Massage Therapy (House)
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"Massage Therapy" is the fourth episode of the seventh season
of the American medical drama House
. It aired on October 11, 2010.
) is home alone. She hears a noise, notices the front door was open and calls her husband who is a few blocks away. It turns out to be nothing but the wind, but when she runs into her husband downstairs, she begins projectile vomiting.
House (Hugh Laurie
) is introduced to Kelly Benedict (Vinessa Shaw
), the new fellow Chase (Jesse Spencer
) hired. Not surprisingly House doesn't give her a warm reception. A few ideas are tossed around about the vomiting woman, one of which is lead poisoning.
House tells Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard
) he and Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein
) aren't spending the night together at her place and he isn't spending any time with Cuddy's daughter yet. While working on Margaret, the vomiting woman, Chase assures Kelly not to worry about the cool reception she got from House and Foreman (Omar Epps
). They notice multiple broken ribs, something she never told the doctors about.
At Margaret's house, Foreman denies having lasting feeling for the departed Thirteen (Olivia Wilde
). They find a credit card receipt from a lunch Margaret never mentioned. Margaret tells the docs the lunch was an honest mistake and the fractures are a decade old. House is less than romantic the next time Cuddy leaves his place. As she leaves, an attractive blonde masseuse is arriving.
Doing research into her past histories, Kelly finds Margaret is using the social security number of a woman born in the 1940s. Cut to Margaret seizing with a heart attack and being worked on by the whole team. Margaret wakes up to House asking who she is. She tells her current husband that five years she was married to an abusive man. She left him, but he found her, stalked her and poisoned her dog. She took a dead woman's identity to escape the man (named Carl). She tells them her real name is Jenny.
House grills Kelly for answers about Jenny's dueling stomach/heart issues. She doesn't come up with anything. House suggests perhaps the ex used the poison he killed the dog with on Jenny. Foreman isn't convinced Kelly is talented enough to work with them. He thinks Chase wants to sleep with her.
Jenny's husband is upset she never told him about the abusive ex. He leaves her room. Cuddy asks about the masseuse. House says she is a hooker he used to get "happy endings" from. After going through 15 different massage therapists, this is the only one he likes. Cuddy says she won't see him any more unless he stops seeing the hooker/masseuse.
Chase learns from Kelly she was not, in fact, the lead editor for the paper at her medical school. She asks if he's regretting hiring her, but he says no. Chase gets a page. Jenny's current husband was just admitted to the ER. House tells Wilson the hooker/masseuse issue will set a principle for the entire relationship. Wilson thinks he needs to make this sacrifice to save the relationship.
Jenny's husband (whose face has been beaten thoroughly) tells the docs he found a guy named Carl in Jenny's address book and went to see him. When Carl denied everything, the husband got upset and then got beaten up. Carl is not pressing charges, but Kelly thinks the husband should. Carl said he was just a guy Jenny used to work with. Jenny's temperature begins to spike.
House shows a picture of Chase's mother on a projector and suggests the similarity in appearance to Kelly is why he hired her. Kelly mentions Legionnaires' Disease. House decides they should look into it. Foreman figures out Chase actually came up with the Legionnaires' Disease idea during prep.
In the hallway, Chase wants to know why Foreman is so fired-up about Kelly being unqualified. He guesses Foreman is picking on her because he's scared to take on House. House hires an attractive man named Felipe (Eddie Matos
) to give Cuddy a massage. She tries to get out of it but ends up getting the massage. During the massage, she figures out he is a male prostitute.
Kelly is stressed-out and tells Chase she's considering quitting. Chase counters she should lean on her background in psychiatry. The husband tells Kelly he found out the abuse counseling center in Trenton Jenny she had gone to is nonexistent. He's worried she could be lying about any number of things, but Kelly tells him to relax for the time being.
House tells Cuddy he isn't bothered by a male hooker giving her a massage and she should treat him the same way. She points out the difference in the situation and wonders whether this is House's way of sabotaging the relationship. House responds that she should invite him over and introduce him to her daughter. She says she wants to protect her daughter and this makes House think she's holding back.
