Abduction or abuse: the team splits over a boy's alien story
House reads rectal bleeding plus fantasies as abuse; a believer cites billions of planets and House dismisses the nightmares entirely.
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5 moments.
Chase pretends to remove Clancy's alien tracking chip
During a bleeding-time test Clancy describes the chip in his neck and probes in his ribs; Chase fakes an extraction and Clancy sees right through it.
Clancy vanishes and is found cutting the chip out of his own neck
House mocks the search with a galactic itinerary; Clancy is found hiding without windows, digging at his neck.
Alien DNA: Clancy's heart cells don't match the rest of him
House demands a terrestrial explanation as the team runs through UV, chemicals and fungus, then agrees to tag the bad cells like cancer.
House talks Clancy into an alien abduction on the operating table
Probes map motor and sensory areas; the hallucination is too faint until House tells Clancy they're coming for him, and the twin's cells show.