Writer:	David Shore, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Lawrence Kaplow, David Shore, Lawrence Kaplow
Director:	Deran Sarafian
Star:	Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy),  Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman),  Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase),  Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House),  Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron),  Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson)
Recurring Role:	Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)
Guest Star:	Carter Jenkins (Mark),  Edward Edwards (Richard),  Eamon Hunt (Surgeon),  Terry Rhoads (Artie),  Remy Thorne (Kid),  Clare Kramer (Caren),  Kathleen Quinlan (Arlene)

This episode was nominated for a ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series. (edit) International Air Dates:
The Netherlands: June 21, 2007 on SBS 6
The Czech Republic: November 12, 2007 on TV Nova
Belgium: December 6, 2007 on KanaalTwee
Estonia: January 4, 2008 on TV3
Sweden: February 5, 2008 on TV4 (edit) Music:Desire by Ryan Adams, So What by Miles Davis, You Can't Always Get What You Want by Rolling Stones (edit) In-Joke: "Twenty-four times a year you come storming into my office spouting that you can help someone." There were 24 episodes of House in Season 2. (edit) The exterior scenes of the university campus were filmed on the campus at UCLA. House is seen running up the Janss steps from the Wilson Quad, and the team is seen sitting on Dickson Terrace, between Royce Hall and the Powell Library. However, the fountain in which House cools himself is a prop. (edit)

House: (to Cuddy) For the first time in years I've got no opiates in my body, now you question my judgment. (edit) Dr. Cuddy: You want to trade? (in an Amish accent) We're not swappin' a couple a' goats for your help puttin' up a barn. (edit) Dr. Cameron: You're lucky he didn't die.
House: I'm lucky? He's the one who didn't die. (edit) Dr. Wilson: The fifth level of happiness involves creation. Changing lives.
House: Sixth level is heroin. Seventh level is you going away. (edit) Dr. Cuddy: You've been back at work 24 hours and you're already playing hide-and-seek in a woman's spine!
House: Who won the pool? (edit)

The prescription that House writes for himself at the end of the episode is for a nonexistent medicine. House writes for "Vicodin ES 5/500," which is actually two different strengths of the same med. Standard-strength Vicodin is "5/500" (5 milligrams hydrocodone, 500 milligrams acetaminophen), and Vicodin E(xtra) S(trength) is 7.5/750. A doctor would write for either "Vicodin 5/500" OR "Vicodin ES," not the combination of the two. Also, given the progression of House's dependence and level of pain, it is not unlikely that he would have moved on to an even stronger strength Vicodin (like double-strength "Norco") or oxycodone. (edit)

Dr. Wilson: The fifth level of happiness involves creation. Changing lives.
Wilson and House expand "The Four Levels of Happiness" from Christian and Greek philosophy: immediate, egocentric, selfless & transcendental. House hardly goes beyond the first (drugs) or the second (pride). (edit)