House's first differential: illnesses over patients, zebras over horses
House argues doctors treat illnesses, not people, waves off talking to the patient, and leads the team through stroke, mad cow and Wernicke's.
Robert Chase
Every House moment featuring Robert Chase, in story order. Played by Jesse Spencer.
127 moments · 3h 22m
Rebecca stops breathing inside the MRI
A suspected reaction to the contrast dye closes Rebecca's airway mid-scan, and the team has to cut an emergency airway to save her.
House's plan: stop everything and watch how fast she dies
With Rebecca's symptoms spreading toward the brain stem, House proposes stopping all treatment to read the disease from its speed. The team is appalled.
X-ray the leg, not the brain: Chase's idea gives Rebecca her proof
Instead of a court order, a simple X-ray idea is turned toward the thigh, where House is sure the worms hide. The larva shows up on film.
House bets his team the father isn't the father
During the differential House claims the family history is wrong, puts money on paternity, needles Foreman into raising the stakes, and orders a sleep study.
Chase bluffs, House sees the bowing in the corpus callosum
Asked what the clean MRI shows, Chase guesses meningitis to impress; House calls it out and points to a subtle arch nobody else sees.
The team splits over MS and Dan hears what it means
The spinal fluid suggests multiple sclerosis; House waves off the six-month rule and goes home, leaving the team to explain the outlook to Dan.
Dan nearly walks off the hospital roof
Confused, Dan believes he's back on his lacrosse field; Chase stops him, and Foreman explains to House why he didn't.
Not MS after all: House pushes neurosyphilis and a risky injection
The roof episode rules out MS; House rates teen sex odds, polls the team on his sanity and gets the shunt answer he wanted.
Back to square one with the MIDNIT mnemonic
With penicillin failing, House runs the team through a mnemonic he mocks for its spelling, then orders listening equipment for a talking brain.
Coffee-cup DNA reveals Dan was adopted
The paternity test brings a double surprise; House confronts the parents, waves off their outrage, and asks one question about the birth mother.
Why this patient? House takes the ER case after a stairwell check
House grills his team on why they care about this patient, then mocks a differential where nothing fits every symptom.
House argues two diseases beat one in an Occam's razor showdown
The treatment is wrecking Brandon's kidneys. Chase offers a one-in-ten-million fit; House recolors the board and does the odds for two diseases.
The team doubts House, then Chase and Foreman argue about Cameron
One doctor calls them House's puppets and heads to the lab; there Foreman and Chase spar over whether Cameron is weird or hot.
House tells Cameron she owns Chase, then gloats over the kidneys
House lectures Cameron on her effect on men, catches the team trying to disprove him, and explains why taunting keeps doctors working.
Chase's awkward apology becomes a speech on what sex does to a body
Chase admits sex talk makes him uneasy and gets a vivid physiology lesson in return, and Foreman arrives with bad blood counts.
The cough was first: House works out a gout-drug mix-up
After a long silent think, House explains how a gout medicine handed out by mistake explains every symptom, then hits a timeline snag.
Epidemic differential: House explains Cuddy's sick baby
With four infants failing, House reads why Cuddy needs a swab team, then the team narrows a resistant hospital germ.
House orders a trial: one drug off each baby
The antibiotics are killing the babies' kidneys; while the team argues which to drop, House decides to treat the two infants differently.
Two families, two treatments, two ways of breaking the news
The Hartigs hear their daughter may not survive; Cameron reassures the other family, and a colleague challenges her over false hope.
Mrs. Hartig fears for her marriage as the other baby crashes
Mrs. Hartig confides her fear to Chase; alarms send her running in panic, and Chase fights for the Chen-Lupino baby without success.
House makes Cameron tell the parents, and scolds Chase for helping
The failed drug points to vancomycin; House assigns Cameron the death talk, and when she freezes he accuses Chase of bailing her out.
House's superbug rant: we bred them
Neither antibiotic works on the Hartig baby. Chase fears a rare resistant staph; House blames antibiotic overuse, then spots the heart clue.
