Wilson pitches his 'cousin' case and House calls a brain tumor boring
House refuses a white coat because of his cane, mocks an HMO lab, and gets nudged into using his bored team on a 29-year-old who can't speak.
Gregory House
Every House moment featuring Gregory House, in story order. Played by Hugh Laurie.
360 moments · 8h 56m
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.
Cuddy corners House over six years of skipped clinic duty
The administrator who signs his paychecks lists his non-existent billings and ignored consults; House answers with tenure, quips and a Jagger lyric.
Cuddy pulls House's privileges and turns the Jagger line back on him
House storms in yelling about his cancelled MRI; she stays calm, finishes the song lyric, and he gives in to clinic hours he'll owe until 2054.
House's first clinic case: the man who turned orange
House asks for cable TV, not patients, then diagnoses a golfer's orange skin as carrots plus vitamins and his marriage as something worse.
House schools a steroid-wary mother on asthma
A mother questions her 10-year-old's inhaler and House's leg; he explains asthma bluntly and walks out mid-sentence.
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.
Cuddy halts House's steroid guess, then it works
Cuddy compares guess-based treatment to medical atrocities; House defends acting without proof. Rebecca recovers, and he's told he got lucky.
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.
A self-diagnosing clinic patient gets exactly what House wants
A patient who read up on chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia gets praised for her diagnosis, and House makes an unusual request of her.
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 finally meets Rebecca and tells her there's no dignity in dying
Rebecca refuses more treatment; House explains the infarction that crippled his leg and argues against dying with dignity.
X-ray the leg, not the brain: Chase's idea gives Rebecca her proof
Instead of a court order, a simple X-ray idea is turned toward the thigh, where House is sure the worms hide. The larva shows up on film.
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.
Wilson owns the cousin lie and House returns to the clinic
House calls out Wilson for lying to win his help; Wilson turns it back on him, and House heads back to a patient with a familiar request.
House hides from a full waiting room doing a crossword
Holed up in an exam room until his shift ends, House explains why he won't see runny noses and admits his team has no cases.
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.
House sells an anti-vaccine mother on baby coffins
A mother refusing vaccines blames drug companies; House answers with a speech on toy frogs, tiny coffins, and what her choice really costs.
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.
The boy who sued wolf: House reads a litigious patient's knee
A man with an infected knee drove 70 miles past two hospitals; House works out why and threatens to page a Dr. Wolf.
Cuddy catches wind of the paternity bet and buys in
House and Cuddy trade jabs about her night out, then set terms: a tie at the symposium against a week off clinic duty.
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's parents confront House over lunch
Accused of not caring, House recites their son's every test result from memory, then sends them to hold his hand.
House turns the tables on Mr. Funsten's lawsuit
The litigious patient returns with papers; House hands him a lab result he'd rather keep from his wife and pockets the paperwork.
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.
House argues the bet saved Dan, then collects his winnings
Cuddy balks at a $3,200 DNA test for a wager; House credits the bet with cracking the case, then counts the cash he won from everyone.
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 introduces himself to the clinic waiting room
Forced into clinic duty by Cuddy, House greets the patients with a speech about his credentials, his reluctance and his Vicodin. No one picks him.
House reads a clinic patient's career from the color of her mucus
A patient whose cold is already gone gets told from her new glasses and white teeth that she's about to be fired.
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.
House pages Cuddy from a board meeting to look at a sore throat
Payback for clinic duty: House calls in the hospital's head for a formal consult on the most routine complaint in the room.
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.
House turns clinic duty into a war game with Cuddy
Cuddy refuses to free him from clinic hours; House vows to win their game, insists to Wilson there's no thin line, and fills a Vicodin script.
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 meets the family and hunts for who gave the cough pills
House explains why not caring makes him a better doctor, then presses the family until a relative admits giving Brandon his cough pills.
The pharmacy pills match, and House's perfect theory falls apart
The pharmacist holds firm, the family confirms the pills looked right, and House insists he wasn't wrong, reality was.
A lymphoma hunch leads to surgery prep, and Brandon's heart stops
House orders exploratory surgery over objections; threading a catheter through Brandon's heart triggers an arrhythmia and he has to be shocked.
