Bombshells - Recap

It’s a typical day for Cuddy: she wakes up and finds House waiting beneath the bed to scare her. She goes to the bathroom and discovers that there’s blood in her urine.

House accompanies Cuddy to the exam room at the hospital, and brings the team along with him to diagnosis their new patient, Ryan. Ryan spit up blood during a pick-up basketball game, and ER couldn’t find a source. Cuddy orders them out, and House tells them to place a camera in Ryan to check for vascular malformations in his GI tract. As Taub examines Ryan, he discovers that he quit the swim team. The doctor gets Ryan’s parents Todd and Kay out and then asks how long he’s been cutting himself on the stomach. Ryan denies it, but admits that he’s suffering from depression.

Taub tells House that Ryan admitted to smoking marijuana, which could be contaminated and account for the symptoms. House tells him to run a lead level and push IV fluid, and then gets the test results from an intern. He takes it to Cuddy and tells her that it’s clean, and she’s overreacting because her mother had a brush with death. Cuddy agrees, but after House leaves she calls to schedule an ultrasound.

Taub tells Ryan’s parents that he simply suffered from chemical exposure, and Ryan figures that Taub suffered from depression himself. The doctor suggests that Ryan talk to his parents, but he says that they take it personally and then he has to make them feel better. In response, Taub admits that he felt like the only one who couldn’t handle the pressure in med school, and hurt himself. Before Ryan can respond, Taub notices red spots in his eyes.

Wilson does the ultrasound on Cuddy and discovers a mass on her kidney.

In differential, the team goes over Ryan’s new symptom, bleeding in the eyes, but House is busy on his laptop. Chase suggests a staph infection and House agrees to have them treat. He then goes to see Cuddy, who is making out a will with her lawyer. House knows what she’s up to because he hacked into her online schedule, and insists that she’s overreacting. He tells her to have her biopsy to confirm moved up, but she points out that if he thinks she’s not sick, he has no reason to suggest she expedite. House gives up and leaves.

One of Ryan’s students, Hayes, shows up to demand money from Ryan. He leaves when Taub arrives, and Ryan explains to the doctor that he’s selling a friend’s discarded seizure meds. Hayes wants the pills, and they’re at home. Ryan admits that it was a bad idea, and says he needs someone to get them. Taub gives Ryan the money to pay Hayes back.

Cuddy invites her sister Julia over to sign the papers to become Rachel’s guardian in the event of her death. When Julia asks if House is okay with the arrangement, Cuddy says that they’ve only been together a few months.

A policeman brings a ten-year-old Rachel Cuddy home to the apartment where Wilson and House live together and raise the girl since Cuddy died. The officer explains that he caught her shoplifting, and House assures him that Rachel won’t do it again... because she won’t get caught next time. The three of them share a family hug.

Cuddy wakes up from her nightmare, the bottle of sleeping pills she took two from on the nightstand.

As Masters and Taub wait for Ryan to emerge from the bathroom, Masters congratulate Taub for seeing someone’s humanity. Ryan tells them that he urinated blood. Back in differential, the team tries to discuss the case, but House is focused on Cuddy’s problem. Foreman tells him that he has to wait until they do the biopsy. Taub returns to the case and suggests heroin, and Masters is surprised. In response, Taub says that he trusted the kid until she complimented him. House suggests antiphospholipid syndrome but tells Taub and Foreman to check Ryan’s room for drugs.

House goes to tell Wilson to look over Cuddy because he won’t, and Wilson points out that House was complaining that his relationship with Cuddy was ruining his diagnostic skills. When House admits that he’s lousy at providing comfort and doesn’t want to overreact, Wilson tells him that he needs to practice at least once. House admits that he’s right.

Later, House sends Chase to check on Cuddy as she waits for the biopsy. He lies and says that he figures House will be there, and Cuddy says that she knows he’ll come eventually.

Taub and Foreman search Ryan’s room, and Foreman notes that Taub has been staying up late, miserable. He warns that Taub fixing Ryan won’t fix himself. They get a page that Ryan has lost feeling in his right arm, but as they go, Taub finds a yearbook filled with threatening sketches on the photos.

House enters the ruined hospital and discovers that Chase has been transformed into a zombie. After a brief struggle, House decapitates the zombie with his ax cane, and then converts it into a shotgun cane. He guns down zombie Taub, Cuddy, and Foreman, and then follows Cuddy’s voice. He discovers that the zombie are tearing her apart.

House wakes up from his nightmare as Chase and Masters come into his office. He angrily walks away, insisting nothing could go wrong with Cuddy’s biopsy.

Back in differential, the team examines the new symptom, while House realizes that Cuddy had her test results put under a false name so he couldn’t rush them. Chase suggests a clotting program and Foreman suggests an angiogram. House finally okays the angiogram and sends Masters to search all of the files to find Cuddy’s. As they go, Chase points out that House is too distracted to notice that Taub is distracted, and they note that plotting to kill people in your mind isn’t a big deal... particularly House.

