House orders Taub to take a pain profile of the patient. Thirteen and Foreman search through the patient’s home, and they discuss their relationship.
Thirteen does not want to pursue anything further with him. She pulls a clear plastic bag of frozen poultry out of the freezer, and thinks it is quail, which could have caused rhabdoymolysis. House considers this diagnosis and orders muscle biopsies on the patient. Taub protests that Jeff does not have a toxic reaction - it’s a psychosomatic reaction. House figures he can leave work early since Cuddy came in late. Thirteen and Kutner take deep-tissue samples with a large-bore biopsy needle. Jeff’s wife does her best to comfort him as the son watches, hopeful. Suddenly, Jeff has an excruciating pain in his arm and he loses consciousness. Foreman calls House, who is in bed, ignoring the phone. Thirteen tells the team that the VQ scan showed a pulmonary embolism. The desk phone rings, and Foreman takes the call from House. He is sitting on the edge of his bed, massaging his thigh with one hand while holding the phone with the other. Thirteen explains that the hypercoagulable state could cause pain and a PE. Kutner suggests a cancer syndrome like Trousseau’s would explain the blood clots, multi-focal pain, and lack of obvious physical signs.
House tells them to check Jeff’s chest, abdomen, and pelvis for tumors. House feels a drop of water fall on the back of his neck. He grabs a t-shirt from the bed, drapes it over the end of his cane, and reaches up to wipe the water off the ceiling. As he gently pushes on the ceiling with his cane it crashes down on him. House watches as a plumber checks the hole in his ceiling. He says the insurance deductible doesn’t cover negligence. The pipe didn’t burst - it was pulled apart from the shower. Taub views images on a monitor and Kutner mans the controls as Jeff undergoes a full-body CT scan. They discuss the act of suicide.įoreman tends to Thirteen during her drug trial. Kutner and Taub enter with the news that there is no trace of cancer in the patient but they did find edema in his intestine. This three-part BBC dramatisation of the events surrounding the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was something of a mixed bag. There was the expected attention to period detail in the sets and costumes and the acting too was good in almost every major part. However, historical accuracy was blown to smithereens in places and other aspects of the story were undoubtedly “sexed up” to make for presumably more exciting viewing in this day and age. It was also a tough watch at times with graphic depictions of torture and execution, the latter in particular where in the first episode we see a middle-aged Catholic woman stripped naked and agonisingly crushed to death followed by a young priest hung, drawn and quartered, his entrails ripped from his still-living body, before his beheading and his severed head is stuck on a pike put on public display. All of this before a baying, bloodthirsty crowd of supposedly ordinary people. The story centres on young Catholic nobleman Robert Catesby who becomes the centre of a Popish plot to strike back against the ever more repressive anti-Catholic legislation put before King James by his first lieutenant, the hunch-backed Robert Cecil and his hired muscle in the person of Sir William Wade.
With his cohorts, Catesby, after failing to get support abroad for his plans, hatches the famous gunpowder plot to blow up the king and his ministers on the opening of Parliament which sees him meet up with one Guy Fawkes, a cold-bloodedly determined confederate. Kit Harington, whose very name seems apt for the time portrayed, plays Catesby as the determined handsome hero, prepared to martyr himself to the cause. Peter Mullen is the priest whose commitment to the cause is racked by self-doubt but who in the end, inspired by Catesby’s example, finds his own inner courage to match his convictions. Mark Gatiss plays the ruthless, scheming Cecil as almost a pantomime villain with Shaun Dooley more impressive as the brutal Wade, happy to follow orders no matter how violent they are. King James’s homosexual tendencies are rather unsubtly highlighted as he plays up to his young lover at court, before his narrow escape frightens him back to his queen. To me though the story was over-egged in that for example, nowhere have I read of Catesby freeing another young Catholic priest from the Tower Of London, shown here in almost medieval “Mission Impossible” style and as for the last stand of Catesby and his followers, his “Butch Cassidy” - type slow motion death seemed likewise over the top. I just think that historically important stories like this should pay more attention to the truth and not make so many concessions to an audience it thinks needs cliff-hanging thrills and contrived action sequences in the name of entertainment.