House parades Foreman's dad in front of Cuddy
House brings Rodney Foreman to pressure Cuddy into allowing the autopsy; she answers with a firm defence of her public-health call.
Rodney Foreman
7 moments · 11 min
Foreman and his father argue about faith and dying
Foreman wonders whether to tell his mother; his father's certainty about a better place collides with Foreman's lost belief.
House visits Foreman's father in the chapel
House warns Rodney he'll have to make Foreman's medical decisions; Rodney defers and tells House how Eric rates him.
A father's goodbye before the coma
Rodney asks Cameron what to say to a son who may not wake; he and Foreman share an 'I love you' before Cameron accepts the apology.
Cameron pulls rank as proxy and orders the biopsy
Cameron calls out House for being too careful with a friend; she's Foreman's proxy, and Cuddy tells House to shut up and stand aside.
Foreman's father hears the diagnosis: a brain-eating amoeba
Rodney learns it was a parasite that fed on brain cells and is treatable, but no one can yet say what the surgery cost his son.
Foreman wakes up, but something is wrong
Foreman comes out of the coma joking and pain-free, learns who found the answer, then fails a simple movement test.