House: Wilson’s Heart
By fred | May 20, 2008
House felt he was responsible from the start, even if it wasn’t really clear for him either. When he got angry at 13, asking her to stop being affected, he was mostly mad at himself, because he too was getting affected by the case, and the fact that this wasn’t just a patient, but Amber, Wilson’s Amber. It affected his way of treating her, of working the case, and he knew it.
Never had he acted so “humanly”, willing to put his own life at risk not just because he knew he owed it to Wilson, but because he cared about him, and as his best friend was willing to do anything to help him, to save his girl. I never thought for one second that House and Amber had an affair or anything even close, because she is Amber, and she loves Wilson, and because he is House, and he would never do that, either. And he might have been attracted to her, after all that dream of Amber in the red dress was all House’s mind, but he would never have acted on it, and he wasn’t feeling guilty over such a possibility.
That was merely the expression of something else, of the guilt he felt deep within, for having caused Amber’s death. Because if it wasn’t for him, she would still be alive. And deep down, his subconscious knew that. There was no romance there, but an expression of guilt and betrayal over his best friend. And that last note Wilson found, back home, in the bed, Amber letting him know she went to pick up House… one final stab onto House’s guilt.
Wilson made sure House survived his seizure, made sure he was awake, then left. Not sure how those two are going to be able to work this one out. Of course, it was also very meaningful that the one who spent the night by House’s bed, holding his hand, was no other than Cuddy, ready to tell him she “was here” as soon as he woke up.
There are still a couple of things I didn’t really get though. For starter, if she knew she had the flue, was wasn’t Amber carrying any tissue with her ? Okay, so that’s neat picking probably. But what about the fact that from the start House claimed to have noticed a symptom of something wrong, something he had to cure, before the crash event took place.
Much like with the star of his favorite TV soap opera, he had seen something and knew someone was sick, dying even, and he to save that person. Because that person was Amber, but she wasn’t dying, not before the crash, not before her liver got destroyed. The flue and her pills didn’t kill her, nor were they, and House had no way of even knowing how bad Amber had been hurt during the crash…
I’m also not sure when he was supposed to have seen her lower back, and the rash there. He got it from his dream, but he did not see that from the bar, or the bus, when did he saw actually saw that ? And how is it that she was admitted to two different hospital and no doctor noticed anything ??
And of course, I doubt that using electricity to trigger your brain works that way, with a patient fully aware of everything all the time, other doctors included in his memories, which of course are about what he wants to remember, not some random memory. But that’s television, so it’s okay.
In the end I really liked this episode, though I don’t think I loved it (as much as, I’m sure, many others will have). It was still a really good episode, and a pretty strong finale, with yet another dealt of cards for next season. And of course, they’ll still have to deal with the original team, because so far they’re still around, but not really doing anything. We’ll see how that goes, but despite the strike this season was nothing but fantastic, from the start and House looking for a new team after having sent the old old away, to this episode and House being, once again, more alone than he ever was.
Brilliant, just brilliant.
