Death penalty fight breaks out over the first differential
The team argues about treating a killer; Foreman and Chase trade barbs over race and prisons before testing for heroin.
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165 moments.
MUDPILES: the team cracks the TB drug theory
Anion gap acidosis leads Foreman through a mnemonic to TB drugs passed off as heroin, and House sends Chase to search the prison.
House starts the differential like a race and bans Cameron from the patient
House fires the starting gun on the differential, dismisses the team's objections, and keeps Cameron away from the dying girl.
One percentage point: House chases Andie's oxygen saturation
With every test clean, House fixates on a one-point drop in oxygen saturation and sends the team down to her lungs.
House floats neurosyphilis and gets Chase to confess the kiss
House runs a molestation theory past the team; Chase defends Andie and House realizes Chase kissed her.
The tumor is Al-Qaeda, the clot is Buffalo
The heart tumor was benign; House explains a leftover clot with a terrorism metaphor and orders an angio of her brain.
What if Andie's bravery is a symptom?
House theorizes the clot is numbing her fear center, then decides the only way to find it is an autopsy.
House ogles Cuddy's tank top and tells her she isn't a real doctor
House floats a clotting disorder, needles Cuddy about knowing the patient, and turns down her offer to draw blood.
Cuddy admits she sent Alfredo up the roof, and House orders a break-in
House mocks Cuddy's guilt-driven theory; she confesses she made Alfredo work, and House sends his team to search her house.
Rat bites or fungus: Cuddy learns her house was searched
The team traces Alfredo's scars to rats, then House mentions a fungus under Cuddy's sink and she realizes they broke in.
Endocarditis and a parrot screech: House reaches psittacosis
House explains how clots break off an infected heart valve; the team lands on a bird-borne infection.
Sebastian sits in on his own differential
The patient insists it's TB; House mocks his body powder and argues a patient in the room keeps the team from calling him an idiot.
Welcome aboard the Good Ship Ass-Kisser
Out of the room, Cameron backs Sebastian's TB theory, House mocks her, and the team lands on a heart rhythm problem.
Bizarre is good: House finds a tumor too small to see
Low spinal fluid sugar points to insulin; House reasons it must be a tiny pancreatic tumor and wants to prove it by its effects.
House's new jacket, Wilson's $5,000 loan and a riddle for the team
Wilson pitches the shocked wrestler as payback for the loan; House dodges why he needed it, trades guesses with the team and orders them to find what's missing.
House's prairie-dog question and a phone call with his mother
House quizzes the team about the patient's bowels, lies to his mother about a business dinner and lands on transverse myelitis from molecular mimicry.
The Jamaica trip and House's pesticide theory
The team learns Carnell hid a spring-break trip from his dad; House bets the family's lies hide pot laced with pesticide and orders treatment without proof.
Effect follows cause: House splits the team and the dinner invite fails
House decides the fever is a new hospital infection, sends the team off, and nobody will join Wilson's dinner with House's parents.
Air is keeping him from breathing air
The team runs through every doping trick as a cause; all tests are normal until House spots an air bubble from a slipped needle.
Cancer that isn't; Cuddy hunts the leak
Bleeds ruled out, the biopsy shows red cell aplasia; Cuddy arrives about a press leak and threatens to sit in, and House wonders who would leak cancer.
Immune reconstitution: Kalvin's recovery is making him sick
The team shows Kalvin's tests ruled out infection; House decides his rebounding immune system is attacking old infections, and calls it boring.
Cameron's exposure, and House's interesting cough
Cameron is put on preventive HIV drugs; House calls the coughing interesting, mocks the team's care and orders a hunt for tainted meth.
Kayla's first visit: uveitis and a differential
Chase recounts a neurology consult with Kayla's surly brother, an inflamed iris that hooks House, and an argument over a childproof Vicodin bottle.
The team debates the 'OTB babe': alcohol, trauma or Cushing's
The team questions why House was at the OTB; the differential swings from alcohol abuse to Cushing's while House stereotypes the patient.
House botches the lumbar puncture into a hypertensive crisis
House takes eight tries at Anica's LP with Cameron observing; her blood pressure spikes and the team argues detox versus a hidden tumor.
Cameron proposes Munchausen's: Anica is faking it
With the pancreatic biopsy negative, Cameron argues Anica injected herself to fake illness; House insists a brain tumor cannot be faked.
House's Boy Who Cried Wolf argument for aplastic anemia
House rewrites Foreman's notes and argues Anica's constant anemia is real; Foreman refuses more tests but allows leftover blood.
Chase refuses to take orders from Foreman
The differential turns into a fight over who is in charge; Chase orders a tox screen and tells Foreman he is not his boss.
House runs the differential by speakerphone
House calls in, scolds the team for not calling, orders antibiotics and antivirals, and mocks them for queuing for an MRI.
The team realises Fletch only talks when his wife is away
House pushes for a new clue; the team notices Fletch spoke only when his wife was out of the room, and they ask Cuddy to get her away.