House 3x09 - "Finding Judas"
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bironicGoing to bed on time Tuesday night instead of fleshing out an episode review? Doing work at work Wednesday morning instead of perusing people's posts? It's a turvy-topsy world, as Willow once oh-so-cutely quipped.
Tritteriana
Tritter claims that this isn't personal anymore, that it's about House breaking the law and putting a stop to doctors covering for doctors. A decent argument, even though he's only rationalizing vengeance against House for his own humiliation. What's sad is that he's gained a victory: Cuddy dispensing single-dose Vicodin. Pills in a cup, and House has to ask every time he needs more. She's got complete control over him in that arena. That's humiliating. It must also be terrifying. Imagine being in chronic, agonizing pain when only one person—a person who knows you need the medicine but also believes you're addicted—will give you painkillers, one or two at a time, and you don't know when she'll decide to cut you off. At which point you'll be immediately cut off; no few-days'-notice, finish-off-the-bottle cushion that comes with a prescription. I imagine that's a shade sharper than the fear that led him to stash all those pills when Wilson refused to prescribe.
I…think Tritter's argyle socks are kind of cute. And he made me laugh when he said, "The man is unhinged." I do so enjoy David Morse's screen time, even if the arc is at times confusing. He makes great faces, whether comical or threatening or anything in between.
The repeated "You're angry at the wrong person" did a much better job of convincing me that Tritter operates like House than "Everybody lies" did in "Son of Coma Guy," where Tritter's delivery seemed too knowing for it to have been a coincidence. That, and his declaration to Cuddy that he gets what he wants by putting pressure on people. And his keen observational skills. And his ability to hit people where they're vulnerable.
Nothing really startling about the progression of the investigation and Tritter's methods otherwise. He did find one of Cuddy's weaknesses and silence her with it, as I suspected he would back when I lamented the lack of Tritter-Cuddy interrogation in "Son of Coma Guy"; he did sow mistrust amongst the fellows, more skilfully than Vogler managed; he did exploit people's personal lives; we did get someone's backstory, even if it was the wrong person (grumble grumble). I was impressed that explicit references were made to the Vogler storyline, both the acknowledgment that Chase had ratted House out to a higher authority before and the way that fact was worked into the plot, with Tritter twisting Chase's history to his own advantage and maneuvering Chase into that lose-lose position. Everyone's been thinking it; well done on the writers' part for acknowledging how they are at once repeating and diverging from their own previous plots.
House's Decline
Echoes of "Detox" too, of course: House not getting enough pain meds, getting distracted, lashing out, nearly killing his patient. Only he wasn't detoxing voluntarily. And he didn't save the patient, Chase did (although House may have come to the correct conclusion after the amputations failed to cure the illness). And instead of being decked by the patient's father, he decked Chase. And he'd already admitted he was an addict as well as a chronic pain sufferer. And the focus of the episode seemed to be all over the place instead of staying close to House as it did in "Detox"; I felt as if we were jumping around between the patient, the investigation, the fellows, and whatever else, while House sort of hovered on the sidelines suffering through his pain. Perhaps that decision was made because, presumably having seen "Detox," we know what he's going through and we don't need to be shown it again up close and personal, or because it would be wasteful to spend so much screen time on a character in stasis. Still, I think the episode suffered from the loss of intimacy with him there, especially when this wholeshow arc is supposed to be about House and it's hard to sympathize with him or know what's going on in his head if we aren't seeing him enough.
Yow, that insult about Cuddy's lack of maternal instincts cut deep. Worse than his remark in "Lines in the Sand" that she'd be a crappy mom because she makes empty threats. It's fantastic, if extraordinarily painful, proof that he knows where to hit people the hardest, and when he's upset, or frustrated, or in pain, or afraid, he'll "go there." And then Wilson showed up to say as much. Cuddy knows this, but as they sort of discussed, knowing doesn't really help when you're on the receiving end.
(TMI time: My ex-boyfriend had the same, er, skill, and he really could (and did) hurt people with it when he wanted to. I keep refraining from making comments about how similar House is to him because it's not really appropriate. Even after "Son of Coma Guy" when House said he used to go rock climbing, of all things; L. was into that too, though that's probably the least significant thing they have in common. But I'm really not going to get into this, even if my resolve has weakened enough to leave this rambly paragraph in the review.)