From an autopsy slide to eight vials: hunting a virus
Heart tissue says virus. With little blood to spare, the team crosses out families of viruses and House adds a healthy baby as a control.
Churg-Strauss, candy canes and House's verdict on nuns
The team settles on Churg-Strauss vasculitis, a gift of Christmas candy canes gets mocked, and House shuts down any suggestion he made a mistake.
The team splits over whether House can ever admit a mistake
After meeting the nuns, one doctor blames House's syringe, another defends him, and Chase sums up what either outcome means for the team.
A God debate in the CT room ends with Augustine seeing Jesus
Foreman and Chase argue faith over the scan, then Sister Augustine smells something that isn't there, cries out about Jesus and starts to seize.
House's mock confession countdown and the hyperbaric gamble
Accused again of the wrong dose, House counts down to a sarcastic 'admission', then pivots to mixed connective tissue disease and a hyperbaric chamber.
House needles Chase about Catholic guilt and his father
Pumping Chase for what he knows about nuns, House offers his theory that good boys are trained by fear to obey their fathers.
A doctor who left seminary prays with Sister Augustine
Alone in a sterile room and afraid to die, Augustine is comforted by a doctor who recites his favorite scripture and admits why he quit seminary.
The full-body scan finds a forgotten copper IUD
House looks inside the patient for the allergen; the scan reveals a decades-old copper device, which explains everything from the cookware onward.
House defends a boring blood clot with Galen, Socrates and Pink Floyd
The team mocks his interest in a schizophrenic's leg clot; House answers with ancient cures and a roll call of brilliant madmen.
Three theories race to explain a patient who clots and bleeds
Vitamin K deficiency, an antibiotic interaction or alcohol: House pits his team's ideas against each other and sends them to find out.
A forgotten eye appointment and copper rings crack Lucy's case
The team lands on a rare copper disorder, House questions their hope, and a forgotten eye appointment leads to copper rings in Lucy's eyes.
House asks why this case, then skewers his team's differential
Handed a woman who sleeps 18 hours a day, House questions the referrer's motives and mocks each theory, ending with a fairy-tale diagnosis.
Treat the symptoms, and House explains why he rides Foreman
With no tumor found, House opts to treat symptoms, sends Foreman to Elyse's workplace, and answers his complaint with a pointed joke.
Sleeping sickness or rabbit fever: two lousy ideas win the day
Infections are ruled out one by one until the team is left with an African parasite or an inhaled bacterium, and House praises Foreman.
Foreman stews over House's praise while his colleagues tease him
Running the tests, Foreman wonders why House singles him out, and his colleagues offer a theory before weighing two risky treatments.
House pins the parasite on an affair and admits pulling a colleague's records
House cites an obscure Portuguese case of sleeping sickness passed by sex, assigns the cheating questions, then is caught having read a doctor's file.
Husband and wife are separately asked: have you cheated?
Foreman and Chase question Ed and Elyse apart, warning that a lie could be fatal, and both insist on their love and fidelity.
The arsenic treatment strains Elyse's heart, then she wakes
Fever and failing blood pressure make the team consider stopping; Ed pleads at her side until Elyse opens her eyes.
Chase presses Matt's mother about drugs until Matt seizes
Chase shares his own wild youth to get answers; Margo Davis reveals she secretly drug-tested her son, then Matt starts to seize.
An army antidote, a British jab and a garden theory
As Matt needs his heart paced, Margo demands options; Chase offers an experimental army treatment, House needles him, and a garden becomes the suspect.
Matt's mother refuses the antidote, and House wants a court order
Margo says the garden spray was swapped for something organic and blocks treatment; House argues she should be overruled as irrational.
A second poisoned boy changes everything
Just as treatment is about to start, a student named Chi Ling arrives with identical symptoms, and he lives nowhere near Matt.
A laundry detergent match links the two boys
The team compares the two families' toiletries product by product until a jug of the same detergent turns up in both homes.
New clothes and fake-old jeans crack the poisoning
Chi never washed his brand-new clothes, and a crisp label shows Matt's ratty jeans were never old at all, pointing to the clothes themselves.
