305: Fools for Love

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"FOOLS FOR LOVE"

House Episode Number: 305

House Season: 3

Original Air Date: October 31, 2006

Writer: Peter Blake

Director: David Platt

Special Guest(s): David Morse (Michael Tritter); Jurnee Smollett (Tracy); Raviv Ullman (Jeremy); Kimberly Quinn (Nurse Wendy); Brett Wagner (L.K.); Scott Allen Rinker (Bobby); Rod Damer (Counterman); Carissa Koutantzis (Waitress); Sam Ayers (Large Man); Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)

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House takes the case of a young woman who has been rushed to the hospital with problems breathing and severe stomach pain after she and her husband were robbed. After her husband collapses, the team believes the couple's illnesses are related. Meanwhile, Michael Tritter, a clinic patient, causes problems for House that could have serious ramifications.

House has been arrested; how will that turn out?

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

Location of incident:	A local diner
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW:	Tracy/Unknown/Unknown/Female Jeremy/Unknown/Unknown/Male
POTW symptom(s):	Tracy is the initial patient, who had her throat close up, but her husband Jeremy falls sick as well. Tracy: Throat closes up, abdominal pain, hallucination, dissociative coma Jeremy: Chest and stomach pain, intestines "rot."
Team mis-diagnoses:	Salmonella from tainted Marijuana, exercise-based anaphylaxis, an STD, Porphyria
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:	In an attempt to force Jeremy to allow a brain biopsy on Tracy, who is in a coma, House gives him naloxone, which cancels the effect of the pain killers he is on. This only strengthens his resolve, however.
House's "Aha!" moment:	House realizes that maybe Jeremy's father was not racist, but had some other reason for not wanting the two to be together. Also, House realizes they have the same green eyes.
POTW final diagnosis:	Hereditary angioedema; both have it, because Tracy and Jeremy are half-siblings
Other / clinic patient(s):	Detective Michael Tritter

Best Episode Moments

After detective Tritter kicks House's cane out from under him, House uses a rectal thermometer to measure Tritter's temperature. However, he leaves without taking the thermometer out, commenting "Nuh-uh. You break it, you buy it."

House 'bets' Foreman $200 that Wilson and a nurse are involved, when we learn at the end of the episode that Foreman is involved with the nurse.

House Quotes

Tritter: You're rude.
House: Wow... you're like a detective or something.

Tritter: So you treat everyone around like they're idiots. And you get away with it. Because of your cane.
House: Please stop. It's hard to write through the haze of bitter tears.

House: Infectious or environmental. All we have to do is check out parasites, viruses, bacteria, fungi, prions, toxins, radiation, chemicals, or it's Internet porn-related. I'll check the Internet, you cover the rest of the stuff.

"Sorry. I already met this month's quota of useless tests for stubborn idiots."

"You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty."

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