A teenage supermodel, managed by her father, attacks another model on the runway and then collapses. House, uncharacteristically, takes the case without complaint, but is going through his own trauma as the pain in his leg intensifies.
It isn't long before we find out that Wilson believes House is manifesting his emotional pain over Stacy, through his leg. Meanwhile, the supermodel is revealed to have had sex with her father, and has been secretly taking heroine. However, House doesn't want to report the father until he's gotten any and all relevant information from him, but Cameron goes over his head and gets Cuddy to involve social services.
In the interum, House begins a massive search for the cancer he's sure she must have, but it turns out that the patient has a rare form of hermaphrodism, and was technically born male, but the testes never descended; making her immune to testosterone and making her a walking container of pure estrogen.
As for House's pain, he turns to Cuddy for a spinal injection of morphine, but when House returns a second time to ask for another shot, Cuddy reveals she had given him a placebo - causing House to have to face the fact that his pain is not physical, (beyond what he normally manages with Vicodin), but psychological.
This was a very different kind of episode and I really enjoyed it. Hugh Laurie never disappoints, but I was most impressed by Cameron Richardson (who played the patient, and is actually a model in real life), who did an amazing job portraying her character... with the exception of being 15, but then again, there are real 15 yr olds out there, who also look like they're in their early 20s so...
It isn't long before we find out that Wilson believes House is manifesting his emotional pain over Stacy, through his leg. Meanwhile, the supermodel is revealed to have had sex with her father, and has been secretly taking heroine. However, House doesn't want to report the father until he's gotten any and all relevant information from him, but Cameron goes over his head and gets Cuddy to involve social services.
In the interum, House begins a massive search for the cancer he's sure she must have, but it turns out that the patient has a rare form of hermaphrodism, and was technically born male, but the testes never descended; making her immune to testosterone and making her a walking container of pure estrogen.
As for House's pain, he turns to Cuddy for a spinal injection of morphine, but when House returns a second time to ask for another shot, Cuddy reveals she had given him a placebo - causing House to have to face the fact that his pain is not physical, (beyond what he normally manages with Vicodin), but psychological.
This was a very different kind of episode and I really enjoyed it. Hugh Laurie never disappoints, but I was most impressed by Cameron Richardson (who played the patient, and is actually a model in real life), who did an amazing job portraying her character... with the exception of being 15, but then again, there are real 15 yr olds out there, who also look like they're in their early 20s so...