House reads Luke's real age off his wrist X-ray
A growth plate gives the game away: Luke is not 18 but just turned 15, and House warns what that means once his mother goes home.

Every House moment featuring Gregory House, in story order. Played by Hugh Laurie.
360 moments · 8h 56m · by Favseen
Moments 91–120 of 360
A growth plate gives the game away: Luke is not 18 but just turned 15, and House warns what that means once his mother goes home.
No transplant for Lucy and a tumor past surgical limits, so House proposes injecting ethanol to make it look operable.
Cuddy hints she knows his secret; House reasons his way to the informant and the secret, only to learn she just wants her clinic hours.
House mocks a hiccups sufferer's home remedies, then Cuddy follows him into the bathroom about the tumor that shrank overnight.
House shows the only call from Lucy's room went to Social Services, and argues that sacrificing for her son is too sane for the diagnosis.
The team lands on a rare copper disorder, House questions their hope, and a forgotten eye appointment leads to copper rings in Lucy's eyes.
Lucy thanks House; Luke refuses to, and House lets him think the call was his own doing, then admits the case lost its interest.
Handed a woman who sleeps 18 hours a day, House questions the referrer's motives and mocks each theory, ending with a fairy-tale diagnosis.
A preschool teacher with a tight chest reveals a birthday gift to her husband during an EKG, and House urgently pages Wilson for a second opinion.
Talking about why people change their looks, House notes Wilson's new tie, decides he wants to look good at work, and teases him about a girlfriend.
After a seizure and a clean MRI, House steers to a family history of breast cancer, and the team explains how a tumor can confuse the immune system.
With no tumor found, House opts to treat symptoms, sends Foreman to Elyse's workplace, and answers his complaint with a pointed joke.
Infections are ruled out one by one until the team is left with an African parasite or an inhaled bacterium, and House praises Foreman.
House profiles Wilson's mystery woman from his footwear until Wilson admits to an innocent lunch with an oncology nurse.
An EKG detail leads House to the husband's blood-pressure pills, a very unromantic motive, and some wildly inappropriate advice.
House cites an obscure Portuguese case of sleeping sickness passed by sex, assigns the cheating questions, then is caught having read a doctor's file.
With only sleeping sickness left, House meets Ed at the bedside and walks him through why he must consent to a treatment that can kill.
In the elevator House doubts Wilson's single innocent lunch and the two reach a cynical deal about being good.
House finds a colleague in tears in the lab; she shares how she married and lost her college love, and House deduces what she knew going in.
House assumes a teenager's collapse is drugs, mocks Foreman for caring, floats a legal toner high, and sends him to search the house.
Disappointed by sauce instead of designer drugs, House eats a spoonful of the possibly tainted jar, then steers the team to pesticides.
An elderly woman complains of feeling good, describes a newfound obsession with a young actor and flirts with House, who admits her for tests.
As Matt needs his heart paced, Margo demands options; Chase offers an experimental army treatment, House needles him, and a garden becomes the suspect.
A colleague reads aloud the gushing verse House's 82-year-old patient wrote him, and House defends her honour while her results arrive.
Margo says the garden spray was swapped for something organic and blocks treatment; House argues she should be overruled as irrational.
Posing as a hospital staffer, House reads Margo a release form he has 'clarified' with brutal language, then reveals who he is.
Just as treatment is about to start, a student named Chi Ling arrives with identical symptoms, and he lives nowhere near Matt.
Over her son's protests, House delivers a shocking diagnosis, and Mrs. Adams calmly recalls exactly when she must have caught it.
With a new pesticide suspect, House sends Cameron to persuade Margo, who sees through the approach and puts the decision back on her.
Matt seizes as his mother screams at the doctors; then House works out the boys were poisoned at home and quizzes the team on teen morning habits.