House's first differential: illnesses over patients, zebras over horses
House argues doctors treat illnesses, not people, waves off talking to the patient, and leads the team through stroke, mad cow and Wernicke's.
Allison Cameron
Every House moment featuring Allison Cameron, in story order. Played by Jennifer Morrison.
130 moments · 3h 26m
Rebecca stops breathing inside the MRI
A suspected reaction to the contrast dye closes Rebecca's airway mid-scan, and the team has to cut an emergency airway to save her.
House's plan: stop everything and watch how fast she dies
With Rebecca's symptoms spreading toward the brain stem, House proposes stopping all treatment to read the disease from its speed. The team is appalled.
Foreman and Cameron trade barbs while breaking into Rebecca's home
Snacking during the break-in, Foreman resents being hired for his record, and asks Cameron how she got the job with weaker grades.
Ham at her apartment: House exposes Wilson's lie and finds the tapeworm
A detail from the break-in proves the patient isn't Wilson's cousin and points House to a pork tapeworm in her brain, which he explains with relish.
House tells Cameron why he really hired her
Asked why he hired her, House explains his picks, compares her to lobby art, and probes what damage drove a beautiful woman to medicine.
A forged letter with a girlie G hooks House on night terrors
House tries to clock out and spots a fake signature from his own office; the case of a 16-year-old with night terrors makes him stay.
House interrogates Dan's family, then catches him falling asleep awake
An animal-naming test, a blunt abuse question, a glasses theory, and finally a leg twitch that tells House the boy isn't sleeping at all.
House bets his team the father isn't the father
During the differential House claims the family history is wrong, puts money on paternity, needles Foreman into raising the stakes, and orders a sleep study.
Chase bluffs, House sees the bowing in the corpus callosum
Asked what the clean MRI shows, Chase guesses meningitis to impress; House calls it out and points to a subtle arch nobody else sees.
The team splits over MS and Dan hears what it means
The spinal fluid suggests multiple sclerosis; House waves off the six-month rule and goes home, leaving the team to explain the outlook to Dan.
Dan goes missing and House is dragged in from his evening
The team searches the hospital; House runs into a dressed-up Cuddy, then shrugs off the search and leaves a tip about the roof.
Not MS after all: House pushes neurosyphilis and a risky injection
The roof episode rules out MS; House rates teen sex odds, polls the team on his sanity and gets the shunt answer he wanted.
Dan's brain turns on him with voices
A calm check-in turns frightening as Dan begins hearing a voice telling him he's dying.
Back to square one with the MIDNIT mnemonic
With penicillin failing, House runs the team through a mnemonic he mocks for its spelling, then orders listening equipment for a talking brain.
Dan improves and reveals he knew he was adopted all along
Dan names more animals than before, then explains how his cleft chin told him the truth back in fifth grade.
Why this patient? House takes the ER case after a stairwell check
House grills his team on why they care about this patient, then mocks a differential where nothing fits every symptom.
House argues two diseases beat one in an Occam's razor showdown
The treatment is wrecking Brandon's kidneys. Chase offers a one-in-ten-million fit; House recolors the board and does the odds for two diseases.
The team doubts House, then Chase and Foreman argue about Cameron
One doctor calls them House's puppets and heads to the lab; there Foreman and Chase spar over whether Cameron is weird or hot.
House tells Cameron she owns Chase, then gloats over the kidneys
House lectures Cameron on her effect on men, catches the team trying to disprove him, and explains why taunting keeps doctors working.
Chase's awkward apology becomes a speech on what sex does to a body
Chase admits sex talk makes him uneasy and gets a vivid physiology lesson in return, and Foreman arrives with bad blood counts.
The cough was first: House works out a gout-drug mix-up
After a long silent think, House explains how a gout medicine handed out by mistake explains every symptom, then hits a timeline snag.
Wedding plans and a tell-tale letter on Brandon's new pills
Recovering Brandon and Mindy plan the guest list, until he notices his new pills look different from the old ones.
Epidemic differential: House explains Cuddy's sick baby
With four infants failing, House reads why Cuddy needs a swab team, then the team narrows a resistant hospital germ.
