Outside, Cameron and Chase walk on ahead of their traitorous LIAR of a colleague. Foreman tries to make nice, and Cameron is all, "You did what you thought you had to," with the usual subtext of "BENEDICT ARNOLD" seeping through.
House is checking through the drawer where he got the epinephrine injection. I guess the point is to let us know that he doesn't really think he's infallible, although I don't know what he expects to learn by haphazardly rummaging through a drawer that seems to have less rhyme or reason to it than my checkbook. Nosy Wilson comes in to bust his boyfriend, and I'm new to this show, so I haven't figured out exactly what it is Wilson does in this hospital. Maybe he's doing an undercover documentary on malpractice. If that's the case, he researched his locale well. Wilson calls House out for the cigarette prescription, and House says the reason people don't wear ribbons for lung cancer is because they think people who die of lung cancer deserve it. Not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in a convent, but it segues into Wilson saying that guilt does a lot of damage. Thanks, Sensei. They go into Cuddy's office as House says that if he's right, Cuddy will kill Elizabeth Mitchell, but if he's wrong, she'll save her. Wilsensei says that House has to go through a lot of patient records, and hope they can be trusted: "Which, by the way, yours can't." Oh, BURN! Not. Shut up, Wilsensei.
Fade up on Chase giving Elizabeth Mitchell some pills to help her kidneys -- with WATER, thank God. Chase takes her pulse, which is 104. Yikes. Elizabeth Mitchell asks if that's good, like, I know you don't watch TV, but surely you've had a physical at some point? Chase lies that it's fine, and she's not too out of it to pick up on his insincerity. Chase gets a page to call his mother, and he leaves...
...and confronts House, saying that his mother's been dead for ten years. So you'll be visiting the chapel, then. House asks what Elizabeth Mitchell is LYING about. Chase asks why he says that. House: "I always say that." Not to use an expression that's going to make Bloody Bowels wistful with longing, but no shit. He explains that Deadly Sinner Sister Eucharist thinks that Elizabeth Mitchell LIES, and asks Chase for his nun expertise. Chase plays dumb, but House tells him that he thinks good boys have the fear of God put into them, so they'll do what their dads tell them: "Like, for example, going into medical school when it's the last thing they want to do." Perhaps House should give up on the infectious diseases and go into psychiatry. He seems to get to the heart of the problem a lot more quickly. Chase tells House that if the sister is hiding something, her boss would know. Not sure I want to know why he thinks that, and the look on House's face kind of agrees with me.













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