House Recap: “The Tyrant”
By: Kaye Dofu
This week’s House started with an African man in a limo with his aide. A black van pulls up in front of them and the aid gets out and points a gun at the man who is trying to serve him a subpoena for crimes against humanity. Dibala, the man in the limo, aka James Earl Jones, takes his subpoena and throws up blood all over it. Way to fight the system Mr. Vader.
Our patient, we now learn from Cameron’s angry protest speech, is an African dictator bent on genocide. Why save him? Because it’s her job. Oh wait, it’s not actually. But this week it is because Taub quit and Thirteen got fired, so Foreman is left teamless. And now even worse he’s embarrassed, because House is coming back (as an unlicensed consultant for now, but still) and he fired his girlfriend for nothing. Oops…
So back to the patient. House calls poison, they treat him for that. He has a cardiac arrest. House calls some sort of Fever, they treat him for that with the blood of a clearly-coerced woman. After a man from Dibala’s country tries to assassinate him and fails, they decide it’s lymphoma. During the ensuing biopsy, Dibala explains away his genocide as people getting out of hand, and tells Chase he’s going back to his country to fix everything. Because he says it with the Vader voice, I’ll buy it for now.
Meanwhile, House is up to his usual task of pissing off someone, and this time it’s Wilson’s downstairs neighbor. First Wilson can’s cook with garlic, then House can’t use his cane so loudly…the guy is a little ridiculous, but no one argues with him because he’s a Vietnam war vet and an amputee. On Wilson’s orders House is nice to the guy in person, but secretly he plots to expose the guy as a fraud. He calls the guy out on being Canadian and therefore faking his military history. Turns out that was a bad idea, the guy’s not faking. And now he’s a lot more pissed.
Dibala is now not better, and Foreman picks a new diagnosis, against what House says it is. Cameron plays up the disease to his advisor to make him seem like he’s unfit to lead. Apparently, this gets back to Dibala, because when Cameron goes for his next treatment dose he grabs her arm and tells her that if she wants him dead, she’d better have the stones to do it herself. Cameron, not having the proper stones on hand, decides she has to pick a side and treat the guy. Chase is not so sure, and asks Dibala what he intends to do when cured. He tells Chase he’ll do anything to defend his country. From the cockroaches. Who are the people he’s been slaughtering, and plans to continue slaughtering. Creep-tastic, no?
Back at Wilson’s place, House breaks into crazy neighbor’s apartment, ties him up, and forces him to put his arms (including the amputated painful one) into a box with a mirror that makes it look like he has two whole arms. The guy is obviously not happy about being kidnapped, but he does as House says and clenches both arms and relaxes. He gets considerably happier when this takes all the pain out of his arm. Thirty-something years of pain and House just cured it with a mirror box. The guy gets suddenly much nicer, and House and Wilson are free to live together in peace.
Chase and Cameron come to Foreman with test results pointing toward House’s diagnosis from earlier. Foreman reluctantly relents, and they start treating him for this new disease. It doesn’t help though, because Dibala is now bleeding into his lungs from a million different places, and dies while they try to fix him. Foreman tries to investigate why, but can’t because the autopsy is going to be done in Dibala’s home country. But while being locked out of the morgue Foreman notices Chase signed in there, and there’s a dead woman with the exact disease Dibala was diagnosed with. So the new test results were fake, and Dibala had what Foreman thought he did. Oh, and Chase effectively killed him. Will this have future ramifications for the team? I feel like that’s a definite yes. Tune in next week to find out!
Posted by Adam Wright
on October 7, 2009. Filed under Features, Reviews.
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