House Season1 EP13

Cursed

Episode 113 : 2005-03-01

Two 12 year-olds walking home from school sneak into an abandoned building to join their friends for beer and cigarettes. One of the boys, Gabriel Reilich, trips and falls on the old, wooden floor. Later that week, Gabe develops a rash on his arm. His worried mother, Sarah, takes him to the hospital, concerned with the fever he's had all week. Gabe tries to get out of bed, but collapses on the floor.

Cuddy reads Gabe's file to House, who assumes the boy merely has pneumonia. This can only be considered important only because Gabe's parents are big donors to the hospital. Yet when Cuddy describes Gabe's rash as a papular lesion on the arm, House becomes suddenly interested. He and the team try to figure out which kind of pneumonia would cause this rash. Foreman suggests Chlamydia pneumonia, but 12 year-olds don't have much sex. Could the rash have come first? Then Lyme disease is a possibility. House instructs the doctors to keep Gabe on cefuroxime, biopsy the rash and gather another patient history.

As Chase takes fluid from the rash, Gabe's father, Jeffrey, angrily demands to know what they are doing. Chase wheels Gabe off for a private conversation. While the two bond Gabe admits to Chase that he fell in the abandoned building and scraped his arm. He also remembers it smelling moldy up in the attic. Chase is about to head out to take a sample from the building when Dr. Rowan Chase enters House's office. He is Chase's father. Chase brusquely leaves, not exchanging any pleasantries with his father.

After Chase returns with samples of the felt-based insulation between the floorboards of the abandoned building, House realizes that the old insulation is made from animal hair. He then notices Anthrax on Gabe's CT scan. Cameron rushes out to put Gabe on levaquin and move him to the ICU. Jeffrey can't believe his son has Anthrax poisoning, and he asks about leishmaniasis and filariasis, which he looked up on the internet. Meanwhile, Gabe struggles to breathe. Foreman sticks a laryngoscope into the boy's mouth to open his throat. Yet he can't insert an endotracheal tube. Chase is about to administer an emergency tracheotomy when Foreman's intubation finally works.

The team tries to figure out what caused the swollen throat nodule reaction. Is it an allergy? House wants to consult with Rowan, Chase's father. Everyone except the obstinate Chase moves off of the Anthrax diagnosis and they run tests for sarcoidosis, which makes the body's tissues swell up. But before Foreman can administer anti-inflammatory medicine, Chase notices that Gabe's rash has turned black. This is a sure sign of Anthrax, even though throat nodules are a sure sign it isn't Anthrax. Everyone offers dissimilar opinions. Rowan Chase suggests Anthrax plus sarcoidosis. His son insists that both diseases are too rare to occur at the same time, and offers up an allergy plus Anthrax. House thinks the Anthrax damaged Gabe's immune system enough to trigger a dormant sarcoidosis. He instructs them to keep Gabe on antibiotics for Anthrax and start him on methotrexate for the sarcoidosis. They can wait to see what happens.

第13集（EP13:Cursed）
1.GABE: Yeah. He was an Air Force test pilot. Real top-gun stuff.
“是的，他曾是一位空軍試飛員，真正的Top Gun似的人物。”7分24秒的時候，本集的病例Gabriel Reilich對Chase這樣描述他爸爸Jeffery的。Top Gun，即湯姆克魯斯（Tom Cruise）1986年的代表作品《壯志淩雲》，該片全球創下了3億5千萬美元的票房，阿湯哥在裏面飾演一名n年輕的美國空軍飛行員。這部片子看了還是很振奮人的，推薦沒看過的朋友看看，不過估計應該都看過了-_-臺灣的綜藝節目裏總是調侃大陸把這部片子翻譯成《好大一支槍》，就無所知根本是無中生有。

2.HOUSE: Anthrax. This house belonged to old man Hussein?
當House發現Gabriel玩碟仙的那個房子裏有炭疽的時候，他對Chase說“炭疽。這房子難道是屬於侯賽因的麼？”這裏的侯賽因當然就是伊拉克總統薩達姆侯賽因了。他被美國認為擁有大規模殺傷性武器，並曾對敵使用過生化武器，其中就包括炭疽，所以大叔的“賤嘴”才有此一問。