House's bedside pep talk: hand-holder or the doctor who ignores you
House drops in on Brandon to boast about leaving early and offer a choice between two kinds of doctor.
A clinic patient with something stuck where it shouldn't be
House deduces the location and embarrassment from a patient who won't sit, then learns what it is and hands the case to Cuddy.
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.
House still can't let the solved case go
Shopping with a friend, House admits he's still trying to work out where the drug came from; the friend claims to be well-adjusted.
From the OB lounge, House spots a cluster of sick babies
House eavesdrops on the obstetricians, lays out two sick newborns as exhibits, shrugs off a shrink suggestion and goes hunting for more.
The baby hunt turns up a third case and the ward is shut
House sweeps every maternity room and finds nothing until the overflow floor; Cuddy closes the ward and turns away a woman in labor.
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.
Cuddy's swab hunt and a tie declared a petri dish
Med students swab the hospital while empty gel dispensers turn up; and someone's tie gets declared a petri dish.
House diagnoses a marathoner's 'parasite'
A runner who can't lose weight learns what her parasite really is, confesses a paternity problem, and gets House's take on marriage.
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.
Cuddy and House clash over experimenting on babies
Cuddy demands a medical rationale and informed consent; House offers absurd reasons, then asks which matters more as two more babies fall ill.
Jill brings her husband to House's office for a mono test
The pregnant runner needs a cover story; House catches on a beat late and plays along, telling Charlie that feeling fine is a symptom.
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.
House's superbug rant: we bred them
Neither antibiotic works on the Hartig baby. Chase fears a rare resistant staph; House blames antibiotic overuse, then spots the heart clue.
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 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.
Jill gets the result she wanted and House turns down her baby
Jill is thrilled by the news about her husband and wants House for her prenatal care. He has his own idea of the perfect gift.
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.
House stays in the haystack, then invents a delivery to stay put
House won't drop the search for the virus carrier; later he refuses to leave a room by claiming a delivery for a patient due in five months.
House likens his overdue charting to Dante's circles of hell
Two weeks behind on charts and eager to clock out at noon, House stalls with poetry and juvenile tricks before being sent to a waiting patient.
House debunks a nun's 'stigmata' as dish-soap dermatitis
Sister Augustine's red hands look holy to her companion; House traces them to a fresh batch of donated pots and hands out free antihistamines.
Theology banter turns into Sister Augustine's cardiac arrest
A nun explains God's will with a broken leg; moments later Sister Augustine can't breathe, House injects epinephrine and her heart stops.
Cuddy suspects House grabbed the wrong epinephrine syringe
Cuddy says the standard dose can't stop a heart and threatens to report him; House insists he gave the right dose and gets 24 hours to prove it.
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.
House prescribes cigarettes for inflammatory bowel disease
A patient whose store job is on the line gets the most unusual prescription of his life, plus a promise that it will make him look cooler.
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 dismisses the Hippocratic oath to Cuddy's face
Cuddy warns that oxygen therapy can do harm; House mocks the oath's fine print and dares her to stop him.
House tallies a nun's deadly sins in the hospital chapel
An infirmarian warns House that Augustine is a hypochondriac; he catches her sinning on cue while she reads him right back.
Cuddy takes House off the case
With Augustine's oxygen falling after the chamber, Cuddy rejects every explanation House offers and removes him from his own patient.
Caught at the syringe drawer, House defends smokers and doubts himself
Found poking through the epinephrine drawer, House argues lung cancer patients die of blame, then concedes he needs every clinic record checked.
House needles Chase about Catholic guilt and his father
Pumping Chase for what he knows about nuns, House offers his theory that good boys are trained by fear to obey their fathers.
A skunk tattoo forces the monastery to reveal Augustine's past
At the monastery House catches the nuns in a shared lie, cites a tattoo he saw during CPR, and learns of Augustine's years on the streets.
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 and Sister Augustine duel over faith before she leaves
House accuses Augustine of running away again and attacks belief itself; she answers with her own story and turns his anger at God against him.
The full-body scan finds a forgotten copper IUD
House looks inside the patient for the allergen; the scan reveals a decades-old copper device, which explains everything from the cookware onward.
House and Wilson spar over who screwed up, then share Christmas
Sweating it out together, Wilson won't let House claim victory, they dance around Christmas plans, and a nun's farewell catches them off guard.
