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.
S1E17 · Role Model
20 moments · 27 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Vogler forces House to sell his new drug
Vogler hands House the senator's case, then offers a deal: give a talk praising his company's new ACE inhibitor or fire one of his team.
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.
Clinic: the woman who miscarried without having sex
A clinic patient insists she hasn't had sex in a year; House's tests say she was pregnant. His advice is deadpan.
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.
Cameron's thank-you, and House on why people pray
Cameron explains why people thank God; House calls her a naive atheist and says prayer is about not being crushed.
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.
Wilson needles House about the speech; House barks
Wilson accuses House of shilling for Vogler; House answers by acting out a high-strung lap dog.
Hiding from Cuddy for a differential
The team meets out of Cuddy's sight; House mocks 'idiopathic' and justifies a whole body scan with a football metaphor.
Wilson catches House believing in a politician
Wilson works out why House ordered a second AIDS test: he believed the senator. Then he asks about House and Cameron.
Clinic: carpet burn on a celibate woman
Her drug tests are clean, but a new rash is a carpet burn. House probes for lost time and learns her ex lives downstairs.
House asks Cameron why she likes him
House demands to know why Cameron likes him; she suspects the question is really about the speech.
House's Inuit fishing lesson
With a spleen biopsy too dangerous, House explains how Inuit find fish by watching herons, and the team finds another test.
Clinic reveal: sex while sleepwalking
The sleep lab solves the clinic mystery: she sleepwalks, and House suggests her ex downstairs is more than a coincidence.
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.
The diagnosis, explained in a collapsing football play
House explains the senator's immunodeficiency with a football metaphor that falls apart, and dismisses Chase's earlier idea.
House's speech skewers Vogler's new drug
House reads a one-line endorsement, then roasts Vogler's re-patented pill in front of the cardiology conference.
Cameron resigns and tells House why she liked him
House apologizes; Cameron quits before he has to fire anyone, and tells him what she got wrong about him.
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