Watch House Season 5, Episode 5, Lucky Thirteen
March 26, 2009 by House MD Episodes
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Watch House Season 5, Episode 5, Lucky Thirteen
“Lucky Thirteen” is the fifth episode in the fifth season of the successful drama “House”. This episode was aired on October 21st, 2008. This episode is featured by a variety of music including the Kills’ “Cheap and cheerful”, Joseph Arthur’s “Could we survive” and Annie Lennox’s “Dark Road” which add to the tone and color of the story being a complement. The viewers are enthralled by the music and the plot of the story.
The Storyline:
The episode starts with a sweet note of “Cheap and Cheerful” by The Kills. Thirteen is having a one night stand with a lady in her apartment where the lady gets a seizure and falls ill. Thirteen takes her immediately to the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching hospital. The case is taken up by Dr. House and his team. House examines the patient. He remains more concerned about Thirteen than the patient.
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He wanted to ponder over her personal and sexual life. So he goes to Thirteen’s apartment with Dr. Foreman under the pretense of checking for possible leads in the case. Back at the hospital, Thirteen thinks that the woman’s malady is due to irregular and over drug usage. But she soon finds out that there was more to it than that meets the eye. The woman has had a long medical history.
She has been attended to by many doctors and she has tried to become a patient of Dr. House for a long time but was refused by Dr. House. She also deduced that the woman had used Thirteen as a means to get to Dr. House. She feels ashamed and beaten. Later Dr. Foreman sees Thirteen and talks to her about her sexual life. He complains that her present sexual lifestyle will bring both her future and her job to shambles. He tries to warn her. But Thirteen is unmoved.
Cuddy catches Thirteen with a hangover that was terrible. She was advised to take up drug test. But Dr. House came up to the situation and avoided the drug test. But he fired her from the hospital on the context of Thirteen missing her differential diagnoses. When Thirteen and Spencer are in bed together the background score of Joseph Arthur’s “Could we survive” brings about the essence of the situation. Later at the end of the episode, Thirteen proves her loyalties towards Dr. House and the hospital.
And eventually Dr. House rehires her. Thirteen later discovers that firing her was part of the grand plan of Dr. House. It was rather a test by House to check whether Thirteen would become close to her patients. Near the end of the episode we find that Thirteen continues with her sexual habits. Though it’s risky she continues it. But she is empty and sad. Cuddy adopts a baby from a baby store. Dr. House follows Dr. Wilson and he finds out that Cuddy is adopting a baby. And also that Dr. Wilson was the one who gave her a character reference for the adoption. Dr. House doesn’t congratulate her rather ends up saying “If you’re happy, I’m…..” and walks away. This is the second time he’s saying this in this very episode. The episode ends with the music, “Dark Road” sung by Annie Lennox.