House mocks an ER doctor's quick alcohol verdict
As an ER doctor blames Luke's mother's clot on vodka, House chimes in from the waiting chairs with mock praise for a doctor who never assumes.
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 sends Luke for a sandwich and actually talks to a patient
House dispatches Luke on a very specific lunch order and sits with Lucy, while the team wonders why he is drawn to patients like her.
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.
House sides with the birthday girl against her sugar-phobic mom
A mother wants House to scare her daughter off sugar before a party; he skewers her instead and prescribes a proper cake.
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.
Luke blames himself for his mother's illness
Told the diet caused it, Luke insists he should have handled it; he gets brisk reassurance and admits he misses his mother bossing him around.
House reads Luke's real age off his wrist X-ray
A growth plate gives the game away: Luke is not 18 but just turned 15, and House warns what that means once his mother goes home.
House plans to shrink a tumor just enough to fool the surgeon
No transplant for Lucy and a tumor past surgical limits, so House proposes injecting ethanol to make it look operable.
House deduces who tattled to Cuddy, and it's about his birthday
Cuddy hints she knows his secret; House reasons his way to the informant and the secret, only to learn she just wants her clinic hours.
From a hiccups patient to Cuddy cornering House in the men's room
House mocks a hiccups sufferer's home remedies, then Cuddy follows him into the bathroom about the tumor that shrank overnight.
A phone record proves Lucy is not schizophrenic
House shows the only call from Lucy's room went to Social Services, and argues that sacrificing for her son is too sane for the diagnosis.
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 takes the blame for the Social Services call
Lucy thanks House; Luke refuses to, and House lets him think the call was his own doing, then admits the case lost its interest.
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.
House finds his breathless clinic patient's problem staring at him
A preschool teacher with a tight chest reveals a birthday gift to her husband during an EKG, and House urgently pages Wilson for a second opinion.
House turns an implant consult into an exposé of Wilson's ties
Talking about why people change their looks, House notes Wilson's new tie, decides he wants to look good at work, and teases him about a girlfriend.
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.
House reads Wilson's shoes and sniffs out a lunch with a nurse
House profiles Wilson's mystery woman from his footwear until Wilson admits to an innocent lunch with an oncology nurse.
House tells his clinic patient her husband is spiking her oatmeal
An EKG detail leads House to the husband's blood-pressure pills, a very unromantic motive, and some wildly inappropriate advice.
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.
House asks Ed to bet his wife's life on her fidelity
With only sleeping sickness left, House meets Ed at the bedside and walks him through why he must consent to a treatment that can kill.
House and Wilson split the world between trying and not trying
In the elevator House doubts Wilson's single innocent lunch and the two reach a cynical deal about being good.
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.
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.
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 82-year-old clinic patient falls for House
An elderly woman complains of feeling good, describes a newfound obsession with a young actor and flirts with House, who admits her for tests.
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.
House receives a love poem from his elderly admirer
A colleague reads aloud the gushing verse House's 82-year-old patient wrote him, and House defends her honour while her results arrive.
Matt's mother refuses the antidote, and House wants a court order
Margo says the garden spray was swapped for something organic and blocks treatment; House argues she should be overruled as irrational.
House reads Matt's mother the refusal form he rewrote
Posing as a hospital staffer, House reads Margo a release form he has 'clarified' with brutal language, then reveals who he is.
A second poisoned boy changes everything
Just as treatment is about to start, a student named Chi Ling arrives with identical symptoms, and he lives nowhere near Matt.
House tells an 82-year-old she has syphilis from prom night
Over her son's protests, House delivers a shocking diagnosis, and Mrs. Adams calmly recalls exactly when she must have caught it.
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.
Mrs. Adams turns down the cure, and House finds a loophole
His admirer returns her prescription rather than lose her new zest for life; House explains why taking it will not cost her that feeling.
New clothes and fake-old jeans crack the poisoning
Chi never washed his brand-new clothes, and a crisp label shows Matt's ratty jeans were never old at all, pointing to the clothes themselves.
Phosdrin identified, but Mighty Mom still says no
House jokes about never washing new clothes, the chemical is named, and the team learns only Chi's parents have agreed to treatment.
