Safe

Episode aired Apr 4, 2006
TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

8.7/10

3.7K

YOUR RATING

Medical Drama Drama Mystery

6 months after a teenage girl crushes her chest in a car accident and receives a heart transplant she goes into anaphylactic shock in her clean bedroom after her boyfriend almost kisses her ... Read all6 months after a teenage girl crushes her chest in a car accident and receives a heart transplant she goes into anaphylactic shock in her clean bedroom after her boyfriend almost kisses her and discovers something on her arm.6 months after a teenage girl crushes her chest in a car accident and receives a heart transplant she goes into anaphylactic shock in her clean bedroom after her boyfriend almost kisses her and discovers something on her arm.

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IMDb RATING

8.7/10

3.7K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg was considered for an Emmy nomination due to her guest-starring role in this episode.

Goofs
Dr. Foreman explains to the patient's parents that when blood is spun in a centrifuge, the white blood cells, being heaviest, migrate to the bottom of the tube, followed by red cells, platelets, and plasma, in that order. In fact, the red cells are heaviest and fill the bottom of the tube, followed by white cells and platelets (more or less together), and plasma.

Quotes
Dr. Gregory House: You wake up in the morning, your paint's peeling, your curtains are gone and the water is boiling. Which problem do you deal with first?
Dr. Eric Foreman: House!
Dr. Gregory House: None of them! The building's on fire!

Connections
Features Vertigo (1958)

Soundtracks
Pain In My Heart
(uncredited)
Written by Allen Toussaint
Performed by Otis Redding

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Inner demon

Michelle Trachtenberg acts her little heart out in an episode that depends heavily on her star-turning performance as an immuno-suppressed heart transplant patient who suddenly develops unexplained symptoms. Scenes with her as she grows increasingly sick are incredibly harrowing, partly due to the sickly makeup she sports but mostly due to Michelle's utterly convincing performance. The solution is about as risqué and groundbreaking as I have seen on a TV show. It's also hysterical. Wilson saves House's hide in this one by buying him some precious time. Good old Watson. Oops, I mean Wilson. Michell's mom is played by a TV actress not seen in some time, Mel Harris of "30 Something" infamy. Whatever happened to her? Dad is played by that Last Starfighter, Lance Guest. Whatever happened to him? Only the most stalwart among you are likely to recognize this one-time, curly-haired teen heartthrob now turned bearded, balding, middle-aged dad.