Awkward
Updated 2006-11-05 16:00:00
A hot young interracial married couple fight off attackers during a diner robbery before the wife, Tracy, collapses and her throat closes up. She's admitted to PPTH, where her doctor cares more about whether or not his best friend is dating the new nurse than he does about curing her. Then the husband, Jeremy, gets sick with the same symptoms. House, meanwhile, mixes things up with a Clinic patient who literally has a stick up his ass. The patient demands that House apologize for being rude to him, but, of course, House won't do it. When the couple's condition worsens, House thinks a biopsy of comatose Tracy's brainstem is the only thing that will tell them what's wrong, but Jeremy refuses to consent to it, because it will probably cause brain damage, and he doesn't want that to happen to Tracy. He tells them to biopsy his brain instead, but he doesn't have the same lesions that she does and they don't have time to wait for him to develop them. Meanwhile, his intestines disintegrate. Things look grim until Foreman tells the group that Jeremy's father was a pill-popping alcoholic racist who attacked Jeremy when he found out about his relationship with the black next-door neighbor. That's when House realizes that Jeremy's dad may not be a racist after all -- in fact, he's such a fan of interracial relationships that he had one himself. With Tracy's mother. And then Tracy was born nine months later. The good news is, this enables the team to figure out that Jeremy and Tracy have the same hereditary genetic disease that caused Jeremy's father to pop all those pills. The bad news is, it means that Jeremy and Tracy are half-siblings. Ew. Ew. Ew. Foreman shows us his Cameron side and consoles Jeremy instead of spending the night with his newest girlfriend -- the new nurse who House thought Wilson was dating. House spends his night in jail after being pulled over and arrested for possession by a familiar cop with a stick up his ass.