Speed-chess win turns into a brawl
A teenager taunts his beaten opponent at speed chess, then attacks him, then collapses screaming that his head will explode.
Nate
Every House moment featuring Nate, in story order.
10 moments · 16 min
Nate insults his doctor and his mother
From his ER bed Nate mocks every question and sarcastically sobs for his mother as she apologizes for him.
Nate needles Foreman during magnetic stimulation
Mid-treatment Nate asks whether people watch what they say around Foreman, and lands an unexpected punchline.
Nate on mushrooms: Skippy the bush kangaroo
After his mother Enid signs the form, a tripping Nate hails his doctor as a kangaroo and propositions Cameron.
Nate refuses brain surgery, then turns yellow
Nate rejects the biopsy and mocks his mother; under sedation he goes quiet and the doctors spot jaundice.
Foreman threatens to strap Nate down and feed him
Nate refuses hospital food for the test; Foreman snaps and calls for restraints.
Foreman apologizes; a starving Nate goes on a rampage
The hamburger test is negative and House orders Nate starved; hungry and furious, Nate attacks a nurse over a urine sample.
House as Dr. McCaney beats Nate at chess
House goads the weakened teenager into a game, insults him move by move, and calls checkmate as Nate's body gives out.
Enid admits her relief; Nate tells his doctor his best sucks
Learning her son may die, Enid admits she first felt happy he was sick; during a nerve biopsy Nate tells his doctor he's bad at this.
Chess rematch: House diagnoses hemochromatosis by Nate's thumb
House forces a second game, finds the clue in how Nate holds the pieces, explains iron overload to the mother and the two replay a bluff.