3.ROWAN: Call The Lancet, because that’s one bizarre allergic reaction.
18分57秒的時候，Chase和父親Rowan爭論病因的時候，Chase認為Gabriel的皮疹壞死是因為炭疽熱加上過敏反應產生的，Rowan聽後說道：“給Lancet（《柳葉刀》）打電話，因為那可是一種奇異的過敏反應。”《柳葉刀》是英國一本備受推崇的著名醫學雜誌。Lancet本意是外科用的柳葉刀。

4.HOUSE: Is this a magic trick? Because I am a total David Copperfield fan, although that “Tornado of Fire,” that seemed a little fake.
20分11秒的時候，House對Jeffery說“這是魔術麼？我可是個大衛科波菲爾迷。雖然我認為‘火焰風’有點假”。
大衛科波菲爾（David Copperfield）是誰就不用說了吧？美國著名的魔術師。

5.HOUSE: You breeze by him like he’s a Hare Krishna at the airport.
23分27秒處，House在於Chase談論他們父子關係的時候，House對Chase說“你忽略他就像他是飛機場的哈奎師那修行者一樣”。Hare Krishna，哈奎師那修行者。印度教中，曼陀羅又叫真言，印度教古老的《韋達經》中有成千上萬個具有權威性的曼陀羅。就在這部經典中解釋說，哈奎師那曼陀羅比其他所有曼陀羅加在一起還要有力量。也就是最偉大的曼陀羅，最神聖的真言。哈奎師那修行者認為唱送哈奎師那真言，便能和神交流...在美國的一些主要的大機場，可以看到哈奎師那修行者向旅客索要捐款。
我並沒有對宗教不敬的意思，但是House在這裏所要表現的意思就是說Chase忽略他的父親就像忽略機場裏的乞討者一樣。至於大叔為什麼對印度的事情這麼瞭解，這個到後面就知道了...因為他要“報復”一個印度醫生嘛^^

6.ROWAN: I’m not. Came to the States to go to Sloan-Kettering, and to see Dr. Wilson.
27分20秒，House發現Chase的父親Rowan得了癌症的時候，Rowan承認了並告訴House“我來美國是去Sloan-Kettering的，並看看Wilson醫生”
Sloan-Kettering癌症研究中心是位於紐約的一個全世界頂尖的癌症研究和治療機構。

7.HOUSE: Clue number one: If I were Jesus, curing this kid would be as easy as turning water into wine.
36分16秒處，House說：“如果我是基督，那麼治療這個孩子就和點水為酒一樣簡單”，Foreman回答到：“被魔鬼附體了？”，House接到：“差不多，不過沒聖餅”。
在《聖經》說的那個年代，麻風病人按照法律要被隔離開。在《聖經.新約》的四個福音中都有基督治療麻風病人的記載。在《馬太福音》，《馬克福音》和《路克福音》中，基督用手碰了碰麻風病人並說到“痊癒吧”，就搞定了。（簡直和XX功一樣了）在《約翰福音》中，耶穌讓10個麻風病人去找牧師，結果病人在途中就痊癒了。耶穌最神奇的故事之一是在《約翰福音》的第2篇，耶穌參加一個婚禮，在婚禮上酒水喝完了，於是耶穌將水變成了酒。至於Foreman回答的“被魔鬼附體”，是因為在那個時候人們認為麻風病人是被魔鬼所附體了。在《聖經》中有一則耶穌治療一個癲癇病人的時候，就是將魔鬼從他身體趕出才治癒病人的，和麻風的情況有點類似。最後House所說的聖餅是天主教禮拜時候的一種食物，由未發酵的麵包製成，信徒吞食聖餅以示對耶穌最後的紀念。因為耶穌曾告訴他的信徒門聖餅是他的身體的一部分。本人曾經在法國參加一次禮拜的時候吃過一次，就味道來說，真不怎麼樣。^^!