A savant's benefit concert stops when his hand seizes up
His father helps Patrick dress and introduces him as a pianist since a childhood accident; mid-piece Patrick's left hand cramps in pain.
Mr. Obyedkov
5 moments · 7 min
House sits down for a piano duet with Patrick
House announces his own gift, trades phrases with Patrick at the keys, then tests his perfect pitch and decides the patient stays.
A piano test proves Patrick's right brain never mattered
House puts a keyboard in front of Patrick and reasons that nobody plays with half a brain, so the dead side is old damage and the cause is autoimmune.
House offers Patrick's father a life instead of a gift
House proposes the surgery that ends the seizures and the piano; the father refuses, and House calls his son a performing monkey.
After the surgery, Patrick buttons his own shirt
His speech is gone for now and he stares into space, but Patrick does up the button he couldn't manage before, and his father sees him happy.