Oh, I'm not giving her a pass. I don't see it as a betrayal of House's trust because House doesn't trust her, therefore there's no trust to betray. Wilson's trust, yes, but I wasn't thinking about Wilson. And a frog wouldn't give someone a ride on its back. I believe Wilson loves House and Amber (or that he thinks he loves Amber), that doesn't mean he won't toy with them.

Am I really the only one who thinks that House told Wilson about the sample because he knew that Wilson would tell Amber and that she would use the information against him? Therefore, proving to Wilson that she was revengeful and wouldn't respect a secret that Wilson shared with her, if it'd serve to her purpose. After all the prank had nothing to do with their custody battle. It's hard to tell which one of them is the scorpion and which one is the frog (or turtle). All of them follow their real nature - they are which they are.

Does anyone else think that the PoTW looked a lot like John Goodman?

You know, it just occurred to me that we've missed the obvious parallel in this episode: "Harvey." "Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say: 'In this world, Elwood,' she always used to call me Elwood. 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh, so smart or oh, so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you can quote me." - Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) What we have here is a patient who has been "oh so pleasant," or nice, if you prefer, but whose real nature may have been just another symptom. Meanwhile there's House, who has preferred to be "oh so smart," and who may have the capability to be nice, but doesn't exercise it, even when it comes to relations with his best friend's girlfriend of his employees.

Am I really the only one who thinks that House told Wilson about the sample because he knew that Wilson would tell Amber and that she would use the information against him? It's an interesting possibility, but House looked upset and/or angry when he found out that Amber had ratted to the ducklings. If he was -*test*-('")ing anyone, I think it was Wilson. And Wilson failed, hence his expression. If it'd been a -*test*-('") for Amber, or if he'd wanted Amber to tell the others, he'd have looked smug.

I have quoted Elwood P. Dowd on that very subject many times. But Elwood had made a choice. He had, apparently, been a go-getter when he was younger. He chose to remain pleasantly inebriated at all times, hanging out with Harvey. POTW wasn't drunk. He thought this was what his personality was like because he had no idea there was any reason for him to behave differently. The spirochetes will die off. But the little pieces of your cerebral cortex that have been destroyed won’t grow back. You’re brain damaged. Doomed to feeling good for the rest of your life. If penicillin wouldn't mean Georgia would revert to thinking and feeling the way she was before the syphilis began to destroy her brain, why did this patient? Edited by Poeia because apostrophes are not the same thing as equal signs and thinking that they are causes messed up formating for the page.

If penicillin wouldn't mean Georgia would revert to thinking and feeling the way she was before the syphilis began to destroy her brain, why did this patient? I wondered that too, and ended up conclusing it was because it's more convenient to the plot/theme this way.

Duplicate post...Rewatched and Revised below.

I have quoted Elwood P. Dowd on that very subject many times. But Elwood had made a choice. He had, apparently, been a go-getter when he was younger. He chose to remain pleasantly inebriated at all times, hanging out with Harvey. POTW wasn't drunk. He thought this was what his personality was like because he had no idea there was any reason for him to behave differently. But has House made the opposite choice that Elwood did? We've heard that he thinks his brain is the most important thing he has. He says he's been alienating people since he was 3, and he's always been an ass, at least as far as anyone we've met has known him, but he's aware of what "niceness" is as well as "jerkiness." He has a choice to abide by the agreement with Amber and just go mini golfing with Wilson and make sure he comes home on time. He doesn't choose that. He makes a choice to lead his team down the wrong path with the planted blood sample, and he also chooses not to do a traditional employee review. The POTW may not have had a choice, but House does.