House throws away a mystery Christmas present
Cuddy pitches the case and denies a crush; a gift arrives with a note, and House bins an antique Joseph Bell book twice.
Lawrence Kutner
Every House moment featuring Lawrence Kutner, in story order. Played by Kal Penn.
92 moments · 2h 13m
Wilson spins the tale of Irene Adler
Wilson tells the fellows a moving story about the one who got away, then laughs: he gave House that book and wrapping last Christmas.
The fellows insist Cuddy is in love with House
Cuddy is caught lingering, and the team needles House during the differential that the gift came from her, until he figures out who talked.
Kutner corners the bully
Kutner catches Simon visiting Natalie, threatens him with drugs from his locker, and learns he once supplied her with vodka.
House won't treat Natalie, and Cuddy doesn't push
Natalie's organs keep failing; House suspects leukemia but orders only a test, and the team realizes treatment couldn't save her.
Christmas montage: apologies and an adoption plan
Over a song, Natalie holds her baby, Kutner apologizes to Jonathan for high-school cruelty, and Cuddy decides to foster and adopt.
Kutner and Taub debate who has suicide baggage
Scanning for tumors, Kutner probes Taub's absolute stance on suicide and offers his own view from a hard childhood; then they spot something.
House finds teeth marks on the IV line
House cancels the angioplasty, deduces Jeff blew air into his own IV, and Jeff admits he lied: he still wants to die.
House proposes the drugs are the disease
With ideas exhausted, House argues the original injury healed and the painkillers now cause pain, then is asked about his own Vicodin.
A recovery montage and Kutner's guess about Taub
Over a song, Jeff is treated, and Kutner tells Taub he suspects the suicidal colleague in Taub's story was Taub himself.
House outs Foreman and Thirteen to the team
House accuses Thirteen of disagreeing with Foreman just to look independent, letting slip that the two are seeing each other.
House's convoluted plan: radiation without radiation
House explains he asked for something crazy so Cameron would refuse; now stuck, he orders the team to stage the procedure without flipping the switch.
House diagnoses brain damage from a wrong room number
House argues Sarah's transposed digits and forgetting to pee point to a brain lesion; the team accuses him of pathologising decent people.
House on why everyone is really here
The team argues whether Dana had a right to quit; House sizes up each doctor's selfish reason for being there, then needles Foreman about Thirteen.
House trips a wire and stays calm
Someone has rigged a trip wire for House; he shrugs it off, and the team suspects he's already figured out who did it while they pin down a liver bleed.
The Duran Duran metaphor
House explains a missing immune response with an extended band-and-fans metaphor, finally spelling out that it's the spleen.
House goes along with the parents' MRI
House mocks the case and the parents' demand to call testosterone 'vitamins', then meets the parents and agrees to their MRI without a fight.
House riffs on being fazed
The team notices House shrugging off an unexplained coincidence; he riffs on how fazed he is until the testosterone ties it together.
House stops breathing
The team finds House unresponsive and not breathing; he comes to with a purple nipple and blames too much Vicodin.
Foreman figures out House is on heroin
The team reveals they knew about Foreman and Thirteen, which makes Foreman realise what House missed and call it in.
Foreman in charge, Thirteen's guilt
With House gone and Foreman in charge, the team argues diagnoses; Foreman tells Thirteen she's choosing the theory that spares her guilt.
House walks back in
House rejoins the team, finds Foreman and Thirteen arrived at the same theory, and lands on energy drinks.
House grills Taub on racquetball and Sandy Koufax
Mid-differential, House mocks Taub's athletic claims and quizzes him on racquetball shots, then sentences him to all-night blood draws for lying.
House and Taub fight over the green urine case
House writes the case in green ink, Taub calls the patient a Munchausen faker, and House sends him on a search built on a theory that was a lie.
House runs a double-blind test on the death cat
House sets the cat loose among coma patients to disprove it, fires back at a fellow's psychic theory, and the cat triggers an allergy instead.
Green plus purple, and House mocks Kutner's superstitions
The team realizes the brown urine may be green dye plus purple; House catches Kutner dodging bad omens and needles him about it.
Kutner's cat-pee revenge on House
House finds cat pee on his chair and fake blood on his face, and Kutner survives the consequences, as an end song plays.
Lee wonders if God sent House
Kutner geeks out over the MRI video goggles; inside, Lee finds House in his relaxing scenario and decides House was sent to save him.
Foreman and Thirteen find Kutner
Sent to find out where Kutner is, Foreman and Thirteen get into his apartment and find him shot; they try to revive him, but he is cold.
House wakes beside a dead man in a burning building
House comes to on the floor of a fire next to a body, and is greeted by a former employee who died by his own hand. The ghost wants answers.