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30 November 2011 ~ Comments Off

House Season 8 Episode 8 Recap: Perils of Paranoia

The camera opens on a courtroom where a lawyer is questioning a witness about his alibi for the night of a crime. Although the witness is caught in the lie, the lawyer has little time to celebrate because he begins to feel short of breath and collapses to the floor.
When presented with the case, House suspects toxins. He tells Adams to search the home and Chase to run some tests and tells them to choose who they will take with them. At the same time, they both say “Taub.” House is intrigued as to why neither doctor wanted to take Park. But Adams quickly recants and says she’ll take Park and that it’s no big deal.

On the way over, Adams reassures Park that she likes her and that they work well together, even as they start arguing over the patient’s diagnosis. At the house, they can’t find any toxic chemicals, but they do find a hidden room containing a stockpile of guns and ammo to supply a small army.

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15 November 2011 ~ Comments Off

House Season 8 episode 6 Recap: Parents

We all hate clowns, right? Well the kids at the birthday party in the opening scene of this week’s House agree with the rest of us. At the party, a visibly nervous clown is slowly trying to tie balloon animals and the kids are getting impatient. So much so, in fact, that one of the kids take the initiative and clocks the clown in the groin, after which the clown falls to the ground, starts shaking, and declares that he can’t move his arms or his legs.

Instead of concentrating on the patient, House would rather talk about Taub’s parental problems. It turns out Taub’s ex-wife and her new boyfriend want to move to Portland, taking his daughter with them, which he doesn’t want to happen. But House suggests that even though Taub wants to be a part of his daughter’s life, the baby doesn’t care either way. Taub is, of course, afraid he’ll mess up his kid if he isn’t around. And Chase interjects that all parents screw up all kids, so what does it matter where and when it happens. This leads House to quickly analyze how each member of his team was screwed up by their parents, except Adams, who insists that her parents were completely normal and didn’t mess her up in any way.

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08 November 2011 ~ Comments Off

House Season 8 Episode 5 Recap: The Confession

In the opening scene of the episode, a small town is honoring Bob, a 30-something local businessman and prominent member of the community, for his service to the town. But we quickly find out that he may not be as virtuous and honorable as he’d like everyone to know when we see him cheating on his wife with the local beauty queen in a seedy hotel room. But while having sex he suddenly becomes disoriented, feels shortness of breath, and then collapses.

House’s team is back together, now that he was able to get the money together to fund his department. Chase and Taub return, and we find out that in the meantime Chase quit medicine and that Taub went back into plastic surgery. On his first day back on the job, Taub has to find a babysitter for his two daughters, born from two women he got pregnant at the same time a little over a year ago. Now he’s with neither woman, but has both kids for a few days and asks Foreman, then Wilson, to help him babysit.

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