#tritter arc

[reri20]

When the weird psychosexual toxic yaoi relationship with your boy best friend is more important than your job

[atomicradiogirl]

Son of a Coma Guy: Unconditional Love is Cutting Your Heart Out

Son of a Coma Guy is leading up to the climax of the Tritter arc of House season 3, only two episodes before Finding Judas, where Wilson betrays House and makes a deal with Tritter, an action that ultimately dissolves their relationship until Season 4. The episode starts with a unique structure, with no patient cold open. Just House having lunch with two patients in comas. Wilson barges in and yells at House for “forcing him to lie to the police” that House didn't steal Wilson’s prescription pad and forge his Vicodin prescriptions. This is all in the first minute of the episode, setting up the intricacies of House and Wilson’s relationship that will soon get pushed in the later events of the season. 

Wilson is characterized as a person who is selfless, giving, loves to be needed, and will do anything in his power to help people he cares about, especially House. House does something that should rightfully break this friendship: put Wilson’s career on the line and possibly send himself to prison. Wilson is mad at House for only thinking about himself and putting himself in jeopardy. Wilson isn’t mad at House for using him and his kindness. House always does this. Wilson likes being used. In reality, Wilson is scared for House, not himself. He lied to Tritter to protect House. House didn't force Wilson to lie for him. Wilson did it anyway. The ultimate act of loyalty and care, the ultimate sacrifice. This is all read between the lines, of course, and this important revelation in the opening of the episode sets up the actions and importance of Son of a Coma Guy. 

We are then introduced to the titular Son of a Coma Guy, Kyle Wozniak, who has a seizure when House induces one. Kyle discusses his medical history and his family history. He says that his dad never liked his mother’s side of the family, and he was raised by a guardian. He only visits his father, who is in a coma. House wakes up his comatose father, Gabriel Wozniak. The last thing he remembers is the fire that killed his wife, something that is revealed to have been caused by Kyle later in the episode. House and Wilson discuss Gabriel. House argues, “Maybe he just doesn’t like his son. The delusion that fathering a child installs a permanent geyser of unconditional love.” Wilson interjects with, “Maybe your father’s feelings were conditional. Not everyone-” House cuts him off, “Yes, of course, that would play into your romantic vision of-” Wilson says, “In terms you would understand, we have an evolutionary incentive to sacrifice for our offspring. Our tribe, our friends. Keep them safe.” To which House replies, “Except for all the people who don’t. Everything is conditional. You just can’t always anticipate the conditions.” Wilson’s argument here mirrors his actions at the start of the episode, sacrificing himself and keeping House safe from the consequences of his actions, even if he deserves them. House says that maybe Gabriel’s relationship with Kyle is conditional, that love and sacrifice can never be unconditional. Referencing his abusive relationship with his father and his perception of love. That it always has to have a catch. This is really important in understand House and Wilson as characters, and especially in their relationship. Wilson views love as being programmed, an innate thing you’re evolutionarily destined to have. House views love as something you earn, something you get, something that has conditions. Wilson might have a romantic vision of love, but his love life is just as unhealthy as House’s. Constantly putting people’s needs in front of his own, sacrificing himself for House, which is left unnoticed and unappreciated by House. Someone who views this sacrifice as conditional when, in reality, it isn’t. This is the dichotomy of House and Wilson. 

House fulfills Gabriel’s last-day request of getting a sandwich and needs Wilson’s car for a road trip to Atlantic City. Wilson of course, lets him have it but decides to come with them. House keeps questioning Gabriel so Gabriel makes a deal with him that for every question House asks, Gabriel asks him one too. Gabriel asks House if he’s ever been in love, House says yes. Says that they met when she shot him in paintball, talking about Stacy. Gabriel asks if House has ever loved anyone else and House deflects saying, “no more questions” but Wilson is of course in the car with them. House doesn’t want to admit that he 1. Either loves Wilson or 2. Is capable of loving Wilson since this would prove his conditional love theory, that he loves Wilson only because he selflessly gives House what he needs. 

In the hotel in Atlantic City, Wilson asks House why he used his pad, not Cameron’s Foreman's or Chase’s. Wilson says that it’s because his association with House is voluntary. That he chooses to be close to him. “Any relationship that involves choice you have to see how far you can push before it breaks. And one day our friendship will break and that’ll just prove your theory that relationships are conditional and you don’t need human connection or deserve it or whatever goes on in that rat maze of your brain.” House deflects this, of course. Incapable of being truly honest about his feelings at this stage. House, throughout the show has a deep insecurity about deserving love, deserving to live, and deserving to be happy. Wilson’s unconditional loyalty to him pushes against this. Yes, there are moments when their relationship wavers but it never truly fully breaks. He always comes back to House and in the end, he relies on House. House is all Wilson has, and Wilson is all House has. Son of a Coma Guy is the first proof that House can bend Wilson and his relationship and Wilson will bend with him. Their social contract of push and pull. Bending but never fully breaking. 