Cameron can't tell two mothers how sick their son is
Cameron answers with numbers instead of the truth, then is told what parents actually need to hear and why watching is worse than dying.
House orders a trial: one drug off each baby
The antibiotics are killing the babies' kidneys; while the team argues which to drop, House decides to treat the two infants differently.
Two families, two treatments, two ways of breaking the news
The Hartigs hear their daughter may not survive; Cameron reassures the other family, and a colleague challenges her over false hope.
House makes Cameron tell the parents, and scolds Chase for helping
The failed drug points to vancomycin; House assigns Cameron the death talk, and when she freezes he accuses Chase of bailing her out.
From an autopsy slide to eight vials: hunting a virus
Heart tissue says virus. With little blood to spare, the team crosses out families of viruses and House adds a healthy baby as a control.
The healthy baby's blood points to the mothers
Three viruses show up in the sick babies and two in the healthy one; House realizes mothers' antibodies decide who survives.
House asks Cameron if she lost someone
House reads Cameron's awkwardness around dying patients and presses on who she lost, until she calls him what he is.
Churg-Strauss, candy canes and House's verdict on nuns
The team settles on Churg-Strauss vasculitis, a gift of Christmas candy canes gets mocked, and House shuts down any suggestion he made a mistake.
The team splits over whether House can ever admit a mistake
After meeting the nuns, one doctor blames House's syringe, another defends him, and Chase sums up what either outcome means for the team.
A God debate in the CT room ends with Augustine seeing Jesus
Foreman and Chase argue faith over the scan, then Sister Augustine smells something that isn't there, cries out about Jesus and starts to seize.
House's mock confession countdown and the hyperbaric gamble
Accused again of the wrong dose, House counts down to a sarcastic 'admission', then pivots to mixed connective tissue disease and a hyperbaric chamber.
House crashes Cuddy's meeting with the figwort tea answer
As Augustine declines, House arrives with the monastery's herbal tea and shows how it plus a normal epinephrine dose stopped her heart.
House defends a boring blood clot with Galen, Socrates and Pink Floyd
The team mocks his interest in a schizophrenic's leg clot; House answers with ancient cures and a roll call of brilliant madmen.
Unshaved legs give House his clue, and Cameron finds his birthday
House turns his bedside chat into a lab order, Cameron meets a prickly Luke, and she quietly wishes House a happy birthday he never announced.
Three theories race to explain a patient who clots and bleeds
Vitamin K deficiency, an antibiotic interaction or alcohol: House pits his team's ideas against each other and sends them to find out.
Searching the Palmero apartment reveals Lucy's one-food diet
With a key taken from Luke's backpack the team searches the flat, finds untouched antibiotics and the only food Lucy eats, and concedes House was right.
A forgotten eye appointment and copper rings crack Lucy's case
The team lands on a rare copper disorder, House questions their hope, and a forgotten eye appointment leads to copper rings in Lucy's eyes.
House asks why this case, then skewers his team's differential
Handed a woman who sleeps 18 hours a day, House questions the referrer's motives and mocks each theory, ending with a fairy-tale diagnosis.
Elyse's love story is cut short by imaginary biting bugs
Elyse tells how Ed threw her towels out a window the night they met, then panics that something is crawling on her arm and has to be sedated.
Sleeping sickness or rabbit fever: two lousy ideas win the day
Infections are ruled out one by one until the team is left with an African parasite or an inhaled bacterium, and House praises Foreman.
Foreman stews over House's praise while his colleagues tease him
Running the tests, Foreman wonders why House singles him out, and his colleagues offer a theory before weighing two risky treatments.
House pins the parasite on an affair and admits pulling a colleague's records
House cites an obscure Portuguese case of sleeping sickness passed by sex, assigns the cheating questions, then is caught having read a doctor's file.
Ed confesses part of him wants his wife not to recover
At Elyse's bedside, Ed admits that if the treatment works it proves she betrayed him, and asks a doctor whether that makes him terrible.
Crying over a centrifuge, a doctor tells House about her late husband
House finds a colleague in tears in the lab; she shares how she married and lost her college love, and House deduces what she knew going in.
