the Piper Perabo episode from last week that I d n see.
Folger's Crystals
Resignation - Wilson secretly replaces House's regular coffee with anti-depressants. House secretly replaces Wilson's regular coffee with speed. The patient of the week secretly replaces Tylenol gel caps with kitchen cleanser. A clinic patient secretly replaces soy tofu nut burgers with cheeseburgers. And Foreman secretly replaces the stuff I liked about his character with annoying self-righteousness.
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twop recap Resignation p7: House dumps the amphetamines into a mortar and pestle and smashes them into little bits before dumping the powder into one of two cups of coffee on his desk. House stirs the coffee/speed mixture and puts the top on the cup just as Wilson enters the office. House quickly assumes the 'I wasn't doing anything!' position with accompanying adorably innocent facial expression and tells Wilson he got him an espresso to pay him back for all the coffees Wilson has bought for him in the last couple weeks. He offers Wilson the non-speed-injected cup, but Wilson is too suspicious of House's sudden unprecedented generosity to take it. He cleverly takes the cup that House wasn't offering -- the one filled with speed, for House is even more clever than Wilson. House shrugs and drinks the regular coffee while Wilson looks victorious at having outsmarted House.
p9
Chase wants to treat Addie for an autoimmune disorder, and they'll have to give her steroids RIGHT NOW for her to have any chance of surviving. House says that if it isn't an autoimmune disorder, the steroids will kill her. This little medical Mexican why Mexican? stand-off seems to happen, like, every single episode. It's getting a little tiresome, guys. ["Seriously, dude. I don't even watch this show, and even I was like, 'Again?'" -- Miss Alli] House reminds the group that treating someone for the wrong thing can kill her, citing Foreman as an example of this.
p10
Wilson is trying to put a label on a medical file while clearly suffering the effects of speed coffee. Foreman comes in, and Wilson starts in with the lecture that Foreman might be pissed at House, but quitting isn't the right thing to do, and it's going to be a pain in the ass to get another job. Except that he says it all five times faster than normal while making up words. It's, like, the best performance I've ever seen out of Robert Sean Leonard. Wilson gets a call and start rushing out of the office, saying he's late for a "breast thing."
Wonderfully, we follow Wilson to the breast thing. He speedily tells the patient, a hot young thing with what are probably calcium deposits in her boobs, that he's having trouble getting his gloves on. "It's weird!" he says. He manages to get one on, deems this enough, and gets to work feeling the patient up. "You sure talk fast," she says. "You should see me when I'm busy!" Wilson says.
p13
House keeps trying to tell her about it, and she keeps telling him she doesn't want to hear about it. Meanwhile, her parents sob in the corner. House can't believe this; his entire being is focused on figuring out what's wrong with people, and here the girl is flying in the face of all that. He won't accept that. While Addie's parents hug their daughter, House asks Addie how she can be uninterested in something that's killing her. Mommy asks House to leave. "What's the point of living without curiosity?" House asks. I don't know. Ask the cat. I wondered if this was an idiom -- no. ggl finds this & exactly one other instance, which involves a specific cat possessed of knowledge. so recapper Sara M means that cats are not curious. which seems witty, bcs cats lie around all day, with some playing & eating. so they seem to live without curiosity. only while typing this do I realize she probably had in mind the phrase about curiosity killing the.

3-22: "Resignation" 2007.05.08 - TWoP Forums p1:
-I've never laughed harder at the show than I did tonight with Wilson on speed.
-Oh gosh. I second that. HL was brilliant as always, but RSL was amazing. "Symbolicating!"
-Wilson high = awesome. RSL played the hell out of that opportunity.