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.
Mrs. Bardach
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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 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.
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 offers to tell the parents when he finds the tick at autopsy
Melinda's heart slows; House needles the parents that she will die without his search, and Cuddy has him thrown out.