Searching Matt's spotless room, Foreman denies being like House
Foreman theorizes about why House sees addicts everywhere, gets teased for sounding just like him, and they find a suspicious jar of homemade sauce.
Cameron is sent to win over Matt's mother, and gets called out
With a new pesticide suspect, House sends Cameron to persuade Margo, who sees through the approach and puts the decision back on her.
The antidote backfires and House reworks the poisoning timeline
Matt seizes as his mother screams at the doctors; then House works out the boys were poisoned at home and quizzes the team on teen morning habits.
A laundry detergent match links the two boys
The team compares the two families' toiletries product by product until a jug of the same detergent turns up in both homes.
Foreman runs the differential while House picks apart the A.L.S. call
Foreman wants to stick to pneumonia; House mocks him and the team floats treatable alternatives to A.L.S.
The team fights about House overriding the D.N.R.
Foreman and Cameron argue it was the patient's decision; House says he'd do it again and the debate is pointless.
House is served a restraining order mid-differential
House mistakes the process server for a stripper, then has the patient moved above the clinic to dodge clinic duty.
House refuses to let the team stop thinking about the arm
A newly paralysed arm seems to prove A.L.S.; House insists arm and legs need not be linked and orders a stroke check.
Hamilton courts Foreman and the team argues about House
Hamilton dangles a partnership in L.A.; Foreman asks Chase and Cameron whether House's assault bothers them.
During the embolectomy House schools Cameron on humility
Mid-procedure, House picks apart Cameron's praise of Hamilton's style: humility helps if you're wrong a lot.
House asks the real question: who is the Jane Doe?
Foreman scoffs at homeless patients, House needles him, then samples a stain from her belongings to diagnose.
Right diagnosis, deadly fever: Foreman clashes with the team, then the ice bath
The biopsy confirms the tuberculoma but her fever hits 105; Foreman argues over the Prozac, then forces her into ice.
No cure: Foreman takes his shot and goes to find James
Victoria has a day or two; House orders Foreman's shot, and Foreman refuses to let her die alone.
House rushes a differential to meet his pharmacist
The team lists infection, lupus, drugs and cancer, and House ends the meeting on his leg's schedule.
Testing Keith: a widowed father, a drug test and a scared son
The team tests for drugs, lupus and lymphoma; the father recalls his wife's cancer and Keith fears the same.
Detoxing House runs a differential under Wilson's watch
House shrugs off the eye, spots Cuddy's spy in Wilson, denies withdrawal and lands on a heart infection.
The team says House is unfit, then he walks in with the Goldilocks plan
In Cuddy's office the team argues detox has broken him; House arrives and proposes a test dose that hurts just enough.
House orders Cameron to lie to the father
House picks Cameron because the dad trusts her; the team argues whether House is losing it.
Mr. Foster's story about his wife makes Cameron tell the truth
Hearing how a long-shot treatment went for his wife, Cameron drops House's cover story.
House breaks his own hand to drown out the leg pain
House explains pain gating with a smashed hand, then defends playing chicken with the father over the lupus treatment.
Foreman blames House for the delay and Cameron's trust breaks
Hallucinations make it lupus; Foreman says they waited too long, and Cameron admits she lied because she trusted House.
Who's Jules? House barges in and learns about the dead cat
House grills the family over Keith's hallucination, learns Jules was a cat that died recently, and asks where she is.
House accuses the team of star-struck medicine and catches Foreman lying
House dismisses their wish for a fixable kidney problem, bets on steroids, then dissects Foreman's car-trouble excuse.
Addison's on top of old steroid damage: House's two-part theory
No steroids now, no cancer; House splits the symptoms in two and argues the kidneys can carry old damage.
House's $1,000 monster truck tickets and Wilson's Friday excuse
Wilson ducks the monster truck jam with a lecture; House's backup friend is invented; the team speculates wildly.
Hank forbids an abortion and the team debates a baby for a life
Hank calls trading a child for a kidney murder; the doctors argue it out, one pricing a tipping point to the day.
House awkwardly invites Cameron to the monster trucks
It's not a date, he insists; Cameron learns Wilson's lecture excuse was fake and accepts.
