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.
James Wilson
Every House moment featuring James Wilson, in story order. Played by Robert Sean Leonard.
69 moments · 1h 42m
Rebecca asks whether House is a good man, then goes blind
During a neuro exam Rebecca asks if her unseen doctor cares about people; his friend answers by what House does, before she loses her sight and crashes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The liver ultrasound shows a tumor, and Wilson breaks the news
Cirrhosis in a woman who supposedly doesn't drink, then a solid mass; Wilson introduces himself to Lucy and tells her she has cancer.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Wilson talks a scared Carly into a cancer test
Carly hides her illness from her father and, haunted by her mother's death, refuses a colonoscopy until Wilson offers another way.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vogler reads House's record to the board
Vogler lists House's last three months of offenses, Wilson defends him, and Vogler puts his hundred million on the table.
Wilson's lone vote, and Vogler's next motion
Vogler moves to fire House; one vote blocks it. Vogler answers with a new vote aimed at the man who cast it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wilson warns Cameron not to break House's heart
Wilson corners Cameron before the date; it is not her he is worried about.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.