Foreman runs the differential while House picks apart the A.L.S. call
Foreman wants to stick to pneumonia; House mocks him and the team floats treatable alternatives to A.L.S.
House intubates the D.N.R. patient against his wishes
The I.V.I.G. crashes John Henry's lungs; the team freezes over the D.N.R. and House tubes him anyway.
The team fights about House overriding the D.N.R.
Foreman and Cameron argue it was the patient's decision; House says he'd do it again and the debate is pointless.
House is served a restraining order mid-differential
House mistakes the process server for a stripper, then has the patient moved above the clinic to dodge clinic duty.
Hamilton courts Foreman and the team argues about House
Hamilton dangles a partnership in L.A.; Foreman asks Chase and Cameron whether House's assault bothers them.
The hidden A.V.M.: House cracks the paralysis
Steroids shrink the swelling and reveal a malformation compressing the spine that was there all along.
Jane Doe bites Foreman, and House steals a plastic surgery patient's M.R.I. slot
After the bite, a chin-implant patient loses her scan; Cuddy finds a pin in the arm and sends Foreman to the streets.
Right diagnosis, deadly fever: Foreman clashes with the team, then the ice bath
The biopsy confirms the tuberculoma but her fever hits 105; Foreman argues over the Prozac, then forces her into ice.
House rushes a differential to meet his pharmacist
The team lists infection, lupus, drugs and cancer, and House ends the meeting on his leg's schedule.
Testing Keith: a widowed father, a drug test and a scared son
The team tests for drugs, lupus and lymphoma; the father recalls his wife's cancer and Keith fears the same.
Detoxing House runs a differential under Wilson's watch
House shrugs off the eye, spots Cuddy's spy in Wilson, denies withdrawal and lands on a heart infection.
The team says House is unfit, then he walks in with the Goldilocks plan
In Cuddy's office the team argues detox has broken him; House arrives and proposes a test dose that hurts just enough.
House orders Cameron to lie to the father
House picks Cameron because the dad trusts her; the team argues whether House is losing it.
Foreman blames House for the delay and Cameron's trust breaks
Hallucinations make it lupus; Foreman says they waited too long, and Cameron admits she lied because she trusted House.
House accuses the team of star-struck medicine and catches Foreman lying
House dismisses their wish for a fixable kidney problem, bets on steroids, then dissects Foreman's car-trouble excuse.
Addison's on top of old steroid damage: House's two-part theory
No steroids now, no cancer; House splits the symptoms in two and argues the kidneys can carry old damage.
House's $1,000 monster truck tickets and Wilson's Friday excuse
Wilson ducks the monster truck jam with a lecture; House's backup friend is invented; the team speculates wildly.
Hank forbids an abortion and the team debates a baby for a life
Hank calls trading a child for a kidney murder; the doctors argue it out, one pricing a tipping point to the day.
House crashes the drug rep's lunch and cracks the case: cadmium
House roasts Foreman's freebies with a rock-star metaphor, then realises the wife has lost her sense of smell too.
House guesses the donors, then hunts for the rash's cause
Cuddy pitches a 12-year-old's odd pneumonia; House reads her silence as big donors, then runs a differential that lands on a tick bite.
Gabe confides in Chase that he is cursed
Away from his parents, Gabe tells Chase about the seance and his bad luck, and Chase gets the attic secret out of him.
Animal-hair insulation points the team to anthrax
Chase's father spots animal hair in the attic insulation, and the team reads the CT scan until the widened mediastinum spells anthrax.
Gabe's airway closes and the team races to trach him
Gabe can't breathe, the tube won't pass, and Chase cuts a tracheotomy while his father watches and pleads.
Chase versus Chase: House calls a vote
Chase and his rheumatologist father clash over the rash, and House lets the room vote on which Chase wins.
The rash turns black: anthrax and sarcoidosis at once
Necrosis appears mid-treatment, both Chases are partly right, and House settles on treating two diseases at once.
House drags Chase into a consult with his own father
The lesions are spreading, and House forces father and son to debate it; the proctologist jab lands on Rowan.