House waits out Matt's mother, then fakes a call from the CDC
House settles in beside Margo watching soaps until her phone rings with the CDC's verdict, and the caller is not who she thinks.
Matt confesses about the pants, and House gets the last word
Matt admits the poison pants were a stolen five-dollar bargain, Margo softens, and House introduces his team to the boy in his own way.
Cuddy hands the jazz legend's case to Foreman, not House
House wants the famous paralysed musician; Cuddy says his doctor asked for Foreman and to stick to the pneumonia.
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.
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.
Clinic: House reads a patient's diabetes off his doughnut-dusted pants
A man wanting blue pills gets a full deduction from his hands, shoes and powdered sugar instead.
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.
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.
Cuddy reveals she budgets for House's legal bills
Kept 50 feet away, House shouts across the clinic; Cuddy explains his legal fund, then drops news that Hamilton is coming.
House in court: a battery charge, a puzzle complex and the judge's fingers
House's lawyer argues to keep John Henry on life support while House interrupts and warns the judge about his heart.
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.
John Henry tells House they both have only one thing
House bargains to finish the diagnosis; the musician sees through his limp and ring finger and talks about a life of one obsession.
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.
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.
John Henry walks out and leaves House a gift
Discharged and on his feet, the musician thanks House, gives him a keepsake and asks about the pills.
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.
Wilson's two craps and Cuddy's revenge: House must teach
House teases Wilson about caring for the patient, then Cuddy turns his fake cold into a teaching assignment.
Wilson catches House snooping through personnel files, including his own
House digs into Foreman's family and Wilson's file; Wilson needles him about spying on friends.
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.
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.
House teaches two medical students while reading a comic
Two students describe the same patient two different ways; House spots the lie and teases a diagnosis that starts with C.
House diagnoses Korsakoff's from a story about a seagull
The teen patient invents a new injury story each time; House shows the students her memory is gone and why.
House bribes the cop into confessing he Tasered the patient
The officer sticks to his report until House admires his weapon and slides over some cash.
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.
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 only cares about his missing Vicodin while Cuddy pitches a case
His pills got shipped to Research; between complaints about the delay, House sizes up the bleeding teen's case.
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.
Cuddy bets House he can't go a week without narcotics
Cuddy calls him an addict; House insists it's the leg, and the stakes climb to a month off clinic duty.
Every test is negative, then Keith loses sight in one eye
House is underwhelmed by a wall of negatives until the boy calls for help and goes dark in one eye.
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.
House hires a masseuse and Wilson gets the treatment
Wilson is sure she is something else; then she grabs his hand and he is converted.
A teammate's eye trick restores Keith's sight
House mocks a normal echo and kidney worries, brushes off an idea to drain fluid from the eye, then backs it; Keith sees again.
Keith's liver fails and House mocks his frightened father
A tender visit from his girlfriend turns to alarm; House answers the father's question with sarcasm and is called on it.
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.
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.
A colleague hands House his Vicodin back
Spotting his withdrawal, a team member returns his pills and tells him to take them before the kid suffers.
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 halts the liver transplant mid-incision: termites
House stops the surgery, explains naphthalene stored in fat poured out as Keith lost weight, and fakes a sneeze.
House convinces the father, and Keith gives up the liver
House lays out the poisoning; Keith tells his dad to trust House and give the liver to someone else.
House admits he's an addict but won't call it a problem
Bet won, House tells Wilson the truth about the pills and refuses to stop; Wilson says he has changed.
House guesses the patient is young, then finds Wilson's signed photo
House reasons out the patient's age from the bone loss, then teases Wilson about his autographed fan photo.
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.
House speed-runs the clinic to leave by five
A runner bride, a man pulling at his corneas, a dentist breathing nitrous and a hungover student, each in seconds.
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.
House tells Hank Lupron is basically milk; Wilson asks for his reasons
House gives Wilson three reasons for lying about the drug, then a fourth: a bad reaction will prove something worse.
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 corners Hank until he admits to steroids years ago
House needles Hank's cocaine history in front of his wife until Hank confesses to a coach's injections in Maine.
Lola offers Hank her kidney and House scoffs at the gesture
His wife insists on donating; House mocks the nobility until she tells him he can't see love in others.
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.
Lola is a kidney match, and she is pregnant
Taken aside alone, Lola learns she matches Hank but can't donate in her condition.
