Post by Lisa Cuddy on Jan 17, 2010 15:49:28 GMT -5
Thirteen is one of many doctors temporarily hired by House with the intention of gradually screening them out. She is called Thirteen because all the candidates were originally given numbers, however in the episode "Mirror Mirror" it was suggested that her full name was Remy Hadley. During "House's Head" her identity is confirmed by Lisa Cuddy as Dr. Hadley. Finally, in "Emancipation" she identifies herself to a stranger as "Dr. Remy Hadley".
In the episode 97 Seconds, she got distracted and failed to give the patient his pills, resulting in both his death and the death of his service dog, who ate the pills off the floor. House fired the rest of her team, but kept her, arguing that she would never make such a mistake again.
She was at odds with Amber, the only other woman remaining on House's crew. Thirteen was hired along with Kutner and Taub.
In the episode "Don't Ever Change" there are a few little hints that Thirteen may be bisexual, until the episode, "Living the Dream" there is confirmation for these assumptions, when Thirteen herself says it when she Foreman, and House are watching a soap opera and she has a line, "I think I dated that Nurse...(pause)...no."
One of the things which originally made Thirteen "interesting" to House was the sheer lack of information she gives out about herself, so he began trying to find out as much as possible. In "You Don't Want to Know," he figured out that she is the only one on the team who drinks decaf coffee and replaced all her coffee with regular. Thirteen over-reacted to her resulting clumsiness, and House found out from her that her mother died of Huntington's chorea, a hereditary disease with the early symptom of physical clumsiness.
Thirteen has not dealt well with the knowledge that she might have Huntington's. She refused to get tested, and when House tested her without her knowledge in "You Don't Want to Know," she refused to look at the results. She believed that by not knowing, she was giving herself the courage to do things she would never be able to do otherwise. However in "Wilson's Heart," the death of Amber, another young female physician, led her to self-test. The result was positive: she has Huntington's.
In "Lucky Thirteen" Thirteen is on a destructive downward spiral. Confirming her bisexuality she's found with a girl whose name she doesn't know having sex. The girl suffers odd problems, Thirteen calling the ambulance and bringing the girl in. During the episode Dr.Cuddy finds Thirteen giving herself drugs via I.V.. House saves her from a drug test but fires her. By the end of the show Thirteen is rehired to his staff for her persistence, and daring acts. House feels he can use her while she is still self-destructing.
