Now that she's resigned from the Mossad she's working for free, until she gets hired on with NCIS. And Gibbs is pissy with her because he was thinking she took out Ari just to earn his trust. Having seen what Dear Old Mossad Daddy considered proper family relations, Gibbs is entitled to be leery.

Then I think Gibbs should send her home. It's a high security job, and if he can't trust her, she shouldn't be there with access to sensitive material and evidence. I don't think he's acting like a grownup in the workplace, but I guess he's just taking Functional Mute to the next logical place, and he's never really been grownup in the workplace.

since Grissom was lecturing at the Sorbonne for the semester

This would be even more amusing to me if they said he was in Chicago since Mr. Peterson and I had dinner in the same restaurant yesterday.

This is the first episde where Chase was interesting. Even though I disagree with him

I wasn't sure I believed that the character would do what he did. It will be interesting to see what the fallout involves in the coming weeks. I hope they show the decision continuing to affect him.

SO glad to have the original team back together! I was wondering when they were going to do that. It seemed a dead cert that they eventually would, given that the credits never changed.

Does anyone know if that trick House pulled on the amputee is a real neurological treatment? I couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing. An explanation of some kind would have been nice.

Still hate Cameron. I miss Taub.

It's a real treatment.

Does anyone know if that trick House pulled on the amputee is a real neurological treatment? I couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing. An explanation of some kind would have been nice.

It is real, but I don't think it's ever been shown to work quite that fast. Basically, the mirror image tricks the brain into thinking that the missing limb (that it can still feel) is there again, and seeing it obviously unharmed, the mind relaxes its grip on the remembered pain. Phantom pain is fascinating and weird.

eta, or, just read Kristen's link.

Kate was too prissy for me. She also never met a protection detail she couldn't botch. I don't think the writers ever let her get one right, except for the bullet she blocked for Gibbs, and then she took one to the noggin right afterwards.

That was the dumbest thing. She took a bullet in the vest, saved his life, and then they all three stood around on the rooftop bantering, as if - what? the gunman dropped dead after he fired, like a bee? They should have been taking cover, firing back, calling for backup. Not just standing there.

That was the dumbest thing. She took a bullet in the vest, saved his life, and then they all three stood around on the rooftop bantering, as if - what? the gunman dropped dead after he fired, like a bee?

The same thing happens to honeybee drones after sex. They basically explode and leave their genitalia jammed inside the queen. You'd expect more performance anxiety from them, really.

The phantom pain treatment is fascinating. Thanks for the link and explanation.

And now that I'm caught up on this week's House, too: New And Improved House is getting a bit dull. I can't cope with a House who has an actual bedside manner. It's nice that he's making some effort to have relationships, as Wilson put it, but it's also a let-down when what we really want to see is him screwing with his employees' minds. In a more fun way than just by making a vague attempt to keep Thirteen. (And why did he bother with that anyway? And has she really gone? I'm seriously going to miss that leather jacket.)

If Chase literally gets away with murder, long-term, I might be annoyed.

Still hate Cameron. I miss Taub.

I'm guessing most of the audience thinks the opposite, hence the returning and leaving, respectively. I don't care much about either character, so I'm not bothered. I do like the original team very much, as a unit, though.