A good twist can save an episode. Such is the case in “Brave Heart.” With the Dibala drama over, Chase struggles with the fact that he, you know, killed a man, while House believes that he’s hearing things. But the best moment comes in the medical mystery

Plot Summary:

After sleeping on the couch for at least five hours in Wilson’s place, House decides he needs a real bedroom. Wilson gives up the room where he and Amber used to sleep, but when House starts sleeping there, he begins to hear whispering and fears that he is going back into madness. On top of this, he thinks that the case that the team is dealing with is useless. It involves a man who believes that he will die at the age of 40 because his father and grandfather did and who refuses to get to know the son he had with his girlfriend because of his impending death. House dismisses it as coincidence and eventually takes matters into his own, making up a disease for the guy and sending him home with mints posing as pills. Good plan … except the dude collapses a few hours later and is pronounced dead. “What is wrong with me?” House wonders aloud after Foreman relays the news.

Foreman and House get the body for autopsy, and House wants to get to the money shot quickly—he knows it’s the heart. Foreman starts making the incision, but strangely enough, the dead body starts bleeding, which dead bodies aren’t supposed to do. The body wakes up, and it turns out the guy is not dead. The team returns to the drawing board.

House continues to hear voices, and after getting his ears checked out, he tells Cuddy he is quiting, determining he is suffering from psychosis. But he quickly discovers that the whispering he is hearing is real, since Wilson talks to his dead girlfriend before going to sleep every night. Wilson calls House a jerk for bringing it up, but House seems satisfied that one mystery is solved.

Chase is going through mental problems on his own while dealing with his guilt. He ends up in confession, trying to defend his decision to a priest and saying that it was the “right thing to do.” The priest says that the only way to achieve absolution is to turn himself in. Instead, Chase opts for a night of drinking.

House is wracking his brain to find a solution when Cuddy walks in to tell him that she’s signed off on his clinic hours that he needs to get his medical license back. He asks her what is going on between them, acknowledging the strong sexual tension, but Cuddy replies that they should stay the way they are—pushing each others buttons. House has his epiphany moment and realizes that the guy has a berry aneurism—a self-destruct button—in his brain. The man and his son are soon fixed up.

Chase comes home drunk late at night, and Cameron confronts him and says that he’s keeping a secret. He continues to deny it, and she stomps off angrily. The episode ends with House trying to talk to his father before bedtime before yelling, “Wilson, this is stupid!” Wilson smiles and whispers to Amber, “See? I told you he was getting better.”

Character Development:

Chase: Is about to explode. The highlight of his struggle with Dibala’s death (read: murder) comes in the confession booth, where you clearly see him uncertain about whether he made the right choice. The priest tells Chase he can’t just say a few Hail Marys to be absolved of murder; he has to turn himself in to the police. Chase is adamant that he did the right thing, but the priest won’t absolve him. Chase knows what he has to do to clear his conscience. Cameron and Chase have now fallen out.

House and Wilson: We see Wilson is still emotionally fragile from his girlfriend’s death, and House is still a cynic, albeit less of one. While House

Medical Mystery:

Perhaps the most interesting part was the seemingly dead man waking up in the middle of his “autopsy.” But other than that, the medical mystery was very much average. They should dial back on making character development the main driving force of the show and get back to the medicine.