House pushes Chase on what his father did
Chase accuses House of messing with his head; House says he cleverly has no personal life and needles him about his dad.
Chase confronts his father about walking out
Chase rejects his father's diagnosis, then demands why he came, and the old wound about his mother's drinking opens up.
Cameron tells Chase to lighten up about his dad
At the scanner, Cameron urges Chase to forgive his father; he snaps back and tells her to stay away.
House diagnoses leprosy in a Jersey suburb
House drops clues, then reveals leprosy caught from the father, and explains how the cure itself has been attacking Gabe.
Chase explains why it hurts less not to care
House comes to talk to Chase, who lays out how years of disappointments taught him to stop caring about his father.
Chase tells Gabe he will always love his dad
Gabe says he doesn't love his lying father; Chase, of all people, tells him he can't help it.
Chase says goodbye to his father at the car
Chase offers his father a drink before his flight; they part with awkward promises to call.
House busts Cameron for using a negotiating book
Cameron steers Foreman and Chase toward her clot theory with first names and flattery; House names the technique and mocks it.
Cameron's Aunt Elyssa theory wins over House
Chase and Cameron snipe on first names until Cameron argues a 'normal' sed rate could be high for Carly, and House loves it.
House discovers Chase did the angio on the wrong leg
With every theory dead, House studies the images, notices the toes are backwards, and takes the redo away from Chase.
Cameron admits she likes House
Cameron confides that she asked House whether he liked her, and that she likes him.
Joey wakes up, and House rules this is not a democracy
The team argues over an old head injury, the patient wakes and refuses drilling, and House overrules his team to keep him.
House's baseball-bat lesson on sudden onset
Back with liver failure, Joey tests positive for hep C; House argues timing with a wife and a bat, and jokes one test wins because she's cuter.
The biopsy says it isn't hep C: someone poisoned Joey
Cameron and Chase spar over the car, Joey starts bleeding, and House reads the biopsy as toxins with intent behind them.
Running a mobster's blood through a pig
With two hours of liver left, the team hooks Joey up to a pig to filter his blood while his brother watches in disbelief.
Steak, a bribe and Male Flame: House cracks Joey's case
House traces the comas to a marshal bribed for steak, names a genetic disorder, and explains the estrogen with a herbal pill for gay men.
A 10-year-old's heart attack, and House drops the firing news
The team debates how a child has a heart attack; House then casually announces one of them is gone by week's end.
Jessica's rage, and House defends his team
Jessica turns violent during a test; her mother blames the bickering doctors until House walks in with lab results.
Rivals under pressure: the diet pill theory
With jobs on the line, the team snipes through clots and liposuction until diet pills come up and House calls the mother a liar.
Warfarin necrosis: Chase blames Cameron
House says the team's own treatment caused Jessica's sores; Chase suggests Cameron botched the heparin, and the blame fight boils over.
Vogler asks Chase if he wants to keep his job
Vogler reads the chart, picks at Chase's respect for House, and pushes until Chase admits he wants his job.
Chase is revealed as Vogler's informant
Chase confronts Vogler for talking to Cameron, exposing their deal: information for protection.
Rapid-fire differential lands on Cushing's
House forces snap answers; obesity flips from cause to symptom, the girl's height gives it away, and the team names Cushing's.
The MRI finds the tumor behind everything
A pituitary tumor turns up on the scan; Jessica's mother hears there's no mastectomy and how surgery will fix it all.
Hiding from Cuddy for a differential
The team meets out of Cuddy's sight; House mocks 'idiopathic' and justifies a whole body scan with a football metaphor.
The diagnosis, explained in a collapsing football play
House explains the senator's immunodeficiency with a football metaphor that falls apart, and dismisses Chase's earlier idea.
Who chokes on soft, wet pear?
The team argues preeclampsia versus weakness until House fixes on what she choked on and orders a scope and an eyelid check.
Sacrifice or biology? House cites Darwin
Foreman and Chase debate Naomi's choice; House calls it pure biology and says his patient is the mother.
A pulmonary embolism forces Sean's choice
Naomi's oxygen crashes from a clot; with her unconscious, Sean must choose between her and the baby, and picks her.
