107: Fidelity

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"FIDELITY"

House Episode Number: 107

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: December 28, 2004

Writer: Thomas L. Moran

Director: Bryan Spicer

Special Guest(s): Dominic Purcell (Ed Snow), Myndy Crist (Elyce Snow), Clementine Shepherd-Ford (Samantha Campbell), Brennan Elliott (Adam), Henri Lubatti (Head Chef), Endre Hules (Soup Chef), James Conkle (Young Boy)

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It's truth or consequences when a woman caught a rare African sleeping sickness transmitted through sexual contact, but neither she nor her husband will admit to having an affair.

HOUSE EPISODE'S MEDICAL MYSTERY: PATIENT OF THE WEEK (POTW)

Location of incident:	Home, in bed
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW:	Elyce/Works at a restaurant/?/Female
POTW symptom(s):	Sleeping 18 hours a day Irritability Seizures Hallucinations Coma
Team mis-diagnoses:	Clinical Depression Tumor Breast Cancer attacking the brain Rabbit Fever
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:	House sends Foreman to check out where she works.
House's "Aha!" moment:	House suggests the Pre School teacher/clinic patient to find a guy in a bar or something and have sex with him and suddenly realises Elyce might have had an affair and caught African Sleeping Sickness.
POTW final diagnosis:	African Sleeping Sickness caught from sexual infidelity.
Other / clinic patient(s):	Pre-school teacher with unusually large "silicon" enhanced breasts who is suffering from shortness of breath (House tells her her husband doesn't want to have sex with her).

Best Episode Moments

House suggesting to the pre-school teacher patient w/ breast implants to go to a bar and find a random guy to have sex with.

House ogling the patients breast implants.

House Quotes

House: "You check her E.K.G. results before she left the other day?"
Dr. Wilson: "You ordered it."
House: "You're the responsible one."

(Speaking to Wilson and Cuddy about Cuddy)
House: "She's all upset 'cause we paid more attention to the other girl. You check out her ass. I've got the chest." Cuddy: "It takes two department heads to treat shortness of breath?? What, do the complications increase exponentially with cup size?"

House Episode Trivia

The original title of this episode was "Truth or Consequences."

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Elyce has a seizure

Elyce slips into a coma

House waits to talk to Elyce's husband