House's bike theory: induce the arrhythmia
Every test says her heart is fine; House compares it to his bike at the mechanic and wants to provoke the arrhythmia on purpose.
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165 moments.
Leona sees her dead mother: hallucination or not?
Leona screams for her mama; House argues the hallucinations are a reaction to pain from an autoimmune disease, and proposes to prove it.
The ooze explained: reverse peristalsis
House guessed the lab result before it arrived; the team works from the strange vomit to liver failure.
The treatment backfires and House questions science
Leona's lungs fill with holes after the iron treatment; House walks the team through where the iron went and lands on a fungus.
House walks out on Cuddy with his stitches in
Cuddy can't stop House leaving bed; he dares her to touch him and orders a lymph node biopsy with a trash analogy.
House does impressions of his team in the cafeteria
Over lunch House voices each fellow's objection himself, orders a brain-barrier biopsy, and learns the patient is a widower.
The neighbour's trash cans: House's lymph logic
Blood in the brain lining suggests cancer but tests are clean; House's alley trash metaphor sends the team to the chest lymph nodes.
House on the exercise bike misses the obvious
Pedalling for a bet, House lets the team reach testicular cancer, then fears Cuddy's treatment has dulled his mind.
Question every assumption: House's fish-in-a-cup lesson
With everything negative, House makes the team list its assumptions down to how a biopsy samples, and decides they must dive in.
Richard makes a sound, and House puts a grunt in the differential
While being lifted, Richard grunts at House; back at the office House scolds the team as lousy doctors and orders eight years reviewed.
214 symptoms: House reads a grunt as abdominal pain
The team argues over reopening solved cases and Cameron's want for thank-yous; House turns the grunt into a pancreatic cyst theory.
House mocks the failed scope, then says the throat locked instead of spasmed
The team wants Richard home; House argues the sedated throat should have relaxed and wants to look for microtumors on the meninges.
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.
House pits Chase against Foreman over a botched bleeding test
Contradicting tests leave the team guessing who screwed up; House eggs on Foreman and Chase until the trash talk turns to yo-mama jokes.
The metal from Clancy's neck is titanium, and House stumbles
House taunts the lab result into a surgical pin fragment; the team doubts the route to the neck, then notices House trip.
Von Willebrand's confirmed, and a theory that Clancy cheats by panicking
Foreman is vindicated; Cameron suggests hypertension let him clot, and House riffs on cheating and wrestling catchphrases.
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.
Clancy seizes, and two clean brain scans still won't show the cause
With hallucinations and a seizure the team says House is wrong again; the brain tag shows nothing and House walks off to think.
House presents a legendary researcher clawed by his own lab rat
The team frets over House's cane; he redirects them to Ezra Powell, author of the textbook, who can't breathe outside the hospital.
The team splits over giving Powell a lethal syringe of morphine
One says every doctor has done it, another refuses; House needles their contradictions and turns the talk back to the lungs.
Powell predicts their failure as the clock runs down
Powell taunts the tests drifting away from his lungs; the team rules out leukemia and fungus while House jokes about Powell's honesty.
House defends the forced coma and spots scarring on Cameron's MRI
Accused of stripping Powell's dignity, House scoffs; Cameron's low cuts caught the top of the lungs, pointing to an autoimmune disease.
Only one way to tell: House keeps circling back to waking Powell
House rejects each test the team says won't work in a coma until only one option remains: bring him out of it.
House dares Cameron to take a pound of Powell's flesh
Lungs and nerves point to Kawasaki's, lymphoma or sarcoid; House mocks Cameron's indecision and sends her for a skin biopsy.
House takes an autistic boy's scream seriously, to the team's surprise
Walking the halls, House argues parents who never came in after ten years matter; one doctor's date-screaming joke earns a zing.
House holds his differential in the crowded clinic to spite Cuddy
Barred from his office by his own carpet strike, House runs the case in the waiting area until Cuddy realises it's his master plan.
The team reads House's carpet obsession while squatting in a booked room
The differential lands on cancer as the team deduces the carpet is really about House; someone with the booking gets talked out of the room.
House suspects the parents of dosing their son
Damaged liver cells could reach the lymph; House pushes cirrhosis from booze or drugs, and the team insists these parents quit everything for him.
After a cardiac crash, House lands on pica
Calcium carbonate in the stool means chalk; House decides Adam eats anything and sends the team to bag the house.
Jimsonweed in the backyard, and House audits Adam's schedule
The team finds the plant; physostigmine could kill a heart-sick kid, so House combs the timetable for unsupervised minutes.