A kiss in the clean room sends Melinda into shock
Dan scrubs in to visit his girlfriend in her sealed room, steals a kiss, and she starts choking while he fumbles with a device he has never used.
Melinda Bardach
Every House moment featuring Melinda Bardach, in story order.
10 moments · 20 min
Melinda's mother explains why she is so overprotective
A doctor calls the mother overprotective; she recounts the peanut cookie and car crash that cost Melinda her heart.
Discharge day turns into heart failure
As Melinda is being released she can't breathe; her father begs for the epi pen, but a doctor spots it is her heart, not an allergy.
Melinda knows her heart has an expiry date; Pain in My Heart plays
After a clean scan, Melinda says she looked up how long a transplanted heart lasts and that is why she needs a life. Otis Redding follows.
Melinda vanishes from her room and is found in the hospital
The hospital hunts for the missing patient; a doctor finds her, and she says the transplant gave her mother what she always wanted.
Steppage gait: ascending paralysis joins the list
Melinda's walk is wrong and her leg twitches; the team argues tick paralysis, botulism and viruses, and Foreman calls Guillain-Barre.
Melinda gives up and her mother breaks
The paralysis worsens; Melinda refuses to see Dan and asks her mother to stay, and her mother admits she only ever wanted her safe.
House crashes the MRI with diagnosis number nine: tick paralysis
House interrogates Melinda in front of her parents; the antibiotic was not penicillin, and he concludes Dan carried in a tick.
House stops the elevator to hunt for the tick
House hijacks the ride to the ICU with Foreman and Melinda, argues for treating the cause, and searches her body as her heart rate falls.
Found: the tick, and House's dramatic exit from the elevator
House realizes where nobody looked and the doors open on the tick; later he and Wilson discuss the elevator, and his cane turns up filed halfway through.