Patient/Family & Medicine
The girl had some cute lines, and she looked adorable, but enough's enough. She was like a living chibi cartoon, a big pathetic woobie-face. No personality, just sentimentality: the poor, sick, sad, innocent widdle girl, victim of a broken home, who needs saving.
Obvious from the opening scene that the parents were divorced and the dad was doing his not-often-enough visitation. Didn't know whether they'd go for the parents-reconcile-over-the-sick-child plot or try for something more typically cynical. Didn't expect it to get dropped entirely.
It's never vasculitis, it's never lupus, but apparently it's no longer never porphyria. Anyone guess the diagnosis by virtue of the fact that porphyria was conspicuously absent from the differential scenes? (I didn't, although I suspected when it appeared a second time that the laser pointer would play a part. Only got a few moments' jump on Chase's realization.) Nice that did Chase did get the epiphany moment (tm)—while sitting in House's chair and playing with his toy, no less. Fits in well with the statistics that he pegs the diagnosis more often than the other two.
We'll see what politedissent.com has to say, but I think there are lab tests you can run to confirm a diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis before operating. IIRC*, it's the time it takes most doctors to think the flesh-eating bacteria might be the culprit in combination with the swiftness of the infection that ends up killing the patient. Aside from which, the girl's supposed infection last night didn't look that bad; I'm pretty sure the surgeon could have excised tissue with a comfortable margin without amputating both limbs. And I think it's unusual for necrotizing fasciitis to infect two different sites on the same person. But then House specializes in the unusual, and I could be wrong on all these points because I am at the moment too damn lazy to look it up properly.
*Basing this mostly on the memory of a fascinating chapter in surgeon/medical writer Atul Gawande's book, Complications.
Misc. Fellows Stuff
Foreman. All right, they got me; when we saw him sitting across the desk from Tritter, checking his nails, I thought we had our Judas scene. "The pompous bastard," thought I. But no. He held firm. And that's good. Because I still don't understand Foreman well enough to have known what to do if he'd been the one to agree to testify.
Cameron. Loved her "Don't go there" to Tritter, and that she didn't cave when he (rightly) pointed out that House has changed her and not necessarily for the better.
Chase. Confirmed, then, that he was cut out of his father's will. It would have been more interesting if he'd refused to accept his inheritance out of some sort of guilt. I wonder why Rowan didn't leave him anything after the quasi-attempt to reach out to his son before he died.
I forgot to mention last week how much I enjoyed House's little game of Train the Ducklings. I love teacher!House. And we got to see it again this week, albeit with House in absentia, when Foreman, Cameron and Chase gathered in House's office with the scans to do a differential. After "Whac-a-Mole" I wondered whether House was pushing them harder than usual, testing them, because deep down he suspects he's heading for real trouble and he wants to make sure he sends each of his protégés out into the world as cynical and mistrustful and observant and otherwise well-prepared as he can manage before he gets sent to prison or loses his license or what have you. But he didn't continue the game this week, which is a shame.
Wilson
Two Wilsonful episodes in a row, and now we're back to not having nearly enough of him. A girl gets spoiled, y'know?
The scene with Wilson and Cuddy in her office might be my favorite of the episode. Less dramatic and more moving than the one in the shower. Excellent acting on Lisa Edelstein's part, with the quiet tears and hurt and insecurity and still that professionalism fighting the breakdown. A little bit of well-written meta there with Cuddy's "I've never seen him be mean for the sake of being mean" (qtd. from memory), addressing what a lot of people have been saying about the change in House's character since the first season, and then Wilson's "Really?", implying that House has always acted that way, and wouldn't he know, because he's been House's bosom buddy for a decade, give or take. And then came some more wonderful on-screen evidence that Wilson calms people down and offers a sympathetic ear to weeping women. And yet… And yet he maintained this aloofness throughout the conversation that forced back any Wilson/Cuddy overtones that could have been read into the scene. Something in his face, or rather something absent from it. It's not that he's the "cold to the core" bastard some fans see—he does care—it's just, he never turned that conversation personal, kept that professional distance, and it was a bit of a dash of cold water to watch, a reminder that he isn't the super-sensitive, emotions-on-his-sleeve fanon!Wilson who offers his heart to everyone in need either. And finally, the much-anticipated reveal about what's been going on with Cuddy's infertility treatments. Two failed implantations and a miscarriage. Could House have chosen a worse time to snap at her?
