A Marine sing-along turns into an ambush, and House wakes up
Marines joke and sing until gunfire hits; House wakes in his office to Cuddy's new case and recognizes the patient's face from the photo.
John
7 moments · 13 min
The ex-Marine spells out his symptoms to doubting doctors
Pressed on whether his rashes are bruises, John details his fatigue, sandy joints and boiling blood and asks only for someone to cure it.
The patient wakes to a foul smell coming from his own mouth
John smells something rotten; Foreman finds it's his mouth and calls House, who riffs on the infection and pushes for parotid cancer.
John goes deaf mid-scan, and Wilson finds tumors in his brain
During a sialogram John keeps asking for louder music until he can't hear at all; Wilson tells House the cancer is in his brain.
The brain tumors vanish on the table, and John can't feel his legs
Wilson's surgery finds nothing where six tumors were; House calls them healed abscesses, then John is paralyzed and House asks if he did porn.
House returns to a bleeding patient, and finds the blood is his
The patient's blood is vanishing and House is told to leave, then a torn bag on the floor turns out to be House bleeding, and he's not always there.
House wakes up, and the patient's nose holds the answer
The same scene replays, but House already knows the patient is crashing; scarring in John's nose leads him to a hereditary capillary disease.