Re: House season 5
There were three "staff" on the steps of the hospital waiting to meet House: two guys in scrubs (I took them to be psychiatric nurses or orderlies, less likely doctors) and a blonde woman in a black suit. Hosptical administrator? Psychiatrist? All were facing the camera, but they were shot from too far away to see their faces. After a cut back to Wilson we see House on the steps from somewhat closer. He is passing the blonde woman, who now has her back to us, and he walks up to the two men, who turn and walk into the hospital with House, while the blonde brings up the rear.
Question to chew on over the hiatus: Was the blonde really there? Or was that Amber again?
No one visibly interacts with her.
I thought it was a great episode (really a great pair of episodes), especially since so
little of it was imaginary. All of House's interactions with Wilson and Cuddy in the hospital were real, for instance. (Cuddy's references to "what happened last night" were all to House's verbal attack on her, and Wilson believed House's account of events.) The only thing that rang slightly false to me was something from the scene in Cuddy's office, where House interrupts her meeting with Wilson and switches coffee cups with her.
Wilson obviously sees House make the switch. Now, Wilson has
no way of knowing that House is going to use the cup for some kind of testing. He
does know that House has a history of secretly dosing his nearest and dearest with all sorts of interesting drugs when the spirit moves him. There is no way that he should have let Cuddy drink from the cup House left her. For all he knew House had laced it with amphetimines or other drugs to aid in his quest to make Cuddy angry. He couldn't warn Cuddy without breaking his promise to House, but he certainly could have "accidentally" spilled it all over her desk and bought her a fresh cup. A small point, but it bugged me.
Regards,
Joe
