Unanswered questions in the House finale (spoilers)

The only ones who benefit from that kind of situation are the lawyers...

I like Supernaturals season finals. They kinda set you up for the next season excursions.

As weird and 'thrown together' as this last ep was, it still didn't suck as much donkey dick as the finales of Seinfeld & Roseanne did. Those two just took a steaming dump in the mouths of anyone who ever watched the shows.

The Seinfeld finale was near-perfect, and is near-classic; it encapsulated the series and also entertained, their self-absorbtion remained the prominent theme amidst their injokes and light treatment.

Battlestar Galactica.

So how did House get from the front of the building where Wilson and Foreman saw him stare at them all the way out the back between the split-second the beam fell on him and when the building exploded? In a building that full-up with barbecue-time even a guy who wasn't a crip couldn't have pulled that off without John MacLane level character shields.

Skin's theory is that House didn't make it out. Wilson was so grief-stricken he snapped and started experiencing the delusion that House survived.

I'm going to remove the spoiler tags at this point, since it's been a sufficient time since the episode aired.

If House was the one to set the building on fire and it was from the beginning House's plan to fake his own death, then the hallucinations don't make sense. His hallucinations were all about talking him out of just lying down and dying (minus the one hallu-Cameron who wanted him to die so he wouldn't have to suffer any more). Everybody lies and all that, but the whole back-and-forth doesn't make sense if going into the drug den, House planned the fire in order to get himself declared dead. He would have at some point have said, "Hey stupid hallucinations, I set all this up!"

So I am going with, House has an epiphany while the fire started some other way that he could use it to fake his own death.

A problem with that theory, though, is that House had the means to swap dental records after his "death." That is something that is more consistent with "House planned it all along." He could easily do the swap while a doctor and presumed alive. It would be much more difficult for him to get to where he needs to be and to get copies of his own dental records while presumed dead.

Doesn't matter too much, as far as I'm concerned.

Didn't he have a whole episode with Cuddy hallucinations before? In any event, it's his mind. He can hallucinate who he wants.

My take is yes. His finding of House's hospital badge and the smirking look on his face says that he put it all together.

He always could have been a faker, or he could have always been able to get around short distances without his cane.

He was able to kick Vicodin before and get high on mysteries. Also, who says he is going to run out any time soon? Between his stockpile, his prescription pad and Wilson's, he should be able to get a whole bunch filled over the next five months.

Keep in mind that we don't know that the figure Wilson and Foreman saw was in fact House. It was a little silhouette of a man (scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?)

It could have been anyone.

On the smoke inhalation point, we don't know how long House was in the building while it was burning having his hallucinations. Could have all taken place in his mind in 5 seconds, could have been a couple minutes, could be an hour. What we were led to believe was that House was on the ground while he was hallucinating, and that is where there is most likely to be oxygen and least likely to have smoke, if I remember my grade school fire safety correctly.

The thing is that people were all reacting to the phone ringing during Wilson's eulogy, checking their pockets and phones, IIRC. So there was apparently a physical phone put in Wilson's pocket and it was ringing. (Unless part of Wilson's snapping was imagining people reacting to the phone ringing, and the phone being in his pocket, etc.)

So I would have to go with all it being real.

Keeping in mind that I don't watch the show regularly, but I watched the finale, the whole flushing the season tickets down the toilet thing was a stupid idea anyway. Lost or destroyed season tickets can easily be replaced by the team in question.

So? He flushed them to make a point with Foreman, and to be a bastard. He didn't care if they were ever replaced or not.

It's possible. On the other hand, maybe Wilson's phone was ringing but the text didn't actually say what he read. It's a pretty good bet that House would have to have been there and been in listening range of Wilson to have told him to shut up. That'd be a hell of a stunt for a guy who walks with either an amazingly obvious limp or an even-more-obvious cane.

It was House's phone. He'd left it in his apartment and Wilson put it in his pocket. House then bought a burn phone and called his own phone. It's one of the few things in that episode that actually makes sense.

When the building blew up for Wilson & Foreman, it was still dark. By the time the FD appeared, put the fire out, and retrieved the body, it was morning. Plenty of time to get to the hospital & switch the records since nobody knew for sure he was declared dead at the time.

Accept the dental records were probably at the dead guy's dentist. Good luck finding that.

Okay, I accept that. Now what?

House didn't care that Foreman could potentially replace the season tickets.

He wanted to make a point that Foreman couldn't really replace Wilson and/or to generally annoy Foreman.

Now either the plumbing at Princeton Plainsboro must suck or the season tickets must be like a phone book for flushing them to have caused the damage that it did, but that's another story.

I just assumed that at some point House, or a proxy, put a lipstick video camera in the funeral home. You know House would want to watch his own "funeral." (Heck, who wouldn't?) And sticking a mini-camera or other recording device in the flowers that were delivered or in the pocket of another person would not be that difficult for the master prankster.

Why House would choose that point to hip Wilson to his still being alive is a little beyond me, but what can you do?

I'm not disputing that that a fair amount of time passed.

But for House to sneak out of the back and acquire the junkie's dental records when there was no need for him to have either on hand, AND to substitute them for his own with House's own dentist, all without being seen by someone who would recognize him or drawing on his authority as a doctor.

House would have had to figure out where the junkie's dentist was, broken into there, gotten junkie's X-rays, gone to his own dentist, broken into THERE, substituted his own X-rays, (hoping that neither set of X-rays was labeled with the name of the patient to avoid confusion, or at least doing some forging so that he can get over that), hope that his own X-rays were close enough to junkie's that the dentist wouldn't be like, "Wait a minute, this patient has a missing tooth, and Gregory House doesn't." or something.

For him to have done all of this would stretch credibility limits and time limits.