This week, House was back to his usual cranky, manipulative self. The patient this week was a 16-year-old boy of gypsy heritage suffering from difficulty breathing, pain and then his liver nearly shut down.

The team was hindered from doing all their strangest treatments by the boy’s family who are very suspicious of anyone outside their small community. Foreman felt very moved by the boy’s intelligence and potential and tried to offer him an internship at the hospital to further his studies, but the boy refused because he didn’t want to go outside his community.

House and the team were evaluating some of the boy’s symptoms when House made my favorite quote of the week:

You guys are still thinking like doctors, when you should be thinking like plumbers. C’mon! Let’s see some butt crack!

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The show started with House eating and watching TV in a patient’s room.

Wilson walked in and asked “What are you doing here? I thought you always ate with Coma Guy?”

House replied, “Meet Vegetative State Guy. Better company. Hey! Tell him about those sherpas you dropped acid with in St. Patrick’s Cathedral.”

I love that sarcasm! I’m chuckling, even as I’m typing…House was in rare form in this episode.

Then things got immediately tense when Wilson confronted House about stealing his prescription pad and forging his name. House wanted to know what Wilson told the cop and he said that he had lied. Wilson told him that they could put House away for ten years after they took his license to practice medicine.

House replied, “So, everything’s good then.”

Wilson repeated, “I lied to the cops!”

House said, “There is no case unless they can prove that I either got the drugs illegally or sold them illegally. I didn’t do the second and you lied about the first. Game over”

Wilson warned him, “Tritter’s just playing, he’s going to see how clever you are, then just walk away…”

House said, “The important thing is that you keep prescribing the same amount of drugs to me or it’ll look suspicious.”

Wilson, “Here’s another way to look at it, having forced me to lie to the police, your first concern is securing your drug connection”

Just then, a young man entered the room, took at look at them and asked if they were joining his father for lunch. He said he should have called ahead for a table.

House then did some quick, strange diagnosing of the young man an told him he had a disorder that keeps him from seeing things when they move. He said that he would probably also have seizures and by blinking the lights he had tried to set one off. At that moment, the young man fell to the floor and started to seize.

House stated, “God, I love this family!”

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A new patient, a 600+ lb man is brought in. Nothing seems to be abnormal, but he’s in a coma.

Meanwhile, House is in jail after being arrested by Tritter (the David Morse character). Wilson bails him out and he’s in a particularly testy mood, even for House.

Apparently the patient is a loner and reclusive. He works from home and has food delivered. His gourmet kitchen is totally stocked and he has no friends.

• A patient in the clinic sees House with a painful arm. He says that it’s because he sleeps on his arm and it hurts when he wakes up. House offers to amputate, “After all, it IS your left.” The patient calls him insane a rushes out of the exam room in a huff. (Jail didn’t change good old House…)

The large patient needs an MRI or a CT scan but is too big for either. The team has a debate about how to get the tests for him. They decide to try to do the MRI by only putting his head in. The table groans as if it’s about to give way. They guy’s coma persists. They don’t find anything that could be causing the coma. The patient wakes up screaming during the MRI and is disoriented.

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House and the team are puzzled by a young, interracial couple who come down with the nearly the same symptoms and defy early diagnosis. Once again, House has to weed through the maze of strange symptoms and disappointing test results to find the underlying reason.

I won’t give away the final diagnosis, because those of you who missed it will have the show spoiled. However, leave it to say that you probably won’t see this one coming.

To make the diagnosis, the team has to once again resort to searching the couple’s apartment, House accuses them of cheating and they undergo a myriad of dangerous tests…you know, the usual preliminary to finding the truth.

This episode also marks the debut of David Morse as a cop who was offended by House and makes it his mission to bring House to the realization that people must be treated with respect. I don’t know about you, but House without his rapier wit just wouldn’t be House. I think half the reason we all tune in is to see how he manages to say and do the things none of us would even consider doing in real life. We love to live vicariously through House.

It will be fun to see House take some of his own medicine, so to speak. Morse will probably make him do just that during his six episode stay on the show. Stay tuned to see how it all turns out.

Meanwhile, House is obsessed with the new nurse he thinks Wilson is interested in. He spies on her, confronts Wilson about her and generally makes a pain of himself…but this has a twist at the end of the show too. Cool!

Cuddy is still trying to conceive, House takes his manipulation and verbal assaults on his team to new heights and it turned out to be a satisfying, although disturbing show. If you missed it, be sure to catch the re-run.

Next week, House will return with another new episode and we get to see the confrontation between Morse’s character and House escalate. Don’t miss it!