House questions Gabriel about his family history, eventually determining the illness that is inherited throughout their family. Gabriel asks House why he became a doctor, and he decides to be honest with him. Saying that when his father was stationed in Japan he went to one of the hospitals as a kid and he was inspired by a doctor, a buraku, one of Japan’s untouchables. Someone whose ancestors were slaughterers and gravediggers, he wasn’t accepted by his staff, but they needed him because he was right so nothing else mattered. Gabriel is asked about the fire that killed his wife, and he explains that Kyle when he was 12, knocked over the kindling which started the fire. He didn’t blame him because he was just a child and it was an accident. Gabriel isn’t with him because he blames himself for failing to keep his family safe. He couldn’t stop the fire and save his wife. He doesn’t want to see his son die too. This goes into Wilson’s evolutionary love argument. Gabriel loves his family so much that he can’t bear to lose them, to fail to protect them.

Gabriel decides to perform the ultimate sacrifice, to give Kyle his heart to save him. House decides to go along with it, telling Gabriel how to kill himself so that the heart can be saved, by hanging. Before he aids Gabriel, he asks Wilson to leave the room. Wilson says no, but House says, “You’ve lied to the cops enough for me. Maybe I don’t want to push this until it breaks.” To which Wilson leaves, accepting that House appreciates his sacrifice and is willing to put himself on the line for someone else. Something that House rarely does. Gabriel asks House if he could hear one thing from his father what would it be? To which House says “I’d want him to say You were right. You did the right thing.” What this is truly about we don’t know and never really find out but House’s abusive relationship with his father isn’t truly revealed until One Day One Room a few episodes later, which puts new context to this line. House has to kill a father who loves his son so much, even though he accidentally caused the death of his wife, that he is willing to sacrifice his heart for him. Gabriel unconditionally loves his son, but House’s father’s love was conditional. This is what Wilson argued previously. Gabriel is willing to sacrifice his heart, (do I have to mention Wilson’s Heart) also mirrors Wilson’s sacrifice at the beginning of the episode. Both Gabriel and Wilson prove their unconditional love. Wilson wordlessly sets up House’s alibi for him and they wait together for Gabriel to die. When Gabriel’s heart saves Kyle, Kyle asks House for any message from his father, something to give him closure. House tells him what he wishes his father would have told him. “Right about what? What does that mean?” Kyle asks. “How would I know? He’s your dad,” House tells him and leaves.

“You know what I learned about this case?” House asks Wilson at the end of the episode. “That it proved that people can love unconditionally and you can tell yourself it’s not true, but you’ll just end up in a hotel room in Atlantic City asking someone to cut your heart out?” Wilson says. 

Son of a Coma Guy is an episode about unconditional love and sacrifice. Gabriel and Wilson are the givers, those who sacrifice their hearts (literally and not literally) for the people they love. Kyle and House are the takers. Those who don’t think they deserve the love they receive but are forced to take it. Kyle, to live, House for growth. I adore this episode and it is a prime highlight of House and Wilson’s relationship and the peak of House’s writing.

[mrbensonmum]

TV Show - Dr. House | House M.D. VI

So, we're now at episode 10/11 in the third season, and while House gets a visit from Tritter in rehab, Tritter shows his true colors, or rather, House reveals them.

I find it good that the judge clarifies again that Tritter acted completely out of line, and she can't quite understand why he was after House so much. But as described before, and also shown by Cuddy's reprimand, zero attention is paid to the fact that Tritter started it all. Yes, we're at a stage where all involved have made mistakes, serious ones even, Cuddy just a few moments ago. But as House pointed out so nicely, if Tritter doesn't get his butt kissed by everyone, he loses it! Plus, what really gets me mad is he's still chewing those gums even though he was told he'll lose his manhood if he keeps at it.

And yes, the judge said House provoked Tritter, and I won't argue against that, but the fact that House rarely does anything without a reason and no one asks about the real reason, namely that Tritter was the worst patient until then, is not questioned. Here I see a missed opportunity to delve deeper into House's character, even though it's been done many times before, but here they could have explored his motives a bit more, and I think that would have done the character quite good!

Fortunately, this storyline is over, even though I like it, it really raises my blood pressure!

