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.
Eric Foreman
Every House moment featuring Eric Foreman, in story order. Played by Omar Epps.
141 moments · 3h 42m
House sizes up the lunch lady and reveals Foreman's juvenile record
To make his point about trust, House profiles the woman who made a sandwich, then orders Foreman to break into the patient's home.
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 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.
Dan nearly walks off the hospital roof
Confused, Dan believes he's back on his lacrosse field; Chase stops him, and Foreman explains to House why he didn't.
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.
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.
Coffee-cup DNA reveals Dan was adopted
The paternity test brings a double surprise; House confronts the parents, waves off their outrage, and asks one question about the birth mother.
House explains the measles time bomb hiding in Dan's brain
An infant measles virus that mutated and waited 16 years: House names the rare disease, its fatal second stage, and the treatment dilemma.
A biopsy through the eye and a blunt consent talk
A retina biopsy confirms the virus; the parents can't follow the treatment plan, so they get the short version and a recommendation.
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.
House stalls for Cuddy and bets Foreman fifty on the virus
Waiting out Cuddy's golf game with a runner's sore leg, House and Foreman argue the two-illness theory and wager on the patient.
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.
House storms the clean room to name the poison and its source
Finger pain completes the pattern; House walks into isolation, explains the order of the damage, and gets Brandon to admit to party drugs.
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.
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.
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.
The Hartigs finally get to hold Maxine
Foreman explains the heart-damaging virus and an experimental antiviral; a small request lets the parents hold their daughter at last.
House awkwardly asks Foreman how Cameron is doing
Foreman is thrown when House asks about someone's well-being, and the two circle each other over why he wants to know.
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.
House grills Foreman for sedating the patient with Haldol
House mocks Foreman's claim that the drug was just a restraint, listing side effects that could wreck the diagnosis, then praises the fast lab work.
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.
The breast clue: House points the team to paraneoplastic syndrome
After a seizure and a clean MRI, House steers to a family history of breast cancer, and the team explains how a tumor can confuse the immune system.
Treat the symptoms, and House explains why he rides Foreman
With no tumor found, House opts to treat symptoms, sends Foreman to Elyse's workplace, and answers his complaint with a pointed joke.
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.
Husband and wife are separately asked: have you cheated?
Foreman and Chase question Ed and Elyse apart, warning that a lie could be fatal, and both insist on their love and fidelity.
House doubts Foreman's motives and sends him to find the kid's stash
House assumes a teenager's collapse is drugs, mocks Foreman for caring, floats a legal toner high, and sends him to search the house.
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.
House tastes the suspect tomato sauce to make a point
Disappointed by sauce instead of designer drugs, House eats a spoonful of the possibly tainted jar, then steers the team to pesticides.
An army antidote, a British jab and a garden theory
As Matt needs his heart paced, Margo demands options; Chase offers an experimental army treatment, House needles him, and a garden becomes the suspect.
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.
John Henry makes Foreman pick a side, then signs a D.N.R.
Asked who is right, Hamilton or House, Foreman backs A.L.S.; the musician refuses the M.R.I. and demands a D.N.R.
House blames Foreman for the D.N.R. and goads him into I.V.I.G.
House blames Foreman for the D.N.R. and pushes I.V.I.G.; Foreman quietly phones in the order.
House intubates the D.N.R. patient against his wishes
The I.V.I.G. crashes John Henry's lungs; the team freezes over the D.N.R. and House tubes him anyway.
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.
Dr. Hamilton arrives and House loses his court order
John Henry's doctor dismisses House's Wegener's theory, plans to take him off the ventilator, and the charges vanish.
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.
Hamilton interrupts House and Wilson's TV and realises the trial is backfiring
House trades needlepoint jokes with Foreman, then stonewalls Hamilton until both see the patient is getting worse.
House tells Foreman what separates him from Hamilton
On the job offer, House says a mistake should feel bad and what doctors do matters.
The hidden A.V.M.: House cracks the paralysis
Steroids shrink the swelling and reveal a malformation compressing the spine that was there all along.
Foreman calls the homeless patient a scammer and Wilson takes her to House
Foreman dismisses a seizing Jane Doe as a con; Wilson objects, and House senses Wilson's interest is personal.
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.
Jane Doe bites Foreman, and House steals a plastic surgery patient's M.R.I. slot
After the bite, a chin-implant patient loses her scan; Cuddy finds a pin in the arm and sends Foreman to the streets.
House reads the patient's comics and the surgical pin unlocks her name
House spins wild readings of her drawings, then reveals the real point of the M.R.I. was getting the pin's serial number.
House builds a cancer suspicion out of one missed appointment
Hospital records trickle in; from two ultrasounds ten months apart House deduces an oncologist was watching her ovaries.
House pokes at why Foreman doesn't care about the patient's past
Over her comics, House guesses at a family reason behind Foreman's coldness and gets nowhere.
A mass on the ovary, and House bets on the benign long shot
The ultrasound looks like terminal cancer; House treats for a tuberculoma because the alternative has no treatment.
Victoria admits the overdose was on purpose, then panics at the light
A doctor apologises, she confesses wanting a bed and speaks of James, then light and water send her into terror.
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.
The Taser clue: House diagnoses rabies
She never felt the Taser; House tests Foreman's bite, lists the symptoms in order and lands on rabies from the bats.
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.
Foreman finds the abandoned house and learns who Mr. Fury and James were
An empty home and an old video reveal her husband and child, and the crash she was driving.
Foreman lets the dying Victoria believe he is her husband
She mistakes Foreman for the man she lost; he tells her it wasn't her fault and she can let go.
House follows Foreman and learns about his missing brother
House admits tailing Foreman by his rain boots; Foreman reveals a brother he hasn't seen in nine years.
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.
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.
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.
Clean urine, shrunken testicles: House exposes Hank's steroid secret
The team keeps saying he tested negative; House goes to the patient and finds the one sign steroids can't hide.
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.
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 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.
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.
The rash turns black: anthrax and sarcoidosis at once
Necrosis appears mid-treatment, both Chases are partly right, and House settles on treating two diseases at once.
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.
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.
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.
Foreman tells House he can trust him
Foreman realizes House suspects him of reporting to Vogler; they talk toxic comas and meals, and House turns his pledge into a logic loop.
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.
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.
House makes Foreman say who he would fire
Foreman accuses House of treating them like lab rats; House demands his pick, and Foreman names Chase and explains why.
Jessica confesses she took the pills
Foreman questions the eighth-grade buddy who reported diet pills; when her mother calls the girl a liar, Jessica admits she stole them.
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.
Rapid-fire differential lands on Cushing's
House forces snap answers; obesity flips from cause to symptom, the girl's height gives it away, and the team names Cushing's.
The MRI finds the tumor behind everything
A pituitary tumor turns up on the scan; Jessica's mother hears there's no mastectomy and how surgery will fix it all.
Why black politicians can't get away with lying
During a bone marrow biopsy the senator tells Foreman that a black politician who lies is a bad role model for the whole race.
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'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.
Who chokes on soft, wet pear?
The team argues preeclampsia versus weakness until House fixes on what she choked on and orders a scope and an eyelid check.
Drooping eyelid leads to lung cancer
A drooping eyelid and a swollen esophagus lead to an X-ray: small-cell lung cancer, which explains every symptom.
Naomi refuses treatment to give her baby a week
Chemo means a C-section now; Naomi weighs the baby's odds week by week and refuses, over her husband's pleas.
Sacrifice or biology? House cites Darwin
Foreman and Chase debate Naomi's choice; House calls it pure biology and says his patient is the mother.
House bargains with Cuddy for one hour
House argues the diver's neck pain doesn't fit meningitis; Cuddy gives him an hour and Chase gets the A-to-Z list.
The pill-cam money shot
Watching the camera pill's video, House scolds Chase for taking orders from Foreman, then spots the bleeding vessel.
Differential in the triage line
Handing out pills and forms, the team runs a differential; House sniffs out a fake patient by her hair.
Who would poison a 12-year-old? House lists suspects
As Mary's seizures multiply, House ranks rival divers and swim fans as poisoners; Foreman proposes an outdated scan.
Balloons, and the boys who stayed away
Get-well balloons lead House to ask who visited Mary. No boys did, and he wonders if the rash isn't a rash.
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.
Foreman catches Annette choking Harvey: she is his dominatrix
Foreman pulls Annette off the patient; Chase identifies her, and she calmly explains Harvey likes being strangled and what he pays her.
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.
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.
Wrong snake: House tells students right and wrong exist
The venom volume rules out the rattlesnake; House makes students pick between two choices and says not knowing doesn't make you right.
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.
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.
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.
Chase and Foreman's break-in: cookies from Stacy and hidden pills
Searching the Warners' house, they find a teasing note from Stacy and a stash of amphetamines with a story behind them.
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.