Wilson tracks down House, who is holed up in an exam room. House insists that he doesn’t want to bother dealing with an artificial problem, and Wilson tells him not to screw it up because he won’t clean up the mass. Masters arrives and tells House that she found Cuddy’s file, and she’ll have to undergo surgery because the biopsy was inconclusive.

Foreman comes home and finds House playing his video game. He tells House that they found a clot and are treating to break it up. Foreman than tells House that however bad he’ll be with Cuddy, he’ll be worse off if he isn’t there at all.

A 50s Cuddy comes home as House finishes cooking supper after curing all his patients. Rachel is there, and has got passed her LSATs. House offers her candy as a treat, but eats it himself. Wilson arrives to deliver Cuddy’s 29th birthday cake, and she realizes that everything is wrong.

Cuddy wakes up from her dream when Wilson knocks on her door. He shows her the scans.

House gets a call from Wilson, who tells him that she has multiple masses on her lungs, meaning she has kidney cancer and it has metastasized. Which means it’s fatal.

Taub finds video files on Ryan’s computer, showing him raging against his classmates and throwing PVC pipe bombs into the woods. The others dismiss Taub’s concerns that it’s significant, but he wonders if he should go to the cops. Ryan doesn’t respond to the anti-clotting treatment, so they have to go into his head to get the clot out. House is missing, and they confirm he isn’t with Cuddy. Foreman goes to check with Wilson, who appears unconcerned. When Foreman calls him on it, Wilson says that House is trying to make it about himself, not Cuddy, and he’ll either have to grow up or he won’t.

Taub explains the surgery procedure to Todd and Kay, and then tells him that about Ryan’s videos. They insist that Ryan is a good kid and tell Taub to keep it secret and focus on the case. Ryan goes into surgery, and Taub and Masters watch. She asks what he plans to do about Ryan’s mental problems, but doesn’t have anything useful to add. Meanwhile, Foreman and Chase perform the surgery, but the clot dissolves as soon as they probe it.

Cuddy imagines herself in the end of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” discussing moving to an Aussie bar in New Jersey while the Mexican army surrounds them. House eats a candy bar and Cuddy realizes that he had candy in her other dreams. She admits that she had hoped House would figure out a way to handle the situation, but he can’t. House says that he can do better, and they charge out the door. Cuddy discovers that House has disappeared on her.

Cuddy wakes up from her dream, and finds House in her hospital room. He apologizes for not being there soon and takes her hand, and Cuddy says that she knew he would come.

The team goes over Ryan’s case and his newest symptom: liver shutdown. He’ll be dead in a day, and Masters wonders if they should page House. The others tell her that House couldn’t concentrate on the case before, he won’t now that Cuddy is dying. Nothing fits the symptoms, but citrullinemia is the best they can come up with. Foreman orders treatment to reduce Ryan’s ammonia levels.

As Cuddy is given anesthesia, she dreams of House performing a musical number using a candy cane as a cane. He sings of her going to the promised land for Judgment Day. Cuddy joins in and then ascends up a flight of stairs to Heaven.

Cuddy wakes up after the surgery and finds House at her bedside. He explains that the tumor was benign and she’s fine. The masses in her lungs were an allergic reaction to antibiotics. House has the tumor in a jar and gives it to Cuddy. She admits that she has a lot of things to be scared of, but normally she locks them up. It wasn’t until death threatened that all of the doors burst open. House gets an epiphany and Cuddy tells him to do what he does.

House goes to Ryan’s room and informs everyone that the teenager has staph. The bacteria kept coming via an abscess, and House figures it burst when Ryan was playing basketball. Taub realizes where the abscess is and checks the cuts on Ryan’s stomach. He explains that when the PVC bombs went off, shrapnel entered Ryan’s body and pieces broke off, causing all the symptoms. They remove the shrapnel and treat, and Ryan is fine. As they watch, Masters asks Taub what he’s going to do now.

Julia tends to Cuddy and says that she put Cuddy’s sleeping pills away so Rachel wouldn’t mistake them for candy. Cuddy goes to see House and explains that she realized that he took Vicodin the night that he came to her hospital room. She explains that her subconscious was trying to tell her he couldn’t get through the crisis without drugs. House admits that he was scared and says that it’s a one-time thing, but Cuddy says that he takes it to avoid pain, and he can’t care for someone if he won’t feel pain for them. He promises to change, but Cuddy tells him that it’s not enough and she doesn’t think he ever can do better. House begs her to stay, but Cuddy says he’ll always choose himself over everyone else. She strokes his face and leaves.

Taub sends the videos to the New Jersey police.

Cuddy sits in her apartment, crying, as Julia tries to comfort her.

House sits in his bathroom and contemplates a bottle of Vicodin, and then takes two tablets.

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