No Reason (House episode)
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| House episode | |
| "No Reason" | |
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| Episode No | HOU-224 |
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| Airdate | May 23, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | David Shore(story and teleplay) Lawrence Kaplow (story) |
| Director(s) | David Shore |
| Guest star(s) | Elias Koteas as Jack Moriarty Chris Tallman as Vince Michelle Clunie as Judy Obie Sims as Cuddy's Patient |
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No Reason is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of House, and the forty-sixth episode overall.
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[edit] Plot Overview
As House and his team work on the diagnosis of Vince, a man with a giant swollen tongue and a temperature of 103 degrees, disgruntled former patient Jack Moriarty (guest star Elias Koteas) walks into House’s office and shoots him.
Waking up from a coma two days later, House continues to treat Vince from his hospital bed in the ICU with Moriarty, shot by hospital security and handcuffed to his bed, as his roommate. House wakes up Moriarity and asks why he wanted him to die. Moriarty replies that it was not his intention to kill house, and that he "wanted to see House suffer".
Since the shooting, House feels decreased pain in his leg. He finds out from his records that during the surgery to treat the gunshot wounds, a treatment of Ketamine to induce a coma had been given to relieve his leg pain, but he experiences neurological side effects. It becomes clear that House cannot separate fact from fiction, as hallucinations begin to get a stronger grasp on his sense of reality, from hitting Wilson to eating tacos. He begins to question his own ability to diagnose, while hostility increases between him and Moriarty. As Vince’s body begins to deteriorate, House struggles through his own self-doubts and must try to make sense of his life and world. After several hallucinations, House determines that nothing he has experienced since the shooting is real, and decides to kill Vince with a new surgical robot, hoping that the death of his patient, or a hallucination gone too far, will snap him back into reality. His theory proves to be true, and in the final minutes of the episode we see House being rushed into the ER moments after he was shot. Before the episode ends, House asks for Ketamine, that he supposedly received during the imagined events of the episode.
[edit] Diagnoses
- None (The team never found a diagnosis).
[edit] Clinic Patients
- None in this episode.
[edit] Notes
[edit] Medical Terms
- enucleation
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- bacterial prostatitis
[edit] Arc Advancement
[edit] Characters
- House: During the course of the episode, the viewers gain a good view into House's mind and what House wants more than anything.
[edit] Trivia
[edit] The Show
- House/Holmes Connection: Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist of the detective Sherlock Holmes. House, who is modeled after Holmes, now has his antagonist in the form of Jack Moriarty.
[edit] Behind the Scenes
- Directorial Debut: The episode features creator David Shore's directorial debut.
[edit] Allusions and References
- Harpo Marx: Early in the episode, House refers to the patient as Harpo. This is an allusion to Harpo Marx, whose signature comedic face was making his tongue look big by scrunching up his cheeks and face.
[edit] Other trivia
- The taco stall "The Cactus" that House visits during a hallucination actually exists; it is a popular destinaion for Mexican food in the Los Angeles area. This is one of only a few outdoor scenes that actually looks like Los Angeles, which is where the show is filmed. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ House: No Reason Episode Trivia Tv.com retrieved November 13, 2006.
