Wilson pitches his 'cousin' case and House calls a brain tumor boring
House refuses a white coat because of his cane, mocks an HMO lab, and gets nudged into using his bored team on a 29-year-old who can't speak.
James Wilson's Best Moments
Every House moment featuring James Wilson, in story order. Played by Robert Sean Leonard.
69 moments · 1h 42m · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 69
- 01
- 02
Rebecca asks whether House is a good man, then goes blind
During a neuro exam Rebecca asks if her unseen doctor cares about people; his friend answers by what House does, before she loses her sight and crashes.
- 03
Ham at her apartment: House exposes Wilson's lie and finds the tapeworm
A detail from the break-in proves the patient isn't Wilson's cousin and points House to a pork tapeworm in her brain, which he explains with relish.
- 04
Wilson owns the cousin lie and House returns to the clinic
House calls out Wilson for lying to win his help; Wilson turns it back on him, and House heads back to a patient with a familiar request.
- 05
House hides from a full waiting room doing a crossword
Holed up in an exam room until his shift ends, House explains why he won't see runny noses and admits his team has no cases.
- 06
Cuddy catches wind of the paternity bet and buys in
House and Cuddy trade jabs about her night out, then set terms: a tie at the symposium against a week off clinic duty.
- 07
House argues the bet saved Dan, then collects his winnings
Cuddy balks at a $3,200 DNA test for a wager; House credits the bet with cracking the case, then counts the cash he won from everyone.
- 08
House turns clinic duty into a war game with Cuddy
Cuddy refuses to free him from clinic hours; House vows to win their game, insists to Wilson there's no thin line, and fills a Vicodin script.
- 09
House still can't let the solved case go
Shopping with a friend, House admits he's still trying to work out where the drug came from; the friend claims to be well-adjusted.
- 10
From the OB lounge, House spots a cluster of sick babies
House eavesdrops on the obstetricians, lays out two sick newborns as exhibits, shrugs off a shrink suggestion and goes hunting for more.
- 11
House stays in the haystack, then invents a delivery to stay put
House won't drop the search for the virus carrier; later he refuses to leave a room by claiming a delivery for a patient due in five months.
- 12
Caught at the syringe drawer, House defends smokers and doubts himself
Found poking through the epinephrine drawer, House argues lung cancer patients die of blame, then concedes he needs every clinic record checked.
- 13
House and Wilson spar over who screwed up, then share Christmas
Sweating it out together, Wilson won't let House claim victory, they dance around Christmas plans, and a nun's farewell catches them off guard.
- 14
The liver ultrasound shows a tumor, and Wilson breaks the news
Cirrhosis in a woman who supposedly doesn't drink, then a solid mass; Wilson introduces himself to Lucy and tells her she has cancer.
- 15
House plans to shrink a tumor just enough to fool the surgeon
No transplant for Lucy and a tumor past surgical limits, so House proposes injecting ethanol to make it look operable.
- 16
House turns an implant consult into an exposé of Wilson's ties
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.
- 17
The breast clue: House points the team to paraneoplastic syndrome
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.
- 18
Sleeping sickness or rabbit fever: two lousy ideas win the day
Infections are ruled out one by one until the team is left with an African parasite or an inhaled bacterium, and House praises Foreman.
- 19
House reads Wilson's shoes and sniffs out a lunch with a nurse
House profiles Wilson's mystery woman from his footwear until Wilson admits to an innocent lunch with an oncology nurse.
- 20
House tells his clinic patient her husband is spiking her oatmeal
An EKG detail leads House to the husband's blood-pressure pills, a very unromantic motive, and some wildly inappropriate advice.
- 21
House and Wilson split the world between trying and not trying
In the elevator House doubts Wilson's single innocent lunch and the two reach a cynical deal about being good.
- 22
House in court: a battery charge, a puzzle complex and the judge's fingers
House's lawyer argues to keep John Henry on life support while House interrupts and warns the judge about his heart.
- 23
Hamilton interrupts House and Wilson's TV and realises the trial is backfiring
House trades needlepoint jokes with Foreman, then stonewalls Hamilton until both see the patient is getting worse.
- 24
Foreman calls the homeless patient a scammer and Wilson takes her to House
Foreman dismisses a seizing Jane Doe as a con; Wilson objects, and House senses Wilson's interest is personal.
- 25
House asks the real question: who is the Jane Doe?
Foreman scoffs at homeless patients, House needles him, then samples a stain from her belongings to diagnose.
- 26
House builds a cancer suspicion out of one missed appointment
Hospital records trickle in; from two ultrasounds ten months apart House deduces an oncologist was watching her ovaries.
- 27
Wilson's two craps and Cuddy's revenge: House must teach
House teases Wilson about caring for the patient, then Cuddy turns his fake cold into a teaching assignment.
- 28
Wilson catches House snooping through personnel files, including his own
House digs into Foreman's family and Wilson's file; Wilson needles him about spying on friends.
- 29
A mass on the ovary, and House bets on the benign long shot
The ultrasound looks like terminal cancer; House treats for a tuberculoma because the alternative has no treatment.
- 30
Detoxing House runs a differential under Wilson's watch
House shrugs off the eye, spots Cuddy's spy in Wilson, denies withdrawal and lands on a heart infection.