Tic-tac-toe of bleeds and clots leads House to the colon
House maps every bleed and clot as X's and O's and says when you lose your keys, eventually you look in the mailbox.
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165 moments.
The team tries to dodge the spinal biopsy and lands on torture
Expecting House to browbeat them, the team admit nobody says no to him, then hit on flooding Hannah with pain signals to find what's tender.
Can guilt be a symptom? House pitches B12 deficiency
House reads Hannah's emotional headache as a clue and argues guilt is a symptom of B12 deficiency; the team says she already got B12.
House wants to solve a 25-year-old savant mystery before breakfast
The team dismisses the dystonia case and heads back to bed, but House is hooked on how a bus accident made a boy a pianist.
House bans talk of his cancer and orders more seizures
House shuts down the team's request for his blood, then says to pull Patrick's anticonvulsants so worse seizures show where the damage is.
Is Gulf War syndrome real? The team splits, House wants a TV check
Foreman and Cameron call it non-existent, Chase pushes back, and House orders tests and asks whether the ex-Marine was ever on TV.
Uranium versus nothing, and House orders a credit report and summer camp
Chase pushes depleted uranium, Foreman scoffs, and House adds a Lexis-Nexis search and sleep study while hiding a trip to the bathroom.
Chase's uranium is a red herring, and House goes home to sleep
House dismisses the cancer theories, says radiation is everywhere, takes keys and goes home, telling the team sleep solves problems.
Galapagos vacation talk and the untreated strep deduction
House shops for a vacation spot during the differential, then reasons from six cases of strep to a damaged heart valve.
House runs a differential while on hold for a Cambodia flight
Booking a trip to catch an endangered giant catfish, House rattles off five theories for Emma's failing kidneys between hold messages.
House: even fetuses lie, so deliver it
House swaps his trip for orca kayaking, suspects the fetus is hiding something, and argues for delivery at 21 weeks.
Cameron's coincidence theory and the jungle fever jab
Cameron argues the liver failure is unrelated so termination is not needed; House mocks Chase backing his girlfriend.
Cuddy earns House's respect, then he returns to treat the fetus as an adult
Cuddy admits how hard it is to be the lone believer; House later walks back in and leads the team toward exploratory fetal surgery.
House recruits a team of passengers and lands on ciguatera
House casts an Australian who agrees, a Korean who disagrees and an outraged woman, then traces the illness to the sea bass.
Wilson's team lands on breast cancer
With every toxin test clean and the patch slowing her seizures, the team settles on a paraneoplastic effect of breast cancer.
Radiation from North Korea, a surprise pregnancy, and statistics
House blames bad x-rays for Mr. Peng, tells a sick passenger she is pregnant, and explains coincidences with plane-load statistics.
House's passenger team guesses Mr. Peng is a drug mule
The volunteer team round two: syphilis, a condom, and House's theory that cocaine burst inside Mr. Peng's gut.
Chase and Cameron snipe all night; House: not 25
The overnight tests turn into a Chase-Cameron spat; House mocks the team's results until pathology finds a fungal clue.
House asks about Lucy's knees and gets to arthritis
Double vision kills the fungus theory; House asks why a six-year-old has no scraped knees and the team lands on juvenile arthritis.
The bloody shirt raises abuse fears
A blood-soaked shirt hidden under Lucy's bed splits the team over abuse; House sees only a time sink and wants a full exam.
House suspects the kids share their mother's illness
With no tumors found, House links the kids to their mother's brain cancer and trades menstruation jabs with Cameron.
Cameron turns House's two-plus-two on him
Cameron argues for removing Lucy's pituitary, using House's own process against him as he holds out for an environmental cause.
Foreman calls the patient a scam artist; the team pushes back
House relishes a loss of free will while Foreman insists Lupe is a drug user gaming unemployment, and Chase and Cameron object.
Foreman's cancer call and House's rad move
Foreman argues for lymphomatoid granulomatosis and total body radiation; House reasons it helps even if it's autoimmune, and approves.
House's plan: make the donor brother sicker to grow the infection
With the leukemia brother out of time, House wants to break down the donor's immune system so the hidden infection shows itself, and Foreman pushes back.
Matty's embarrassing symptom, and House can't resist the joke
A shy confession about a new symptom gives House a narrow list of infections and a gag he refuses to pass up; Foreman asks to step away.
House calls the heart infection perfect and plans to marinate the marrow
House proposes cutting out the valve, identifying the bug and soaking the harvested marrow in antibiotics; the room splits on it.
Autoimmune or infection? The four-out-of-six donor fight
House argues for autoimmune because it keeps the donor viable; the team doubts it, and House tears apart a partial-match donor.
Flame cane and the dandelion plan: infect the dying brother
House debuts a flame-painted cane, writes off Nick, then proposes giving Nick Matty's infected marrow so his symptoms reveal the bug.
Blood from nowhere, then Foreman hands Cuddy his resignation
The team rules out every source of a college karate student's coughed-up blood; Foreman pulls House into Cuddy's office to sign his resignation.