A Ouija board in an empty house spells out Gabe's name
Older boys sneak Gabe into a vacant house for a seance; the board names who will die, and soon after he collapses, coughing.
S1E13 · Cursed
21 moments · 29 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
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.
House pegs a stranger's accent and finds Chase's father
House reads a man's Czech-and-Aussie accent and the hug he saw, and works out he is Chase's dad.
House on chemicals in a beaker: why you never ask
House drags his friend out of a consult to speculate about Chase's dad, then explains people are like chemicals: apply heat.
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.
A donor dad breaks into House's office to demand attention
Jeffrey picks House's lock and boasts how money got his wrist fixed; House mocks him with David Copperfield jokes.
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.
House deduces Rowan Chase's terminal cancer
A radiation tattoo and a macrobiotic breakfast give it away: Rowan has stage IV lung cancer and won't tell his son.
Wilson on ethics, House on the blonde accountant
Wilson scolds House for prying into his patient; House weighs telling Chase and teases Wilson about billing procedures.
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 forces Gabe's dad to confess his years in India
House squeezes the father's 'carpal tunnel' wrist and corners him until he admits two years at an Indian ashram, in front of his son.
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.
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