House crashes the drug rep's lunch and cracks the case: cadmium
House roasts Foreman's freebies with a rock-star metaphor, then realises the wife has lost her sense of smell too.
After the monster trucks, Cameron asks House if he's ever been married
Buzzing from the show, Cameron gets personal; House admits he lived with someone, then dodges with a race to the car.
House guesses the donors, then hunts for the rash's cause
Cuddy pitches a 12-year-old's odd pneumonia; House reads her silence as big donors, then runs a differential that lands on a tick bite.
Animal-hair insulation points the team to anthrax
Chase's father spots animal hair in the attic insulation, and the team reads the CT scan until the widened mediastinum spells anthrax.
Gabe's airway closes and the team races to trach him
Gabe can't breathe, the tube won't pass, and Chase cuts a tracheotomy while his father watches and pleads.
Chase versus Chase: House calls a vote
Chase and his rheumatologist father clash over the rash, and House lets the room vote on which Chase wins.
House drags Chase into a consult with his own father
The lesions are spreading, and House forces father and son to debate it; the proctologist jab lands on Rowan.
Cameron tells Chase to lighten up about his dad
At the scanner, Cameron urges Chase to forgive his father; he snaps back and tells her to stay away.
House diagnoses leprosy in a Jersey suburb
House drops clues, then reveals leprosy caught from the father, and explains how the cure itself has been attacking Gabe.
House busts Cameron for using a negotiating book
Cameron steers Foreman and Chase toward her clot theory with first names and flattery; House names the technique and mocks it.
Cameron's Aunt Elyssa theory wins over House
Chase and Cameron snipe on first names until Cameron argues a 'normal' sed rate could be high for Carly, and House loves it.
House discovers Chase did the angio on the wrong leg
With every theory dead, House studies the images, notices the toes are backwards, and takes the redo away from Chase.
House already knows Carly needs a new heart
House says Carly needs a heart transplant before any test confirms it, and won't tell Wilson how he knows.
Cameron asks House if he likes her
Cameron admits she uses the book because people dismiss her, then asks House directly whether he likes her.
Cameron admits she likes House
Cameron confides that she asked House whether he liked her, and that she likes him.
Joey wakes up, and House rules this is not a democracy
The team argues over an old head injury, the patient wakes and refuses drilling, and House overrules his team to keep him.
House's baseball-bat lesson on sudden onset
Back with liver failure, Joey tests positive for hep C; House argues timing with a wife and a bat, and jokes one test wins because she's cuter.
The biopsy says it isn't hep C: someone poisoned Joey
Cameron and Chase spar over the car, Joey starts bleeding, and House reads the biopsy as toxins with intent behind them.
Foreman mocks Cameron's crush; House finds the herb
Foreman teases Cameron about House while they hunt the toxin; House reads the smoking history and names a herb in Joey's quit candy.
A 10-year-old's heart attack, and House drops the firing news
The team debates how a child has a heart attack; House then casually announces one of them is gone by week's end.
Jessica's rage, and House defends his team
Jessica turns violent during a test; her mother blames the bickering doctors until House walks in with lab results.
Rivals under pressure: the diet pill theory
With jobs on the line, the team snipes through clots and liposuction until diet pills come up and House calls the mother a liar.
Warfarin necrosis: Chase blames Cameron
House says the team's own treatment caused Jessica's sores; Chase suggests Cameron botched the heparin, and the blame fight boils over.
Cameron asks House if he wants to fire her
Cameron accuses House of avoiding his feelings; House turns it back on her, and she offers to quit.
Cameron's thank-you, and House on why people pray
Cameron explains why people thank God; House calls her a naive atheist and says prayer is about not being crushed.
Hiding from Cuddy for a differential
The team meets out of Cuddy's sight; House mocks 'idiopathic' and justifies a whole body scan with a football metaphor.
House asks Cameron why she likes him
House demands to know why Cameron likes him; she suspects the question is really about the speech.
House's Inuit fishing lesson
With a spleen biopsy too dangerous, House explains how Inuit find fish by watching herons, and the team finds another test.
Cameron resigns and tells House why she liked him
House apologizes; Cameron quits before he has to fire anyone, and tells him what she got wrong about him.
