Passive-Aggressive
Updated 2006-11-26 16:00:00
When an eighteen-year-old kid forced to raise his brother and sister after their parents died becomes sick, House decides to pit the Cottages against each other to see who can guess what's wrong with him. They all fail, of course, and House tells them that Jack has Hepatitis A. But when they cure him of that, Jack gets three more diseases. And then his brain has pus all over it. His immune system is compromised from a genetic disorder that only showed up when Jack was put under the stress of raising two kids. There are four things it could be, and the only way to figure out which one it is in time is to infect Jack with four different infections that each disease is especially susceptible to, and see which one Jack gets first. Chronic granulomateous disease is the lucky winner, and it can be cured with a bone marrow transplant. Jack's little brother is a match, but Jack refuses to let them do it since he says Will isn't old enough to give consent. House suspects that Jack has an ulterior motive for this, and he's right: Jack would rather stay sick and not have to take care of his brother and sister than get well and have to raise them. In other news, Tritter gets Wilson's car towed and his prescription-writing powers removed, forcing Wilson to shut down his practice. And House still won't help him out or even give him a ride home. I don't like Wilson, so I laugh at his pain for the entire episode. Ha ha ha!