close
Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy!

224: No Reason

◄ Previous: House 223, "Who's Your Daddy"
■ Back to House Season 2 ■
 Next: House Season 3 ►

"NO REASON"



House Episode Number: 224

House Season: 2

Original Air Date: May 23, 2006

Writer: David Shore

Director: Lawrence Kaplow and David Shore

Special Guest(s): Elias Koteas (Jack Moriarty), Chris Tallman (Vincent), Michelle Clunie (Judy)
HOUSE MD 224: No Reason

Want to edit this House episode guide?
Click EasyEdit to update this page!
(Don't see the EasyEdit button above? Sign in
or Sign up.)

◄ Go home: House

House M.D. Episode Synopsis

As House and his team are working on the diagnosis of a man with a giant, swollen tongue, the husband of a former patient walks into House's office and shoots him. House continues to treat his patient from his ICU hospital bed with the shooter, who has been shot by hospital security and hand-cuffed to his bed, as his roommate. When the after-effects of the shooting begin to impact House, he starts to question his own ability to diagnose properly. As his patient's body deteriorates, House struggles through his self-doubt and must trust his team to find a way to solve the case.

House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers
  • Is Moriarty ever caught?
  • What is actually wrong with Vincent?
  • Does House's ketamine treatment work?

House M.D. Medical File Folder

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

Location of incident:
  • Hospital clinic (Vincent)
  • House's office (House)
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Vincent/Unknown/Middle-aged/Male
POTW symptom(s):
  • Swollen tongue (Vincent, real)
  • Asphyxia, exploding testicle, eye pops out (Vincent, in hallucination)
  • Hallucinations and blackouts (House)
Team mis-diagnoses: Testicular cancer (Vincent, in hallucination)
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: House asks Vincent questions that have no medical relevance (reality), and kills him (in hallucination)
House's "Aha!" moment: During Jack's long speech about House's true character.
POTW final diagnosis: N/A; everything from the point where Jack shoots House a second time to where House kills Vincent is a hallucination. We never learn what's actually wrong with Vincent.
Other / clinic patient(s): None.

House M.D. Episode Best Moments
  • House tears out his stitches, and Cuddy chains him to his bed





House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes
    • "You think that the only truth that matters is that truth can be measured. Good intentions don't count. What's in your heart doesn't count. Caring doesn't count. But a man's life can be measured by how many tears are shed when he dies. Just because you can't measure them, just because you don't wanna measure them, doesn't mean it's not real. And even if I'm wrong, you're still miserable. Did you really think that your life's purpose was to sacrifice yourself and get nothing in return? No...you believe that there is no purpose, to anything, even the lives you save you dismiss. You turn the one decent thing in your life and you taint it, strip it of all meaning. You're miserable for nothing...I don't know why you'd wanna live." - Jack Moriarty, to House

    • "You anti-semantic bastard" - House


    House M.D. Episode Trivia

    • Be nice to know what the equation was that house wrote on the transparent board near the end of the episode when he exclaims "That doesn't make sense"
    • The first scene where house is waking up in his hospital bed, his wristband has Hugh Laurie's actual birthday on it, but this conflicts with the time his birthday is in season one.
    • House's says that the guy with a swollen tongue "looks like Harpo." This is a direct reference to Harpo Marx, who frequently made weird faces by sticking his tongue out to make it look like his mouth.


    HOUSE EPISODE PICTURES & VIDEOS

    How to add pictures:
    1. Click EasyEdit
    2. Delete placeholder or instructions
    3. Click Image button on toolbar
    4. Upload your image
    5. Add caption, if desired    		 How to add video:
    1. Click EasyEdit
    2. Delete placeholder or instructions
    3. Click Widget button on toolbar, select YouTube video
    4. Search for video or paste in YouTube video embed code
    5. Add caption, if desired




    		 No Reason
    No Reason 2 No Reason 3
    No Reason 4 No Reason 5
    No Reason 6 Episode 2.24 No Reason
    ◄ Previous: House 223, "Who's Your Daddy"
    ■ Back to House Season 2 ■
    		 Next: House Season 3 ►




    Threads


    There are no threads for this page. 

    Anonymous  (Get credit for your thread)

    Related Content

    (what's this?Related ContentThanks to keyword tags, links to related pages and threads are added to the bottom of your pages. Up to 15 links are shown, determined by matching tags and by how recently the content was updated; keeping the most current at the top. Share your feedback on Wetpaint Central.)
    is 13 going to die? House Best Of House Quotes: Houseisms
    House Medical Glossary HOUSE'S NEW CANE House Wiki Birthday Calendar
    103: Occam's Razor 102: Paternity Hello
    White lies never thought I would cry for "House" Lisa