House Season 5 Episode : Instant Karma

House gets off on a very non-blood barfing foot this week with the pre-credits intro of the Patient of the Week. This time around, it’s the young son of a millionaire CEO who comes to Princeton-Plainsboro in search of House’s expertise and will accept no substitutes.  This doesn’t bode well for Cuddy who is desperately trying to maintain cover for the hospital’s most renowned doctor’s suspended license and brief stint in the loony bin.

Eventually, the CEO Father is satisfied that House will be a part of the panel that is headed up by new BMOC, Foreman, rounded out with Cameron and Chase completing the House: Original Recipe Trio.

As it turns out, two-thirds of the Original Recipe Trio is in danger of becoming Extra Crispy as their feet are held to the fire pending an investigation into the death of Dibala (last week’s African dictator Patient of the Week).  Foreman refuses to take the fall for Chase’s scamper into “Tis a Far, Far Greater Thing territory, yet he still agrees to help Chase cover his tracks.  Things get further complicated when the Dibala Death Debacle turns out to be accompanied by a press conference and symposium. Terrific!  The comedy of errors spirals further out of control when the cholesterol levels of the African dictator didn’t quite match up to those of the dead scleroderma patient Chase swiped samples from.  Not just a little off.  Way off.