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 spots Warner's clubbed fingers and solves the heart symptoms
House sneaks into practice, diagnoses the coach's heart condition and counts his pills: Hank took them on purpose.
House confronts Hank over the overdose, and Hank threatens worse
House needles him about money and gratitude; Hank vows to finish the job if anyone pushes the transplant.
Wilson confesses his Friday is dinner with Stacy
Doused by a patient, House pries out the truth: Wilson is meeting Stacy. House insists he's fine.
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.
A second urine test exposes Hank's marijuana habit
House points out why Hank now gives a sample freely; the cadmium came from his weed, and Lola learns he lied.
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.
Gabe confides in Chase that he is cursed
Away from his parents, Gabe tells Chase about the seance and his bad luck, and Chase gets the attic secret out of him.
House pegs a stranger's accent and finds Chase's father
House reads a man's Czech-and-Aussie accent and the hug he saw, and works out he is Chase's dad.
House on chemicals in a beaker: why you never ask
House drags his friend out of a consult to speculate about Chase's dad, then explains people are like chemicals: apply heat.
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.
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.
A donor dad breaks into House's office to demand attention
Jeffrey picks House's lock and boasts how money got his wrist fixed; House mocks him with David Copperfield jokes.
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 pushes Chase on what his father did
Chase accuses House of messing with his head; House says he cleverly has no personal life and needles him about his dad.
House deduces Rowan Chase's terminal cancer
A radiation tattoo and a macrobiotic breakfast give it away: Rowan has stage IV lung cancer and won't tell his son.
Wilson on ethics, House on the blonde accountant
Wilson scolds House for prying into his patient; House weighs telling Chase and teases Wilson about billing procedures.
House forces Gabe's dad to confess his years in India
House squeezes the father's 'carpal tunnel' wrist and corners him until he admits two years at an Indian ashram, in front of his son.
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.
Chase explains why it hurts less not to care
House comes to talk to Chase, who lays out how years of disappointments taught him to stop caring about his father.
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.
Vogler spots the doctor without a lab coat
Vogler tells Cuddy he will run the hospital like a business, then fixes on House wandering past in street clothes.
House startles the father who can't talk
In the clinic, a boy's father has been mute since knee surgery; House, suspicious, tests him with a sudden shout.
Cuddy orders House into the lab coat as Wilson defends Vogler
House calls Vogler's clinical trials unethical; Wilson points out the irony and Cuddy warns that Vogler already dislikes him.
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's theory on why billionaires buy hospitals
Wilson agrees to a bone scan while House jokes about bad omens and the real motive of a billionaire; Wilson tells him to keep his head down.
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.
House reads Carly's secret: bulimia and ipecac
House lays out Carly's cutting and her hidden bulimia, and explains how ipecac wrecked her leg muscle and her heart.
House makes Carly say she wants to live
Telling the committee about her bulimia would sink her, so House demands Carly prove her life matters before he risks his license.
House lies to the transplant committee
House presents Carly's case, explains his early 'hunch', and under Cuddy's direct question says there's nothing to disqualify her.
Wilson on friendship as an ethical duty
House scolds Wilson for voting his way despite doubts; Wilson calls friendship an ethical responsibility as the heart arrives.
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.
House cures the silent father and keeps his secret
House explains the surgical damage he fixed with Botox, then lets the father stay silent to protect his settlement.
House brings Carly fried chicken
House visits Carly after the transplant with a joke gift, and she asks why he fought for her.
Vogler and House draw battle lines
Vogler interrupts House's music, shows what was found in Carly's purse, and House says money versus tenure means a standoff.
House gets a court order and refuses to play fetch
Vogler is pressing Cuddy for House's numbers when House barges in with a federal order to treat a witness, and picks jail.
The patient's lawyer brother threatens House in an elevator
Bill Arnello demands House keep his brother hospitalized, stops the elevator, and promises to take away everything House loves.
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.
Clinic: the toy officer up a toddler's nose
A teen babysitter panics over his little brother's whistling breathing; House doubts the studying and pulls out the culprit.
House finds his patient released and takes on Vogler
Vogler had the witness discharged; House storms in, calls Vogler not even a doctor, and Vogler makes him say 'sir'.
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.
House offers the mob lawyer two sets of books
Bill fears what a hep C chart would do to Joey's reputation; House guesses why, and offers to keep the treatment off the record.
The Arnello brothers give House a Corvette
Wilson warns that Cuddy and Vogler are poring over House's records; House shows off a restored car and talks himself out of calling it graft.
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.
Running a mobster's blood through a pig
With two hours of liver left, the team hooks Joey up to a pig to filter his blood while his brother watches in disbelief.
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.
House accidentally reveals the secret hep C treatment
Vogler calls the feds to release Joey, then learns from House about the off-record hep C treatment and loses his patience.
Clinic: a magnet and a team sent to save the cat
The toddler is back with something bigger up his nose; House uses a magnet and admires the boy's rescue logic.
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.
Steak, a bribe and Male Flame: House cracks Joey's case
House traces the comas to a marshal bribed for steak, names a genetic disorder, and explains the estrogen with a herbal pill for gay men.
Cuddy saves House's job, at a price
Cuddy tells House she held on to her job and his, but Vogler wants profits, more clinic hours, and one of House's team fired.
Cuddy orders House to fire one of his team
House dodges with talk of piercings and endless performance reviews; Cuddy gives him one week.
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.
Clinic: House insists the heartburn patient is pregnant
A mother of six with burning chest pain swears she isn't pregnant and lectures House on real women's curves.
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.
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.
A 30-pound benign tumor and a bikini refusal
Wilson finds a huge but harmless tumor; Mrs. Hernandez accuses him of pushing cosmetic surgery and refuses to be cut.
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.
House offers a pay cut, Vogler says it was never about money
House proposes cutting all four salaries to keep everyone; Vogler refuses, wanting to know House will obey.
Mr. Hernandez begs House, and the kids' photo moves him
Lucille's husband asks House to talk her into surgery, even to lie; House refuses until a photo of their six kids changes his mind.
The necrosis spreads and a mastectomy looms
With the sores advancing, the team plans to cut out the dying tissue, and Wilson tells Jessica's mother what that means.
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.
House's eye-color deduction: men are pigs
House works out from her kids' eye colors why Mrs. Hernandez fears a scar, and talks her into surgery his own way.
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.
House names Chase, and Vogler refuses
House finally gives Vogler a name; Vogler changes the deal and threatens the whole department unless House picks someone else.
Vogler forces House to sell his new drug
Vogler hands House the senator's case, then offers a deal: give a talk praising his company's new ACE inhibitor or fire one of his team.
House calls out the senator's tongue-scar story
House shreds the senator's childhood swing story as campaign spin, then spots the speech problem and orders brain tests.
Clinic: the woman who miscarried without having sex
A clinic patient insists she hasn't had sex in a year; House's tests say she was pregnant. His advice is deadpan.
House and Cuddy fight over a senator's brain biopsy
Cuddy refuses to let House biopsy a sitting senator's brain on an MRI spot; House turns it into a choice the patient must make.
Toxoplasmosis means AIDS, and the senator refuses
The biopsy shows toxoplasmosis, which House says means AIDS. The senator rejects the diagnosis and dictates his own terms.
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.
HIV positive: House and the senator on believing in people
The HIV test is positive. House demands the truth; the senator calls him a coward who won't take chances on people.
Wilson needles House about the speech; House barks
Wilson accuses House of shilling for Vogler; House answers by acting out a high-strung lap dog.
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.
Wilson catches House believing in a politician
Wilson works out why House ordered a second AIDS test: he believed the senator. Then he asks about House and Cameron.
Clinic: carpet burn on a celibate woman
Her drug tests are clean, but a new rash is a carpet burn. House probes for lost time and learns her ex lives downstairs.
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.
Clinic reveal: sex while sleepwalking
The sleep lab solves the clinic mystery: she sleepwalks, and House suggests her ex downstairs is more than a coincidence.
House breaks the senator's swing-story lie
House takes the gasping senator's oxygen and forces out the truth about a childhood seizure and the drug he took.
The diagnosis, explained in a collapsing football play
House explains the senator's immunodeficiency with a football metaphor that falls apart, and dismisses Chase's earlier idea.
House's speech skewers Vogler's new drug
House reads a one-line endorsement, then roasts Vogler's re-patented pill in front of the cardiology conference.
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.
Clinic: the raw-food vegan baby
A baby's 'cold' is pneumonia and her weight has crashed; House lays into the parents' raw vegan diet.
House tells Vogler he cut Cameron
House reports he fired Cameron as agreed; Vogler demands his resignation and a public apology by morning.
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.
Wilson warns House: the board meets about you
Wilson says Vogler has called a board meeting about House; House insists his tenure makes him untouchable.
House calls Cuddy a Quisling
Cuddy admits she called Social Services on House's patients. He compares her to a wartime traitor; she says she's protecting him.
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.
Wilson tells House he lost his job for him
Wilson reveals he resigned after voting for House and says their friendship didn't matter enough for one speech.
Cuddy: you're not worth a hundred million
Mid clinic exam, House accuses Cuddy of sacking Wilson; she tells him the money matters more than he does.
House uncovers Naomi's secret first child
From one slip of tense, House works out Naomi lost a child before, then tells her dying for this baby doesn't make her a hero.
Vogler stops the C-section; House blows up
Vogler calls off the surgery mid-countdown; House and Vogler scream over one patient versus the trial's data.
House talks Sean into saving the baby
Naomi is bleeding out. House tells Sean only two things change if he okays the C-section.
House solves the shrinking baby for Cuddy
House shows Cuddy the scan: a genetic syndrome, not starvation. He hands off the treatment, assuming he'll be gone.
Drinks for Cuddy, who isn't celebrating
House's team toasts Cuddy as champion; she reminds them what losing Vogler's money cost the hospital.
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.
Cuddy drafts House into the meningitis quarantine
Thousands exposed to meningitis flood the hospital; House tries to slip out and Cuddy orders him to act like a doctor.
Speed triage: the dry-cleaning deduction
House triages at speed, deducing a secret from a woman's clothes; the punchline doesn't go his way.
House spots the diver in the triage line
A 12-year-old diver with fever, rash and neck pain shows up; House tests her neck and pulls her out of the line.
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.
Firing Chase, and Cuddy's outfit
House says he'll torture Chase before firing him; Cuddy catches him slacking, takes his comments, and orders him to interview.
House rejects a candidate over his tattoo
A fellowship hopeful praises House's nonconformity; House turns his Asian-letter tattoo into a lecture on real rebellion.
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.
The perfect candidate, ruled out by her shoes
Dr. Petra Gilmar handles House's outrageous interview; afterwards he rejects her because of her painful designer shoes.
'You're gonna wind up alone, House'
Between patients, House is told he finds flaws to push people away, and it's really about Cameron.
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.
House tells a 12-year-old she's pregnant
The rash is bleeding into the skin, and House works out the trigger: pregnancy. Mary insists she chose it; House pushes back.
House stonewalls Mary's parents
House tells the Carrolls their daughter will be fine and dodges every question about what the surgery is.
'Position's been filled'
A hopeful candidate arrives for an interview; House insists the job is taken and offers to validate the parking.
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.
Wilson finds out Cameron's price: one date with House
Mid-exam, Wilson needles House until he admits Cameron came back on the condition of one date, then mocks the mentor romance.
House's apology to a soaked-in-juice patient ends in a stroke
House overreacts to a spilled 'urine' sample, is ordered to apologise, offers the sobbing patient cash, and the kid's pupil blows.
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.
Clinic: an elderly woman wants her husband's blue pills weakened
Ramona's pain traces to Myron's new pills; she misses Jeopardy and asks House to lie to Myron for 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.
Myron wants less sex, so House hands him a blue placebo
Ramona's husband admits he can't keep up; House walks him to the pharmacy to find a blue pill that does nothing.
Cuddy tells House to stop walling himself off; he eyes her blouse
Cuddy backs the Cameron date and says five years of self-pity is enough; House deflects, and she suggests a shirt.
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.
Wilson tells House to be a jerk to Cameron, House turns it on him
Wilson suggests House end the Cameron thing by being himself; House diagnoses Wilson's own break-up habit and ego.
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.
House shames Harvey's parents into signing the surgery consent
Furious at the fake death call, the Parks refuse; House reframes humiliation and threatens a sign campaign until they sign.
Wilson fixes House's tie and coaches him for the date
House frets about small talk; Wilson lays out doors, chairs, shoes and earrings, plus a condom offer.