House turns up at Cameron's door to ask her back
With Vogler gone, House asks Cameron to come back. 'You're a good doctor' isn't reason enough for her.
Cameron's price for coming back: a date
House asks Cameron back again, offering money and parking. She names one condition, and he has to decide.
Cameron returns, the jaw plate blocks the MRI, and the date leaks
Cameron is back on the team; House spots why the MRI is off-limits, and Cameron tells Chase and Foreman what her new contract got her.
House lets a pool-hall oracle settle Foreman versus Chase
House mocks Harvey's string of alternative healers, then consults a toy oracle to choose between endocarditis and a trauma aneurysm.
Chase admits his past with a banker who liked to be burned
Chase explains how he knows Annette; Cameron and House pounce, and House scolds him for withholding the pain angle.
House's date plan for Cameron: the county paintball tourney
Harvey's mini-strokes kill the blood-thinner plan; Cameron asks how to dress, and House teases her before naming a restaurant.
Harvey refuses surgery and turns on Annette, then strokes again
Harvey spirals and refuses consent; the team sneaks Annette in to command him, he lashes out at her, and his mood swing is a new stroke.
House tells Harvey's living parents their son is dead
The team finds Harvey's parents are alive and hang up; House calls back with the one lie guaranteed to bring them in.
Wilson warns Cameron not to break House's heart
Wilson corners Cameron before the date; it is not her he is worried about.
The date: Cameron asks how House feels, and he dissects her
Small talk fails; Cameron asks for honesty and House says she needs damaged people, naming her late husband and himself.
Chase and Foreman grill Cameron about the morning after
Cameron deflects with food and garlic bread; her puffy eyes give her away, and she can't say if there will be a second dinner.
Chase's breath mints crack the case: an infected jaw
House makes Chase smell the comatose patient's breath and lays out jaw infection as the stroke source, then proves it.
Cameron cares too much about the volleyball player
House uses Cameron's deep dive into a teen's heartbreak to show what caring does; she finds a nodule that forces a painful test.
A rapid-fire differential, and time is not a fixed construct
The volleyball player screams at a touch; the team rattles off causes too fast for the class, and House reveals the cases are months apart.
Tea-colored urine, a useless student, and Cameron's muscle death
House drills a student on brown urine until he folds, then Cameron, sitting in, names muscle death as the answer.
Three legs, three verdicts, and the third patient is House
Cancer, flesh-eating strep and an aneurysm: every story ends with possible amputation, and the room realizes the third patient was House.
House takes the case on Stacy's word; Wilson sets a 50-foot rule
The team mocks House's style and his belief in Stacy over the patient; Wilson says he's playing hero and orders him to keep his distance.
Cameron calls House's exploratory surgery irresponsible
Every scan is clean and Mark wants to go home; House books surgery anyway, and Cameron says he only has the wife's word.
House finds the problem in the surgery footage: abdominal epilepsy
Surgery finds nothing and the team calls Mark healthy; House replays the video, enhances it, and spots the twitch nobody saw.
Cameron asks Stacy what House was like before his leg
Taking a family history, Cameron finds Stacy has guessed her feelings; Stacy recalls how their own bad first date went.
House turns Mark's brain scan into an interrogation about Stacy
During a PET memory test House slips in questions about the wedding; Mark fights back with vivid honeymoon detail.
Guillain-Barré without antibodies: House's 'what if'
Foreman rules out Guillain-Barré; House pushes a long shot where the body fights nothing, and the team agrees the treatment is low risk.
The PET scan as lie detector: House names acute intermittent porphyria
House replays Mark's honest-looking Paris answer, then lays out a disease that leaves no fingerprints, down to the yoga.
House brings the 'cocktail' and his team stands in the way
Mark refuses House's trigger shot; Foreman, Cameron and Chase block him, House mocks the stand, and he still gets his way.
The attack hits and House proves porphyria under the lights
Mark convulses while the team fights over Ativan and a sample; the urine stays yellow until House adds light.
Cameron realizes House could love, just not her
Seeing House with Stacy, Cameron admits she was wrong about him and wishes him well.