain that she considers to be part of any meaningful relationship, she ends their relationship.

The episode is concluded with a scene that echoes the last scene of the previous season's finale ("Help Me"): House is sitting on his bathroom floor with a bottle of Vicodin in his hand. He expectantly looks at the doorway. Resigned, and with no Cuddy to save him, he takes the pills.

Popular culture references

Cuddy's dream sequences includes a parody of the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men,^[1] while another recreates the final scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with House and Cuddy in the roles of Butch and Sundance. The final dream is a stylized version of "Get Happy" starring House in a large musical production.

Critical response

Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club gave this episode a B+ rating, praising "Bombshells" despite the campy dream sequences.^[2]

References

↑ "Charlie Sheen: Hugh Laurie's Two And A Half Men dream sequence in House"Daily Mail
↑ Handlen, Zack (March 7, 2011). "House: "Bombshells"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 18, 2016.

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Characters

Main	Gregory House Lisa Cuddy James Wilson Eric Foreman Robert Chase Allison Cameron Thirteen (Remy Hadley) Chris Taub Lawrence Kutner Martha Masters Jessica Adams Chi Park
Recurring	Stacy Warner Michael Tritter

Episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Paternity" "Love Hurts" "Three Stories"
Season 2	"Acceptance" "Autopsy" "Humpty Dumpty" "Daddy's Boy" "Spin" "Hunting" "The Mistake" "Deception" "Failure to Communicate" "Need to Know" "All In" "Clueless" "House vs. God" "Who's Your Daddy?" "No Reason"
Season 3	"Meaning" "Informed Consent" "Lines in the Sand" "Fools for Love" "Que Será Será" "Son of Coma Guy" "Whac-A-Mole" "Finding Judas" "Merry Little Christmas" "Words and Deeds" "One Day, One Room" "Needle in a Haystack" "Insensitive" "Half-Wit" "Top Secret" "Fetal Position" "Airborne" "Act Your Age" "House Training" "Family" "Resignation" "The Jerk" "Human Error"
Season 4	"Alone" "The Right Stuff" "97 Seconds" "Guardian Angels" "Mirror Mirror" "Whatever It Takes" "Ugly" "You Don't Want to Know" "Games" "It's a Wonderful Lie" "Frozen" "Don't Ever Change" "No More Mr. Nice Guy" "Living the Dream" "House's Head" "Wilson's Heart"
Season 5	"Dying Changes Everything" "Not Cancer" "Adverse Events" "Birthmarks" "Lucky Thirteen" "Joy" "The Itch" "Emancipation" "Last Resort" "Let Them Eat Cake" "Joy to the World" "Big Baby" "The Greater Good" "Unfaithful" "The Softer Side" "The Social Contract" "Here Kitty" "Locked In" "Simple Explanation" "Saviors" "House Divided" "Under My Skin" "Both Sides Now"
Season 6	"Broken" "Epic Fail" "The Tyrant" "Instant Karma" "Brave Heart" "Known Unknowns" "Teamwork" "Ignorance Is Bliss" "Wilson" "The Down Low" "Remorse" "Moving the Chains" "5 to 9" "Private Lives" "Black Hole" "Lockdown" "Knight Fall" "Open and Shut" "The Choice" "Baggage" "Help Me"
Season 7	"Now What?" "Selfish" "Unwritten" "Massage Therapy" "Unplanned Parenthood" "Office Politics" "A Pox on Our House" "Small Sacrifices" "Larger than Life" "Carrot or Stick" "Family Practice" "You Must Remember This" "Two Stories" "Recession Proof" "Bombshells" "Out of the Chute" "Fall from Grace" "The Dig" "Last Temptation" "Changes" "The Fix" "After Hours" "Moving On"
Season 8	"Twenty Vicodin" "Transplant" "Charity Case" "Risky Business" "The Confession" "Parents" "Dead & Buried" "Perils of Paranoia" "Better Half" "Runaways" "Nobody's Fault" "Chase" "Man of the House" "Love Is Blind" "Blowing the Whistle" "Gut Check" "We Need the Eggs" "Body & Soul" "The C-Word" "Post Mortem" "Holding On" "Everybody Dies"

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