TV-Reviewed

With Foreman back at Princeton-Plainsboro, House was ready to see him leave immediately. Cuddy didn’t back down though, particularly because one of his patients died recently. She knows Foreman is bright and necessary to help House diagnose patients. This didn’t stop House from trying to get Foreman to quit. I’m rarely surprised by House’s actions, and there wasn’t anything new or different about what he tried to do. Applying pressure to Cuddy by creating a fake cafeteria emergency was hilarious, but it came back to bite him in the butt later since all of his fellowships had to help deal with the new patients.

All of this is going on while a new patient is brought in with breathing problems. He collapses and comes to without any medical intervention. House correctly diagnoses him as having some sort of odd mirror syndrome. He and Foreman noticed he was mimicking other patients and symptoms.

This ended up being rather humorous because anytime one of the doctors got near him, the patient would mirror the person’s personality. Some people didn’t like looking into the mirror. Dr. 13 is still a bit of a mystery. We don’t know much about her and she tried to avoid looking into the mirror at all costs, but she was forced to in the end.

It wasn’t until very late in the episode that House was able to determine the type of infection his patient had. Determining the infection required some ingenuity. House put on the patient’s clothing and had the patient mimic himself, essentially. We learned he was in the area on business. he was from Ohio and sells farm equipment. He usually comes into contact with a lot of pig manure and he contracted some sort of infection from it.

When Foreman told House why he had to come back - no one else would hire him, you could see that House genuinely felt bad for him. He isn’t the one to open up about his feelings, but his facial expressions and body language spoke loud and clear. Moved by Foreman’s problems, House landed him a job at another hospital. And to only the surprise of House, Foreman declined the job. He seems happy to be back even though he hasn’t felt very respected at times. The fellowships respect House much more.

House - Mirror Mirror
Original Air Date: October 30, 2007

Rating: 8.2