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House, M.D. Season Three

Although season two ended with Dr. House down for the count with gunshot wounds, season three opens with him running -- yes, running. House was given ketamine during his surgery, which served as a reboot to his system and took the pain in his leg away. But removing the pain removed a piece of who House was. Season three has a different tone until the pain begins to return.

Season Three is also the season of many, many guest stars. John Larroquette is a man in a coma for years whom House must wake up to provide family history for the son. Larroquette discovers the drug that woke him will only keep him up for about a day, and the only thing that will save his son is his own heart. Dave Matthews guests as a brain-damaged musical savant whose cure could rob him of his talent for music. Kurtwood Smith is Matthews’s father and has to choose between a son who can tie his own shoes or the musical prodigy he’s come to know and love. Tyson Ritter (All-American Rejects) is himself at a photo shoot where the photographer suddenly becomes deathly ill.

David Morse stars as Detective Tritter -- an important role in one of the sub-themes of the third season. House is finally caught forging his best friend’s prescriptions in order to obtain vicodin. Throughout the season, House is alienated from the people that have stood by him in an attempt to get him to admit his addiction. The second sub-plot of season three is Forman’s growing suspicion that the longer he works for House, the more like House he becomes (an inevitability Forman wants desperately to avoid). Season three ends with Forman and Cameron resigning, and House firing Chase. Chase and Cameron leave together, and House is left with Wilson and Cuddy -- both of whom disagree with the decisions House has made about his team.

Season three is a roller coaster in the most literal sense. The viewer is taken down into the depths of House’s despair as he fights his addiction and loses everyone close to him and to the emotional highs of a case well-solved. Another spot-on season from a successful and entertaining show.

Written by: Tracy Elledge

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