Recap

The basic 'patient' story line is that House is without help, Cuddy and Wilson both are urging him to interview candidates... but he refuses and makes a bet (with Cuddy) that he can solve the case within a day, if he fails, he gets clinic time of course.

The patient has been in a building collapse accident, her face is a disaster. Her boyfriend and estranged mother are by her side for nearly the whole show. The boyfriend is sad because they had been arguing right before the accident...and he witnessed the building collapse and rushed in to pull her from the rubble.

House does his usual white board diagnostics and ends up recruiting the Janitor to be his assistant (even giving him a coat and stethescope).. he has the janitor deliver news to the family and ask for family history (hilarious)... He does eventually get caught, and Cuddy begins helping House, which drives both of them nuts.

In the meantime, Wilson and House break into the patients home to collect samples. House gets Wilson to do the dirty work... House then discovers a 'secret' journal kept by the patient that indicates she had previously been depressed and not happy with her boyfriend/relationship. Of course House shares this info with the boyfriend.

Somewhere around here House's guitar gets 'kidnapped' by Wilson... who leaves funny randsome notes etc. stating that 'she' will be returned when he starts interviewing candidates... They begin a game of who can one up the other best... though it's not going the way Wilson really intended and gets more serious than it should...

House thinks that the symptoms she has may be due to some medication interactions which could be explained if the patient were on antidepressants... The boyfriend disagrees, but they treat her anyway and she appears to be getting better. You know the usual cycle of get better, crash, get better, crash.. well, this episode didn't skip that... The patient crashes a few times, each due to other medication interactions etc. one interaction is that she has an allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics she's on, and there's also one which is caused by the fact that she must have been an alcoholic and was going through withdrawl (the boyfriend adamantly refuses to believe she was an alcoholic)..., Eventually she bleeds out and they rush her into surgery... During Surgery House notices that the patients uterus is enlarged and barges into the surgery and gets a good look and determines that she had recently had an abortion.

When he comes out of surgery the boyfriend is waiting with another friend... the boyfriend of one of the patient's co-workers who had just passed away. House thinks that it's weird that the guy is still hanging around... he then 'reluctantly' hahaha shares the new information with the boyfriend who is very upset. The two had wanted to have children, why would she have an abortion... ? He tells House that he wants House to tell Liz (the girlfriend) that he's glad she'll be better... and leaves.

The next day (oh yes.. I should note that House lost the bet, however they never talked about the clinic again...I'm sure it will come up eventually)...

Anyway, the next day House visits a cancer patient of one of Wilson's... he's undergoing his first day in a 5-day chemo regiment... he MOVES the patient with the offer of cable and better looking nurses to a nicer room on a different floor...

He then goes to his office and thinks... wilson eventually shows up pissed off about his missing patient... explaining that this is much more serious than a missing guitar because it's a persons life.. Something in his speech gets House all riled up and he tells Wilson where the patient is and leaves... I'm a little vague on some of the details here...

He shows up at the patients room, and find the boyfriend has returned and so has the mom... He then asks them some questions... the gist of which is that it's odd that she had an allergic reaction to a medication she had just recently taken, it's odd that she never told her boyfriend about the antidepressants or that she was an alcoholic,... none of this stuff is even documented in her medical records.. (except that she had recently had the antibiotic with no reactions documented)... he then pulls out another medical record... of a woman, the friend and co-worker of Liz, which states that she was an alcoholic, on antidepressants, had a recent abortion and was allergic to the antibiotic...

it's all been a case of mistaken identity... she had a similar build, and hair color as Liz...

The mom and boyfriend are extremely upset because they realize this means that their Liz has indeed died, and that the boyfriend who'd hung around the previous day was morning the loss of his girlfriend who's actually alive...

Eventually you get a clip of House talking to a group of people who you cannot see... he tells them that this will be the longest and most painful interview process they've ever undergone... that they should look to either side of them and realize that at the end of the next 60 days one of them will be gone...

They then pan out to a HUGE room of people...

I might have screwed some of that up.. but that's the basic gist of it...
This episode was based (in my opinion) on a case of mistaken identity last spring involving two blonde girls who'd been in a bus or van accident on a college trip...

It was great episode!