Backstage nerves, a Valium, and Alex's runway brawl
A 15-year-old model panics before her walk; her father hands her a pill, and on the runway she attacks another model and collapses.
Alex's father
6 moments · 10 min
House ogles his 15-year-old supermodel patient
House openly admires Alex, needles her father, and names her frozen collapse cataplexy before promising lackeys and fluids.
Heart attack in the coma and House's paper-cut speech
Alex's heart stops mid-detox; her furious father withdraws consent, and House describes the agony of waking her now.
Alex wakes up stuck in a memory loop
Alex comes round, flirts with the cute doctor and apologizes to her dad, then repeats the exact same words minutes later: short-term amnesia.
House corners the father into a confession
Under the guise of a checkup, House quotes the dad's own press pitch back at him and asks if he loves her enough to admit it. He does.
The ultimate woman is a man: House's diagnosis
House tells Alex the cancer is on an undescended testicle: male pseudohermaphroditism makes her immune to testosterone. She refuses to believe it.