It goes without saying, spoilers ahead.

C'mon, how could you imprison this face?

Thoughts on House, MD, Episode 3.05 "Fools in Love"

--Opener:  I flippin' love this show.  Hugh Laurie hasn't even made it onscreen yet and I'm already intrigued.  Perhaps my interest is piqued due to the month-long hiatus of Fox's best drama (best comedy being Simpsons, of course).

--Cameron got a good stab "I tried following her home, but she gave me the slip."

--Holmesian:  House's first puzzle is Wilson's motivation in chatting it up with the new pediatrics nurse and he jumps right in trying to figure it out.  It's clear our medical mystey will take a backseat here, at least for a bit.

--Enter David Morse (whom other people claim as the spirited doc on St. Elsewhere, but whom I know as the gruff character actor who usually plays a pilot or some other reluctant leader).  Oooh, another pompous dude.  Yes, if only the TV blurbs hadn't talked this up I'd be more fascinated.  Morse's character (nameless as of yet) trips House by knocking the latter's cane out from under him.  This is reminiscent of the episode in which Wilson chisles halfway through House's other cane in a practical joke rebuttal.  Here, however, Morse is not going for a laugh.  For those of you who don't know, Morse will be with us for the next 5 episodes, all the while playing a cunningly misanthropic character (sound familiar) who actually gets to our favorite anti-hero.  Ooh, perplexing.  We can tell already that this unsatisfied guest at the Princeton-Plainsboro Hotel will not be easily written off.

--Back to our MM (medical mystery):  Husband and wife come in, she's sick, he's not, then he gets sick and the puzzle breaks into a few more pieces.  House gives them an entire list of things to test for.  I'm confused now because I haven't yet seen the white board, he holds all my answers, without him I am nothing.  Also, Cameron's obviously missing for some reason.  Now we have hallucinations followed by a coma.  This is not looking good.

--Foreman seems to be running the show now.  This episode has a really different rhythm.  We have three separate story lines, I haven't seen the white board (this is really bugging me).  House seems to be preoccupied with other things than the MM.  Where is Cameron?  Did I miss something?  Chase, Foreman, and House even sat down in the hallway on some bench to discuss a differential, usually they're walking around, or at the very least littering the discussion room with diseases I've never heard of.  What's up here?

--Quick note:  Morse plays Michael Tudor, as in Tudor's Buscuit World, ick.

--The rhythm here is so strange.  It's still driving and intense and all , it's as if someone tried to play the Mission:  Impossible theme in 4/4.  It's still pounding, but a little off.

--I am still amazed by the expressiveness of Laurie's eyes.  He just had that classic look of "I've solved the puzzle", followed quickly by the look that let's us know Buscuit-man is getting to him.

--Foreman is the anti-House.  Forget everything I ever said about him being a House wannabe, it's gone.  Wow, I am impressed.

--Buscuit man is taking House to jail!  You can't strongarm a cripple!  How does he expect House to walk with his hands cuffed together.  The man needs his cane.  From this day forward, I hate buscuits.

**Editor's note:  David Morse's character's last name is Tritter, not Tudor, as before stated.  Whether he will be referred to as Biscuit man from hereafter is undecided.***