The season opener of House started with a BANG! (literally) when an office building collapsed on its foundation. House’s mystery patient was a swollen girl named Megan, who was one of the survivors with not-so-normal symptoms compared to other survivors.
The last season ended with Cameron resigning, Chase being fired and Foreman following through on his planned resignation. The question, in this episode, is whether any of House’s associates will come back. Will House beg Cameron or Foreman to go back? Or will we be introduced to new characters?
Dr. Gregory House opened the season rocking solo to an Eddie Van Halen song on a classic white Flying V guitar. Alone in his office without any other doctors, this became the theme of the whole episode: Does House have the guts to cure patients on his own? Can he handle speaking to patients without Cameron or spying on his patient’s homes without Chase and Foreman?
Cuddy nags House to hire a new team to help him diagnose patients. Knowing House, Cuddy agreed to let house treat the patient for the entire week even without a team – just to prove to him that he can’t handle it alone. Dr. Wilson, on the other hand, blackmails House by kidnapping his beloved guitar to hire future members of his team. Of course, since House does not accept losses well, he plays along Wilson’s games and kidnaps one of Wilson’s patients instead.
Trying to figure out the case alone, House searched for anyone, even the janitor and doctors from the ER, whom he could exchange thoughts about the case with. Cuddy, knowing that House would pull such tricks, gave memos to the entire Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital to NOT help Dr. Gregory out.
The ending to Megan’s case was quite unpredictable. However, House’s debate with Cuddy as to how right he was about the case was predictable, but still remained very amusing. The episode ended with House playing his guitar and warning a group of potential staff that the next weeks to come under his supervision will be their worst nightmare.
I just can’t wait to see how jerky Dr. House can be with his new staff.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of House Season 4 episode 2, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on Fox.
