Carly bluffs a board into an Asia strategy, then collapses
A young CEO invents an Asian expansion on the spot to placate her board, clears the room, and admits she can't move her leg.
S1E14 · Control
20 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
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.
Edward Vogler buys the board with $100 million
Cuddy introduces the new chairman, who tells how his father's Alzheimer's drove him to write the hospital a blank check.
Vogler spots the doctor without a lab coat
Vogler tells Cuddy he will run the hospital like a business, then fixes on House wandering past in street clothes.
House startles the father who can't talk
In the clinic, a boy's father has been mute since knee surgery; House, suspicious, tests him with a sudden shout.
Cuddy orders House into the lab coat as Wilson defends Vogler
House calls Vogler's clinical trials unethical; Wilson points out the irony and Cuddy warns that Vogler already dislikes him.
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's theory on why billionaires buy hospitals
Wilson agrees to a bone scan while House jokes about bad omens and the real motive of a billionaire; Wilson tells him to keep his head down.
Wilson talks a scared Carly into a cancer test
Carly hides her illness from her father and, haunted by her mother's death, refuses a colonoscopy until Wilson offers another way.
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.
House already knows Carly needs a new heart
House says Carly needs a heart transplant before any test confirms it, and won't tell Wilson how he knows.
Vogler asks Cuddy if she is sleeping with House
Vogler calls House's department a financial black hole, then questions Cuddy's judgment and her history with House.
House reads Carly's secret: bulimia and ipecac
House lays out Carly's cutting and her hidden bulimia, and explains how ipecac wrecked her leg muscle and her heart.
House makes Carly say she wants to live
Telling the committee about her bulimia would sink her, so House demands Carly prove her life matters before he risks his license.
House lies to the transplant committee
House presents Carly's case, explains his early 'hunch', and under Cuddy's direct question says there's nothing to disqualify her.
Wilson on friendship as an ethical duty
House scolds Wilson for voting his way despite doubts; Wilson calls friendship an ethical responsibility as the heart arrives.
Cameron asks House if he likes her
Cameron admits she uses the book because people dismiss her, then asks House directly whether he likes her.
House cures the silent father and keeps his secret
House explains the surgical damage he fixed with Botox, then lets the father stay silent to protect his settlement.
House brings Carly fried chicken
House visits Carly after the transplant with a joke gift, and she asks why he fought for her.
Vogler and House draw battle lines
Vogler interrupts House's music, shows what was found in Carly's purse, and House says money versus tenure means a standoff.
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