I'd seen the "giving the gun back" issue as irritating, yet a sign of just how far House would go to solve a mystery at the time. But now I'm wondering if it shouldn't have been seen more as an early manifestation of House losing his grip on reality -- of the sign that he hadn't just gone up to the edge, but was in fact already tumbling down the slope. Kutner's death becomes the final safety net that House has missed on his way down.
I also saw it as how far he would go to get a diagnosis. I couldn'tunderstand why he didn't take out the bullets before handing the gun back. Maybe he had a secret desire to get rid of Thirteen, as I do.
If it was already House losing his grip on reality, then all the Huddy story after that (LTEC etc.) would also need to be seen in that light. The Itch, which came before, was an itch; after Last Resort was the desire for a real relationship.
Moving reply over to the House thread.
I don't know if this was addressed yet, but waaay up thread someone, I think LightMyCandle mentioned PPTH's bad security and how they could put in some metal detectors. I just want to point out that metal detectors mess up things like pacemakers (my zaydeh can't go through one) and the people with things like surgical pins would set them off. In a hospital, where pacemakers and surgical pins are common, a metal detector might not be the smartest idea (no offense).
On the actual episode, I liked it the first, and maybe second time, but after that I just got tired of it.
