Cuddy wakes at 5:00 a.m. to find her daughter is ill with a temperature. Marina, the nanny, arrives to take care of baby Rachel. Lucas arrives home from a stakeout of a client having asked House to stakeout with him for advice on the case. Cuddy has an important meeting today with the board and with the hospital’s insurance carrier, and needs to work on her proposal before the meetings begin. Lucas gets amorous with Cuddy, her blackberry rings with an emergency call from House and she ignores it. After a disappointing quickie session which doesn’t go well, Lucas apologizes and Cuddy heads to the hospital, late for work.

Cuddy arrives at the hospital only to be bombarded with requests from employees, no doubt a typical senario for her work day. House walks with Cuddy, telling her about his stakeout with Lucas. Cuddy discovers Lucas told House they have sex every morning. House bet Lucas that a phone call that morning from House would stop their quickie. House tells Cuddy about needing the O.R. for his patient soon. Cuddy brushes House off.

Cuddy’s 8:30 meeting with the insurance provider is delayed when she must deal with Dr. Hourani at the O.R., who complains to Cuddy that House turned up the air conditioning in the operating room to hurry his surgery up so House’s patient can go to surgery sooner. Cuddy tella Dr. Hourani she twill deal with House. Cuddy arrives late for her meeting with insurance executive Eli Morgan. The contract has been in negotiations for eight months and Cuddy has had it. Morgan offers 4% coverage while Cuddy insists on 12% coverage. Cuddy threatens Morgan with a press conference at 3:00 p.m. and a termination their contract with his company if they do not meet the hospital’s demands. Morgan rejects Cuddy’s proposal and walks out.

Cuddy faces the board who tell Cuddy the decision is hers but also her responsibility if the contract is not renewed. Cuddy takes a deep breath and continues with her day. Taub and Thirteen tell House their patient’s heart rate is decreasing. Cuddy is one step ahead of House and tells him not to infect his patient with malaria for a cure.

Dr. Thomas confronts Cuddy, telling her he is upset listening to Dr. Hourani’s complaints. Thomas blames Cuddy for coddling House, who lured Chase away from the doctor’s surgery team. Thomas calls her a bitch under his breath. When a doctor does not show up for clinic work, Cuddy covers. A patient with cancer asks Cuddy for a prescription for breast milk because he’s read it has cancer-fighting qualities. When Cuddy turns him down he calls her a bitch. A lawyer is waiting in Cuddy’s office to confront her about his client. The patient’s thumb was cut off at his construction job and he chose not to have it re-attached because his insurance would not cover the cost. Chase re-attached it against the man’s wishes. Now both the client and the insurance company do not want to pay the cost for the operation. Cuddy feels for the patient going bankrupt but tells the lawyer the hospital will fight their lawsuit.

Cuddy discovers a discrepancy with pharmacy ephedrine and calls in Gail, the pharmacy technician. Gail cries telling Cuddy she was trying to lose weight for her husband. Cuddy tells Gail she will not notify the DEA but must fire Gail for forging the pharmacy order. At lunch Wilson suggests to Cuddy she discuss the insurance problems with House, a master manipulator who always has the right answers to problems. House is sitting in Cuddy’s chair when she arrives at her office. House wants to give his patient malaria because it is the cheapest way to deliver hyperthermia. Cuddy wonders if this method is yet another House bet. House suggests the real bet is Cuddy rejecting the insurance company’s offer.

Cuddy is having problems reaching her nanny to see how her sick baby is doing. Cuddy finds out Lucas has turned off the phone ringer at home and taken the nanny’s cell phone instead of his by accident. Cuddy confronts the CEO of the insurance company during his expensive lunch. She asks him to reconsider the hospital’s proposal. The CEO won’t give an inch. Back at the hospital the hospital pharmacist tells Cuddy Gail has stolen ten cases of ephedrine. Cuddy realizes Gail has been selling the meds to meth dealers and asks him to call Gail back to the hospital.

