Curtis Asofa is House's cell mate in the Season 8 premiere Twenty Vicodin. He suffers from psychosis, therefore, he must take antipsychotics and House helps him to assure he gets the right medication. He is portrayed by actor Kaleti Williams.
Appearance[]
He was first seen with House who was making sure he took his anti-psych medication. When House was trying to sleep, he was being disturbed by Asofa's pet cricket. House was about to flick it away when Asofa tell him to better not do it. Later, the cricket gets sick and Asofa insists House to "fix him". House manages to diagnose the cricket with pesticide poisoning and treats it successfully with sodium bicarbonate.
When House is being held by Mendelson for not keeping up his end of the deal by throwing the Vicodin in the air to be stolen by prisoners, Mendelson tells Sullivan to get a hidden shiv and stab House with it. Before House was about to get stabbed, Asofa hits Sullivan with a garbage bin in the back of his head. He then took out the other two of Mendelson's henchmen who were holding House and began to inflict numerous blows on Mendelson. The prison SWAT came in and subdued him. He was last seen being carried away by three SWAT men.
Personality[]
As he suffers from psychosis, he's required to take antipsych medication to keep him in control. He says very little. He keeps strange pets such as a cricket, but he cares for his cricket a lot. When his cricket was sick, he asked House to fix him. He also repays favors by defending his friends. When House was about to be stabbed, he came in and saved House from certain death.