So Foreman has a brother in prison for something drug-related. I want(ed) to hear more about Wilson's brother, dammit. What's neat about this, though, is how it connects the two of them without either knowing. Each has a problem brother* he doesn't talk about and who's been cut out of his life, one brother jailed and the other most likely homeless, both also probably involved somehow with drugs. But Foreman never found out about Wilson's brother during or after the events of "Histories" and chances are Wilson doesn't know anything about Foreman's either.
*And why doesn't anyone seem to have a sister on this show?
Oh, oh, the pain of House aiming the laser pointer at the back of Wilson's head. The scene had already been set up to recall the one in "Meaning" when the two of them gathered up there to lecture/joke around, House tossing grapes at the janitor. He lasered the same janitor for a second last night. Now House is up on the balcony by himself, sullenly refusing to admit that he's not enjoying his playtime, while Wilson toils below, making it a nice, succinct illustration of how their relationship has changed in the last couple of months. It will be nice when they reconcile so Wilson can hang out above the mortals too, even if it means taking the blame for whatever House does to them. Unless that's what changes after Tritter.
I guess we're also supposed to think it's ironic that House doesn't shoot Wilson in the back of the head, it's Wilson who stabs House in the back by going to Tritter, but I don't buy the deal-making as a Big Huge OMG Betrayal. More on that in a minute.
Woo! First ever Wilson-and-Chase scene! With dual-action passive-aggressive peanut butter sandwich-making! …Jeez, Chase likes a lot of jelly when he's mad.
Back in "Clueless," Wilson joshed House for having nothing to eat in his apartment other than canned soup and peanut butter. Countless fics have followed in which House makes peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter sandwiches have become associated with House. Yesterday Wilson made peanut butter sandwiches on two occasions. There must be more to choose from than that for a snack, if for no other reason than in a hospital staff lounge there'd be non-peanut-containing products (they even made that connection with House's unconventional patient allergy test). And Wilson usually eats more healthily than that. Therefore I smile to think that he is turning to House-related comfort food in his time of stress.
I wish he hadn't launched into lecture mode straight off, though. And that his shirt and sweatervest had matched his pants. Let's pretend he was pissy because that pink shirt used to be a white shirt and he accidentally washed it with the red vest along with his now-pink lab coat (hence not wearing it despite being on duty in the clinic) because he's not used to doing his own laundry because his wives and the maid and the dry cleaner did it but now he can't pay for that kind of service because Tritter froze his accounts, and all this was clearly the last thing he needed with everything else that's going on, and dammit there wasn't enough peanut butter left, and House was not only an ass, he was a whiny ass in denial, and the only solution was to plead with Tritter for amnesty. (Even though that laundry logic's totally shot because Wilson is clearly the kind of guy who knows to separate whites and darks.)
And last but not least, the Judas thing. The hyped-up, overemphasized Judas thing. I wish the title and spoilers hadn't had everyone buzzing about who'd "betray" House (no matter how hard you try to avoid spoilers, it's impossible not to catch the drift of what's being discussed), because it was distracting, sort of irrelevant, and had very little payoff in the end. But with a title like that, you had to wonder who would work with Tritter. Gotta hand it to the writers: everyone had a motive. While hindsight's 20/20, it does make the most sense for "Judas" to have been Wilson. He's the closest one to House. He's doing it for love of House, even if House may see it as a betrayal (which I'm not sure he will). Ironic, too, that his own wry allusion casts House in the same God-role he was trying to knock him down from in the beginning of the season.
In sum: I liked it overall, but the last couple of episodes have yet to emerge from "Son of Coma Guy"'s shadow.
Right—off to read other people's thoughts. In a friends-list-cruising sort of way, not an experiment in ESP.
Well, actually, work first. But I'm looking forward to reading other posts ASAP.
