"House M.D." Lines in the Sand (2006)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Newton Thomas Sigel

Writers:

David Shore (creator)
David Hoselton (written by)

TV Series:

"House M.D." (2004)

Original Air Date:

26 September 2006 (Season 3, Episode 4)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A ten-year-old boy begins screaming in pain, but nobody knows why, because he is autistic and cannot explain. House refuses to use his office. Cuddy does not know why, because he is House and will not explain. |

Plot Keywords:

Worm | Sandbox | Autism | Doctor | Medical Doctor

Cast

Hugh Laurie	...	Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein	...	Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps	...	Dr. Eric Foreman
Robert Sean Leonard	...	Dr. James Wilson
Jennifer Morrison	...	Dr. Allison Cameron
Jesse Spencer	...	Dr. Robert Chase
Braeden Lemasters	...	Adam
Geoffrey Blake	...	Dominic
Heather Kafka	...	Sarah Kelvey
Leighton Meester	...	Ali
Ron Perkins	...	Dr. Simpson
Stephanie Venditto	...	Nurse Brenda Previn
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bobbin Bergstrom	...	Nurse
Johnny Crear	...	Thomas Williams
Kat Sawyer-Young	...	Laura Smith (as Kat Sawyer)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Goofs:

Continuity: When Adam begins choking he moves both hands to his upper chest. When we see through Adams eyes again his hand is still on the blue glass. In the next shot his hands are still on his chest.

Quotes:

Dr. James Wilson: [to Cuddy about House] Don't you think the restraining order's a little too much? He's not actually going to have sex with a seventeen-year-old patient.
Dr. Lisa Cuddy: I didn't think he was going to ask me to dig a blood-stained carpet out of a dumpster either.
Dr. James Wilson: It might be in the long run.
[stops at the landing at the stairs]
Dr. Lisa Cuddy: Are we stopping here so House doesn't find us?
Dr. James Wilson: Unless you want to make out?

Movie Connections:

Features Frogger (1981) (VG)

It's a scream

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

An autistic child begins screaming in pain, and House and his crew are off to the races. The kid gets worse and worse, and being autistic, cannot verbalize what ails him. House must take the kid in hand, literally, but will the kid's parents let him? It becomes apparent during the course of the episode that the boy's parents have coddled him, but coddling is not a word to be found in House's dictionary. A subplot has a creamy, dreamy, 17-year-old gal from a previous episode insisting that House have sex with her. She's pretty persistent, House is flattered but flustered, and Cuddy is furious. The result is some very funny dialogue and a laugh-out-loud situation involving the chest-baring gal, a stethoscope-wearing House and a shocked Foreman in an exam room. For film buffs, the end of the episode is more or less lifted from MERCURY RISING. It works. I cried. And I'm a guy!