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| - Everybody Dies is the 8th season, the twenty-second episode of the season and series finale of House, M.D.. It first aired on May 21, 2012. The episode was preceded by the hour-long retrospective, Swan Song. House is remarkably upbeat, even though it's probably the last day of his freedom. His treatment of a drug addict patient (guest star James LeGros) results in House examining his life, his future and his own personal demons. Yahoo TV chose this episode as one of its 12 Must-See Finales of the 2011-2012 television season. [1]
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| - Everybody Dies is the 8th season, the twenty-second episode of the season and series finale of House, M.D.. It first aired on May 21, 2012. The episode was preceded by the hour-long retrospective, Swan Song. House is remarkably upbeat, even though it's probably the last day of his freedom. His treatment of a drug addict patient (guest star James LeGros) results in House examining his life, his future and his own personal demons. Like several previous episodes (Three Stories, Two Stories and Nobody's Fault), this episode is told in Anachronic Order, with the narrative following three main threads.
* House's internal dialogue with the hallucinations of Kutner, Amber, Stacy and Cameron, which on its own proceeds in chronological order.
* The diagnosis of the main patient, Oliver, which is told out of chronological order as House thinks through what actions he wishes to take.
* The interaction between House, his friends and his colleagues over his impending imprisonment, which escalates as House's schemes to avoid prison go astray. This is also more or less told in chronological order. As the series draws to a close, the patient of the week becomes a sideline to House's real puzzle - how can he avoid jail and spend the time by Wilson's side instead. This mission parallels House's usual method - a series of differentials and risky treatments hoping that, like always, he will be "almost always eventually right". House turns to manipulation in order to accomplish his goal of staying out of jail long enough to see Wilson off. However, House winds up facing the same choice as most of his patients - solve the puzzle or death. Temptation presents itself in a patient who seems to be a carbon copy of House himself - a former stockbroker who, after a severe leg injury, gets hooked on narcotics and eventually heroin. He even uses the same gambit to try to score drugs in the clinic that House used earlier in the series. Unlike House, whose self-worth comes from his job, the patient seems to have found the happiness and contentment House has always sought by turning to the oblivion of drugs. When House's "differential" to avoid prison appears to have sent him into a dead end from which he cannot escape, he follows his patient into oblivion. By chance, the patient dies of an overdose and House is soon presented with the same opportunity, plus a possible glimpse into his future. He must then face a Greek chorus from his own subconscious. Kutner represents House's own disgust at those who would take their own life, a choice House has consistently rejected until now. Amber returns to remind him of how he has always drawn satisfaction from his work, and how the opinions of morons have never mattered to him. Stacy returns to remind House he is capable of both receiving and giving love, even showing him what both he and Dominika have avoided - they really care for each other and could build a life together. Finally, Cameron comes along to appeal what is left to his compassionate side, and reminds him that even if he solves the puzzle, he's going to lose Wilson in the end. However, House's inherent fatalism keeps coming to the front. He notes that although he solved the patient's puzzle (at the cost of his own freedom), his patient has died anyway. He realizes that despite his efforts, all his patients will be dead seventy years from now in any event. Ironically, his impending death gives him the epiphany he needs to solve his puzzle. He finally realizes that there is one relationship which is worth living for, even if embracing it means he has to toss the rest of his life away. Yahoo TV chose this episode as one of its 12 Must-See Finales of the 2011-2012 television season. [1]
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