224: No Reason

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"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): Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Obie Sims (Cuddy's Patient), Michelle Clunie (Judy), Chris Tallman (Vince), Elias Koteas (Jack Moriarty)

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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.

Is Moriarty ever caught?

What is actually wrong with Vincent?

Does House's ketamine treatment work?

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.

Best Episode Moments

House gets shot very unexpectedly in the beginning of the episode.

House imitates his ducklings.

House tears out his stitches, and Cuddy chains him to his bed.

House punches Wilson and Wilson asks if he's hallucinating right now. It turns out that he was.

House realizes everything that occurred after he was shot has been one big hallucination.

House MD 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

"I always say if you're going to get shot, do it in a hospital."

House 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.

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