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The Tyrant Recap
House - Episode 6.03 - The Tyrant
Airdate: October 5, 2009
Author: #1hotchfan
Airdate: October 5, 2009
Author: #1hotchfan
President DiBala, an African politician, and his aide are driving down the street in the pouring rain. The aide, Joseph, isn't happy that DiBala is making the trip. DiBala wants to see his son, who is a student at a local university. DiBala is also in town to speak at a UN Conference. Suddenly a van pulls up and cuts off the front of DiBala's vehicle and a second one pulls up and stops behind it. The sliding door opens on the van in front of DiBala's car so Joseph tells him to stay down. Joseph gets out of the car, draws his gun and yells to the man in the van. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out a plastic covered subpoena. He hands it to Joseph, it's a civil lawsuit against DiBala for genocide, his crimes against humanity and torture. The man returns to the van and both vans leave. DiBala exits his car and Joseph tells him of the subpoena and reminds him it's a US Civil suit and they don't have to respond. DiBala grabs the plastic bag to read the document and then begins to gag. Joseph watches as DiBala begins to throw up blood.Chase meets up with Foreman in the hallway. He inquires as to what happened to the other team. Foreman tells him that he and Cameron are competent. Chase wants to know why Foreman fired his own girlfriend. Foreman tries to justify it by saying that he couldn't work with her and be in a relationship. Foreman feels their relationship would have suffered with him being the boss. Chase doesn't agree with Foreman's thinking.
Chase, Cameron and Foreman walk into House's office to find House sitting there. Cameron welcomes him back. House says, "Oh my god, it's three years ago. Does that mean I'm still crazy?" The three of them sit down with House to discuss the DiBala case. Chase explains that DiBala thinks it was an assasination attempt but there is no evidence of radiation in his hotel room or on the subpoena. Cameron mentions acid reflux. House mentions it could be poisoning and Chase says it's Dioxin poisoning. Foreman rushes to leave the room with his own diagnosis and House asks him if he's rushing out to diagnose because of House as he's rushing out of the room. Foreman sends Cameron and Chase to start an antibiotic for Dioxin poisoning.
In the patient room, DiBala asks Chase where he is from as he detects his British accent. Cameron stands by and listens, clearly disgusted at DiBala and what she knows of him. Chase is impressed that DiBala picked up on his accent and mentions he spent a year in the seminary. DiBala says that his two younger sisters were dying from consumption and it wasn't younger priests that they needed.
In Cuddy's office, she is talking to House and Foreman. House calls Foreman on his firing of Thirteen. Foreman claims it wasn't working out and he did the right thing. Foreman thinks House is screwing him over and House begins to answer sarcastically but then says he's not. Cuddy tells them that Foreman will remain in charge for now and Cameron and Chase will work for diagnostics until they can replace Taub and Thirteen. House is not allowed patient contact until his license is reinstated.
Foreman shows up at Thirteen's apartment. He tries to justify her firing. He tells her that the only reason he let her go was because their relationship wouldn't remain intact if he was in charge. He informs her he won't be in charge much longer and offers to hire her back. Foreman asks if she'll have dinner with him. Thirteen isn't happy and tells Foreman that he is a coward and hid behind the job to break up with her.Chase goes in to see a patient. The man immediately tells Chase that he cannot treat DiBala. Chase turns to leave but the man says that DiBala killed his wife. He explains to Chase of how his wife was taken and then dumped on their lawn two weeks later, dead. He says that DiBala has committed massacres and will continue doing so, therefore Chase cannot allow DiBala to recover. Chase is shaken but apologizes to the man and leaves the room.
House returns to Wilson's apartment. Wilson asks, "How was your first day at school?" They chat about House's first day back to work but House stops and notices that Wilson didn't put garlic in his food. He sits down and notices Wilson isn't wearing his shoes either. House bangs his cane on the floor and realizes the problem is with the downstairs neighbor. Wilson tells him that the neighbor started complaining about the extra noise and smells after House moved in. He's trying to keep the peace. House's cell phone rings and he answers it, "Booty call? Give me 20 minutes to not shower." Cameron informs House that the patient is having a heart attack.
