1x05 Damned If You Do - House M.D. Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x05

Episode: 01x05
Title: Damned If You Do
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: HOU-106
First Aired: Dec. 14, 2004

Season 1 » Episode #05 - Damned If You Do

Summary: House has a new patient whose hands are red with boils. She is a nun and all of her fellow nuns believe her condition to be stigmata. After what seems to be an allergic reaction to the medicine House prescribes, Cuddy orders him to research the case. During an MRI, the nun starts to suffer from convulsions. House wonders if her past is coming back to haunt her, as the doctors provide different theories about the nun's condition. However, only one of them has the correct answer.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Sister Mary Augustine	played by Elizabeth Mitchell
Sister Mary Eucharist	played by Lucinda Jenney
Marvin - Santa Claus	played by Dakin Matthews
Sister Mary Pius	played by Lori Rom
Mother Superior	played by Ann Dowd
Tech	played by Taji Coleman
Priest	played by Peter James (XXI)
Debbie	played by Holly Daniels

Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 5: - Damned If You Do

Dr. James Wilson: [after saying a list of possible causes for the allergy] - Maybe it's just divine will.
Dr. Gregory House: It's not my will.

Season 1 / Episode 5: - Damned If You Do

Sister Mary Augustine: I experience God on a daily basis, in the miracle of life all around, the miracle of birth, the miracle of love. He is always with me.
Dr. Gregory House: Where is the miracle in delivering a crack-addicted baby, hmm, and watching her mother abandon her because she needs another score? Miracle of love. You're over twice as likely to be killed by the person you love than by a stranger.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CHAR: Dr. Foreman refers to a patient's "eophinosil" count. The word he's after is "eosinophil" (a type of white blood cell).
SYNC: When House plays "Silent Night" on the piano at the end of the Christmas episode, he is clearly playing the counter-melody an octave higher than it sounds on the soundtrack.
FAKE: While sister Augustine is in the bed, with her hands including the wrist bandaged, Dr. Chase measures her pulse by holding her left hand and says 104. In reality it is not possible to palpate the pulse when the wrist is tightly bandaged - you cannot feel the pulse through the bandage.
SYNC: When House is talking to Sister Mary Eucharist in the clinic, four shots of Eucharist from the left hand side do not appear to match spoken dialogue. In one case her lips are clearly visible and not moving.
CONT: When Chase, Foreman and Cameron assist Sister Augustine in the clean room to save her life, finally Chase says "It's a clean room!". In this moment, a lock of hair falls by the right part of his head out of the surgeon cap, but a few moments after, the lock of hair is missing.

TRIVIA

SPOILER: Diagnosis: A severe long-term allergy to Copper caused by a forgotten Copper Cross IUD, the reaction was brought on by additional exposure to copper from sauce pans and food cooked in them.
The chocolate bar House is eating in the hospital chapel is Cadburys Dairy Milk, an English chocolate company that Hugh Laurie did voiceovers for.

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