Previously on "House" Foreman took of the team and this caused Taub to quit and Thirteen to be fired. Because Foreman is stupid. Anyway, the original team is back with Chase, Cameron, and Foreman, and House came back too but he's just chilling on the side lines making snarky remarks. Last week Chase killed an evil dictator who planned on a genocide, and Foreman covered for him. This week, they do some more covering and add another accomplice to the murder team. This season is on a roll.

The patient of the week is a billionaire who is a genius businessman but cannot figure out why his young son is sick. No doctor can either, so of course he comes to House. He insists on having the best, so Foreman is in sulk-mode again. The kid only gets more and more sick with random symptoms, and the gang really can't seem to figure out what is wrong with him. This is all secondary since the important stories involve the doctors and not the case. I kind of miss when the case was Plot A in the script.

Thirteen and House chat at a bar and she says she's going on a trip. Most of the fans cheer and pray that she'll stay there for a very long time, but since the "House" writers are obsessed with her, we know it won't last. The airplane ticket mysteriously gets changed, and Thirteen accuses everyone in sight of screwing with her. She believes that House didn't do it, House believes Foreman didn't do it, and then apparently Cuddy helped track who did it through ... using what? Seriously? Apparently this is CSI: House. So Thirteen decides Wilson did it, which is just an excuse to have him on the screen for five minutes, and he's like 'oh House needs you please don't go.' They did this exact same storyline in season one when Cameron quit and then blackmailed House into giving her a date. Because he 'needs' her to stay. It was annoying the first time around. It seems like it was House, for whatever his crazy reasons are.

Where's Taub?

So back to the patient. He's still dying. No one knows what it is. Everyone's too busy with their own problems. But House shows yet again he's changed somewhat by actually going to meet the kid and his father. He even tells the father himself when he believes the boy is being killed but Degos disease, which is incurable. The father decides to give up his billion dollar empire because he believes karma is giving him all this successful business but killing his son. In the old days House's eyes would've bugged out and he's spend ten minutes mocking this person, instead he's rather nice. Then he figures out that it's just antiphospholipid syndrome (I looked it up, no idea what it means), and the boy will be fine. Thus proving that karma rewarded the father for having no money now to pay medical bills with. And they lived happily ever after on the streets.

The real A story of this week would be Chase and Foreman freaking out about killing James Earl Jones last episode. Whoa, that's way in the past now, guys, forget about it. This is TV, after all. Anyway Foreman has to present the cast to a Morbidity and Mortality conference, and he's paranoid that they'll question him until they figure out he's lying. Chase panics and neglects his wife, then almost confesses to Cuddy, then gets covered for by House. Aw, House loves his Australian duckling. In typical House fashion he's like 'murder is better than misdiagnosis' thus proving he hasn't changed that much. Chase continues to be tormented by the choice he made, thus pushing Cameron away.

It has to be said that Jesse Spencer is really doing a fantastic job. He should've been given great stories like this for the past two years, and then maybe we'd have less Thirteen drama. Haha, just kidding. Overall this was a strong episode, House continues to show development and the original team is just a glory to behold. Can we just keep them? Please, show?

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Story by Chelsea Doyle
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