Insurance executive Eli Morgan shows up in Cuddy’s office and offers her 8% instead of the original 4% on the contract. Cuddy has to make up her mind by 3:00 p.m. She sits in the stairwell trying to decide what to do next. House meets Cuddy as she leaves the stairwell. Cuddy asks for House’s advice on the insurance percentage. House wonders why she would put her job on the line for this and Cuddy remarks he would do the same thing.

Foreman tells the team they have a liver transplant for their patient. House does not want to use Dr. Hourani for the surgery, instead he wants to use Chase to prove a point to Dr. Hourani that Chase is the department’s best surgeon. Cuddy throws up her hands. Cuddy is paged to the pre-op area where the rest of the team is trying to stop a fistfight between Chase and Dr. Thomas. Cuddy calls them both to her office, but must first confront Gail. Cuddy finds out Gail is no longer crying instead threatening to bring down Cuddy, revealing House’s purchase of drugs from the pharmacy and the past relationship between House and Cuddy.

Cuddy has reached her limit and sits in her car in the hospital garage. House knocks his cane on her passenger door. Cuddy thought the insurance company was bluffing. House listens, then tells her he knows she won’t quit because the hospital means so much to her. House tells Cuddy Gail is a sociopath, giving Cuddy an idea. Cuddy talks to Gail, telling her she knows deep down she is a good person and did not mean to steal. Gail rails against Cuddy, admitting to stealing medicine since she was hired and threatening to bring her down with her if Cuddy reports her to the DEA. Cuddy takes a silk flower Lucas gave her from her desk, having recorded everything Gail just said, and tells nurse Regina to pass it on to the DEA.

As it hits 3:00 p.m., Cuddy prepares to go to the board and submit her resignation. Eli Morgan comes into her office, calling her “you bitch” in an admiring tone, then hands Cuddy a contract for 12% insurance coverage. Cuddy is elated and informs the staff and board. Cuddy sees the first installment of a check for the thumb replacement patient and rips up the check.

That night Cuddy snuggles in bed with her daughter Rachel as she sleeps, with Lucas lying beside her, feeling like the world is a little better now. The phone rings and Lucas asks Cuddy if she is going to answer it.

House and the team discuss Daryl’s injuries and bizarre actions, watching the video tape of the incident. House attributes the outburst to steroid rage, but tests reveal he is clean. The team discovers Daryl injects his sore ankles with lidocane every game. Foreman suggests repeated head trauma might lead to damage at the base of the brain leading to the pituitary gland, creating excess hormones causing the rage. House has Taub test Daryl for elevated GNRH in the blood. Daryl’s mother tells Taub Daryl must be able to play in Saturday’s game because talent scouts will be there.

Wilson becomes angry with House when he wakes to find House taking a bath in Wilson’s bathroom. Wilson tells House to use his own bathroom but House says there is no tub in that bathroom and his leg is hurting. House examines a soldier going back to the middle east for a fourth deployment, trying to get out of the tour on a medical discharge because his wife is pregnant. House chides the soldier asking him why he didn’t to to Canada or shoot himself in the foot to avoid deployment?

Tests reveal Daryl’s pituitary is normal but the GNRH is high, indicating steroid use. Daryl denies steroid use and his heart begins to race. House suspects Daryl has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. House orders the team to put Daryl through a treadmill stress test.

House intercepts a call from Foreman’s brother Marcus who is asking for a ride after being released from jail. House knows Foreman is avoiding his brother, so he arranges a ride for Marcus. House decides to hire Marcus as his assistant, knowing it will irritate Foreman, who doesn’t want his brother to work there.

Wilson returns home to find an opossum has gotten into the bathroom and made a mess. Wilson suspects House of retaliation but House says he didn’t do it. Wilson tells House he thinks the real reason House hired Marcus was to help the brothers connect again. House denies he is helping anyone. Chase tells House Daryl’s heartrate never went over 150 on the treadmill and did not induce heart problems. House decides an injection of a vasodilator will do the trick instead.