When Jenny wakes up, he calmly asks her about the lies. During this conversation she begins to hallucinate, seeing flames and snakes all over the room. House wakes up alone. The docs assume whatever is happening has hit Jenny's brain. Kelly is the only one to suggest these latest symptoms could be unrelated, simply the first signs of mental illness. House orders a biopsy.
During surgery, Jenny's temperature breaks. House talks with Kelly, Taub (Peter Jacobson
) and Chase and we realize her temperature could have been gone since the day before and she hasn't thrown up since being admitted. House goes to the OR and turns off Jenny's pacemaker. Nothing happens. All that's left are the delusions. Kelly wonders if maybe they were prompted by the physical symptoms. House thinks it was just the opposite and orders several treatments.
House talks to the still-hallucinating Jenny. He walks through all of her lies (former husband, treatments, etc.) and has her admit to her husband that she has schizophrenia. On his way out of the room, House makes a crack about Kelly not being able to figure this out from the beginning.
Jenny's husband goes to House and tells him he thinks it may be too hard to live with her now. "It's always hard," House says. In the elevator, Chase tells House he should probably get rid of Kelly. House disagrees, since she was the only one to get him to the right answer.
House agrees he will stop seeing his hooker/masseuse. Cuddy invites him over. Chase finds Kelly packing up her stuff to quit. She is going to leave, but asks him out. House, Cuddy and her daughter have dinner together. "Aren't you adorable," he says to her when Cuddy leaves the room.
House (season 7)
House entered a seventh season on September 20, 2010. House and Cuddy attempt to make a real relationship work and face the question as to whether their new relationship will affect their ability to diagnose patients. The new season features a new opening title sequence...
of the American medical drama House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
. It aired on October 11, 2010.
Plot
A young woman (Erin CahillErin Cahill
Erin Jessica Cahill , is an actress best known for her role as Jen Scotts on the television series Power Rangers: Time Force. Appeared at Power Morphicon 2010 in Pasadena, CA....
) is home alone. She hears a noise, notices the front door was open and calls her husband who is a few blocks away. It turns out to be nothing but the wind, but when she runs into her husband downstairs, she begins projectile vomiting.
House (Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
) is introduced to Kelly Benedict (Vinessa Shaw
Vinessa Shaw
Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw is an American actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s, and is probably most well known for her performances in Disney's 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror picture The Hills Have...
), the new fellow Chase (Jesse Spencer
Jesse Spencer
Jesse Gordon Spencer is an Australian actor and musician. He is best known for his current portrayal of Dr. Robert Chase on the medical drama House and for playing Billy Kennedy in the Australian soap-opera Neighbours....
) hired. Not surprisingly House doesn't give her a warm reception. A few ideas are tossed around about the vomiting woman, one of which is lead poisoning.
House tells Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard is an American actor, who has regularly starred in Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Since 2004 he has played the role of Dr. James Wilson on the TV series House...
) he and Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the television drama House.-Early life and education:...
) aren't spending the night together at her place and he isn't spending any time with Cuddy's daughter yet. While working on Margaret, the vomiting woman, Chase assures Kelly not to worry about the cool reception she got from House and Foreman (Omar Epps
Omar Epps
Omar Hashim Epps is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His film roles include Major League II, Juice, Higher Learning, Scream 2, The Wood, In Too Deep, and Love and Basketball. Epps' television work includes the role of Dr. Dennis Gant on the US medical drama series ER,...
). They notice multiple broken ribs, something she never told the doctors about.
At Margaret's house, Foreman denies having lasting feeling for the departed Thirteen (Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde is an American actress and fashion model. She began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of film and television parts, including roles in the serial-drama The O.C. and The Black Donnellys. She portrayed Dr...
). They find a credit card receipt from a lunch Margaret never mentioned. Margaret tells the docs the lunch was an honest mistake and the fractures are a decade old. House is less than romantic the next time Cuddy leaves his place. As she leaves, an attractive blonde masseuse is arriving.
Doing research into her past histories, Kelly finds Margaret is using the social security number of a woman born in the 1940s. Cut to Margaret seizing with a heart attack and being worked on by the whole team. Margaret wakes up to House asking who she is. She tells her current husband that five years she was married to an abusive man. She left him, but he found her, stalked her and poisoned her dog. She took a dead woman's identity to escape the man (named Carl). She tells them her real name is Jenny.
