The paralysis drug wears off, and SuperMom gets to open her eyes again. Cameron tells her that the MRI of her brain didn't show anything (anything wrong, that is. An MRI of a brain that didn't show anything at all would be StuporDad's, of course) and that her pregnancy test was negative. Foreman says that they have other things to test for, some of which are more "serious" than others. He takes a swab of SuperMom's cheek for the Huntington's test. "Is that one of the more serious ones?" StuporDad asks, because he is incredibly stupid. And, of course, he's brought Stella into the room so that she can be even more traumatized. SuperMom's arm flails return just in time for her to launch Cameron's anti-estrogen pills across the room. It's no drive-into-the-garage degree of disaster, but it really pisses SuperMom off. She lashes out at Stella, telling her to stop looking so scared, and then at StuporDad for bringing Stella there in the first place. I don't see anything wrong with SuperMom's second attack...
...but Cameron and Foreman take it to House as another symptom of Huntington's: increased irritability. House tells them to start her on some Huntington's drugs, even though they're dangerous drugs to give to someone who may not have anything wrong with her, and they only have to wait a day to get the test results back. House says that they might as well do it before SuperMom progresses to full-blown psychosis (in just one day? Come on) and deprives Stella of the chance to say goodbye to her. Then House turns to Chase and asks him if he would like "to tell the class how that feels?" Well, that's an inexcusably horrible thing to say. The guy's dad died less than a year ago and House knows the circumstances of it and Chase's relationship with him better than anyone else, and he still uses it as fodder for his little jokes. Of course, Chase just lets House get away with it, pausing for a moment to recollect himself and then continuing on with his job. Hey, Chase, if you aren't going to stand up for yourself, then House is going to walk all over you. Or not walk so much as limp, being sure to dig his cane into the space where your spine would be if you had one. Foreman gets a page and announces that there's a problem.













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