House finds Daryl packing up to leave the hospital. House notices the palms of Daryl’s hands are turning white. Taub, Thirteen and Chase offer suggestions regarding the symptom, but Foreman thinks Lymphoma fits the symptoms. House orders an ethanol drip to test for Lymphoma or Takayasu. If Daryl becomes itchy, the symptoms indicate Lymphoma and they must remove his spleen. If it is Takayasu, Daryl will lose his radial pulse, indicating steroids for his treatment. Marcus is sent by House to spy on Foreman and Thirteen while they work with Daryl.

The soldier comes back to the hospital with an injured foot. House is shocked to see the soldier has shot himself and one of his toes may need to be amputated. House prescribes antibiotics and tells the soldier he can still be sent back into active duty with nine toes. House decides to take a bath in Wilson’s bathroom to ease the pain in his leg. As House uses the safety rail to get out of the tub it comes off the wall and he falls, gashing his face. Wilson looks perplexed as House confronts him, telling him this is war over the bathroom.

Daryl becomes itchy from the test, indicating Lymphoma. As Chase removes Daryl’s spleen in the operating room he shows Foreman the liver is inflamed. They are wrong about Lymphoma. Foreman tells the team it is not Lymphoma and the team suggests other possible diseases relating to Daryl’s symptoms. House gets the scoop on Foreman’s childhood from Marcus and reveals the news to the team, upsetting Foreman. Foreman tells House Daryl’s blood is clotting, noting with the cold football weather he must have cryoglobulinemia.

House asks Marcus about his jail time. Marcus tells House it is his fault Foreman got in trouble with the law and that Foreman had spent years trying to never disappoint his mother again. House discovers Foreman’s mother died recently and Foreman did not tell anyone on the team about her death. House realizes Wilson did not loosen the safety rail in the bathroom because they did not have the right wrench to loosen it. House and Wilson stay up most of the night to surprise the intruder. Suddenly the overhead sprinklers turn on, soaking them and the apartment. Wilson concedes House would never do anything to harm the big screen TV. House and Wilson decide someone is pranking them.

Daryl decides he must leave to go to the football game even if it means he could die on the field. House reveals to the team that Foreman’s mother died recently. Marcus told House not to upset Foreman by mentioning his mother’s death and quits his job. Foreman accompanies Daryl to the game. Daryl is feeling very ill. Realizing he cannot see, Daryl decides he must go back to the hospital.

Foreman visits his brother Marcus at his halfway house. Foreman asks Marcus to stay with him because family is important. The brothers bond and Marcus asks Foreman’s forgiveness for his past drug use. House notices Daryl did not lose much weight in the hospital, someone his size should have lost more weight. Chase thinks Daryl is creating antibodies to combat cancer, called paraneoplasitc syndrome. House decides Daryl’s dark skin is masking a melanoma, House finds the melanoma between his toes. Treatment will make Daryl well again but he worries what he will do without the scout opportunities football gave him.

House and Wilson go to lunch in the cafeteria. House suddenly trips, spilling his lunch tray. Lucas comes face to face with House and admits to tripping House and pranking he and Wilson in retaliation for buying the condo Cuddy wanted to buy. Cuddy talks to Lucas about pranking House and Wilson and encourages him to ease up on it since it was just a condo she lost.

House sees the soldier being wheeled out of the hospital. Apparently the soldier did not take antibiotics so his foot would become infected and he would not have to go back to war. House is stunned to see the soldier’s foot has been amputated.