House grills Kelly for answers about Jenny's dueling stomach/heart issues. She doesn't come up with anything. House suggests perhaps the ex used the poison he killed the dog with on Jenny. Foreman isn't convinced Kelly is talented enough to work with them. He thinks Chase wants to sleep with her.
Jenny's husband is upset she never told him about the abusive ex. He leaves her room. Cuddy asks about the masseuse. House says she is a hooker he used to get "happy endings" from. After going through 15 different massage therapists, this is the only one he likes. Cuddy says she won't see him any more unless he stops seeing the hooker/masseuse.
Chase learns from Kelly she was not, in fact, the lead editor for the paper at her medical school. She asks if he's regretting hiring her, but he says no. Chase gets a page. Jenny's current husband was just admitted to the ER. House tells Wilson the hooker/masseuse issue will set a principle for the entire relationship. Wilson thinks he needs to make this sacrifice to save the relationship.
Jenny's husband (whose face has been beaten thoroughly) tells the docs he found a guy named Carl in Jenny's address book and went to see him. When Carl denied everything, the husband got upset and then got beaten up. Carl is not pressing charges, but Kelly thinks the husband should. Carl said he was just a guy Jenny used to work with. Jenny's temperature begins to spike.
House shows a picture of Chase's mother on a projector and suggests the similarity in appearance to Kelly is why he hired her. Kelly mentions Legionnaires' Disease. House decides they should look into it. Foreman figures out Chase actually came up with the Legionnaires' Disease idea during prep.
In the hallway, Chase wants to know why Foreman is so fired-up about Kelly being unqualified. He guesses Foreman is picking on her because he's scared to take on House. House hires an attractive man named Felipe (Eddie Matos
Eddie Matos (actor)
Eddie Matos , a Puerto Rican-American actor best known for his role as Ricky Garza on the ABC daytime soap Port Charles.Matos was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
) to give Cuddy a massage. She tries to get out of it but ends up getting the massage. During the massage, she figures out he is a male prostitute.
Kelly is stressed-out and tells Chase she's considering quitting. Chase counters she should lean on her background in psychiatry. The husband tells Kelly he found out the abuse counseling center in Trenton Jenny she had gone to is nonexistent. He's worried she could be lying about any number of things, but Kelly tells him to relax for the time being.
House tells Cuddy he isn't bothered by a male hooker giving her a massage and she should treat him the same way. She points out the difference in the situation and wonders whether this is House's way of sabotaging the relationship. House responds that she should invite him over and introduce him to her daughter. She says she wants to protect her daughter and this makes House think she's holding back.
When Jenny wakes up, he calmly asks her about the lies. During this conversation she begins to hallucinate, seeing flames and snakes all over the room. House wakes up alone. The docs assume whatever is happening has hit Jenny's brain. Kelly is the only one to suggest these latest symptoms could be unrelated, simply the first signs of mental illness. House orders a biopsy.
During surgery, Jenny's temperature breaks. House talks with Kelly, Taub (Peter Jacobson
Peter Jacobson
Peter S. Jacobson is an American film and television actor.-Life and career:Jacobson was born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Chicago news anchor Walter Jacobson. He is a graduate of Brown University and Juilliard...
) and Chase and we realize her temperature could have been gone since the day before and she hasn't thrown up since being admitted. House goes to the OR and turns off Jenny's pacemaker. Nothing happens. All that's left are the delusions. Kelly wonders if maybe they were prompted by the physical symptoms. House thinks it was just the opposite and orders several treatments.
House talks to the still-hallucinating Jenny. He walks through all of her lies (former husband, treatments, etc.) and has her admit to her husband that she has schizophrenia. On his way out of the room, House makes a crack about Kelly not being able to figure this out from the beginning.
Jenny's husband goes to House and tells him he thinks it may be too hard to live with her now. "It's always hard," House says. In the elevator, Chase tells House he should probably get rid of Kelly. House disagrees, since she was the only one to get him to the right answer.
House agrees he will stop seeing his hooker/masseuse. Cuddy invites him over. Chase finds Kelly packing up her stuff to quit. She is going to leave, but asks him out. House, Cuddy and her daughter have dinner together. "Aren't you adorable," he says to her when Cuddy leaves the room.
External links
- "Massage Therapy" at Fox.com