Thirteen
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- "I'm sure you have many reasons to keep yourself a mystery, besides the fact that you're bisexual... Uh, denial would have worked before the long vacant stare."
- ―Foreman
Dr. Remy Hadley, better known to her co-workers as "Thirteen" is one of the three doctors that House ultimately hires in the fourth season, replacing his original team. She is a specialist in internal medicine.
She is the most mysterious of all the applicants, even refusing to have her name known to her fellow coworkers/competitors.
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[edit] History
Thirteen is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. She is portrayed by Olivia Wilde. She is part of the new diagnostic team compiled by Gregory House after the en-masse departure of his previous team in the third season finale "Human Error". Her character is portrayed as secretive, so much so that few of her fellow doctors know her name, electing to call her "Thirteen" instead, her number during the fellowship competition that House ran between "The Right Stuff" and "Games". Dr. Cuddy was the first person to call her by name, "Dr. Hadley", in the episode House's Head. It was also revealed in that episode that she denied having been born by the time the movie Altered States was released in 1980, making her less than 28 years old - very young for a doctor who has completed a medical specialty. In "Epic Fail", Thirteen reveals she attended Sarah Lawrence College.
Thirteen has been slow to reveal any information about herself within the show. House often guesses her personal history, such as "daughter of an alcoholic father", and Thirteen repeatedly states that he is "wrong again." In "Mirror Mirror", a patient who mirrors the most dominant personality present describes himself as "scared" when alone with her. In the eighth episode of the fourth season, "You Don't Want to Know", Thirteen tells House that her mother died from Huntington's disease, and she does not wish to know if she carries the gene, because not knowing allows her to summon the bravery to do things she thinks she can't do but in Wilson's Heart, Thirteen is unable to deal with the prospect of a dying Amber. House tells her to deal with her fear or lose her job, so during the episode, Thirteen tests herself. The test come out positive, indicating she will inevitably contract the disorder.
In "Don't Ever Change", Foreman suggests to Thirteen that the reason for her secrecy is that she is a closeted bisexual(She was once seen looking interestedly at pornography House was watching); Thirteen neither confirms nor denies this, but the rest of her co-workers adopt Foreman's suspicions and House clearly calls her out on it at every opportunity. She has never confirmed the rumor either way, but is not above teasing her teammates about it. In Living The Dream, she said, perhaps jokingly, that she thought she had dated one of the actresses on the show. In the episode Lucky Thirteen, her sexual preferences became apparent to the entire team. However, this did not change House's teasing attitude, or the attitudes of her colleagues towards her. This was probably because they had suspected it all along.
In "97 Seconds", Thirteen correctly diagnoses a collapsing and disabled patient with strongyloides, and treats him with ivermectin, but the patient fails to take the pills because his English Shepherd mobility assistance dog eats them, causing the death of not only the patient but the dog as well. House chastises her about not supervising the patient taking the medicine, but does not fire her because he felt she would not make the same mistake again.
At the end of the fellowship competition, she was fired ostensibly because fellow applicants Chris Taub and Lawrence Kutner outperformed her. However, she is rehired because House manipulated hospital administrator Lisa Cuddy, who wanted at least one female doctor on the team.
Along with fellow actors Peter Jacobson, Kal Penn, and Anne Dudek, Wilde did not know which character would be cut until the actors were given the scripts, which she thought improved the acting during the "Games" story arc. However, the story arc inspired a spirit of camaraderie between the actors instead of competition, due to the high-profile roles. While Thirteen's name was originally intended to be revealed during the story arc, the production team decided against doing so. Thirteen's actual name was on all documents, including the call sheets, with the word "Thirteen" to further the in-joke in the show's narrative between House and Thirteen that he could simply check her file to find out her name. Wilde describes Thirteen as a "big bowl of secrets", one such being the possibility of the character having Huntington's disease, in stark comparison to her own openness.
Thirteen has often been compared with Allison Cameron, the previous female diagnostician, often negatively, even by Cameron's actor, Jennifer Morrison. Wilde described Thirteen as "almost the opposite" to Cameron, who is "compassionate and emotional", and explained the comparisons to the similarity in the tasks that House delegates to both characters, and that "with two girls on a show, people are always going to compare them."
In House's Head, Cuddy calls Thirteen "Dr. Hadley", however House then comments that Cuddy doesn't even know her name. While it's possible that was not her name, it seems more likely that Hadley is her real name and House was merely commenting on how Cuddy didn't call her "Thirteen" like House and his team do. However, in Adverse Events, Thirteen tells a confused patient that she is, indeed, Dr. Hadley. The first time her first name is revealed is in the Season 5 episode, Emancipation, where she introduces herself as Doctor Remy Hadley to the suspected family of a patient.
