![]() ![]() Leona has convinced Crandall that she is his daughter, and that her mother died, a victim of Hurricane Katrina. House immediately suspects that Crandall (known as a bit of a pushover) is being scammed by Leona, the granddaughter of a famous jazz pianist, and the subject of a Crandall biography. Presumably, during those university days, House supported himself by playing jazz. He and House were friends when House was in college. And perhaps the distraction of a case will mitigate the pain enough to make it manageable.Ĭut to the hospital, where we meet House’s old friend Dylan Crandall, a writer. Work beckons, and despite the uncontrolled pain, he realizes that morphine will dull his ability to diagnose the case. It leaves us to wonder whether we've looked voyeuristically in on an isolated event, or gotten a peek at the physical distress he endures regularly, in the privacy of his personal life.īefore he can inject himself with the drug, the phone rings and Cuddy has a case for him. Laurie is simply brilliant at conveying the range of emotions through which House must be going. For this extreme step to be sympathetic, we have to buy that House's pain is so intense, that if he doesn't do it, he will collapse. It is in this frame of mind that he collects his morphine rescue kit from where he has hidden it on a high and barely accessible shelf. After what must’ve been hours, he can pace no more, supporting his weight on his kitchen island the pain is so intense that he is nearly in tears. He conveys the building panic in House’s body language and in his eyes as nothing seems to work to keep the pain in check. Hugh Laurie is at his best in these dialogue-free scenes. It's a long scene a revelatory scene a scene without one word of dialogue. But after hours of walking, pacing, trying more and more Vicodin, the terrible pain in House's leg still gnaws at him. As he paces, distressed and in a great deal of pain, House grows increasingly desperate in his movements, looking for a moment's relief. The first scene after the opening credits takes place in House’s flat. "Who's Your Daddy" also sets us up for the season finale and House’s decision to try a radical pain therapy as he deals with increasingly uncontrollable pain. And Hugh Laurie does such a fabulous job of dealing with House’s emotional conflict regarding an old friend, his suppressed feelings for Cuddy, and his unrelenting pain. It was revelatory and touched on House’s musical background. I am firmly in the “I really loved it” camp. Having aired on FOX this past Friday night, I find an opportunity to revisit the penultimate episode of season two. When it first aired at the end of season two, the episode was soundly trashed by some in the fandom. “Who's Your Daddy” is one of those House, MD episodes that people either love or hate. ![]()
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