Senator Wright collapses at his own fundraiser
A senator delivers a rousing American-dream speech, loses his words, then gets lobbied by a union man until he vomits and collapses.
Senator Gary Wright
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House calls out the senator's tongue-scar story
House shreds the senator's childhood swing story as campaign spin, then spots the speech problem and orders brain tests.
House and Cuddy fight over a senator's brain biopsy
Cuddy refuses to let House biopsy a sitting senator's brain on an MRI spot; House turns it into a choice the patient must make.
Toxoplasmosis means AIDS, and the senator refuses
The biopsy shows toxoplasmosis, which House says means AIDS. The senator rejects the diagnosis and dictates his own terms.
Why black politicians can't get away with lying
During a bone marrow biopsy the senator tells Foreman that a black politician who lies is a bad role model for the whole race.
HIV positive: House and the senator on believing in people
The HIV test is positive. House demands the truth; the senator calls him a coward who won't take chances on people.
House breaks the senator's swing-story lie
House takes the gasping senator's oxygen and forces out the truth about a childhood seizure and the drug he took.