Breaking Bad’s premise is that of a Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who discovers he has inoperable lung cancer. Everything in Walt’s life is ironic and this is no exception. Terminal lung cancer for a guy who never smoked a day in his life? Right. The chemistry teacher realizes he must provide for his wife, teen-age son and baby yet to be born. Walt knows his life on earth is limited and he must make as much money as he can to take care of his family. This regular guy decides to cook meth with Jessie (Aaron Paul), a past druggie student of his who makes his living selling meth. Walt transforms from a bland, unhappy, unassuming guy into a wheeler dealer, a fearless purveyor of drugs who is finally living life to the fullest.

Walt’s wife Skylar is confounded by Walt’s determination to spend as little as possible on treating his illness. Skylar is also confused by Walt, a bland but reliable guy who suddenly disappears for days or weeks at a time, causing problems with their marriage. Walt’s teen-age son Walt Jr. who prefers to be called Flynn instead of Walt Jr., has cerebral palsy but deals with life the best he can. Walt and Walt Jr. have problems relating, even more so as Walt’s life and personality changes radically over time.

Walt and Jesse butt heads often as Walt leads them deeper and deeper into higher level drug trafficking. Walt begins to enjoy his role as a kingpin of the drug trade, relishing the power of his position. Oh, and Walt’s brother-in-law happens to be a DEA agent. Walt constantly walks a fine line of being found out, possible violence, breaking the law and keeping his marriage together.

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As the team questions Hank and his wife, who also works in the porn industry, they find they lead a very clean lifestyle other than their profession. Hank’s muscles contract, causing pain. Foreman tells House he thinks its Cerebral vasculitis and House has him run tests.

House appears at Taub’s plastic surgery office and tries to get him involved in Hank’s case. Taub declines the job offer but suggests there may be a problem with Hank’s brain. House visits Thirteen at her home, drawing her into the case and hinting at coming back to the team. Thirteen declines as well and suggests Hank’s symptoms point to a multifocal diagnosis.

Foreman needs Cameron and Chase to help on the case. As they clean out their lockers he convinces them to help him since he is the only one left on the team to run tests. Hank is tested with UV light and as he is in the booth his nose starts bleeding profusely and his legs are covered in a rash. As the team reports their findings to House Cameron gets angry with House. House asks Cameron why she reacted to his suggestion to use antibiotics. House tells Cameron she is mad at him but Chase is responsible for what happened to Dibala. Chase and Hank talk about relationships. Chase gives Hank the antibiotics but Hank develops a fever in spite of the medicine he receives.

House shows up at Taub’s office pretending to be various patients on his daily roster. Taub tells House if Hank’s sinuses are clogged the antibiotics would not work. Chase drains Hank’s sinuses while House analyzes why Cameron is reacting the way she is. House tells Chase that Cameron is angry about House and his part in involving them in Dibala’s care and that it will not be possible for her to forgive killing a patient due to her medical ethics.

Foreman takes a turn at convincing Thirteen to rejoin the team. Wilson talks with Cuddy about her relationship with House. Cuddy talks with Lucas about House and they connect while solving any issues related to him.

As they work on Hank, Chase asks Cameron why she was able to forgive him and she tells him because he is sorry for what he did. Chase tells Cameron even though he is sorry for what he did he would do the same thing again given the opportunity to saves thousands of lives. Cameron is startled at Chase’s admission. Hank’s stomach bloats, showing signs of liver failure. Chase thinks that the inflammation could involve Hank’s bile ducts.

House hounds Thirteen at her gym about rejoining the team. Cameron tells Hank and his wife that his liver is failing and he will need a liver transplant. She tells Hank he must give up his profession because the health risks of his job will keep him from being approved for a new liver. Chase performs a ERCP test that shows worms are filling Hank’s liver, and gives Hank mebendazole pills.

After Hank coughs up fluid from his lungs Foreman concludes he has lymphoma. House sends faxes to Cameron and Taub to keep them in the loop and Cameron is upset about his remarks. As they leave Chase asks Cameron if she is angry with House. Chase discovers Cameron is angry about House and his part in involving them in Dibala’s care and Chase’s actions leading to Dibala’s death. Chase tells Cameron he is the one who is responsible not House.