House walks into the office as the team is diagnosing DiBala. They discuss how the rash is gone, he has a slight fever. House mentions Lassa fever as a diagnosis. Foreman is unhappy with House and dismisses everything House has to say or offer. House keeps raising his hand each time he has something to offer the team. Foreman is annoyed and as the team shoots down theories, they finally agree it could be Lassa fever. Foreman concedes and begins to leave the room to start new medication on DiBala. House says, "It's great to have the whole team together isn't it." Chase raises his mug and Foreman just glares at House then leaves.Foreman is in DiBala's room, hooking up new medication. DiBala asks Foreman if he has a girlfriend. With some hesitation, Foreman finally admits he does. DiBala says that given Foreman's look and the look of the woman in the hallway, it must be his girlfriend. Foreman turns around and sees Thirteen standing by the nurse's station. He goes out to join her and she mentions that she got a phone call for an interview but the funny thing is, she had been turned down after he fired her and she never submitted her resume. He admits the head of the Department owed him a favor. She tells him most men bring chocolates. He says, I'd stand outside your apartment all night holding up a boom box, you you told me you hate 80's music." Thirteen agrees to have dinner with him.
House returns to the apartment building. When he walks in, he sees a man with one arm missing at the mailbox. He realizes it's Wilson's neighbor. He tries to walk around the man and hide his face so he doesn't have to talk to him. When he turns around, the man is in his face. The man points out that it's House's cane that is causing the noise. House jokes about the rubber tip of his cane being so noisy. House apologizes and says they'll try and make it work. the man tells House to keep it down or they will have trouble.
Cameron is paged to DiBala's room. The President introduces a woman and says that they should use her blood to treat him as she has Lassa fever. Cameron is not happy with this turn of events and realizes what is going on. Joseph holds up a signed consent and Cameron refuses. She and the woman go to Cuddy's office. Cameron tries to get the woman to admit she's being coerced into giving her blood to save DiBala's wife but the woman only stands firm she wants to do this. When she leaves, Cuddy tells Cameron she'd rather have a needle prick on her conscience then the death of the woman's family members. She tells Cameron to proceed.
Chase is at the nurse's station and sees a man pushing equipment in the hallway. He stares at the man, trying to figure out where he remembers him from. As the man moves closer down the hallway, Chase realizes it's the man who asked him to not treat DiBala. He runs, yelling "Don't let him in there." As he rounds the corner, he hears gunshots. When Chase enters the room, he sees a bullet in the wall and a bullet hole in some equipment. Joseph is on the floor bashing the face of the man. Chase goes over to check on DiBala and notices his right eye is bleeding but his left one isn't. Joseph and a security guard ask if DiBala was shot and Chase informs them he wasn't.
In the hallway, Chase tries to help the man out by cleaning him up. He tells him he needs to get a lawyer and if he can't afford one, he can get a court appointed lawyer. The man says he cannot be helped. He admits to Chase that the woman he told him about was not his wife. When Chase asks who she was, the man says, "They never told me her name." He says, "What his man made us do to that woman...." Chase is horrified as he listens.
Chase returns home and Cameron is upset about what happened. She tells him he could have been killed. Chase calms her down and hugs her. Cameron admits to him she wishes DiBala was dead.
Back in the office, the team is discussing DiBala's latest symptom. House walks in and says he's not going to say a word as he feels like he's undermining Foreman's authority. Foreman comes up with a diagnosis but House pulls out the chest x-ray. Chase deciphers what House isn't "saying" and House gives him at thumbs up. Foreman comes up with another theory and House once again, makes a hand gesture. When Chase doesn't get it, Foreman says House is talking about the patients temperature. This continues to the point where House tries to spell something out and then tells Cameron to spread her legs to help him make an "H." House finally tells them that the LDH is normal and it can't be lymphoma. Foreman disagrees and sends Cameron and Chase to biopsy the lymph node. As House goes to leave, he tells Foreman to close the blinds, it's really bright in there. Foreman looks at the blinds, walks over and closes them. Written on the blinds is, "Lymphoma, ta da!"In Wilson's office, he admits he's upset with House for talking to the neighbor. House tells Wilson he believes the neighbor is faking being a veteran. Wilson begins to believe House is up to his old tactics until House admits he looked the guy up online under Veterans. House says there is no mention of the man and he's not old enough to have served in the war. Wilson tells House to drop it and he needs to write a letter of apology to the man. He wants House to leave it on the man's doorstep quietly. House still believes he can prove the man wrong.