In season 5 we will get a better look into Thirteen's personal life. Due to the fact that she has Huntington's, we will see Thirteen fall into a downwards spiral. Thirteen starts sleeping with strangers (mostly women) and taking drugs. In suspicion of doing drugs, House fires Thirteen. When she is able to prove her loyalties at the end of the episode "Lucky Thirteen" House rehires her. Thirteen realizes that House was never really going to fire her in the first place.
In the season 6 episode, Epic Fail, Foreman, as the new head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine, tells Thirteen that he doesn't know if he can do it. She first guesses that he wants to break up which he immediately denies by stating that he can't live without her. However, she comes to the conclusion that he is firing her. He apologizes, yet confirming her suspicion.
In the sixth season episode "Instant Karma", Thirteen buys an one-way ticket to Bangkok, Thailand and is seen boarding the plane at the end of the episode despite "Wilson's" (House's really) attempts to prevent her from leaving in order to convince Thirteen that she is the only person on the team that House has not treated badly or manipulated and that he (House) needs her. In the episode, "Teamwork", Thirteen eventually returned on House's Team with Chase, Taub, and Foreman.
[edit] Personality
Thirteen is level headed, bright, enthusiastic and generally not afraid to speak up when she thinks she is right. She has good relationships with patients and it is shown she isn't as judgmental when it comes to drug-using patients. This could be attributed to her own history of drug use.
She has deliberately kept the details of her life guarded, preferring to go by her assigned applicant number, 13, even after she was hired. Foreman figures out that this is because she is bisexual and wants to keep her private life private.
[edit] Relationship with House
Thirteen got off to a rocky start in 97 Seconds when she successfully diagnosed a disease, gave the correct treatment, but failed to make sure the patient took the medicine. The patient died as a result. However, instead of firing her, House kept her on, realizing she wouldn't make that mistake again.
By Mirror Mirror, it was clear that House was keeping Thirteen on partly because of her looks. As was pointed out in Ugly by Wilson, House is incapable of having a normal relationship with a woman, so he hires women he finds attractive rather than dating them. When Samira turned out to be useless despite her previous job history, House feared that Wilson was right and that he was not only overestimating Thirteen, but may have overestimated Cameron as well. However, when House had his deepest doubts, Thirteen came through with a diagnosis that House at first dismissed because of a lack of a key symptom, which Thirteen then discovered to solve the case.
For her part, Thirteen soon became impressed by House's incredible talents. When everyone else wrote off House as wrong in Ugly, she continued to believe in him, and eventually proved both of them right. In House's Head, she ignores the rest of the team and Cuddy by looking for an air embolism House thinks is in the patient's heart. Once again, her faith in House's abilities was not misplaced.
House now apparently thinks so highly of Thirteen that he took a huge risk to hire her - given a choice of two applicants, House picked Taub and Kutner and rejected her in order to force Cuddy to hire her in order to put a woman on the team.
[edit] Relationship with Foreman
From the beginning, Foreman appeared to have a better understanding of Thirteen than his boss did. Foreman was the one who correctly figured out Thirteen's secrecy was an attempt to keep her bisexuality private. In Lucky Thirteen, he also found out that the reason she didn't want House doing an environmental scan of her apartment was that she was keeping her genetic test results there and was afraid House was looking for them. Foreman went with House and intercepted the results himself. He was also the first to figure out that Thirteen was engaging in self destructive behavior because of the positive genetic test for Huntington's. In Last Resort, we also see him offering Thirteen to be a part of clinical trials for Huntington's. At the end of the episode, he is waiting by Thirteen's bedside when she is recovering from kidney damage. In Let Them Eat Cake, Thirteen reveals to Foreman her guilt about hating her mother when her mom was dying.
They eventually wind up in a permanent relationship, with Foreman moving into Thirteen's apartment. However, when Foreman switched her from the placebo to the real clinical medicine, House realizes that Foreman was losing his objectivity. He ordered them to break up, and Foreman convinced House they had done so while they continued to carry on their relationship. However, it was obvious to everyone except the methadone addled House that they were still together.
As of season 6, episode 2, Epic Fail they are no longer a couple. After Foreman claims House's job as head of the diagnostic department when House quits, tension begins to build between Thirteen and Foreman. Thirteen believes that he is letting his promotion go to his head; he scheduled a dinner reservation for 7:00 without asking her if that was ok. At the end of the episode, he fires her, because he believes that the only way to preserve their relationship is for the two of them to not work together. This, however, leads Thirteen to end their relationship.
