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Irene is a funeral cosmetician who’s having weird hallucinations. Well, that would be weird in real life, but for House, it’s just another day in the life. While preparing a body, Irene’s dead subject comes to life and tries to rape her. She falls on the floor in a seizure. Wow, it only took 30 seconds for somebody to have a seizure this week.

Things don’t get any better at the hospital, where she “sees” her dead mother, alive and well and in the room comforting her. Then she “sees” the guy who died in last week’s episode (with the dog), then House’s Grandpa Walter, and then hallucinates that the doctors are attacking her with a syringe. When she comes out of it, there really ARE holes in her arms, and during an eye test, she pukes up massive amounts of blood. Must everyone on this show puke up blood?! Just askin’…

The ducklings – that’s my new word for the docs trying to get on House’s team – scurry about trying to find a diagnosis. They even resort to grave-robbing, digging up the dead guy’s body to see if he has a transmittable brain disease.

House misdiagnoses it as Parkinson’s after having a conversation – via the girl – with her dead mother, who’s there by her side. Got all that? Turns out the girl has a disease associated with moldy bread that’s mimicking the symptoms of an acid trip. She's trippin'. Ok, this isn’t a good advertisement for the organic rye bread she eats…or, maybe it is.

Anyway, whatever she has is treatable, but it still doesn’t explain her visions of Dead Dog Guy and House’s grandpa. He SAYS he doesn’t have a Grandpa Walter, but who knows?

Meanwhile, Foreman – fired from his job at Mercy Hospital – thinks about his next move. Cuddy wants him back – until she realizes he was let go because of unethical practices (even though he saved a guy’s life - just like House would have done. Guess they're not so different after all). Foreman has no other options, so he’ll report to work Monday at his old job and salary.

House -- who manages to be racist, sexist, and politically incorrect on every level – has a rose ceremony to let one of the ducklings go. The loser? Old Guy who’s brilliant, but not really a doctor. Something tells me we’ll be seeing him again, helping House out while he’s cleaning his office or emptying bedpans.