After the shooting incident, Chase is in treating DiBala. DiBala thanks Chase for saving his life. Chase calls DiBala on what he learned from the other man. The President argues that he's frighting a guerrilla war, trying to impose order and trying to prevent genocide. he says his youngest son is a student and hasn't spoken to him in years because of the lies in the US newspapers. "I hired men who in their zeal, stepped over the line. There were abuses. But that will not happen again," DiBala tells Chase.
House writes a letter of apology to Wilson's neighbor. He heads to the man's door to leave it on his doorstep. There are water buckets and cleaning material outside the man's door, and a cleaning woman comes out with trash, leaving the door partway open. House resists the temptation to go inside and puts the letter down in front of the door. When he turns to leave, he slips on the floor and falls, dumping one of the buckets of water in the process. He grabs his letter and hurriedly gets up. He tries wiping up some of the floor and calls out "Hello." When nobody answers, House enters and puts the letter on the end table. As he begins to leave, he stops and takes a step back. He turns and notices a framed Canadian flag on the wall.
Chase goes into the lab to talk to Cameron. He's upset about her saying she wanted the man to kill DiBala. She thinks it would be justified for what DiBala has done. Chase tries to tell her differently as he believes what DiBala had just told him, that he was innocent. Cameron pulls up DiBala's test results and tells him it's not lymphoma.
Wilson's neighbor comes home. When he approaches his door, House calls out to him from the stairway. House informs the man, "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam you idiot." The man tells House that the Canadian troops were indeed sent in and why. He tells House that he got his arm blown off saving a 12 year old boy from a land mine. House says, "Oh."
In DiBala's room, he asks Chase about his lymphoma test results. Chase tells him and Joseph that it's not lymphoma. DiBala asks the same question again, which draws concerned looks from Chase and Joseph.
Foreman and Thirteen are having dinner in a nice restaurant. They tread on thin ice when Thirteen brings up being fired. Foreman tells Thirteen there were two alternatives and he took one. She tells him there was a third one, he could have stepped aside. She says that Cameron and Chase were both qualified to run diagnostics as well. She asks him if he could do it all over again.... Foreman says he made the right decision. Thirteen looks unhappy, stands up, grabs her coat and leaves.
Chase is in DiBala's room, checking his vitals. Outside the room, Joseph approaches Cameron for her confidential medical opinion. He wants to know if DiBala is capable of thinking clearly. Cameron sees the opportunity and places doubt in the man's mind. The man steps away and Chase buzzes her to tell her DiBala is spiking a fever.
In the office, House is reviewing the test results and file. Foreman wonders why House isn't being clever. House replies, "A patient's dying, I don't have time for clever." House brings up fungal lesions but the rest of the team disagrees with him. Cameron waivers and House points out that she's made it clear she dislikes the man and doesn't want to treat him, but yet she remains. He says to her, "Take a stand, either do something or shut up." House says he'll go to Cuddy to get her opinion. Foreman says, "This isn't a democracy and I don't care who you get. At least for right now, this is my department." He tells Cameron and Chase what to treat DiBala for and sends them out.As Cameron is injecting medication into DiBala's IV, he grabs her arm. He tells her she should put an air bubble in it, give him another heart attack and nobody can tell what causes it. he calls her on what she told Joseph and said if she wants him dead, she should just do it herself. Cameron hesitates for a minute and then puts the medication into his IV. She says, "I guess I didn't want you dead after all." She leaves the room and Chase tells DiBala, "Touch my wife again and I'll kick our ass out onto the street, no matter who you are." DiBala is clearly upset and angry and tells Chase that Cameron is too weak to act on her beliefs, everybody is. He says his advisers are scum, appeasers.... Chase says, "Cockroaches...what are you going to do about them." DiBala says, "In my world, there are dangers, blood shed, and death. That makes you a man and men make choices." Chase says he saved DiBala's life and he deserves to know what DiBala is planning. He tells Chase whatever it takes to protect his country.
