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Hail the Random- 08-08-2007
1.11 Detox
From tv.com: While trying to figure out why a young patient won't stop bleeding after a car wreck, House takes Cuddy's challenge and goes off Vicodin for a week in exchange for no clinic duty for a month. If House and his team can't determine the source of his patient's blood loss, the 16-year-old car victim will die in a matter of days. As House's withdrawal symptoms become more and more severe, his patient directives for his patient are more harsh and risky than usual, and Foreman and Cameron are afraid he may not be thinking clearly enough to save the patient's life.

wihluta- 08-28-2007

isn't that the one where he breaks his fingers on purpose? Always makes me flinch. And the hit from the daddy... poor HL. But I love the ep.

Hibernia- 08-28-2007

isn't that the one where he breaks his fingers on purpose? Always makes me flinch. Yep, that's the one. I love this episode, it's one of my favourites.

Hail the Random- 09-21-2007

I can't watch House break his own bones. It remindes me too much of The Contractverse. *shudders and twitches*

DrSpaceman- 10-18-2007

This was totally Cameron's Jorja Fox period. As much as I love That Scene from 97 Seconds, I think the closing H/W scene from this episode is, if any one scene can be, the essence of the show. It's very painful, but it shows that both House and Wilson know completely what's going on. When Wilson asks House what the pills do for him and House says, kind of plaintively, "They take away my pain," it's probably the most honest moment we've seen ever from House. The H/W comes from the fact that I don't believe House could ever be that unguarded and honest with anybody aside from Wilson. I find it that one sentence - weirdly - as touching as the (IMO sincere) "I love you" from 97 Seconds.

sasmom- 10-19-2007

This was totally Cameron's Jorja Fox period. As much as I love That Scene from 97 Seconds, I think the closing H/W scene from this episode is, if any one scene can be, the essence of the show. It's very painful, but it shows that both House and Wilson know completely what's going on. When Wilson asks House what the pills do for him and House says, kind of plaintively, "They take away my pain," it's probably the most honest moment we've seen ever from House. The H/W comes from the fact that I don't believe House could ever be that unguarded and honest with anybody aside from Wilson. I find it that one sentence - weirdly - as touching as the (IMO sincere) "I love you" from 97 Seconds. I agree this scene is a phenomenal (and very early) glimpse at the heart of the show. It's a painfully honest moment, and while he can be unguarded with Wilson, he's also be honest and unguarded with Cuddy, Stacy, complete strangers (even in the pilot) and even (shudder) Cameron. Detox is brilliant on so many levels in really nailing the character of House, which has been incredibly consistently written and performed since the start of the series.

[H]ouse Fellow- 07-13-2009

I love the fact that we can see (especially so early) that House isn't above showing people he's in pain. He seems to ignore his leg issues, or at least doesn't let on all the time that his leg bothers him, so the fact that it was so obvious to everyone that he was having issues, was nice. I think the part where he breaks his fingers is actually a big part, because it shows the lengths House is willing to go to divert the pain. Yeah, opiote (definitely spelled that wrong haha) dependency can worsen the pain, and House wasn't going to cave because of the bet, but it showed just how much he was hurting without his pills. My last point is that i like that it shows his dependency. Foreman gives him pills, and House doesn't take them (is that right, or am i remembering that part wrong?), which shows he's a determined (yet bullheaded) guy. All in all, a good episode if you ask me :balloon: