Over at sister blog Healthland, TIME’s John Cloud has returned to the House Watch, where he finds the medical procedural turning to an old favorite theme: lies, and the patients who tell them:
The episode opens with a man named Bert scrubbing a floor drenched in blood. His wife calls, and he tells the show’s first lie. Bert says he’s in a contracts meeting that’s running late. “You know Matheson; guy loves to hear himself,” Bert says. Which is almost certainly true — as House knows, every good lie has elements of truth…
Read the rest, and offer your diagnosis here.