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Commentaries: Noydb666 (with additional comments here), nightdog_barks (discussion in comments), Firestorm717, stephantom, daasgrrl (w/JCS Judas lyrics), usomitai
Post-ep fic: "Indemnity" by kalimyre (H/W gen/pre-slash), "Words to Live By" by pwcorgigirl (Tritter gen), "Lines" by uarazy2 (Wilson / H/W gen), "Bruises" by k_haldane (Chase, Wilson)
Tritteriana
Tritter claims that this isn't personal anymore, that it's about House breaking the law and putting a stop to doctors covering for doctors. A decent argument, even though he's only rationalizing vengeance against House for his own humiliation. What's sad is that he's gained a victory: Cuddy dispensing single-dose Vicodin. Pills in a cup, and House has to ask every time he needs more. She's got complete control over him in that arena. That's humiliating. It must also be terrifying. Imagine being in chronic, agonizing pain when only one person—a person who knows you need the medicine but also believes you're addicted—will give you painkillers, one or two at a time, and you don't know when she'll decide to cut you off. At which point you'll be immediately cut off; no few-days'-notice, finish-off-the-bottle cushion that comes with a prescription. I imagine that's a shade sharper than the fear that led him to stash all those pills when Wilson refused to prescribe.
I…think Tritter's argyle socks are kind of cute. And he made me laugh when he said, "The man is unhinged." I do so enjoy David Morse's screen time, even if the arc is at times confusing. He makes great faces, whether comical or threatening or anything in between.
The repeated "You're angry at the wrong person" did a much better job of convincing me that Tritter operates like House than "Everybody lies" did in "Son of Coma Guy," where Tritter's delivery seemed too knowing for it to have been a coincidence. That, and his declaration to Cuddy that he gets what he wants by putting pressure on people. And his keen observational skills. And his ability to hit people where they're vulnerable.
Nothing really startling about the progression of the investigation and Tritter's methods otherwise. He did find one of Cuddy's weaknesses and silence her with it, as I suspected he would back when I lamented the lack of Tritter-Cuddy interrogation in "Son of Coma Guy"; he did sow mistrust amongst the fellows, more skilfully than Vogler managed; he did exploit people's personal lives; we did get someone's backstory, even if it was the wrong person (grumble grumble). I was impressed that explicit references were made to the Vogler storyline, both the acknowledgment that Chase had ratted House out to a higher authority before and the way that fact was worked into the plot, with Tritter twisting Chase's history to his own advantage and maneuvering Chase into that lose-lose position. Everyone's been thinking it; well done on the writers' part for acknowledging how they are at once repeating and diverging from their own previous plots.
House's Decline
Echoes of "Detox" too, of course: House not getting enough pain meds, getting distracted, lashing out, nearly killing his patient. Only he wasn't detoxing voluntarily. And he didn't save the patient, Chase did (although House may have come to the correct conclusion after the amputations failed to cure the illness). And instead of being decked by the patient's father, he decked Chase. And he'd already admitted he was an addict as well as a chronic pain sufferer. And the focus of the episode seemed to be all over the place instead of staying close to House as it did in "Detox"; I felt as if we were jumping around between the patient, the investigation, the fellows, and whatever else, while House sort of hovered on the sidelines suffering through his pain. Perhaps that decision was made because, presumably having seen "Detox," we know what he's going through and we don't need to be shown it again up close and personal, or because it would be wasteful to spend so much screen time on a character in stasis. Still, I think the episode suffered from the loss of intimacy with him there, especially when this whole
Yow, that insult about Cuddy's lack of maternal instincts cut deep. Worse than his remark in "Lines in the Sand" that she'd be a crappy mom because she makes empty threats. It's fantastic, if extraordinarily painful, proof that he knows where to hit people the hardest, and when he's upset, or frustrated, or in pain, or afraid, he'll "go there." And then Wilson showed up to say as much. Cuddy knows this, but as they sort of discussed, knowing doesn't really help when you're on the receiving end.
(TMI time: My ex-boyfriend had the same, er, skill, and he really could (and did) hurt people with it when he wanted to. I keep refraining from making comments about how similar House is to him because it's not really appropriate. Even after "Son of Coma Guy" when House said he used to go rock climbing, of all things; L. was into that too, though that's probably the least significant thing they have in common. But I'm really not going to get into this, even if my resolve has weakened enough to leave this rambly paragraph in the review.)
Patient/Family & Medicine
The girl had some cute lines, and she looked adorable, but enough's enough. She was like a living chibi cartoon, a big pathetic woobie-face. No personality, just sentimentality: the poor, sick, sad, innocent widdle girl, victim of a broken home, who needs saving.
