i was wondering if someone could tell me what happened tonight. i got so involved with studying for my finals 9 o'clock came and passed. thanks!

I watched the whole episode, but wasn't able to understand the ending. It had to do with bipolar disorder and the patient keeping it a secret from his wife. But the dialog was too fast for me to follow. Can someone help? Otherwise, I'll have to wait for a rerun to get another chance at it! Thanks.

Stop by the episodes forum and you'll get a little more detail as to what went on. Here's a link Episodes Forum, Failure to Communicate thread

That might hold you until our wonderful transcribers have a chance to chart it all out for you.

Spoiler ahead!! If you have not seen "Failure to Communicate" and don't want to know what happens don't proceed, look away now!!!







Basically Stacy and House were off taking care of Medicaid business. That gets cleared up pretty quick and they leave and head back to the airport. House invites Stacy to dinner. She turns him down and points out that he's on an earlier flight. Weather delays his flight so he is still at the airport when Stacy arrives for her flight. They sit together because there are alot of people hanging about and seat are hard to come by.

House asks Stacy where her cross is, she's never without it. She puts him off and gets angry as he keeps pursuing it. Final she tells him that she and Mark had a fight. And that it was a fight over what was meant by "last pickup time" on the mailbox. House makes an effort to comfort her by saying that Mark is probably just edgy, he's been through alot and that'll make you grumpy, he should know. Stacy's not buying it, she talks about how she hurt House and drives away the men she loves(or something along those lines).

Weather turns bad, flights are canceled. Airport provides cots for stranded passengers. Stacey offers t oshare her room. She booked it when the weather turned bad just in case. He is hesitant but she points out that his leg would not be very happy after a night on a hard cot. He thanks her and they head off to her lair.

House asks what's going on with their relationship. She gives a very interesting explanation (comparing it to very hot curry). Kiss ensues (House initiated) but he backs off and she becomes the aggressor. Looks like it's gong to turn hot but the phone rings. It's the ducklings. His mind gets involved and he leaves Stacy on the bed to go write on the airport walls.

Meanwhile back at the ranch...

PotW is a big name investigative journalist. Falls, hits his head and pretty much starts talking gibberish. Real words with proper sentence structure but making no sense. Cuddy asks Foreman to recommend the best diagnostic department and he says us. Cuddy say no, without House we're nothing send him elsewhere. Foreman manipulates her into letting them take that case.

Duckling argue alot. Chase doesn't recognise Foreman's authority as his boss. Cameron wants them all to just get along in a democracy, with no one in charge and they kind of end up there. Someone, I think Cuddy calls House to get his help on the case when the PotW experiences major respiratory problem. Phone calls are exchanged between House and Cuddy, House and Wilson, House and the ducklings as the patient deteriorates. Eventually he shut off the phone (I think, they say the batteries were dead but I get the impression he just turned it off)so they call Stacy (This is the disrupting call in the kiss scene) when things turn really ugly for the patient.

House is upset with the duckling inability to take care of business and tells them what to do. He then leaves to write on the airport walls. Seems the words the guy is saying are closely related to what he want to say. For example if he says table he may mean cable or label or chair depending on how the words are organized and catergorized in his brain. Oh and the PotW can say Yes and No but cannot write things either.

The duckling, I think have figured out one word and House tries code breaking from there.

From here it's fuzzy because I didn't catch all the dialogue but basically the PotW was bi-polar and had been taking some type of drug that is for something else but has been used to treat bi-polar people. I think they use it after the bi-polar patient has had some type of brain surgery to lessen the effects of the problem. I wasn't clear on this and even if I was I'm still not sure what caused the problem, the drugs or the surgery or if he'd ever talk right again. But the guys wife leaves him because he never told her and she viewed that as he didn't trust her.

The end.

Again this is from memory and only the major points. Hope that helps.

Thanks rtl. So much of it flashed by me that reading your synopsis helps me even though I saw the whole thing. (It didn't help that my houseguest was playing violin throughout the first 10 minutes of the show.)

House definitely deserves repeated viewings; I miss so much. I find that just as I'm grasping one concept/disease/theory/treatment they've already moved on to another
c/d/t/t or presented an additional plot point and I'm lost. ;)

-Pradon

Wow that helped- cheers! I did lose some of the medicine stuff tonight :)

I have to rewatch myself, as I'm kind of vague on the connection between Fletch's bipolar condition and the actual Disease of the Week, but the final diagnosis was cranial malaria...

House told them to get a blood sample and have a real human look at it under the microscope, not a computer -- and that showed the little malarial buggers swimming around....

Fletch's editor told him his wife would come back eventually... "give her time to miss you."

And as far as the curry analogy goes...

Stacy: Our relationship is like an addiction. It's... like...
House: Really good drugs?
Stacy: No, it's like... vindaloo curry.
House: OK... sure.
Stacy: It's this really hot Indian curry they make with red chili peppers.
House: I know what it is. Didn't think it was addictive.
Stacy: You're abrasive and annoying and come on way too strong. Like vindaloo curry. Which is OK if you really like curry, but you have too much of it, it burns the roof of your mouth off, and then you never want to see curry again for a really really long time, but you wake up one day and you think... God I really miss curry.

Let's not discuss how many times I've watched the rest of that scene, envying Sela Ward... OK? ;) :)

thanks rt for the update on what happened on tuesday. :)

p.s. i like the curry analogy...

Well, if you guys like this maybe we ca ndo a recap everyweek that there's a new episode on. What do you think?