Fun Fact: The prosecutor from episode 11 has the voice of Rüdiger Schulzki in German, who probably won't ring a bell to anyone, which is okay, but he's known for voicing the intro of the Galaxy Rangers and has voiced many characters in series in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, he passed away on August 5, 2022, in Hamburg! We don't talk enough about voice actors, which should change because every time something comes to us that wasn't produced here, it's the voice actors who are responsible for making the medium enjoyable in our language. And yes, sometimes dubs aren't really great, but believe me, that's rarely if ever the fault of the voices, but rather the dubbing directors who regularly dump one in the brain! So, enough rant for today!!

[h8crimesmd]

youtube comment sections are w i l d

i was looking for scenes from the tritter arc and evidently, there's a ton of people hating on wilson for turning house in, leaving him after the overdose, etc. etc.

i don't get it.

there's a lot you can say about whether or not wilson should have hung house out to dry. for me, i'm not sure what else he could have done.

his license is suspended, house only lets his fellows help wilson when it's convenient to him, his car is impounded, his assets are frozen. it's interesting that tritter doesn't try this on any of the other doctors, cuddy included. was he right to turn house in? maybe not. but i think after a certain point, he was just fed up. which he's allowed to be!

a big thing i saw was that people didn't like when wilson seemed surprised and got mad that house just acted like house, but i think we forget that he's also a human being that can hope for change. he's got the patience of a saint, but that patience isn't infallible.

he knows how serious the investigation is and what the stakes are, and it's not unreasonable for wilson to hope that house would change in these circumstances.

and it's not entirely unreasonable for wilson to get angry when he doesn't.

there's that scene where he yells at house to get help, to show some remorse. it's so important to me that we see wilson get angry every now and then, otherwise he's a doormat. don't get me wrong, we see him roll over for house all the time, but it's in situations like these when he really puts his foot down that we see house actually listen. you can see him sober up when wilson tells him to get out of his office.

onto the overdose. it wasn't medically safe for wilson to leave him there, that's true. he could have vomited again and choked etc. there needed to be someone there with house.

however, i don't think that someone should have been wilson.

wilson, who's been both enabling house's drug habit and trying to get him off of it.

wilson, who lied to a police officer about writing prescriptions, something that could have definitely gotten his license taken away and/or arrested.

wilson, who was fully willing to go to jail for house, so much so that he tells tritter that he won't testify.

and wilson, who found the person he was trying to protect overdosing on stolen pills written in his name.

i definitely think he could have called someone, or even an ambulance or something to make sure house didn't just croak, but i don't blame him for walking away in that moment. most people would have cut their losses way before.

anyway i have so many opinions on this. feel free to engage and tell me your thoughts.

[godmademewithoutarms]

God I forgot how much I fucking hate Tritter

[stilldisqualified]

Very hard to keep defending House during the worst of the Tritter arc. Especially when Wilson’s money, car, and ability to prescribe meds to his patients gets taken away from him. If I was Wilson I would’ve beaten House to death with sticks

[writeitinsharpie]

actually house deserved to punch tritter at least once

[sacrus]

Okay I'm actually so scared I need spoilers, will everything end well after the Tritter arc? I know that Chase is gonna get fired in this season because I bumped into some spoilers but will otherwise everything be okay? I just need confirmation that everything is gonna be fine after the Tritter arc, just one word, yes or no?

[wolvesandvoices]

this entire debacle is so stupid because what were they gonna do if wilson actually did testify? the cross-examination would've destroyed the entire case!

lawyer: you and the defendant are close friends. what made you decide to testify against him?

wilson: tritter had my car impounded, my accounts frozen, and he suspended my ability to prescribe medicine to my patients. i had to shut down my practice.

lawyer: was there a case against the defendant without your testimony?

wilson: not to my knowledge.

lawyer: no further questions.

yes it makes it to trial but it only humiliates tritter! FUCK THAT GUY!!!!

[greghatecrimes]

(house doing a horrible british accent) wilson! come on, wilson! we’ve got to hide the malpractice! there’s no vicodin in prison wilson!!!!

[pissmd]

Once you’re the focus of all that attention, it’s addictive.

[atomicradiogirl]

tritter: are these obviously forged signatures yours?

wilson: yea :)

tritter: you’re lying for your drug addicted best friend who you have a crush on

wilson: nooooo i’m nottttt

[honkytonkdyke]

as i said in the tags. jesus and mother fucking judas

[alonetogether]

Do you think House considered the times Wilson almost jailed for him a kind of foreplay?

this is a trick question cause every single thing house and wilson do is foreplay if you think about it

[ozymandiasdirge]

look chase committed some moral crimes (the murder he did was not one of them) but that one episode in season 3 where house told him if he wasn’t going to be helpful to go sit on his ass. and then he’s just not in the rest of the rest of the episode he just went home. that was so based and sexy of him, great job nepo baby.

[1800-needs-help]

Greg "passenger princess" House & James "wdym passenger princess, your crimes got my car towed away" Wilson