Back at the apartment, Wilson tells House the neighbor called. Wilson believes House broke into the man's apartment. When House offers to fix things, Wilson says he already did. The neighbor was going to press charges but he isn't now because Wilson promised that House would be leaving. Wilson tells a shocked House that he will explain it to his psychiatrist but he truly believes House has changed enough to know this is the right thing to do.
Cameron approaches Chase. She makes a stand and tells him that she believes in House's diagnosis and wants to work on an antiserum. They run tests and go to
Foreman with the results, which aren't conclusive enough to make a firm decision. Foreman disagrees with them and goes with his theory on what is wrong with DiBala and won't listen to Cameron. Before she leaves she asks him if he has admitted to Thirteen that he was wrong yet in firing her. She tells him that she's worked with him long enough to know that when he's wrong, he will admit it. She gets him to back down and agree with their diagnosis and treatment. The three of them head out to treat DiBala.Wilson's neighbor returns home and lets himself into his apartment. When he shuts his door, House grabs him and injects a needle into his neck. When the man awakens, he is tied to a chair with duct tape and has tape over his mouth. House talks to the man, who looks like he's about to cry and is scared. House brings out a box and puts it on the table in front of the man. He grabs the man's right arm, which is missing his hand and puts it into a hole in front of the box. He unties the man's left arm and has him put that arm in the second hole. Once he does, House closes the top of the box over the man's right hand. House announces he's doing mirror magic. In the mirror the man sees his right hand. House has him clench and make a fist, then says he prays it will work. After a few moments, he has the man unclench both hands and the man begins to cry. House removes the duct tape off his mouth and the man, sobbing, says for 36 years, he has been in pain and now it is finally gone. He thanks House.
Chase is performing a procedure on DiBala, Joseph and two other men come into the room and Foreman holds them back. They discover a bleeder in DiBala's lung and Chase cauterizes the bleeding. They think it's going well as DiBala stabilizes but suddenly blood starts coming out of DiBala's mouth. Chase goes back in and finds the bleeder and goes to cauterize it and discovers there are a dozen holes in his lung, there is no way to stop them all in time. Cameron shocks DiBala's heart and they try to revive him as he flat-lines. The trio look at each other in shock when they realize DiBala is dead.
Foreman is sitting at his desk when House comes in. House tells him if he wants to curl up and cry, the lounge chair is more comfy. He gets Foreman to think about what happened. Foreman tells him that DiBala's country wants their own doctor to do the autopsy, they can't even get near the body as it's under lock and key. House says, "There's a reason I hired you. You just don't know what to do with a locked door."
Foreman goes into the locker room where Chase is sitting. He tells him how he went to the morgue to run tests but couldn't get past the guard. However, he pulls up the sign in sheet for the morgue. Chase had signed into the morgue earlier that morning. Foreman accuses Chase of taking the blood of a 70 year old woman and using it make misdiagnose DiBala. Chase finally admits what he did and says that Cameron had nothing to do with it. Foreman is angry at what Chase has done but Chase tries to justify it with all of DiBala's misdeeds. He tells Foreman that if they admit the truth of what happened to DiBala, he becomes a martyr and the massacres will begin. Foreman tells Chase that he covers it up, he becomes his accomplice. Chase asks Foreman to just give him a heads up if he's going to be arrested so he can tell his wife first. Foreman says, "Chase you really think you can kill another human being without any consequences to yourself?"
House returns to the apartment. Wilson tells him the neighbor called and was happy. The neighbor approved the garden expansion and isn't pressing charges against House if he doesn't move out. Wilson asked what House did but then says he wants to give House the benefit of the doubt. House sits down and they watch t.v.
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