Meaning

"Meaning" is the first episode of the third season of House and the forty-seventh episode overall. The cold opening begins with a family picnic at the home of Richard McNeil and his wife. Richard is a brain cancer surgery patient whose illness has left him paralyzed in a wheelchair. For some reason, he voluntarily drives his wheelchair off the pool edge into the water. Meanwhile, House, still on his ketamine treatment, is seen running and pain-fr... more

"Meaning" is the first episode of the third season of House and the forty-seventh episode overall. The cold opening begins with a family picnic at the home of Richard McNeil and his wife. Richard is a brain cancer surgery patient whose illness has left him paralyzed in a wheelchair. For some reason, he voluntarily drives his wheelchair off the pool edge into the water. Meanwhile, House, still on his ketamine treatment, is seen running and pain-free, has recovered from multiple gunshot wounds, and is back at work, taking on two cases simultaneously: Richard's, and Caren, a young woman paralyzed from the neck down after a yoga session. As House begins to diagnose and treat them, the team notices a distinct change in his attitude toward the patients, and Cameron even catches Richard's wife thanking House for his sensitivity to her husband's situation. House suspects that Richard could possibly walk again, but he has no specific medical proof to back up his hunch and the various treatment... less