Jessica's pep talk, then a 10-year-old's heart attack
A bullied girl begs to skip school and her mother tries a Dr. Seuss pep talk; in gym class her coach pushes her until she collapses.
S1E16 · Heavy
20 moments · 28 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Cuddy orders House to fire one of his team
House dodges with talk of piercings and endless performance reviews; Cuddy gives him one week.
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.
Clinic: House insists the heartburn patient is pregnant
A mother of six with burning chest pain swears she isn't pregnant and lectures House on real women's curves.
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.
House makes Foreman say who he would fire
Foreman accuses House of treating them like lab rats; House demands his pick, and Foreman names Chase and explains why.
A 30-pound benign tumor and a bikini refusal
Wilson finds a huge but harmless tumor; Mrs. Hernandez accuses him of pushing cosmetic surgery and refuses to be cut.
Jessica confesses she took the pills
Foreman questions the eighth-grade buddy who reported diet pills; when her mother calls the girl a liar, Jessica admits she stole them.
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.
House offers a pay cut, Vogler says it was never about money
House proposes cutting all four salaries to keep everyone; Vogler refuses, wanting to know House will obey.
Mr. Hernandez begs House, and the kids' photo moves him
Lucille's husband asks House to talk her into surgery, even to lie; House refuses until a photo of their six kids changes his mind.
The necrosis spreads and a mastectomy looms
With the sores advancing, the team plans to cut out the dying tissue, and Wilson tells Jessica's mother what that means.
Cameron asks House if he wants to fire her
Cameron accuses House of avoiding his feelings; House turns it back on her, and she offers to quit.
House's eye-color deduction: men are pigs
House works out from her kids' eye colors why Mrs. Hernandez fears a scar, and talks her into surgery his own way.
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.
House names Chase, and Vogler refuses
House finally gives Vogler a name; Vogler changes the deal and threatens the whole department unless House picks someone else.
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