When Hank begins chemo he starts to bleed in his urine and goes into cardiac arrest. House chooses bone marrow as the next step in tests but the team believes the test could kill Hank. House faxes an update to Taub and Thirteen. As Hank is prepared for his bone marrow procedure, Taub and Thirteen call in conference to talk to House and the team. They explain that Hank’s immune system began to attack him because he lived such a clean lifestyle, the worms he had kept his Chrohn’s disease at bay. Hank will be treated with a new set of worms and will recover.

Chase admits to Cameron that he wants to stay on House’s team. Cameron feels them pull apart. Cameron confronts House, and is angry that he almost let Hank die in order to get the team members back. Cameron tells House she loved him and that she still loves Chase. Cameron tells House he is ruined and now he has ruined Chase and there is no turning back for either of them. House watches Cameron leave the hospital.

House tells Wilson he succeeded in winning back the three the team members but lost Cameron. Thirteen delivers the prescription of worms to Hank as Foreman watches. Taub explains to his unhappy wife he is going back to work for the team. Cameron hugs Chase and leaves the apartment with suitcases packed. House seems sullen as he watches Cuddy and Lucas leave the hospital together.

TNT announced today that it will re-air the original seven episodes NBC previously broadcast as well as the six additional episodes that had not been aired by NBC. Southland will air on Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. opposite The Jay Leno Show. Leno’s show has been struggling for ratings, should be interesting to see this new competition in the Tuesday timeslot up against the NBC show. Speculation is that NBC thought Southland was too dark and violent at 9:00 p.m. to proceed the lighter fare of The Jay Leno show at 10:00 p.m.. A time slot on Fridays and lagging ratings did not help this promising show to survive on NBC. The dark nature of the series should work well on basic cable television, with a history of offering a number of outstanding, gritty shows such as The Shield, Rescue Me and Sons of Anarchy.

According to TNT if the ratings are good for Southland they will order more episodes. TNT has a number of other police dramas in its line-up so Southland should fit in well here. This is a great opportunity for viewers who have not seen Southland to check out the series. Fans of Southland should watch the series and help Southland ratings so the show can continue on TNT. The TNT network is becoming known for its high level dramas and the addition of Southland is no exception.

Catch the entire second season of Southland on TNT at 10:00 p.m. Tuesday nights beginning January 12, 2010.

House is tired of sleeping on the couch so Wilson suggests turning his office into a bedroom. House notices the office is a shrine to Amber. Chase is having flashbacks of Dibala’s death. The team take on Donny’s case. Cuddy wants to know when House will be ready to return to work. House stalls and Cuddy says he must complete 120 hours of rounds to have his license reinstated. House reluctantly agrees. Donny’s ex-girlfriend Cheryl shows up at the hospital to reveal to Donny that they have a young son she never told him about. She is fearful their son has the same hereditary disease Donny has. Donny is afraid to get close to his son because he does not want his son to experience the same pain he experienced when his dad died young.

House gets ready to go to sleep and starts hearing whispers as he lays in bed. He is afraid he may be experiencing auditory hallucinations even though he no longer abuses Vicodin.

House goes on rounds with the med students and causes havoc just because he can. House tells Chase to talk to his therapist so he can talk about Dibala, Chase declines. House and the team find nothing wrong with Donny so House creates a fake disease and gives Donny some meds, sending him home. House hears voices again in his room and panics, wondering if he really is incapable of being a doctor anymore. Foreman knocks on Wilson’s door to tell House that four hours after Donny left the hospital he collapsed and died. House is stunned as is the team. Foreman and House want to do the autopsy at Princeton Plainsboro so they can figure out why Donny died. Chase wakes early to tell Cameron he wants to drive two hours to tell Donny’s ex what happened face to face.

