This week's episode was mostly shot from the perspective of the patient. Adam Taylor/FOX

I wish House was my doctor. Doesn’t everybody? He certainly kicks all other doctors’ butts.

In this episode, House is in the ER of Middletown General Hospital after having a motorcycle accident. Next to him is Lee, a patient who the attending doctor- Dr. Kurtz, believes is brain dead and a perfect candidate for organ donation.

But House intrudes and realizes that Lee does have some brain function. Dr. Idiot doesn’t believe him, that is until House discovers that Lee can communicate by blinking.

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Apparently:

1. It’s not the most likely candidate—not by a long shot.
2. It’s not someone who has been rumored to be leaving.
3. It is someone who will shock you.
4. How it happens will take you completely by surprise.
5. There is no lead-up to this death, it just…happens.

Fans have already started posting their guesses on fansites showing their dismay upon hearing the news–

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House has met his match and it’s a green-eyed Russian Blue cat, aka, “the death cat.”

Well, at least that’s what it seemed like at the beginning of this week’s episode, “Here Kitty.”

The feline can predict when a patient is going to die, according to the POTW (patient of the week), which has House looking for all kinds of ways to disprove what he regards as superstitious non-sense.

We also got to learn a bit more about Taub. And it’s sad because the more we learn about him the more we realize how unhappy he is—with his marriage (he had an affair with the daughter of one of his partners, he wants to have kids but his wife doesn’t), with work (he doesn’t get the recognition or financial compensation he was used to as a plastic surgeon) and all other aspects of his life.

Aside from that, House was pretty funny this week. No Foreteen or Huddy, but certainly a good dose of silliness.

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What would it be like if, instead of being his grumpy and mean self, House were nice and happy?

This week on House:”The Softer Side,” we got a taste of exactly that -a happy, cordial, even smiling House, something that in his case, can only be interpreted as an assurance that there must be something terribly wrong.

House’s noticeable change in mood, more than the case itself, becomes the focus of the show early on.

The first clue that says there’s something different about House occurs while he’s having breakfast with Wilson. House asks him if he can take food from his plate. No big deal, you might think. But, this is House we’re talking about–cynical, rude, don’t-ask-for-anyone’s-permission-to-do-anything House. It seemed trivial at the time, but this was the first of many incidents where House’s behavior is evidently “abnormal.”

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Who really is Dr. Gregory House?

We know so little about him, and those few things we do know are pretty much just those that he allows us to see—his sarcasm, his brilliance, his pain.

What about his personal life? Dr. Wilson is his only friend. He lives alone and does not really have any other close, personal relationships (hookers don’t count). And he doesn’t reveal much about his personality. Those of us who watch the show infer certain things about him by the way he acts in certain situations, but we can’t say for certain what his feelings are because he never really expresses them.

But in the “Unfaithful” episode of House, he actually does, and we get to learn a bit about his thoughts on faith and spirituality.

He doesn’t believe in God, that was no surprise. But, why? While we don’t really get the answer to that question, we do get to see him grapple with his beliefs.

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Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein, R) gives her child to House (Hugh Laurie, L) for him to hold. The baby, in turn, throws up on him.

House is a big baby. Everyone knows that.

He craves attention. He doesn’t have any manners. He doesn’t listen to anyone. His favorite toy? Give him a Tonka truck and he’ll be entertained for hours on end. And he’s needy. He doesn’t accept it, maybe he’s not even aware of it, but he definitely is. He doesn’t know it but nothing would make him happier than having a woman tend to his every need.

In this episode, House displays more of his baby-like ways. He gets a new baby-sitter– Cameron. Heaven knows he can’t be left on his own. Of course, he tries to take advantage of the fact Cuddy’s out and Cameron is in her place to get everything that he wants. And he succeeds. Good thing it all works out for the benefit of the patient in the end.

Meanwhile, Cuddy struggles with her own baby (or rather, her “other” baby. We already established House is like an infant himself). At one point, she breaks down and even confesses to Wilson that she “doesn’t feel anything” for her.

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House (Hugh Laurie, R) and Chase (Jesse Spencer, L) prepare to operate on a patient suffering from chronic pain.

“Painless” was the name of this week’s House episode. If you saw it, you’ll probably agree that “terribly painful” would have been more adequate.

House is in gruesome pain. There were several scenes where it became evident that he can’t seem to control the pain as well as he used to. There was the bathtub scene (no, there were no shots of his naked behind or anything like that), where he’s almost hyperventilating, massaging his leg, trying to alleviate his agony.

There is other evidence that House’s pain is definitely getting more and more unbearable. Is it just me or is he popping even more pills than usual?. I wonder how many he’s really taking … As he pours them out of the bottle into his hand, it sounds like he’s taking around 5 or 6 of them. I may be wrong, but remember he’s taking Vicodin, an extremely potent narcotic. If he’s taking way more than he should be, there may be further health complications for House in the future.

Coincidentally, House gets to treat a patient with a situation similar to his own.

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Gil Grissom (William Petersen) packs up his office and leaves CSI.

After nine seasons, countless corpses and crimes solved, Gil Grissom, the lead investigator of CSI, worked his final case.

Nielsen ratings show that 24.25 million people tuned in THursday night as the bug-loving scientist said farewell to the best forensic team in Las Vegas.

This time, the CSI’s continued searching for the accomplice of the Dick and Jane murders, a case involving a serial killer who tortured his victims and disposed of their bodies along a lake.

As the team worked on the case, it was evident everyone was affected by Grissom’s departure. But there were no hugs or tearful goodbyes.

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