House tells Brandon that since he's been symptom-free since his admission, whatever drug caused this is probably out of his system by now. He tells Hadley to keep Brandon overnight and get the names of the drugs Brandon's been taking. I hope she follows that up by telling his health insurance carrier that he just wasted a lot of hospital time and resources by not telling them that he was on experimental drugs in the first place. As for Brandon, his only concern is that Heather doesn't find out about this. House reassures him that he can't tell her, "even if [he] cared enough to want to."
Taub has been staking out House's office, so when House goes there to get his things and head out, Taub is there to meet him. House isn't surprised. Taub wants to know what he knows about his wife. House says "the point" of this "exercise" is to see how the entire group reacts, so he won't tell Taub anything without everyone else there, too. "Cut the crap, House," Taub says. House realizes that he might be able to jerk Hadley and Kumar around, but Taub is older and wiser and less willing to bend. He tells Taub that his wife has a secret bank account she's been making regular deposits to for the last year. Taub plays it cool, saying it's not a secret bank account. House doubts this, noting that Taub referred to it as "a bank account" and not "the bank account." Which is actually an important distinction. Very clever! But Taub continues to deny it. He says his wife set the account up for their refurnishing budget. House points out that the account has almost a hundred thousand dollars in it. Wow -- that's almost as much as Hadley's credit card debt! Although I guess if I knew I was going to die in about ten years, I'd go ahead and ring up an enormous credit card debt, too. Why not? I would spend so much money on hot air balloon trips, too. Taub seems taken aback by the amount, but doesn't drop the act. With that, their beepers go off.
You didn't really think Brandon was all better, did you? We aren't even fifteen minutes in! He's having a seizure. Heather hovers over him, asking what's wrong. House takes that opportunity to check her out and agrees with Hadley's assessment that she is hot. The best part is House's look after he says it and checks her out again as we go to commercial. Bit campy there, Laurie.













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