Failure to Communicate (House episode)
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| House episode | |
| "Failure to Communicate" | |
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| Episode No | HOU-210 |
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| Airdate | January 10, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | Doris Egan |
| Director(s) | Jace Alexander |
| Guest star(s) | Sela Ward as Stacy Warner, Michael O'Keefe as Fletch, Erica Gimpel as Elizabeth, Mimi Kennedy as Greta |
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Failure to Communicate is the tenth episode of the second season of House and the thirty-second episode overall.
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[edit] Plot Overview
A famed journalist collapses in his magazine's office. While he acts nonchalant after getting up, it soon becomes clear from his word salad inflected speech that he is suffering from aphasia. While Cuddy wants to kick the patient to another hospital, Foreman wheedles her into giving the case to him. The team consults with House via telephone while he's stranded by snow in Baltimore, with a suddenly interested Stacy.
[edit] Diagnosis
The final diagnosis was cerebral malaria.
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[edit] Arc Advancement
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[edit] Trivia
- A scene late into the episode mirrors a scene in The Great Escape: House is sitting back against a wall, bouncing a baseball against a wall and then catching it. Steve McQueen did the same thing while he was being held prisoner in The Great Escape.
- Near the end of the episode, in explaining his understanding of what his patient with aphasia is actually saying, House gives a relatively common riddle about a room with an all southern view and a polar bear to his lackies. This is the exact same riddle given by Sherlock Holmes to Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes, and being another nod to the parallels between Holmes and House.
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