House gets his hearing checked and finds there is no problem with his hearing. He tells Cuddy he is not ready to come back to supervise the team. Foreman and House begin the autopsy on Donny. As Foreman use a cutting saw to cut into Donny’s chest Donny awakens and screams in pain. Foreman and House are horrified and jump back from the table. House tells the team to look beyond Donny’s heart for clues to his illness. Cameron visits Donny and tells him he was declared legally dead. Donny complains of extreme jaw pain to the nurse who says he has already reached the limit of pain medication. Donny finds a surgical tool in his room and pulls his tooth out to stop the pain. A dentist tells the team Donny’s tooth was fine and didn’t need to be pulled. House is absent so the team decides to look at the possibility of Donny having bone cancer.

House sleeps on the couch afraid of the whispering voices in his bedroom. He decides to confront his fears and visits the bedroom again and finds a vent. House checks Wilson’s room and finds the vent is connected. Wilson is talking out loud to Amber because he misses her. The next day House tells Wilson he is hallucinating then forces him to admit he is talking to Amber. House asks Wilson why he doesn’t talk to him instead. Wilson tells House talking to Amber makes him feel better while talking to House doesn’t.

Cameron asks Foreman what is going on with Chase, she thinks Foreman knows something. Foreman tells Cameron to talk to her spouse. House thinks Donny has a brain problem involving nerve damage. Chase treats Donny for neuropathy and Donny suddenly loses control of his bowels. Chase confronts his fear of killing Dibala and goes to confession. The priest tells Chase he must turn himself in to the police. Chase goes on a bender and Cameron confronts Chase about what is going on but he won’t tell her. House admits to Cuddy in a round about way that he has feelings for her after Cuddy signs off a freebie for his 120 hours of rounds. House suddenly realizes what is wrong with Donny, an intercranial aneurism that can be fixed through surgery. Donny and his son, who has the same problem, have surgery. Donny visits his son and finally agrees they should spend time together.

House is in bed that night and lies there peacefully. He begins to talk out loud to his father then yells at Wilson that it just doesn’t work. Wilson tells Amber he thinks House is getting better.

Cameron feels Jack’s abdomen finding a hard mass in his colon and tests Jack for Hirschsprung’s congenital disorder. As Jack improves from treatment he suddenly has a violent seizure. Jack is rushed to the operating room so Chase can drill a hole in his skull to relieve pressure. Once again the doctors are perplexed by Jack’s condition and go over his MRI test. Foreman sees a separation of the lining of the skull. House tells Foreman good catch on the lining and orders a dural biopsy to test for brain cancer.

Thirteen is riding in a cab headed to the airport for her trip to Asia when she discovers her plane ticket has been cancelled. Frustrated, Thirteen confronts House who swears he did not cancel the plane tickets and tells Thirteen she is a talented doctor, asking her to come back to work. She declines. House asks Foreman if he cancelled Thirteen’s reservation and he says he didn’t.

While trying to cover their tracks on the Dibala case Foreman runs into a glaring problem showing differences in Dibala’s blood cholesterol readings and the blood Chase used from the morgue. Chase’s anxiety leads Cameron to question Chase about what he is keeping from her, Chase admits there were errors but doesn’t tell her the truth about the case.

With Jack’s test for brain cancer negative House suggests the cancer is somewhere else. Randall believes this is all his fault, if he was not so wealthy and gave up his money his son would get better. Jack has another seizure, leading the team to consider abdominal epilepsy instead of cancer.

Cameron shows House red marks on Jack’s chest, a new symptom of his disease. House starts treatment for polyarteritis nodosa then realizes it is Degos, an incurable disease. House gives Randall the bad news about his son and says he has only a day left to live.

Chase researches all night about the Dibala case and in the morning. House watches Chase leave the room as decides he needs to confess to Cuddy. Chase’s confession is cut short as Cuddy is too busy to be concerned with what she thinks is a minor error in the case. Cuddy discovers Randall gathers all his business associates around Jack’s hospital bed to sign away his wealth hoping Jack will be saved. House tells Randall its not his fault, but Randall signs the papers anyway when suddenly Jack starts to flatline.

