Episode By: Thomas L. Moran
*Spoilers!*
Fidelity (or The Case
of the Unfaithful Wife with a Weak Husband)
Quote: “You can’t be that good a person and well
adjusted.” – House
Overall
Thoughts/Observances:
Oh no – the
misdirection has started!
We think
that the husband will be the one with the terrible illness because he’s
struggling so much on his run, but no,
it’s his wife. Watch out – after this
episode, it’s well known the House writers
try to fool us again and again. Prepare yourself!
I liked all
of the teasing House did to Wilson in this episode about him cheating on his wife
– but I was less happy when we figured out Wilson actually was cheating on his wife. And not his first wife, apparently. It
reminds me of BCC John’s problems with women – John can never keep a girl
because he’s always taking care of Sherlock, and Wilson can’t seem to keep on good
terms with a girl for very long after they get married. The episode title Fidelity has a quadruple meaning (this
is why I love House).
1) It refers to the solution to this episode’s case – the
wife was unfaithful, and got sick as a result. And then
her husband wasn’t faithful enough to stay with her, so he left.
2) It refers to Wilson’s infidelity to his wife by seeing
the nurse.
3) It refers to the husband of the clinic patient trying to
discourage her having sex with him.
4) It refers to Cameron’s overwhelming fidelity to her past
husband who she married even though she knew he was going to die.
And now we
get to Cameron. House was finally able
to get some information out of her – that probably makes me more happy than it
should, but it was getting a bit annoying to be baited with 'Cameron’s secret.'
Even without the fact that we learn about her husband, Cameron is important in this
episode in a lot of ways. She really bonds with the patient, which was
interesting to see. I mean, so far we haven’t seen any patients that the Team
or even House has completely despised or anything, but seeing Cameron really
caring about the wife was… satisfying, I guess? I don’t know how to say it
exactly, but it showed that doctors can bond with their patients, (though there are many, many things that can go wrong if that bond goes too
far).
She also
has the guts to call the husband a terrible person. And even though she cries
about it to House later on, I totally agree with her. I’m not sure she should
have said it to his face, but… well,
she was just trying to get him to stay. And she runs after him as he’s leaving
for good, trying one more time to keep him with his wife, and he still refuses
her. Still, I commend her for trying.
House
handles Cameron’s breakdown better than I thought he would, but not perfectly.
He makes the deduction that she knew her husband was dying when she married
him, but he doesn’t shove it in her face as much as he would’ve normally. See,
House isn’t a complete monster – he still cares.
A more
complex episode, but still a good one, I think.
The Case and the
Patient:
So… African
sleeping sickness. Rare disease that has to be treated with medicine that’s
delivered in glass syringes and special tubing. If that doesn’t make House
interested, I don’t think anything can.
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| Things just got serious! |
The wife
and husband were okay, I suppose, but they were so… normal. Which is the point,
I know, to make the characters seem realistic. But I happen to like the unusual
patients better. Like the mother/kid combo last episode – they were full of
surprises. The only shock we really get from this couple is that the wife
cheated once, which isn’t even that shocking, considering the world we’re in.
It was a
devastating outcome, with the husband leaving her as soon as he realizes she’s
alive (knowing that means she cheated on him).
And then
it’s the husband’s running partner who
the wife cheated on. Ouch. Talk about infidelity.
The Clinic:
The wife
gets implants, but then the husband gets on meds that makes him uninterested in
that kind of thing. Well… I guess House and Wilson got to enjoy it, at least.
People!
Last Words:
Though I
haven’t talked about it much in my reviews, House has been ‘riding’ Foreman for
several episodes on end. We know that he sees Foreman as a good doctor, but
he’s always so hard on him. That conflict’s got to escalate sometime soon. But
when? And how? All I can say is, I'm more worried about Foreman's safety than House's in a fight between the two (whether physical or psychological).
Rating: 7/10
1 comment:
Do you think part of the reason Cameron reacted the way she did is because she cheated on her husband? I got the feeling when she said he was a bad person for not forgiving his wife, it's because Cameron herself would've wanted to be forgiven for what she did.
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