Obvious from the opening scene that the parents were divorced and the dad was doing his not-often-enough visitation. Didn't know whether they'd go for the parents-reconcile-over-the-sick-child plot or try for something more typically cynical. Didn't expect it to get dropped entirely.
It's never vasculitis, it's never lupus, but apparently it's no longer never porphyria. Anyone guess the diagnosis by virtue of the fact that porphyria was conspicuously absent from the differential scenes? (I didn't, although I suspected when it appeared a second time that the laser pointer would play a part. Only got a few moments' jump on Chase's realization.) Nice that did Chase did get the epiphany moment (tm)—while sitting in House's chair and playing with his toy, no less. Fits in well with the statistics that he pegs the diagnosis more often than the other two.
We'll see what politedissent.com has to say, but I think there are lab tests you can run to confirm a diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis before operating. IIRC*, it's the time it takes most doctors to think the flesh-eating bacteria might be the culprit in combination with the swiftness of the infection that ends up killing the patient. Aside from which, the girl's supposed infection last night didn't look that bad; I'm pretty sure the surgeon could have excised tissue with a comfortable margin without amputating both limbs. And I think it's unusual for necrotizing fasciitis to infect two different sites on the same person. But then House specializes in the unusual, and I could be wrong on all these points because I am at the moment too damn lazy to look it up properly.
*Basing this mostly on the memory of a fascinating chapter in surgeon/medical writer Atul Gawande's book, Complications.
Misc. Fellows Stuff
Foreman. All right, they got me; when we saw him sitting across the desk from Tritter, checking his nails, I thought we had our Judas scene. "The pompous bastard," thought I. But no. He held firm. And that's good. Because I still don't understand Foreman well enough to have known what to do if he'd been the one to agree to testify.
Cameron. Loved her "Don't go there" to Tritter, and that she didn't cave when he (rightly) pointed out that House has changed her and not necessarily for the better.
Chase. Confirmed, then, that he was cut out of his father's will. It would have been more interesting if he'd refused to accept his inheritance out of some sort of guilt. I wonder why Rowan didn't leave him anything after the quasi-attempt to reach out to his son before he died.
I forgot to mention last week how much I enjoyed House's little game of Train the Ducklings. I love teacher!House. And we got to see it again this week, albeit with House in absentia, when Foreman, Cameron and Chase gathered in House's office with the scans to do a differential. After "Whac-a-Mole" I wondered whether House was pushing them harder than usual, testing them, because deep down he suspects he's heading for real trouble and he wants to make sure he sends each of his protégés out into the world as cynical and mistrustful and observant and otherwise well-prepared as he can manage before he gets sent to prison or loses his license or what have you. But he didn't continue the game this week, which is a shame.
Wilson
Two Wilsonful episodes in a row, and now we're back to not having nearly enough of him. A girl gets spoiled, y'know?
The scene with Wilson and Cuddy in her office might be my favorite of the episode. Less dramatic and more moving than the one in the shower. Excellent acting on Lisa Edelstein's part, with the quiet tears and hurt and insecurity and still that professionalism fighting the breakdown. A little bit of well-written meta there with Cuddy's "I've never seen him be mean for the sake of being mean" (qtd. from memory), addressing what a lot of people have been saying about the change in House's character since the first season, and then Wilson's "Really?", implying that House has always acted that way, and wouldn't he know, because he's been House's bosom buddy for a decade, give or take. And then came some more wonderful on-screen evidence that Wilson calms people down and offers a sympathetic ear to weeping women. And yet… And yet he maintained this aloofness throughout the conversation that forced back any Wilson/Cuddy overtones that could have been read into the scene. Something in his face, or rather something absent from it. It's not that he's the "cold to the core" bastard some fans see—he does care—it's just, he never turned that conversation personal, kept that professional distance, and it was a bit of a dash of cold water to watch, a reminder that he isn't the super-sensitive, emotions-on-his-sleeve fanon!Wilson who offers his heart to everyone in need either. And finally, the much-anticipated reveal about what's been going on with Cuddy's infertility treatments. Two failed implantations and a miscarriage. Could House have chosen a worse time to snap at her?