Thirteen confronts Wilson, discovering his IP address has been traced to the email cancellation of her airline ticket. Wilson says he didn’t cancel her tickets. He tells Thirteen House needs her and Foreman needs her but she refuses to come back to the hospital. Wilson suspects House cancelled her ticket.

House has a realization about Jack’s heart condition and treats him for primary antiphospholipid syndrome. House acts human and encourages Foreman to convince Thirteen to stay for their relationship’s sake. Foreman decides not to stop Thirteen from leaving. House reads a headline in the newspaper about Randall’s bankruptcy. Houses sees Randall and his son Jack at the hospital, Jack recovers and is finally getting well.

Chase finds a report about Dibala on his desk that wasn’t there before. The test shows cholesterol supplements prescribed by a previous doctor, giving Foreman a way to justify the difference in cholesterol levels. Chase finds House, knowing he is responsible for the new report and is grateful, stating House will always be in charge of the medical team.

Cameron wakes up alone in bed, realizing Chase is already at work. Chase listens intently as Foreman discusses the Dibala case at the Morbidity and Mortality conference. Thirteen boards the plane ready to leave her problems behind her.

With Cameron and Chase replacing Taub and Thirteen, House finds himself back three years with the original medical team. House and Foreman clash as House tries his best to stay out of the medical decisions for Dibala but just can’t help himself. House causes problems with Wilson’s neighbor and Wilson decides House has to move out. House confronts Wilson’s neighbor, helping him face his lie about the war and that his injury is self-inflicted, in the process finding he can manage the pain in his arm for the first time in years. Grateful, the neighbor drops the law suit against House.

Cameron and Chase are faced with the reality of Dibala as a ruthless dictator who plans genocide for his nations enemies and their responsibility to treat their patient like any other patient. An assassination attempt by a fellow patient familiar with Dibala’s “death squads” fails and the patient is beaten by Dibala’s bodyguards. Dibala threatens Cameron in fear of Cameron trying to kill him through treatments which Cameron denies.

Foreman wants to treat Dibala for Blastomycosis and not Scleroderma. Chase’s test show the dictator has Scleroderma and is treated for it. Dibala begins to bleed out and dies while the medical team try to save him. Chase admits to Foreman he faked the blood test using a corpse in the morgue who had Scleroderma so Dibala would die instead of commit genocide. At the end of the episode Foreman burns the blood test from the morgue to cover for Chase.

This is just another fantastic move by NBC which has become the biggest joke of a broadcast network. Why would they give an excellent scripted program such as Southland the time of day?

Yet they continue to pump millions of dollars per episode into Heroes. Now there’s a show that should have been canned after the first season. NBC could have easily dumped that dead weight and did some rearranging of their dreadful schedule to accommodate Southland. But I’m not Jeff Zucker (thank God!) so what do I know?

Also ridiculous is the fact that NBC knew that the later prime-time slots were out of the question when they decided to be lazy smart and throw Jay Leno on every weeknight at 10PM. It isn’t as if suddenly Southland became a different show. It has always been a realistic, intense drama.

So here folks we see a complete and utter lack of comprehension and understanding from NBC and The Powers That Be on how to run a successful network. Instead we get a text book’s worth of blunders on how to run a network into the ground.

Warner Brothers states that they are looking to cable to potentially pick up the series. FX would be my network of choice as they have shown that they can create a hit or two with some very adult topics. And really, this all may be a blessing in disguise because cable viewership is on the rise and it would also give Southland’s showrunners a lot more freedom with language and topics.

But have no fear TV addicts and followers of all things NBC (if such persons exist) because for now, instead of Southland, you’re going to be able to continue watching Dateline NBC on Fridays at 9 PM with its family friendly, and neither dark nor gritty, take on rape and child predators.