Sleeping Dogs Lie (House episode)
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| House episode | |
| "Sleeping Dogs Lie" | |
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| Episode No | 40 |
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| Airdate | April 18, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | David Foster |
| Director(s) | Fred Gerber |
| Guest star(s) | Jayma Mays as Hannah, Dahlia Salem as Max |
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| All House episodes | |
Sleeping Dog Lies is the eighteenth episode of the second season of House, and overall episode #40.
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[edit] Plot Overview
The episode opens with a woman lying in bed with her girlfriend wide awake around 3am. Her girlfriend (Max) asks Hannah if she can't sleep again. Hannah says she's fine and says she'll go downstairs for a drink. Max falls asleep again and wakes up in the morning. She finds Hannah in the bathroom banging her head against the wall with an empty bottle of sleeping pills. It's revealed she hasn't slept for about 10 days.
[edit] Diagnoses
1. Infection
Disproved due to lack of high white cell count
Disproved to lack of delusions
3. Optic nerve disease
Tests proved negative
4. Clotting disorder or Colon tumor
Test could not be completed due to a massive nose bleed
Disproved from a movement disorder witnessed during an exam. First thought to be Rapid eye movement.
Disproved as Hannah has never been abroad
Final diagnosis. House says the dog came from the southwest, where fleas can occasionally carry the plague. A small percentage of cases present with sleep disturbance.
[edit] Treatment
House orders Hannah started on large doses of streptomycin sulfate, gentamicin and tetracycline.
[edit] Clinic Patients
Chinese woman and daughter: A Chinese woman and daughter are in the clinic. The daughter speaks for the mother whom cannot speak English. She says her mother has menstrual problems and is depressed and says she heard that birth control can help. House deduces that the daughter is after the birth control and all the mother has is a cold. House gives a prescription for birth control to the daughter and a prescription for medicine for the mother's cold. They return later and the woman complains that her breasts have gotten bigger and House realizes the girl switched the medicines. When the woman asks her daughter in Mandarin what House said, the daughter replies that House gave her the wrong medicine. House then replies, "No, YOU gave her the wrong medicine." The girl asks House if he can speak Mandarin. He then says that he can ask where is the restroom, count to ten, then says, in Mandarin, that the daughter is pregnant.
[edit] Notes
[edit] Medical Terms
[edit] Arc Advancement
[edit] Characters
House: House reveals that he can speak some Mandarin. However, due to his normally sarcastic comments, it is difficult to judge whether he only knows how to ask where the restroom is, count to ten, and state that one's daughter is pregnant, or if he possesses a larger Mandarin vocabulary.
[edit] Trivia
[edit] The Show
[edit] Behind the Scenes
[edit] Allusions and References
After 28 minutes from the beginning of the episode, Dr. Wilson enters House's office, while he's sleeping on the floor. In a very fast sequence, you can see House sleeping on the book "Gray's Anathomy - The classic collector's edition". Coincidence?
