Episode 13: One Day, One Room
Aired 1/30/07
Cuddy orders House to two days of nothing but clinic duty. He starts
by assembling the many who think they might have an STD. Then he
ambles out to the waiting room to see how many patients are left.
Suddenly, a man clutches his ear and runs around, screaming in agony.
House trips the man with his cane, holds him down and administers
a paralytic agent. The man becomes frozen, but at least he's no
longer making noise. Unfortunately, they need to intubate because
the paralytic has stopped the man's breathing.
House gathers his team to discuss the man's case. House asks what
right ear pain, psychotic behavior and dizziness might indicate.
Foreman throws out an acoustic neuroma that started to hemorrhage,
so House asks for an MRI. Chase mentions that the man could have
been psychotic first and mutilated himself. House likes that idea
too, and he asks for a full psych work up. He then tells the doctors
to pour some alcohol into the man's ear and pull out the cockroach.
House knew this was the cause all along. He only wanted a big case
to get him out of clinic duty.
Cameron, making the rounds on clinic duty, sees an old, disheveled
man who's most likely homeless. He hands her a note and says that
the other hospital gave it to him but he cannot read. The note says
that the man has a six centimeter cancerous mass in his right lung
which is inoperable. The man asks if he can sleep in the hospital
because it's cold outside. Cameron finds Cuddy and spills the truth
about House and the cockroach patient. Cuddy angrily tracks House
down and makes it clear, once again, that either he does clinic
duty or she will confess about the evidence against him. He owes
her.
House returns to clinic duty and announces to the waiting room
that he'll give $50 to anybody who leaves without being seen. Cuddy
pulls him back into her office, desperate for a solution. She offers
House $10 for every patient he can diagnose without touching. However,
he will have to pay her $10 for every patient he does have to touch.
So House starts plowing through patients without touching any of
them.
The test results come back from the earlier STD patients, and the
first two are clean. The third is a 20-something blonde female named
Eve who tests positive. Eve breaks down in tears at the news even
though House reassures her that Chlamydia isn't all that bad. House
tries to hand her some pills, but Eve yells at him to not touch
her. House goes to tell Cuddy to get a new doctor for this patient.
Eve has been raped.
Cuddy explains to Eve that the hospital will assign another doctor,
but Eve insists on House. House says that he isn't interested in
treating her because there is nothing to treat. She is perfectly
healthy. Eve doesn't care, and only wants to talk to him. House
comments that she just wants to reclaim power after being raped.
Eve screams at him to leave.
Eve crashes in the clinic. Cuddy and another doctor attend to her,
but she is unconscious and foaming at the mouth because of a pill
overdose. The doctor tells House that she had talked to Eve for
over an hour but the girl said nothing. When the doctor turned her
back, Eve grabbed the pill bottle.
House waits for Eve to awake and he asks her what she wants. She
only wants to talk to him - about anything. House goes to his team
for advice, and they suggest he give the girl his conversation.
Cameron angrily says that there is no way that Eve can pretend the
rape did not occur. She needs to process it. House returns to Eve
and explains to her that she can't blame herself for this. Eve says
that she knows that already, but she still wants to talk about nothing.
Cameron's homeless patient is hooked up to a battery of machines
and IVs. He pleads with her to stop the treatment because he doesn't
want it and doesn't think he deserves it. Although she disagrees,
Cameron unhooks the equipment. She visits him later and questions
why he wants to suffer. The man asks her why her husband had to
suffer. Cameron demands he tell her how he knows about her husband.
The man admits that the nurse told him.
House and Eve discuss where they went to college. House still gets
no answer on why Eve trusts him. She inquires whether anything terrible
has ever happened to him. He hesitates, so Eve flips his own logic
back on him. Not knowing what to do, House leaves to go seek counsel.
Wilson thinks he should just tell Eve the truth. Cameron advises
House to say his life has been wonderful so that the girl has some
hope. Foreman suggests he just admit that his life has sucked so
that she will see that she too can rebound. Chase notes that there
is no wrong answer.
House returns to Eve's bedside and starts into his life story.
He says that he was abused by his grandmother. His parents traveled
and often left him with her. She was a strict disciplinarian. House
never misbehaved when she was around because he was too afraid of
being forced to sleep in the yard or of being made to take a bath
in ice. He never told his parents. Eve asks if any of his story
is true, and House assures her that it all is. She again asks if
it is true. House replies that it is the truth for somebody.
Cuddy lets House know that Eve is pregnant. He breaks the news
to the girl, then offers her the chance to terminate it. Eve isn't
interested because she considers abortion to be murder. House asks
her if she wants to take a walk outside to get some air.
Meanwhile, Cameron's homeless patient is still suffering. She tries
to force pain medication on him, but he resists. The man says that
if he dies suffering, then Cameron will always remember him. Nobody
else will remember him. Cameron leaves the syringe next to his bed
and sits down across the room. The man later struggles for breath
and dies.
House and Eve sit in a park watching people jog by. They continue
their philosophical discussion. Eve argues that eternity is what
we live for, and House believes that our time on Earth is all we
have. Eve refuses to believe that because then there are no ultimate
consequences. She needs the comfort of knowing that this all means
something.
Eve wonders if her attacker feels remorse for his actions. House
asks why that matters. He then inquires why she trusts him. Eve
explains that there's something about him, as if he is hurt too.
House confesses that his story was true. Yet it wasn't his grandmother
but his father who abused him. Eve begins to acknowledge what happened
to her to House.
Back at the hospital, House informs Cuddy that Eve terminated her
pregnancy and has been discharged from the hospital.
- From Fox.com
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