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As if I were not excited enough about the premiere of the show opens up with a detox montage set to Radiohead's 'No Surprises'. Bliss! Of course, not entirely apropos as there were surprises. Plenty of them.To start: I apologize for the length, but it's a 2 hour premiere and a LOT happened. Now - to the recap!It starts when House finishes detoxing and tries to check himself out,
house-511_xmas_0005finding out it's not that easy. He tells the stately Dr. Nolan that his hallucinations and delusions were drug induced, but Nolan isn't convinced since House had years of Vicodin use and only suffered psychosis after the death of two friends. He also confronts House on his personality disorders (Narcissistic and Antisocial) and then completely blackmails him into staying by declaring that he will not recommend that his medical license be reinstated otherwise. Is this a new therapeutic technique I haven't heard of yet? Blackmailing your patients is generally...bad. Also generally bad is a manic depressive (which is actually Bipolar disorder and in this case, most likely Bipolar I. OK, I'll stop that.) roommate in the midst of a manic episode because he's decided he doesn't need his meds. He's got all the pressured (and constant) speech, flight of ideas, motor agitation, grandiosity, goal directed behavior and that's not even getting to the possible psychotic symptoms. Not needing meds are the only thing he and House agree on. House meets the other patients and I am struck by the fact that for someone who has long claimed a clear bias against psychiatry, he can nonetheless immediately diagnose nearly everyone on the unit. And then he immediately starts using their disorders against them, causing them to alternately regress and rebel. Of course, his behavior only reinforces his own diagnosis to the staff. It earns him a couple stays in a padded solitary room (which I would think is preferable to Alvie's constant chatter) which he quickly realizes is a fruitless exercise. He also meets Lydia, who comes to the ward to visit her sister-in-law and play the piano to her. House strikes up a conversation that falls into his usual patterns. Basically she tells him that Annie bobs her head to the music and she thinks it helps and he tells her she's bobbing her head to her own pulse and assigning any other meaning to it is pretty much idiotic. Well, that last part is more implied. The group is joined by Freedom Master (AKA Steve) who believes he is a superhero and he decides he can save Annie from her catatonia. House is less interested in the delusions of his cohorts and more concerned with the woman he sees Dr. Nolan kiss and then leave with. He easily gets Alvie to break into Nolan's office to look as his schedule and try to figure out who the woman is, but it yields no results. House picks a fistfight with Alvie to get some Haldol (I think they would have given him an injectable for violence on the unit, not a pill) which he cheeks to pass off to another patient to trade for some phone time. He calls Wilson, asking him to look up the woman's license plate number - but Nolan got to Wilson first and he refuses to help.
We get a montage of what looks like House playing nice and making level gains. We know better. He's cheeking his meds. However, they are on to his tricks and catch him when he demands their trust and offers to take a urine test. Of course, he has the Haldol patient waiting for him in the stall to offer medicated urine in his place. It would be brilliant if Nolan hadn't decided that he was making gains too quickly, with too few complications and had put him on placebo to see if there was any change. When there wasn't and his urine revealed active meds instead of placebo, it was clear they were being had. House then decides to take up the cause of Freedom Master instead of tackling his own issues. He argues that he sees no reason why the staff won't let Steve believe he is a hero and instead confronts him with the harsh reality that his wife was killed and he was helpless to save her. Just like House doesn't see why he needs to give up his own personality traits, despite how self destructive they've become. In an attempt to break Steve's depression, he steals Lydia's car (with her implied permission) and takes Steve to the carnival, to experience human flight via a simulated sky dive ride. And break the depression it does. It also completely reinforces Steve's delusion to the degree that he is even more convinced he can fly. So he jumps off the parking garage.
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