House bargains with Cuddy for one hour
House argues the diver's neck pain doesn't fit meningitis; Cuddy gives him an hour and Chase gets the A-to-Z list.
The pill-cam money shot
Watching the camera pill's video, House scolds Chase for taking orders from Foreman, then spots the bleeding vessel.
Differential in the triage line
Handing out pills and forms, the team runs a differential; House sniffs out a fake patient by her hair.
Who would poison a 12-year-old? House lists suspects
As Mary's seizures multiply, House ranks rival divers and swim fans as poisoners; Foreman proposes an outdated scan.
Balloons, and the boys who stayed away
Get-well balloons lead House to ask who visited Mary. No boys did, and he wonders if the rash isn't a rash.
House tells a 12-year-old she's pregnant
The rash is bleeding into the skin, and House works out the trigger: pregnancy. Mary insists she chose it; House pushes back.
Cameron returns, the jaw plate blocks the MRI, and the date leaks
Cameron is back on the team; House spots why the MRI is off-limits, and Cameron tells Chase and Foreman what her new contract got her.
House lets a pool-hall oracle settle Foreman versus Chase
House mocks Harvey's string of alternative healers, then consults a toy oracle to choose between endocarditis and a trauma aneurysm.
Foreman catches Annette choking Harvey: she is his dominatrix
Foreman pulls Annette off the patient; Chase identifies her, and she calmly explains Harvey likes being strangled and what he pays her.
Chase admits his past with a banker who liked to be burned
Chase explains how he knows Annette; Cameron and House pounce, and House scolds him for withholding the pain angle.
House's date plan for Cameron: the county paintball tourney
Harvey's mini-strokes kill the blood-thinner plan; Cameron asks how to dress, and House teases her before naming a restaurant.
Harvey refuses surgery and turns on Annette, then strokes again
Harvey spirals and refuses consent; the team sneaks Annette in to command him, he lashes out at her, and his mood swing is a new stroke.
House tells Harvey's living parents their son is dead
The team finds Harvey's parents are alive and hang up; House calls back with the one lie guaranteed to bring them in.
Chase and Foreman grill Cameron about the morning after
Cameron deflects with food and garlic bread; her puffy eyes give her away, and she can't say if there will be a second dinner.
Chase's breath mints crack the case: an infected jaw
House makes Chase smell the comatose patient's breath and lays out jaw infection as the stroke source, then proves it.
A rapid-fire differential, and time is not a fixed construct
The volleyball player screams at a touch; the team rattles off causes too fast for the class, and House reveals the cases are months apart.
Three legs, three verdicts, and the third patient is House
Cancer, flesh-eating strep and an aneurysm: every story ends with possible amputation, and the room realizes the third patient was House.
House takes the case on Stacy's word; Wilson sets a 50-foot rule
The team mocks House's style and his belief in Stacy over the patient; Wilson says he's playing hero and orders him to keep his distance.
House finds the problem in the surgery footage: abdominal epilepsy
Surgery finds nothing and the team calls Mark healthy; House replays the video, enhances it, and spots the twitch nobody saw.
Chase and Foreman's break-in: cookies from Stacy and hidden pills
Searching the Warners' house, they find a teasing note from Stacy and a stash of amphetamines with a story behind them.
Guillain-Barré without antibodies: House's 'what if'
Foreman rules out Guillain-Barré; House pushes a long shot where the body fights nothing, and the team agrees the treatment is low risk.
Mark fears Stacy will leave him, then can't breathe
Mark accuses Stacy of leaving the way she left House; mid-crisis the room calls a code, and House reads the vitals as panic.
The PET scan as lie detector: House names acute intermittent porphyria
House replays Mark's honest-looking Paris answer, then lays out a disease that leaves no fingerprints, down to the yoga.
House brings the 'cocktail' and his team stands in the way
Mark refuses House's trigger shot; Foreman, Cameron and Chase block him, House mocks the stand, and he still gets his way.
The attack hits and House proves porphyria under the lights
Mark convulses while the team fights over Ativan and a sample; the urine stays yellow until House adds light.