So Foreman has a brother in prison for something drug-related. I want(ed) to hear more about Wilson's brother, dammit. What's neat about this, though, is how it connects the two of them without either knowing. Each has a problem brother* he doesn't talk about and who's been cut out of his life, one brother jailed and the other most likely homeless, both also probably involved somehow with drugs. But Foreman never found out about Wilson's brother during or after the events of "Histories" and chances are Wilson doesn't know anything about Foreman's either.
*And why doesn't anyone seem to have a sister on this show?
Oh, oh, the pain of House aiming the laser pointer at the back of Wilson's head. The scene had already been set up to recall the one in "Meaning" when the two of them gathered up there to lecture/joke around, House tossing grapes at the janitor. He lasered the same janitor for a second last night. Now House is up on the balcony by himself, sullenly refusing to admit that he's not enjoying his playtime, while Wilson toils below, making it a nice, succinct illustration of how their relationship has changed in the last couple of months. It will be nice when they reconcile so Wilson can hang out above the mortals too, even if it means taking the blame for whatever House does to them. Unless that's what changes after Tritter.
I guess we're also supposed to think it's ironic that House doesn't shoot Wilson in the back of the head, it's Wilson who stabs House in the back by going to Tritter, but I don't buy the deal-making as a Big Huge OMG Betrayal. More on that in a minute.
Woo! First ever Wilson-and-Chase scene! With dual-action passive-aggressive peanut butter sandwich-making! …Jeez, Chase likes a lot of jelly when he's mad.
Back in "Clueless," Wilson joshed House for having nothing to eat in his apartment other than canned soup and peanut butter. Countless fics have followed in which House makes peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter sandwiches have become associated with House. Yesterday Wilson made peanut butter sandwiches on two occasions. There must be more to choose from than that for a snack, if for no other reason than in a hospital staff lounge there'd be non-peanut-containing products (they even made that connection with House's unconventional patient allergy test). And Wilson usually eats more healthily than that. Therefore I smile to think that he is turning to House-related comfort food in his time of stress.
I wish he hadn't launched into lecture mode straight off, though. And that his shirt and sweatervest had matched his pants. Let's pretend he was pissy because that pink shirt used to be a white shirt and he accidentally washed it with the red vest along with his now-pink lab coat (hence not wearing it despite being on duty in the clinic) because he's not used to doing his own laundry because his wives and the maid and the dry cleaner did it but now he can't pay for that kind of service because Tritter froze his accounts, and all this was clearly the last thing he needed with everything else that's going on, and dammit there wasn't enough peanut butter left, and House was not only an ass, he was a whiny ass in denial, and the only solution was to plead with Tritter for amnesty. (Even though that laundry logic's totally shot because Wilson is clearly the kind of guy who knows to separate whites and darks.)
And last but not least, the Judas thing. The hyped-up, overemphasized Judas thing. I wish the title and spoilers hadn't had everyone buzzing about who'd "betray" House (no matter how hard you try to avoid spoilers, it's impossible not to catch the drift of what's being discussed), because it was distracting, sort of irrelevant, and had very little payoff in the end. But with a title like that, you had to wonder who would work with Tritter. Gotta hand it to the writers: everyone had a motive. While hindsight's 20/20, it does make the most sense for "Judas" to have been Wilson. He's the closest one to House. He's doing it for love of House, even if House may see it as a betrayal (which I'm not sure he will). Ironic, too, that his own wry allusion casts House in the same God-role he was trying to knock him down from in the beginning of the season.
In sum: I liked it overall, but the last couple of episodes have yet to emerge from "Son of Coma Guy"'s shadow.
Right—off to read other people's thoughts. In a friends-list-cruising sort of way, not an experiment in ESP.
Well, actually, work first. But I'm looking forward to reading other posts ASAP.
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Commentaries: Noydb666 (with additional comments here), nightdog_barks (discussion in comments), Firestorm717, stephantom, daasgrrl (w/JCS Judas lyrics), usomitai
Post-ep fic: "Indemnity" by kalimyre (H/W gen/pre-slash), "Words to Live By" by pwcorgigirl (Tritter gen), "Lines" by uarazy2 (Wilson / H/W gen), "Bruises" by k_haldane (Chase, Wilson)
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Date: Dec. 3rd, 2006 06:54 pm (UTC)