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A view on codependency via House season 3 - Episode 1 - Meaning

Hi! I was watching this episode and some ideas came to me, I thought to write it down and share here, hope you enjoy it.

I recommend you watch the episode while reading, to see the details I mention. I wrote while watching haha.

A view on codependency via House season 3 - Episode 1 - Meaning.

A fitting title.

House comes back from a gunshot wound. Cuddy chemically induced a coma on him while he was being treated from the gunshot, the season 2 finale. His leg heals.

He comes back running, sun shining, feel good playing on the soundtrack.

His excuse for misery was gone and he was truly healed.

Cut to Wilson and Cuddy discussing cases to give House.

She directs to the main case of the episode, where Wilson suggests a case that brings House to his old self, the rude angry person they know him to be.

Cuddy warns “He will call you an idiot” and Wilson says, “who would want that?”

Wilson does. It shows a minute or so later. That is their relation.

House with the abuses and Wilson taking pleasure for being insulted.

Wilson “high-roding” House and House taking pleasure from the guilty.

A perfect co-dependent relationship. Threatened by the new House, as he claims in front of Wilson that “Cuddy changed his life with the procedure”.

See, Cuddy told Wilson he will be called an idiot by House. He agrees with her. And still, he suggests the case anyway. Why would you do that? He knew the result, being called an idiot. Wilson is an oncologist, he is not an idiot. He wanted that insult, in some level.

You see who is helping House.

Cuddy gives him something to do, 2 good cases, she asks how he feels.

Wilson is almost in shock by the new House. House tells Wilson he changed, he wants to help the paralyzed male patient, like a normal doctor, one that has runs while feel good plays, one that is healthy. Like a human being. And he outruns Wilson.

Wilson will never be at his side if House is healthy.

House announces his decision to help the male coma patient as he sees his blood on the carpet. Someone that was suffering trapped inside a broken body. Like he was. He was free now.

And House helped him with the surgery, maybe trying to do for the patient what vicodin had done for him, helping somehow, if not a cure, a relief, until one day something may happen.

And the Yoga girl Wilson suggested brings House back to his old self, at first a lying patient they thought.

Wilson tries to figure out where House stands. How he felt about helping people. Wilson tells House, the more he exercise his “helping people” muscle, the better will get. That is Wilson. He tells you the right things, but points you in another direction. He is testing House at this point, to see how far he changed.

And the next scene is the Yoga girl. She wasn't faking it. Neither was House. His first assumption is to say the Yoga girl was not faking. That is not House. His first and last assumptions are people lie. The old House was that. Not this one.

House talks to the wife of the coma patient, easing his pain. Cameron hears, and House tests her to see how Wilson would react.

House knows Wilson, but projects on Cameron. He tests her, to see what will happen if he is healthy. Asks her for a drink. She is as lost as Wilson when House came running, sweaty. And now House knows, he is not a sick puppy anymore. Even if others don’t believe him.

Cuddy blocks his insight, making him lie and fall into Wilson’s arms. Where House will be punished for not being socially adjusted. Because he does not care about lying if that means saving lives. Wilson makes him feel bad for being who he is, as he always does, bringing them back to their relationship.

But House, saves the girl while avoiding Wilson. The scene cuts to House. He does not need to talk to Wilson to have epiphanies anymore. Wilson chased House and was left alone again. They both know that, Wilson and House.

And the scene that tells you all. The wife of the coma patient.

She says she has a responsibility. They shared a life together. She needs to look after her husband no matter what. The wife says, “you don’t have to abandon someone just because”… being cut by sarcastic House. Because it got worse or better?

House calls her comatose husband an anchor. Someone that sucks the life out of you. That is what Wilson has been doing from the start of the episode. Doubting him. Questioning him. Denying the new person he is trying to be.

He asks the wife - taking care of him will not make you happy, but not taking care of him will make you miserable? - And the dialogue ends. And she goes take care of the husband.

House is thinking about what he just said. Wilson is being left behind. House will not be happy with Wilson, but will be miserable without him. And without his old self. That old self that came up, sarcastic and angry for being denied the 1st time, against the wife for the first time in the episode. And while that he has another epiphany about the patient.

Something deeper was wrong with the patient, he has saving!

Wilson tells him to stay, stop trying, that is it. He does not admire what new House is doing. And House’s leg starts to hurt. His demon. Being disproved by society, Cuddy, and his peers, Wilson. Did you notice how Wilson “casually” suggests how he, Wilson, is boring without vicodin? He knows the path to the old House and knows that new House may slip away from him.

House does not care about others opinions. He fights 3 doctors that studied 8 years of the patient history. He feels in his heart he is doing the right thing. They do the test and goes wrong, as predicted by everyone. But House is used to it, that is how always goes.

Cameron guilts House for “liking” to experiment with the patient. Judging his old ways, of “solving the puzzle”. She goes with him, ask the wife permission for a dangerous test. Always denying House to be more hopeful while talking to the wife, in her mind, he is doing for the “fun”. The “fun” of saving a life, that needs saving only in House’s eyes. No one else can see what he is doing, what he is going through, because he does not show, just like the comatose patient. He does not know how to show, being numb for so long.

They say the patient has suffered enough. It is time to let him go. Cuddy does not believe House wants to help the patient, because that is who he has never been. He can never be in her eyes. They are always holding him down. He needs reasons to do things, not this new person that wants to help because wants to help. That is not convincing. That is not rational.

And again, he goes straight to Wilson. Wilson smiles while House says his leg hurts. Now he knows. The denial of society, represented by the mother of all, dean of medicine Lisa Cuddy refusing this new House, denying him a chance to get rid of his old self, because it is too painful, because “it is not the right thing”, because it causes some suffering, to them! They never wonder what he must be feeling. He says, first time without drugs, and they don't take him seriously.

Because this new House goes against everything that they believe about him. The demon that held him for so long became him for those around. He decided, like the wife, to take the leap, “he was dead already” as she consented for more experiments with her husband, being hopeful. She saw the new House.

But they denied him. He will not get out of the mould they formed for him.

He is a lying bad adjusted junkie, that has a brilliant logical mind. The way to tame him? Vicodin. It worked so far, without vicodin there is no leash anymore.

Wilson again in the scene. He tells House things that a friend should say, perfect. At the same time he points the exact location of his prescription pad and where it is on the table. And which high he will get. From solving puzzles or from vicodin. He does not get from the puzzle in this episode, the crucial for his recovery.

And House solves the puzzle. He does not need vicodin. He is purified by water. He is truly new. This new high is the "true" high.Now he is clean. He goes back to society, Cuddy, with his perfect logical solution demanded before. Cuddy answers the door at night. Now he has all the right things to say.

But he says the wrong way, at the wrong time. After failing twice. His solution is not even dangerous anymore. Still, he gets rejected. And he learns, not happy in his old self with vicodin, but miserable without his puzzles. And Cuddy finally breaks him. He will never be adjusted, so why care? But he was right.

She wants to tell him, but gets blocked by Wilson. He knows what he will lose House, if House knows he does not need vicodin, does not need Wilson, he is the Genius no one will ever match. A God. And Wilson will lose his buddy, his codependent partner.

A well adjusted House, do you think he will still be around, whenever Wilson needs? Or he will get so deep into work, to save more and more lives, that all is gonna be left behind? Just puzzles left, no more need to talk to Wilson for vicodin...

And Wilson justify his decision at the end.

Just because he is right, does not mean he was not wrong.

Wilson is right, House needs him. But by supporting this co-dependent relationship, his addiction, Wilson is also wrong.

And House falls into the hole again, vicodin.

To entertain you.

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