Episode 4.02 - The Right Stuff - Detailed Plot Description Posted by DarkUFO at Tuesday, September 25, 2007 (Comments: 0) Labels: Archived Episodes

Thanks to Willowbrook for this detailed summary of Episode 2.

Our Patient of the Week is an Air Force pilot named Captain Cooper. She had a trippy, psychedelic experience in a simulator, crashing it. She blames it on a tech malfunction, but something’s very wrong with the way she’s seeing the world. She visits House and plops $50,000 in cash on his desk. She wants his help, but it all has to be hush-hush, because if NASA finds out she has medical issues, she will be booted from the space program. So House has to figure out what her problem is without charting anything or letting Cuddy know what he’s doing. Her problem is that she “hears with her eyes.”

House introduces Cooper to his hopefuls as Osama bin Laden and they start on her case, taking a medical history, doing tests, B&E, etc. Most of these are designed to introduce us to the hopefuls. The class starts with 40. Most of them are gone by the end of the episode. The most interesting of the remaining ones are Kai Penn, Carmen Argenziano, the black Mormon (don’t know the actor’s name) and another character I can describe only as the Anti-Cameron. House’s interactions with the hopefuls are, IMO, very entertaining, but I can’t do it justice here, so I won’t prattle on. He fires Kai Penn, who simply refuses to leave; he has an interesting religious debate with the Mormon, who turns out to be both thoughtful and secure in his beliefs; he figures out the Anti-Cameron’s game pretty quickly; and he seems impressed with Carmen Argenziano’s character, who is older than House. Turns out Argenziano isn’t even a doctor: He’s been auditing classes at a medical school for 30 years, and he knows a lot. This is his dream, and House doesn’t quite know what to do with him, so he lets him stay on as his assistant.

Throughout the episode, House thinks he sees Chase, then Cameron, then Foreman. He tells Wilson about Chase and Cameron, and Wilson tells him they are both working at the Mayo clinic in Arizona, so he must be hallucinating. It turns out he really did see Cameron and Chase, who are both working at the hospital. Cameron is senior attending in the ER and Chase is in surgical. Chase gives House a last-minute assist, and the hopefuls ask whether House is going to hire Chase instead of them. House looks at him a little questioningly, Chase shakes his head, and House assures the hopefuls that he loves them. He later finds Cameron in the ER and expresses his displeasure with her career choice. But he likes her new blonde hair, which he says makes her look like a hooker. Cameron is the one who told Osama to talk to House. Foreman has been working at NY Mercy, so it appears he really did hallucinate that. House doesn’t seem mad at Wilson on any real level.

Ultimately, Osama is diagnosed with a genetic disease. House really should tell NASA, but this is her dream, so he decides not to. He doesn’t even seem to know why he didn’t. Cameron thinks it’s because he’s not a dream-killer.

Source: SpoilerTV