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.
House spots mismatched rings: Ramona and Myron are having an affair
The couple's stories clash and House notices one silver ring, one gold; the blue-pill problem turns out to be an affair.
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.
Annette explains trust to House; Harvey asks about his parents
House tells Harvey and Annette the strangling must stop; Annette says it is about vulnerability, and Harvey asks if his parents came.
Cuddy drafts House to teach a diagnostics class
House doubts the absent lecturer is sick, refuses, then haggles over clinic hours once Cuddy fails to stop him leaving.
Stacy walks back into House's life asking him to save her husband
House's ex Stacy shows him her husband Mark's scans; House insults the man's pancreas and admits he's not sure he wants him to live.
House's lecture: three guys walk into a clinic with leg pain
House opens the class with a riddle, mocks textbook answers, and casts Carmen Electra as a stand-in patient in his story.
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.
The screaming golfer gets his Demerol, and the class gets played
House's pantless golfer stand-in screams until the doctors give Demerol; the pain vanishes and House explains he was a drug seeker.
Wilson tells House why Stacy came to him
During the break Wilson presses House on Stacy's husband: she doesn't hate House, she just can't stand to be around him.
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.
House tests the returning drug seeker with a catheter
The golfer comes back in pain; instead of calling the cops House picks a tube without anaesthetic to see if he's really sick.
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.
Everybody lies: the dying farmer's dog gives him away
House tells the farmer he's dying; his worry for his dog exposes a bite he hid, and two doctors wrestle the dog for a swab.
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.
House to the students: you are going to kill someone
House says the patient's own doctors missed it for three days, and that killing someone is part of medicine.
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 refuses amputation and picks the riskiest option
House tells Cuddy to save his leg with a bypass despite the risks; Stacy calls him an idiot and admits she's scared he'll die.
House diagnoses his own cardiac arrest from a hospital bed
After surgery House screams for morphine, Stacy hears of a middle-ground option, and House reads his own heart failure before he crashes.
House on near-death visions: just chemistry, by choice
After a dreamlike vision during a minute of death, House says he chooses to believe it's brain chemistry, not a test.
Stacy begs House to let them cut off his leg
With the pain not easing, Stacy asks why his life is worth less than hers; House still can't say yes.
Stacy uses her proxy while House sleeps
House asks for a coma to sleep through the pain; Stacy, his proxy, says goodbye and then signs for the middle-ground surgery.
The class argues Stacy's choice, then House calls her back
House lays out his lasting pain; students split on the proxy decision, the class runs over, and House phones Stacy to book Mark in.
House meets Stacy's husband Mark, out-toasts him, and drugs him
Stacy ambushes Mark with House at a restaurant; the two men trade jabs and toasts until Mark collapses and Stacy realizes House dosed him.
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.
In the waiting room House asks Stacy if she's cheating
House sits with Stacy during the surgery, notes she takes sugar now, and frames an infidelity question as medicine; she sees through it.
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.
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.
On the roof House admits he doesn't know, then Mark goes paralyzed
Stacy confronts House on his old hideout; he confesses every test is negative, and soon after Mark loses feeling in his body.
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.
Mark fears Stacy will leave him, then can't breathe
Mark accuses Stacy of leaving the way she left House; mid-crisis the room calls a code, and House reads the vitals as panic.
House deduces Stacy hid this trip from her friends
From the cards and the flowers, House works out who Stacy didn't tell she was coming; she says Wilson may be right to keep them apart.
House confesses to Wilson that part of him wants Mark to die
Mark isn't responding; House admits his ugliest wish to Wilson and isn't sure why he has it.
They never went to Paris
House tries to make peace by praising Mark's honeymoon in Paris, and Stacy's answer gives him a new symptom.
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.
Stacy demands House force the test; he respects Mark's no
Mark refuses the trigger; Stacy begs House to do it anyway, accuses him of payback for his leg, and he turns her own choice back on her.
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.
Stacy tells House he's the one, and she still chooses Mark
Stacy thanks House, admits she's not over him, and explains why she was lonely with him and isn't with Mark.
Cuddy wants to hire Stacy and asks House's permission
Cuddy has offered Stacy a job as general counsel, but only if House says yes; he has to answer.