Dan collapses mid-game on the lacrosse field
A teenage lacrosse player drives up the field to cheers, then goes down and won't respond.
Dan's Best Moments
Every House moment featuring Dan, in story order.
11 moments · 19 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
House interrogates Dan's family, then catches him falling asleep awake
An animal-naming test, a blunt abuse question, a glasses theory, and finally a leg twitch that tells House the boy isn't sleeping at all.
- 03
The team splits over MS and Dan hears what it means
The spinal fluid suggests multiple sclerosis; House waves off the six-month rule and goes home, leaving the team to explain the outlook to Dan.
- 04
Dan nearly walks off the hospital roof
Confused, Dan believes he's back on his lacrosse field; Chase stops him, and Foreman explains to House why he didn't.
- 05
Dan's brain turns on him with voices
A calm check-in turns frightening as Dan begins hearing a voice telling him he's dying.
- 06
A biopsy through the eye and a blunt consent talk
A retina biopsy confirms the virus; the parents can't follow the treatment plan, so they get the short version and a recommendation.
- 07
Dan improves and reveals he knew he was adopted all along
Dan names more animals than before, then explains how his cleft chin told him the truth back in fifth grade.
- 08
A kiss in the clean room sends Melinda into shock
Dan scrubs in to visit his girlfriend in her sealed room, steals a kiss, and she starts choking while he fumbles with a device he has never used.
- 09
An unalarmed window, a tree, and the boyfriend's confession
Searching the room, the team finds a route up the tree; Dan admits he spent Friday night and they had unprotected sex. He's sent off for a sample.
- 10
House drags the boyfriend to a coma patient's room for the truth
House questions Dan beside a comatose man and learns he dosed himself on antibiotics so he would not infect Melinda.
- 11
Melinda gives up and her mother breaks
The paralysis worsens; Melinda refuses to see Dan and asks her mother to stay, and her mother admits she only ever wanted her safe.